The Lightning Thief

Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1

By: Rick Riordan

Narrated by: Jesse Bernstein

Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins

Publisher's summary

Twelve-year-old Percy Jackson is about to be kicked out of boarding school...again. No matter how hard he tries, he can't seem to stay out of trouble. But can he really be expected to stand by and watch while a bully picks on his scrawny best friend? Or not defend himself against his pre-algebra teacher when she turns into a monster and tries to kill him? Of course, no one believes Percy about the monster incident; he's not even sure he believes himself.

Until the Minotaur chases him to summer camp.

Suddenly, mythical creatures seem to be walking straight out of the pages of Percy's Greek mythology textbook and into his life. The gods of Mount Olympus, he's coming to realize, are very much alive in the 21st-century. And worse, he's angered a few of them: Zeus's master lightning bolt has been stolen, and Percy is the prime suspect.

Now Percy has just 10 days to find and return Zeus's stolen property, and bring peace to a warring Mount Olympus. On a daring road trip from their summer camp in New York to the gates of the Underworld in Los Angeles, Percy and his friends, one a satyr and the other the demigod daughter of Athena, will face a host of enemies determined to stop them. To succeed in his quest, Percy will have to do more than catch the true thief: he must come to terms with the father who abandoned him; solve the riddle of the Oracle, which warns him of failure and betrayal by a friend; and unravel a treachery more powerful than the gods themselves.

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©2005 Rick Riordan (P)2005 Random House, Inc. Listening Library, an imprint of the Random House Audio Publishing Group

My childhood read to me!

I loved how emersive and clear the narrator spoke while reading the story. I like to read along as i listen and there were a couple of words that didn’t match up to the book, but none the less i absolutely loved it!

Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief

The book kept moving and held my attention. The reader gave a good preference. I like that the main characters were the underdogs.

The narrator truly effected the story

The narrator’s lack of range and character voices took me out of the story at times. Multiple mispronunciations and just lack of passion for the story had my attention waning at times.

Love the book Not the reader

I have loved these books since I was a kid and hated this narrator just as long. He mispronounces the Greek, can’t make different voices and regularly uses the wrong inflection. I wish they would redo these audio books with a new narrator

I have always loved these books

I love the Percy Jackson series but the one part about this that grates me is the narrators pronounciation of “Nyad” like “nayad” and “conch” like “conk” otherwise it’s 5 stars lol only 8 chapters in so who knows if there will be others that grind my gears.

Fun Story, Average Reading

The story was fun and a good mix of lightheartedness and drama. The reading of the story however missed on the dramatic elements of the story. Even the serious events came across as whimsical.

absolutely perfect storytelling and story

loved everything this was absolutley the greatest storytelling I have ever heard and I would love to listen to sea of monsters too please keep going with these FOREVERR their the best

BEST BOOK EVER!!

This is a great book for the fam! A little scary at times for the younger readers but over all a brilliant book!

Love the Olympian Storys with a modern twist.

Great plot and story all around. Great Reader, was easy to listen to him and follow him. Would highly recommend this book to anyone.

Good book but could use a better narrator

I really enjoyed the book overall. I really didn't like the narrator but I'm going back for the second book.