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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN num: 9780553561920
ISBN number: 0553561928
Label: Bantam
Manufacturer: Bantam
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 320
Printing Date: November 01, 1993
Publishing house: Bantam
Release Date: November 01, 1993
Sale Popularity Level: 69999
Studio: Bantam
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As Indiana Jones and his team travel from Africa to Tibet to the American Southwest while investigating mysterious sky crafts, they discover that an evil secret organization threatens to dominate the entire world.
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"Indiana Jones and the Sky Pirates" is borderline unreadeable. The characters are cardboard, the plot is cluttered, and there is no action to speak of in this book.
Martin Caidin does a very poor job of writing the character of Indy, as several others have pointed out. His dialogue is long and wordy and uncharateristic of him. He often comes off as being snobbish, a know-it-all, and without charm. The other characters are cliche. There are a couple of pilots, a British one and a Frenchman. They're interchangeable in their dialogue. There's Gale Parker, a witch or something who is with Indy in this book. She's not developed well at all. There are several other characters who come and go when it is convenient for the plot.
I can't express how long winded this book is. As many other reviewers have pointed out, it reads like an aviation manual at times. I understand that most of the story takes place in the air. But that is no reason to bore readers with the inner workings of the plane that Indy and his crew use. Pages and pages are taken up with how the plane works. There's also section where Indy explains in painful detail how to use the camera he's wearing around his neck on the book's cover. Boring!
The dialogue is also extremely stiff. Oftentimes, it's one debriefing after another. Characters explain the events to each other, most likely so the reader can try to keep up. They talk and talk and talk and yet it's unclear what is happening. There's also no action other than a lot of travel.
There is no archaeology in this book to speak of. What Indiana Jones is doing in this book, I have no idea. He somehow gets wrapped up in the government's efforts to stop the titular sky pirates. Indy's involvement somehow is related to fake artifacts that Indy helped create to...uh, well it has something to do with baiting the villains. It almost doesn't matter, as at times it feels like Gale Parker is the real main character. There's no insight into Indy in this book. He's just another person in this unreadable book. Only once does Indy use his trademark whip in combat and otherwise does not fight anyone. Another big error in Indy's characterization, as one reviewer pointed out, is his sudden love of flying. It's quite well known because of the plane sequence in Temple of Doom that Indy knows nothing of aviation. In the book, he doesn't know how to be a pilot but he babbles at length about the details of flying.
The plot is incomprehensible. It revolves around strange ships that begin attacking submarines and stealing cargo or something. I only skimmed the last few chapters. It made less and less sense as it went on. Caidin tosses one "twist" after another. It gets ridiculously daunting.
The last big gripe I have with the book is how it fits with the previous six titles. Rob MacGregour established a specific timeline with his six books. Where Sky Pirates fits is hard to tell. It's clear it comes after Seven Veils because it refers to Deirdre's death and yet when Jack Shannon appears in the book, it doesn't reflect Genesis Deluge at all. Also, Indy is still teaching in London. Why Caidin decided to wedge his book in between MacGregor's is baffling.
I was planning on reading all twelve of the Indy novels. I breezed through MacGregor's and then ran into this one. I do think I'll skip over Caidin's follow up, Indiana Jones and the White Witch, and go right to Max McCoy's very first installment.
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This book is NOT Indiana Jones.
I have had the whole collection of these Indiana Jones books since they came out in the 90's, but never got around to really reading most of them. Having grown up with this character I can honestly say that Martin Caidin's interpretation of him is by far the furthest thing from the hero we all know and love. The whole books seems like it was a story that was kicked around for a while and Indy was just put in it to sell the thing. It never goes anywhere. Most of the book is technical data on some airplane and told from the point of view of sub-characters - again making it feel like Indy was just stuck in there. Very little real action in the whole thing and you don't really get the plot until page 145! By then, you are hoping that all the wait has been worth it, but, alas, it never pays off in the end. The characters are flat even though the author spends way to much time describing them. I really tried to push my way through this one and that is why my title is "Ouch!"
Read MacGregor's and McCoy's books. They capture the Indiana Jones we all can remember. I can not stress enough about avoiding this book. It will tarnish the world of Jones for a long time.
Indiana Jones and the Philosopher's Stone (Indiana Jones)
Indiana Jones and the Peril at Delphi (Indiana Jones, No. 1)
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This book is one of the worse Indiana Jones books ever!....Indy is not a G-man or the leader of some elite strike force...He is an adventurer who is in search of archeology. In general buy the other books and stay away from this one
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This book is the worst Indiana Jones novel i've read(and i've read them all).Caidin is by far the worst writer for indy adventure books(MaxMc Coy was the best,followed closely by McGregor).Even Caidins terrible "white witch" was better than this one(but not by far).Skip this one and buy the rest!!!
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This book doesn't revolve around secret cults or lost treasures but Professor Jones still does a great job of pulling in the reader. Mysterious aircraft are wreaking havoc around the world. Can Indy stop them?
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