Rick Riordan Quote
Hoover Dam, Thalia said. It's huge.We stood at the river's edge, looking up at a curve of concrete that loomed between the cliffs. People were walking along the top of the dam. They were so tiny they looked like fleas.The naiads had left with a lot of grumbling—not in words I could understand, but it was obvious they hated this dam blocking up their nice river. Our canoes floated back downstream, swirling in the wake from the dam's discharge vents.Seven hundred feet tall, I said. Built in the 1930s.Five million cubic acres of water, Thalia said.Graver sighed. Largest construction project in the United States.Zoe stared at us. How do you know all that?Annabeth, I said. She liked architecture.She was nuts about monuments, Thalia said.Spouted facts all the time. Grover sniffled. So annoying.I wish she were here, I said.
Hoover Dam, Thalia said. It's huge.We stood at the river's edge, looking up at a curve of concrete that loomed between the cliffs. People were walking along the top of the dam. They were so tiny they looked like fleas.The naiads had left with a lot of grumbling—not in words I could understand, but it was obvious they hated this dam blocking up their nice river. Our canoes floated back downstream, swirling in the wake from the dam's discharge vents.Seven hundred feet tall, I said. Built in the 1930s.Five million cubic acres of water, Thalia said.Graver sighed. Largest construction project in the United States.Zoe stared at us. How do you know all that?Annabeth, I said. She liked architecture.She was nuts about monuments, Thalia said.Spouted facts all the time. Grover sniffled. So annoying.I wish she were here, I said.
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About Rick Riordan
Riordan's first full-length novel was Big Red Tequila, which became the first book in the Tres Navarre series. His big breakthrough was The Lightning Thief (2005), the first novel in the five-volume Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, which placed a group of modern-day adolescents in a Greco-Roman mythological setting. Since then, Riordan has written The Heroes of Olympus, a sequel to the Percy Jackson series; The Kane Chronicles, a trilogy of similar premise focusing on Egyptian mythology; and Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, again a trilogy of similar premise focusing on Norse mythology. Riordan also helped Scholastic Press develop The 39 Clues series and its spinoffs, and penned its first book, The Maze of Bones. In 2021, he published Daughter of the Deep. His third standalone novel, The Sun and the Star, co-written with author Mark Oshiro, was published on May 2, 2023.