The story is WAY BETTER than the title makes it seem!!

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	• Indiana Jones and the Dinosaur Eggs (Indiana Jones) Max McCoy Bantam, 1996 - 304 pages average customer review:based on 15 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

The Prehistoric Present

After examining what appears to be the horn of triceratops that has not been fossilized, Indy sets out for China and Outer Mongolia in search of a living dinosaur. He's joined on his quest with a nun with an attitude named Joan Starbuck whose father, Angus Starbuck, has gone missing looking for dinosaur fossils in Mongolia; and Walter Granger, a seasoned big-game hunter and explorer who has joined Indy on past adventures. Upon arriving in Shanghai, the party is joined by a young Chinese man named Wu Han after Indy saves him from a lifetime of servitude to the notorious gangster Lao Che. Their journey into the wilderness brings them into contact with the descendant of Genghis Khan, the Black (False) Lama (think the anti-Dali Lama), and perhaps the last living triceratops in existence.

The book is framed with a substory about Indy trying to recover a crystal skull stolen from him by the Nazis with the assistance of Rene Belloq. The book also includes an afterward that discusses Roy Chapman Andrews (who discovered the first fossilized dinosaur eggs in China), the American Museum of Natural History, the legendary allergorhai-horhai, and the coelacanth.

INDIANA JONES AND THE DINOSAUR EGGS may not be the most original action-adventure story, but it isn't too bad. It does a good job of keeping true to the character of Indiana Jones and following the canon and continuity of the series. I enjoyed the introduction of Wu Han and Lao Che who figure prominently in both the INDIANA JONES AND THE EMPEROR'S TOMB video game as well as the beginning of the INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM movie. I also liked the connection to Rene Belloq in the introduction of the book as well as the mention of Joseph Campbell. An excellent read for fans of Indiana Jones.

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In the tracks of Andrews

In this outing set in 1933, Indy joins up with Joan Starbuck and big game hunter Granger to head to the Gobi Desert in Mongolia after Joan shows up with what appears to be a horn from a recently deceased triceratops. I avoided this whole series of books when they first came out in the 1980s and decided to give a few of them a try now. This book was actually a decent read and had a good Indiana Jones feel to it for the most part despite the ending being drug out a little too long. Indy & company follow in the tracks of real-life dinosaur discoverer Andrews of whom Indy is purportedly partially based. Now I'm not sure if the re-releases had any updated material added to them but this one seemed to fit with great foreshadowing for the newest movie, Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. The book opens with Indy dealing with Rene Belloq (from Raiders), Nazis, and coincidentally a crystal skull. As an homage to Temple of Doom, Indy ends up in Shanghai were he meets Lao Che for the first time. And finally there's a few tidbit hints of his father's lifelong search for the grail. Of course this story takes place before all the movies, but I digress and am getting off topic.

Indy and company are being funded by Marcus Brody & his museum to go to the Gobi and find Joan's father and an explanation for the triceratops horn. Good action along the way with a Chinese warlord, wild dog packs, lost world, bandits, a descendant of Genghis Khan, and a one-eared dog the has an affinity to Indy. Again, the ending was a drug out longer than it needed to be and the epilogue returns us to Indy having a tenuous relationship with Belloq (soon to haunt Indy during his career) as Indy attempts to salvage the crystal skull from a sunken u-boat.

Overall, a fun book with enough Indiana Jones feel to enjoy it and accept it into the Indy history although slightly unacceptable when dealing with living dinosaurs in the modern era.

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An amazing adventure!

Amazing book!!!One hell of a ride!!!Almost as good as philosophers stone!If you love all things Indy:buy this book!

dinosaurs AND indy?

This book is as good as philosopher's stone! I can't wait to read the next one!

The story is WAY BETTER than the title makes it seem!!

This story is very fulfilling, Indy is the man along with his friend granger this time. Much much action, and the discoveries are amamazing. This book is very good and I suggest you read this along with many other of the Indiana Jones series!!

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Fresh from a ride on a Nazi submarine, Indiana Jones is persuaded by a beautiful missionary to search for her missing father in Mongolia. Professor Angus Starbuck has discovered a dinosaur bone in the Gobi Desert. But unlike other such discoveries, this bone isn?t ancient! As Indy crosses from China through a treacherous mountain pass into Outer Mongolia, he runs afoul of the region?s fiercest warlords. Meanwhile, the world?s last innocent people, dwelling in a Stone Age paradise, are poised on the brink of destruction. Suddenly Indiana Jones is dueling wild dogs and bloodthirsty killers in a desperate effort to save the most historic discovery of the twentieth century: the last living triceratops!

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