Okay, so, to be honest, I didn’t love the movie adaptation of Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief very much. I thought it was just…okay. Enjoyable, but it made me roll my eyes more than a few times. But what it made me feel, though, was want for the book.

Last night when I was browsing around at National Bookstore, I saw a medium-sized stack of the book—the saleslady I asked told me that it was selling really fast, which was understandable—with the movie poster as the cover. Now, I actually like the movie poster. Very much, actually.

This one.

But the thing is: I don’t like having movie posters on my book covers, regardless of my opinion of the movie adaptation. For example, I actually liked the Pride and Prejudice movie (both the BBC and the 2005 one with Matthew MacFadyen and Keira Knightley), but for my new copy of the book I hunted for a good cover that wasn’t a movie poster. I’m picky like that.

Anyway. I spent a full 30 seconds staring at The Lightning Thief book with the poster. I finally decided to let it go and hunt for an edition with the old cover. And then, just as I turned away to go, I saw, out of the corner of my eye, a hardbound book with the old cover.

This one.

Well, okay. It wasn’t fully the old cover, but it was close enough. It was beautiful. It was hardbound. It was THE LAST COPY. But it was 800 pesos. Pretty cheap for a beautiful harbound, but it wasn’t in my budget.

But… I stared at it for one full minute.

And then I walked away.

And then I turned around.

I bought it.

Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeee~ I love how it looks like an old book. I love how it feels like an old book. I love that it’s sitting on my shelf.