If this book was filled with references to the Bible and Greek

it generally takes more effort to research classic myths than to just recall from memory a culture you've already lived through

if it wasn't written in such a cringeworthy way where it is literally just a giant list then maybe it would be better

the book also hilariously tries to shit on commercialism while masturbating over pop culture, it's the perfect book for a 15 year old fedora tipper

>>8214839
Then it's called the Percy Jackson series

>>8214839
ye but you see it isn't

>>8214839
that's so dumb i cringed.
Those are two entirely different things with vastly different sense of scale and importance in over-all historical eternity. A product that exploits pop-culture history that may as well be meaningless in the next decade, might sell today but ten years from now or 50 or 100, whose to say?
I'd assume this book won't last nearly as long in the back of peope's minds as it might have if it featured the things you mentioned.

>>8214839
the literary tradition is more than substance-free reference