Favorite Book

When you ask someone to write about their favorite book, they will at least think, if not say, that is like a parent choosing their favorite kid. I can't say I can relate. My situation is similar to a seven year old trying to choose their favorite vegetable.  I am not saying that I have never enjoyed a book, it is just not as daunting of a decision.
I am a person who likes math and science, and cannot connect easily with language, history, religion, and other things of that order. That is why my greatest reading experience is surprising to me, and I still cannot figure out why I enjoyed it so much. My all time favorite books were from the "Percy Jackson and The Olympians" series by Rick Riordan. A book all about a teenage kid (half kid, half god) who is living in Greek Mythology.
Before I read the first book, The Lightning Thief, I had a decent background on Greek Mythology just from watching movies and tv shows. I was completely blown away reading about all these great stories coming to life in the same world that I live in, to a kid my age. It is the same kind of feeling you get as a kid when you see a picture of a brachiosaurus next to a human, or when you learn how long it takes light to travel around the world. Just picture your middle school teacher going from an old man in a wheelchair to a centaur. What a great thing as a kid. This book just about kept me in a state of disbelief the entire time.There is never more than a few pages without an unexpected twist. It is like watching a riveting tv show (Breaking Bad is a personal favorite.) where each chapter is an episode and leaves you with a thousand unanswered questioned, then when the book is over it is even more of a cliff hanger, like the end of a season on tv. Then you have to wait for the next book, of which there were five. It is obvious that this works with more people than just myself because there are over 1.2 million copies sold of just the first book.
In addition to being a great story, this book is written so that a middle schooler can read and comprehend it without too much struggle. And as a slower reader, that is a key quality in a book. It is organized in a very easy to follow way while having several switching points of view. Riordan used this to throw you into the action and right when something big was about to happen, he would switch to another character to update on them. For me that made the books very hard to put down.
After writing the last book, The Last Olympian, there was a movie made about the books. Now I know that everyone is different, but I personally don't like a movie that butchers a great story to try and fit almost 2,000 pages into 2 hours. Not to mention that it is very challenging to take a story like this and not make it cheesy. I would say to watch the trailer and go no further.