User blog comment:Darkcloud1111/Camp Half-Blood Series General Discussion/@comment-24518722-20140209173227/@comment-3146930-20140226220400

I actually read the series after seeing a trailer for the first movie. Finished the series I think a few days before the movie came out and then saw the movie...a felt like burning the theater down to the ground. It wasn't that they removed things from the book, it was that they added a bunch of things to the movie that pushed things from the book out. In the book, Percy was given the pearls as a gift. In the movie, they spend about half the running time looking for these things.