I am. In large part because, for once, I actually found an author that knew his stuff, so he earned huge respect for that.

And triple the respect for being the first person in over 15 years to actually teach me new stuff about greek mythology. I was always the kid in the class that had to correct my teachers when they got the myths wrong. (grant they weren't greek mythology scholars or anything...)

The stories are incredible and Rick Riordan is an even bigger greek mythology nerd than I am.