Indiana Jones and the Hollow Earth

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

very good

A lot of fun

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!!!

Max McCoy treads water with this very thin Indy adventure in which he goes off in search of a mythical subterranean world and retrieve his precious crystal skull (not that one!) along the way. It ties in with the previous novel decently and has some nice nods to the movies but it was a big non-event for the most part. It's fast moving but failed to hook me after first chapter. It's never taken me so long to get through a mere 260 pages in my life. I feel like McCoy had a bunch of action scenes and just strung them together with a loose plot as some kind of framework rather than delivering a genuinely involving story.There are some moments here and there that were thoughtful and seemed like bait for real literature, though the rest of it is just drivel, honestly. There's nothing really bad or boring about this novel, it's just one of the lesser entries in the entire Indy series honestly. Still better than KOTCS, anything is better than that!

The Indiana Jones novels were published throughout the nineties to mixed reactions from fans and little in the way of promotion. This is the second I've read, the first being one by Rob McGregor, and in my opinion Max McCoy is the strongest and most literary, bringing excellent plotting and a broad vocabulary to the novel. This one sees Indy in the Arctic - although it takes a couple of hundred pages to actually get there. Once again, he is pitted against the Nazis, as they, like him, are searching for a lost civilization situated near the Earth's core.However, it is slightly slow in places, with one aeroplane scene stretched out to nearly thirty pages, but in the main this is an gripping novel with vibrant characters and harks back to the adventure pulps of the 30's and 40's in much the same way that the Indy films hark back to the cinematic serials of that same era.There is also an interesting Afterward dealing with the history of the Hollow Earth theory, which goes to show that the book has at least one foot in authenticity.

I’m an Indy fan as a 90’s child. This was an extremely well written. Very interesting and gripping Indiana jones adventures. Thank you Max McCoy for writing a great story, and great characters and doing such a good job writing a real “adventure” story as they are meant to be. I give this book 10/10.!

Non molto entusiasmante ma comunque leggibile e divertente. La storia della terra cava e dei nazisti non cessa di stupire.

Another chapter in the amazing adventures of Doctor Indiana Jones. Looking forward to reading more stories from this series . Good read .

thanks

Glad amazon had this in stock so i can go on another adventure with Indiana Jones and see what troubles he gets himself in and how he is able to get out and what he finds in life jounry.