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Michael Reads Percy Jackson: The Last Olympian – Ch 17

October 11, 2016 By Michael G. Munz Leave a Comment

Alternate chapter title: Clarisse Beats the Bejeezus Out of Everybody

Alternate chapter title: Clarisse Beats the Bejeezus Out of Everybody

Percy calls for reinforcements, Rachel has a destiny, and Clarisse kicks the living snot out of everyone. In other words, it’s the seventeenth chapter in Michael Reads Percy Jackson: The Last Olympian, a.k.a…

I Sit on the Hot Seat

Holy Iliad! The parallels to Achilles in that tale are just bursting all over the place, aren’t they? (And I quite like it.) Silena’s theft of Clarisse’s armor in order to rally the troops and lead them into battle in her guise (clever Silena) is a clear parallel to Patroclus doing the same with Achilles’ armor. I’m ashamed to admit I hadn’t noticed that in the last chapter. Nonetheless, when she died (poor, clever Silena) and Clarisse went absolutely berserk with battle-rage, beat the holy crap out of the advancing army, and drove around dragging the drakon’s dead body behind her chariot, it became pretty clear, and pretty awesome. [Read more…]

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Filed Under: Michael Reads, TLO Tagged With: Fantasy, I Sit on the Hot Seat, Let's Read, Mythology, Percy Jackson, Rick Riordan, Robert Fagles, The Iliad, The Last Olympian

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