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I have more ideas than I'll ever be able to write in five lifetimes.

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Rick Riordan
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: June 5
Author
Novelist
Teacher
Writer
Military City
USA
Richard Russell Riordan
Jr.
Richard Russell Riordan Jr
Life
Five
Funny
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Ever
Lifetimes
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Humorous
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Lifetime

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Back up shall we? When my brother, the crazy chicken warrior, turned into a falcon and went up the pyramid’s chimney with his new friend, the fruit bat, he left me playing nurse to two very wounded people—which I didn’t appreciate, and which I wasn’t particularly good at.
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Leo's biggest surprise: One look from Jason, and all three of them knew the game plan. When had that happened, that they could read each other so well?
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Thoth's beak! You are impossibley stubborn. Yeah, it's a gift.
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You're alive! Percy said to the others. The giants said you were captured. What happened? Leo shrugged. Oh, just another brilliant plan by Leo Valdez. You'd be amazed what you can do with an Archimedes sphere, a girl who can sense stuff underground, and a weasel. I was the weasel, Frank said glumly.
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Either the kid was naturally hyper or he was hopped up on enough caffeine to give a heart attack to a water buffalo.
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And I was holding someone who was destined to be my best friend, or possibly my worst enemy.
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Freak is easily spooked. Flesh-eating monsters tend to scare him away. So do fireworks, clowns, and the smell of Sadie's weird British Ribena drink. (Can't blame him on that last one. Sadie grew up in London and developed some pretty strange tastes.
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Leo had seen Tia Callida in action she liked knives, snakes and putting babies in roaring fires. Yeah, definitely let's unleash her rage. Great idea.
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We passed hieroglyphic scrolls, gold jewelry, sarcophagi, statues of pharaohs, and huge chunks of limestone. Why would someone display a rock? Aren't there enough of those in the world?
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Leo,” Hazel gasped, “I can’t—my arms—” “Hazel,” he said. “Do you trust me?” “No!” “Me neither,” Leo admitted.
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It's all still about having a good story. You have to have a good story as your anchor, as your main focus. So for me, personally, I just like to concentrate on writing the best book I can, and if there's other stuff that goes along with it, that's awesome, as long as the story is central.
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Do you have a favorite constalation, Percy?' I was still kind of wondering about the little green snakes he'd shoved into his jogging shorts, but i said. 'Uh, I like Hercules.' 'Why?' 'Well... because he had rotten luck. Even worse than mine. It makes me feel better. The jogger chuckled. 'Not because he was strong and famouse and all that?' 'No.
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It was beautiful in a harsh I'm-going-to-gut-you-like-a-fish kind of way.
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I guess it wasn't everyday they see a yellow lifeboat with no engine going a hundred knots an hour, manned by three kids.
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You promised, Seaweed brain. We would not get separated! Ever again!
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I racked my brain trying to remember the names of all of Nut’s five children. Bit difficult without my brother, the human Wikipedia, around to keep track of such trivia for me.
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A real man's weapon is his mind.
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No matter how many times Percy killed them and watched them crumble to powder, they just kept re-forming like large evil dust bunnies.
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Right, Sadie said. And Set will just stand there calmly while I read him to death.
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Hope, Frank grumbled. I'd rather have a few good weasels.
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