Agent Spalko
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Did they have the Interior World? That's the only one I need.
No kidding! There are full plates of the back/front cover without any Indy logo or text.Crack that whip said:I really wish we'd gotten posters of Drew Struzan's cover art!
Agent Spalko said:Anybody read the Adventure series books? I have the first one. They remind me of the Choose Your Own Adventure books I read as a kid. You turn to the page you decide where the story should go. I know they are for kids but kinda fun.
TalonCard said:It's been a long time since I read the two Indy novels I have, Indiana Jones and the Interior World, and Indiana Jones and the Genesis Deluge (both by MacGregor) and I didn't really like them. The dialogue seemed forced, the endings were always inconclusive, and Indy spends way too much time thinking about stuff. I didn't really get that "I'm making this up as I go" feeling that Indiana Jones is all about. I also wanted to either see some references to the YIJC (which I loved) or a different take on the younger character and time period; something more like the films. Instead, from what I remember, we got just as many historical figures and issues popping up but no actual continuity with the series.
That said, there were some interesting ideas in the novels. I liked the idea of Indy going after Noah's ark. (As a small child, I had often thought that Indiana Jones went after Noah's ark; it being the only ark I knew of at the time. Imagine my dissapointment... ) The imagining of the Interior World legend as a kind of inverted alternate universe/state of mind rather than a simple, literal, obvious location was also a cool concept. They just weren't executed that well.
Crack that whip said:Please note the books aren't as episodic as the movies, but are more interconnected (I'm a bit mystified at your "no actual continuity within the series" comment, actually), with continuing narrative threads (at least within each author's own set of books). Ideally, you wouldn't start with Genesis Deluge or Interior World, but would instead begin with Peril at Delphi and read through the series in sequence. I don't know if that would have changed things enough for you to have better enjoyed the two books you read, but it might be worth considering.
TalonCard said:Admittedly, tying the two together would have been difficult, seeing as how both the novels and the television show would have been produced at about the same time. Still, Lucas did work out a detailed timeline for Young Indy, so I think some of this could have been avoided.
TalonCard said:I never bothered to check; do the Young Indy books actually predate the show, as a tie-in to Last Crusade?
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