I went to a co-worker's birthday party today and on the way home I passed by my local used book store and decided to buy a few books. The had two Indiana Jones books and I got the first book of the Shanara Chronicles. As an 80s baby I'm surprised I've never bought any Indiana Jones books before. Can anyone give any recommendations? I do have some of the comic books from the 80s. Not sure if they are still making comic books (and I doubt if they still are I'd want to read them).
Since Disney is going to make Indiana Jones 5 I guess it is only a matter of time before the articles saying "Indiana Jones was never that good to begin with" and of course I fully expect the torch to be passed to the female co-star. They should've given that series the James Bond treatment and just have a new actor play the role. If we weren't living in a time where the morons on social media have a meltdown when they see a white male lead then I think Cavill or Pratt would be great for the role.
If Disney ends up remaking the Star Wars OT (and considering what I heard about the Kenobi show, it does sound like they will push Leia to be the main star) I expect the same thing with articles gaslighting us about how horrible Star Wars was and how it was never that great.
But back to my original question, does anyone have any recommendations for Indiana Jones novels or Young Indiana Jones (yes, I loved the show but I guess I was the only one) novels?
Yeah, we've gone from appealing to nostalgia to using it to make excuses. You didn't really love the thing you loved, you were tricked!
I'm pretty sure they had two different flavors for star wars, I remember for a time you couldn't bring up the EU without someone popping in to remind everyone that the EU had it's not great moments. They really don't like it when you point out that even at it's most stupid (Crystal Star, Anakin kids books, dark empire) it was still more interesting and paid more respect to the source material than the new movies do.
I love the EU. I decided to just stick with pre Disney Star Wars stuff. Actually re-reading Thrawn Trilogy now. Yea it was crazy how the websites attacked the EU once Disney bought them. Remember how Dark Empire was attacked until Rise of Skywalker came out?
I also liked Young Indiana Jones when I was...young.
I looked into the DVD release a few years ago and supposedly they chopped all the episodes up to put them in chronological order and removed the old Indy with the eye patch scenes that originally bookended each episode. Since some of the episodes had a plot that involved both preteen Indy and young adult Indy, those episodes were made unintelligible.
I did rewatch The World War 1 portion where he was in the Belgian army with his fat friend Remy, and they didn't hold up as well as I had hoped.
That's too bad. I'll check youtube. I do think Tubi has them. I could swear I remember seeing a Young Indy novel.
I had a couple of Young Indiana Jones books, but they were young adult type novels- large print, simple words and stories. I wouldn't think they're what you have in mind, but here's a list:
https://indianajones.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_young_adult_novels
I distinctly remember the plantation one.
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Slightly on topic the Shanarra tv series is a guilty pleasure of mine in the so bad its fun category.
Like a lot of series the subversion is turned up in season 2 but its still watchable for a decent story, scenery chewing, overacting, Video Toaster CG, and renfaire quality costumes.
Are the books good? I heard the show doesn’t do them justice
didn't read them, but I would imagine the people who liked the books were really disappointed in the show, where the epic battles are turned into a couple of larpers in the woods at night
I liked Magic Kingdom for Sale. I have a soft spot for stories where the world as you know it is revealed to be a very tiny part of a larger universe and the protagonist is destined for bigger things ala Last Starfighter.
Terry Brooks wrote the novelization for The Phantom Menace, which I bought prior to realizing how shitty the prequels were going to be. He did a book signing for it and actually seemed flattered when I mentioned that I enjoyed his Magic Kingdom books; I guess everyone else there was just a Star Wars fan and probably wasn't familiar with his other work.
I spent a lot of time in Shanarra as a kid. I don't know how they'd hold up decades later, but I can say that Terry's writing improved as long as I was following his work - and he wrote a lot.
If George Martin had Terry Brooks' work ethic, we would've been reading A Dream of Spring in 2004.
I read them as a kid and apparently enjoyed them, since I read multiple books.
In general I would recommend Feist's Riftwar saga though if you look into older fantasy books.
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The first season was so utter shit. The fucking village with energy and raves. The second one was better imho with a decent story overall.
The first book was Sword of Shanarra. The second was Elfstones of Shanarra. The tv series deals with the second book since the first can be interpreted as a LotR redux.
The casting choice for Allanon was hilariously bad - he was basically still doing his Crixus character from the Spartacus series.
Nothing against the actor - he's good inside his wheelhouse, but that was far outside of it.
He was Slade Wilson/Deathstroke in the CW Arrow series. I kept seeing him in that part and couldn't imagine him as a wizard.
I thought it added to the charm
Loved the Young Indiana Jones chronicles series as a kid. Didn’t even know they had books.
The new Indiana Jones will be bad, they have esteemed feminist and self-stated admirer of female murderers Phoebe Waller-Bridge advising the script. I'll be surprised if she's even watched a full movie, let alone read one of the books.
It wouldn’t surprise me at all if he dies but before dying he tells her she is much better than him