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The Lightning Thief
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Rick Riordan
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Rick Riordan didn't like to read books as a child. It wasn't until he read the Lord of the Rings trilogy in middle school and studied Norse mythology that he started to get into reading. (Source)Ri...
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Literary and Mythological ReferencesAdventures of Tom Sawyer (1.126)Polydeuces (2.18)Hermes (7.93)Garden of Hesperides (7.102)Cyclopes (9.81)Hera (9.100)Demeter (9.100)Hestia (9.100)Ithaka (9.123)C...
