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  • Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief

  • Percy Jackson, Book 1
  • By: Rick Riordan
  • Narrated by: Jesse Bernstein
  • Length: 10 hrs
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (1,039 ratings)

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Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief

By: Rick Riordan
Narrated by: Jesse Bernstein
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Half boy. Half God. ALL Hero.

I was just a normal kid, I went to school (got expelled a lot, but that wasn't my fault), played sports and hung out with my best friend.

Until I accidentally vaporized my maths teacher.

Now, I spend my time at Camp Half Blood, battling monsters and generally trying to stay alive.

And now that Zeus thinks I've stolen his lightning bolt, staying alive is going to be even harder....
 

WHAT TO EXPECT FROM PERCY JACKSON:

  • Monsters
  • Greek Gods
  • Laughs (and terrified screams)

Rick Riordan has now sold an incredible 60 million copies of his books worldwide.

©2006 Rick Riordan (P)2010 Penguin Audio

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"This is the stuff of legends." (The Guardian)

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Fantastic and well placed

The narrator is truly fantastic and gives great character and memorability to everyone. Must read.

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8 year old boy loved it

My son and I listened to the book in the car over a period of a couple of months. I didn’t particularly like the narrator and I was a bit annoyed with the story and stereotypical stubborn hero, but my son absolutely loved it and that’s really all that matters!

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Good Story

Solid story.
The voices of the gods could have used some variation but besides that. Good listen.

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Awesome Percy Jackson

I love how the story ends as the start to a new story. If you read he first one and you like it you can't stop you have to read the next book. Jesse Bernstein reads the book with so much expression and great character voices. I think this book is so good. I ❤️ this story.

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bad narrator,good story

I dont think the narraor was the right narrator for this story. He didnt do a good job with female voices and he couldnt pronouce the name Thalia correctly! The overall story is really good though. :)

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The Vocie

I think Stephen Fry should have voiced for this because it would sound much better but Jessse Bernstein was very good to.

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Great reading from audible

A great story made better with the great reading done by the great people at audible.

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Highly recommended

The Lightning Thief is fantastic. The amount of research which must have gone into creating the Percy Jackson series is crazy. Rick Riordan is inspiring by the way he combines the ancient Greek gods and there myths into modern society. The narrator was also amazing.

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Very good

This book is excellent this is one of the best series you will find I have listen to it multiple times and it is still as interesting as it was when i first listened to it

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better than the movie!

100% this was way better than the movie, cant wait to red the rest of them!

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