The Unauthorized Guide to the Inspiration Behind the Lightning Thief

This guide introduces the reader to The Lightning Thief, the first book in Rick Riordan's series Percy Jackson and the Olympians. It gives an overview of the book, the series, and the movie adaptation of the book (Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief). This guide also introduces the characters Percy Jackson, Annabeth Chase, Grover Underwood, and Luke Castellan. It discusses the Greek mythology behind the story: demigods, Poseidon, Zeus, Hades, Satyr, Minotaur, Ares, Medusa, Mount Olympus, Athena, Pan, and more. It also provides information about some of the real life inspiration for the book, such as Los Angeles, The Empire State Building, dyslexia, and the apocalypse.Project Webster represents a new publishing paradigm, allowing disparate content sources to be curated into cohesive, relevant, and informative books. To date, this content has been curated from Wikipedia articles and images under Creative Commons licensing, although as Project Webster continues to increase in scope and dimension, more licensed and public domain content is being added. We believe books such as this represent a new and exciting lexicon in the sharing of human knowledge.