Possiby the Best Indy Novel Available
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Having already read most of the other books available in the Bantam Indiana Jones range I picked this up ready to read without a great deal of anticipation. After you've read a number of novels featuring the same characters & themes it's easy to get a little jaded however within one or two chapters I found myself really enjoying "Hollow Earth".
Very easy to read and absorb, this particular book pits our hero against some familiar foes in the Nazi's but the locale's are refreshingly different (New Orleans & the Arctic wastes in particular) and importantly they still contain a strong sense of adventure. One thing that I find strongly affects my enjoyment of anything Indiana Jones related are the locations & often in the books and the "Young Indy" series I find myself not really feeling a great sense of excitement if he's simply trekking around a lifeless desert or middle Britain. Smack him down in a jungle however and immdeiately you're halfway there to feeling like you're watching one of the great movies & in "Hollow Earth" I often thought to myself how the Author had done a great job with the locations.
McCoy's treatment of Indy as a person also works well and should be enjoyable to either a super-fan or regular reader. There's a few nice (if somewhat slightly corny) references to the films thaht we all know and love and overall you do feel like this would genuinely make a great movie if Spielberg were to go ahead and direct. I think that's the highest praise I could honour the book with as the vast majority of other novels, and I enjoyed all except one of them, wouldn't really cut it as movie.
The supporting characters add to the enjoyment as opposed to just being stereotypical fodder & in the Scandinavian blonde Ulla I think McCoy set up a highly enjoyable team that borders on love-hate. Great treatment of Belloq also which I won't spoil the enjoyment of.
Overall this is a highly enjoyable book if you're an Indiana Jones fan. The world might be hot on Dan Brown right now but if you want a nice light adventure read featuring a genuinely classic hero then you could do a lot worse than picking up Indiana Jones and the Hollow Earth
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The best Indy book ever!!
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I read this book on holiday and I thought it was great. It is a very good read and is definatly worth getting. The book is so good that I have decided to get the whole Bantam collection of books. Well done Max McCoy!!!
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Indytastic
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Brilliant book, pure Indy, although not the regular usual thing you would expect from an Indiana Jones Adventure. Not as high adventure as the films, but is the perfect and captivating Jones adventure that you will want to read again and again. Another outing with our favourite character of all time.If you are reading this for my advice go out and buy the entire Bantam Indiana Jones series, not just this book. Requires no knowledge of previous books or the films, but there are references to previous books. Its set before the films in 1934 so no need to have seen the films, but you should do because they are the best films ever made by far. Thank You Max McCoy. Peter Lally Feb 2002.
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THE BIGGEST INDY FAN IN THE WORLD !!!!!!
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ITS THE BEST BOOK IVE EVER READ , I THINK MAX MCCOY DOES REALLY WELL TO CAPTURE THE EXCITMENT AND TENSION , SO BUY IT AND READ IT !!! ITS LUSH !!!
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Still refreshing after that bloody martin cadin
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Yet another great book by Max McCoy. He recaptures the essence of Indidana Jones after it was so badly tarnished by Martin Cadins spy-novel versions of Indidan Jones. These get back to the fighting, and danger that we so love about Indy. More problems with women of course (true to life as always) and as good as ever. I am waiting anciously for the next book (and a spell checker ;-) ) Read this book its bloodycool.
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