HTGYG Show #63: Part 1 of “The Lightening Thief” – the Book Review (Spoilers!) | How To Grow Your Geek: Parenting and More!

HTGYG Show #63: Part 1 of “The Lightening Thief” – the Book Review (Spoilers!)

19 Feb

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Spoiler Alert!

This episode, we focus first on the first book in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, The Lightening Thief, by Rick Riordan. Amanda helps me review the book in preparation for us seeing the movie just released, and we even tackle the inevitable comparison to Harry Potter.

Then Wyatt calls in to tell us about the Alien vs. Predator demo, which is suitable for teens. And finally Kevin reviews the original Halo game, as he is now catching up with the series very slowly. I did edit this a little, and you can hear some of Kevin uncut in an upcoming new promo for HTGYG!

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Theme music courtesy of Jonathan Coulton

Promos: The Boom Effect Auction

A Boy and his Opus – a review by Darcy (Jul 25, 2010)
Darcy reviews “The Web of Titan” (Jun 19, 2010)
Darcy reviews Dragonlance : Dragons of Autumn Twilight (A graphic novel) (Jun 17, 2010)
HTGYG Show #73: Voicemails – Gardening, Girl Genius and Jacques Cousteau (May 28, 2010)
Darcy Reviews “Stardust” (the graphic novel) (May 25, 2010)

3 Comments so far »

by lows, on February 24 2010 @ 7:59 pm

Great review! I have been saying this was the book Darcy has sitting here, hehe. Now she was, “Hey! That’s that one book!” She’s slow sometimes.

Can we get Wyatt to tone the descriptions back a tad? lol. Glad he loves the games, but folks could be eating.

Tim
by Wyatt, on March 5 2010 @ 8:23 pm

sure thing Tim, i’ll watch my descriptions, i’ll try to tone it down to a PG rating from now on lol
by Wyatt, on March 5 2010 @ 8:42 pm

to Kevin, a great review, and I’ll definitely check out Percy Jackson Susie and Amanda, sounds good, amd speaking of mythology, I’ll have to make a not-so gory more kid friendly review of God of War (if you’ve played it, you know what i mean)

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How To Grow Your Geek, or HTGYG for short, is a podcast created to share a love of geeking and parenting, and to provide advice on how to combine the two. There will be reviews of movies, board games, books, television shows and video games on their fun value as well as their family appropriateness, and discussions of geeky topics and parent issues. Audience participation, both parents and children, is encouraged, and email and voicemail questions will be answered if at all possible.

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