Rating:  - Bogus Journey to the Centre of the Earth
I've only just realized that I am reading these Indy books out of order. But I am clever enough to still keep up.
This adventure has Indy on Easter Island with Brody. He's only there to investigate the Moai but gets wound up in some ghost ship plot which doesn't naturally fit the setting. Before you know it he's been kidnapped by a bunch of people claiming to come from the interior world (a mirror of the exterior world) who need his help to defeat their own version of Hitler.
It's quite a stupid plot and I am annoyed that it made it's way into an Indiana Jones book as the stories this character usually winds up in are based somewhat in reality. But Rob MacGregor tries to explain it all away with an 'it was all a dream' cop-out ending.
There wasn't much atmosphere or any good action and Brody disappears far too early. I would quite happily have read a more realistic story set on Easter Island even if it took the history of the Moai too far. The silly interior world story really did seem like low-grade pulp to me.
Now to start reading these in the correct order...
Rating:  - Indiana Jones and the Interior World
This was a very good book I thought. It told a story that had a lot of action and excitement in it. Jones, of course, is an archeologist and likes to travel a lot and search for ancient things. Well, this time Jones gets to go on a really exciting, weird, dangerous, but adventurous voyage. He is going to try to find what he has been looking for, for a long time, but at the same time he is going to try to save the world (or should we say worlds) from an evil person who wants to rule them. This book also kind of tells about a love story. Indy is stuck and confused about what to do about a certain lady. In conclusion, I thought that this book was a great book to read, it was full of adventure and action.
Rating: - FANTASTIC!
Indiana Jones and the Interior World is an outlandish, outrageous fantasy and it makes no apologies for it. There is no need for apologies, this book was a constant thrill ride packed with interesting characters and fascinating locales! This book rocked!
Rating:  - The WORST of the series
I must agree with the reader in Lighthouse Point. This is the WORST of the Indiana Jones series. Indiana visits Toontown and battles cartoon monsters...wheres the Grimace?...Where's theTasmanian Devil?...Pegleg Pete...?
Rating:  - Indiana Jones and the inferior plot.
To enjoy this book one has far beyond willing suspension of disbelief. The plot would have made a so-so science-fiction novel, but as an Indiana Jones book it falls short of the mark. I liked most of the other books that I've read in this series, but in this one I kept hoping I would come to the part where Indy was conked on the head at Easter Island and was just dreaming this whole awful fantasy . . .
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