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| The Lost Journal of Indiana Jones | 
 enlarge | Author: Henry Jones
Publisher: Pocket
Category: Book
List Price: $25.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (12 reviews)
Sales Rank: 17719
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Imitation Leather
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 160
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 6.6 x 0.7
ISBN: 1416563156
Dewey Decimal Number: 791.4375
EAN: 9781416563150
ASIN: 1416563156
Publication Date: May 6, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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 I'm really glad This journal has been found!!! June 4, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Everything about this book is extraordinary!!! If you are a fan of Dr. Jones you won't be disappointed with this journal that collects incredible facts and details from the four movies and present them just like Dr. Jones himself would have written them while living this awesome adventures. This is a "must-have" item for all of you how have grown along with the famous adventurer created by George Lucas and Steven Spilberg.
 Not terribly impressed May 30, 2008
8 out of 17 found this review helpful
This book is pure movie tie-in... nothing more, nothing less. The book doesn't stick to just drawings made during different Indy adventures... oh no. It has incongruous images of items Indy has come across (like the Shankara Stone fabric) which kinda throws off the whole look. Maybe if the publisher had incorporated this ephemera in actial pieces it might have worked better.
Unless you're a real hard-core fan I wouldn't spend this kind of money on this book. At least if the publisher had left blank space it might have done duty as a personal journal.
Fun to Read May 26, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
A great book for any Indy fan! It's a fun read that takes you back through Indy's travels.
 Great, but... May 13, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Meant to be a reproduction of the journal given to him by his father in the first episode of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, this book chronicles some of the adventures of Indy from age 9 onward.
I was disappointed to see how little of the series was touched on in it, but happy to see some events from the 1990's novel series and the Dark Horse comics Fate of Atlantis included.
While this is a book I will definitely have lots of fun looking at while watching the films, it could very easily have been two or three times thicker.
A coffee table book in diary's clothing May 6, 2008
13 out of 15 found this review helpful
This Lost Journal is essentially a small coffee table book that's made to look a cross between a diary and a scrap book. It's very pretty and any Indiana Jones fan will enjoy it immensely if they have no misconceptions about what it is.
What it is NOT is a diary prop. The simulated leather cover is nice enough, but the effect is spoiled by a colorful Indiana Jones logo that's printed on the spine and a very unauthentic sticker with the book's description glued firmly to the back. The book is replete with inserts -- photographs, news clippings, documents, maps, etc. -- but they are all printed, which gives it a very stylized appearance. Granted, actual loose inserts would have driven up the price significantly, but the kind of person who is likely to buy this would probably pay extra for the added realism. Many of the pages have an annotation (shaped like a business card) by "The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation". These annotations add nothing to the journal and the fact that they're written in English ruins any intended feeling that this is a recovered document. Clearly, writing them in Russian would have been useless for most people, so they should have just left them out and let the journal contents speak for themselves. Lastly, the contents themselves are just random snippets and souvenirs arranged chronologically. There's no sense of direction or purpose, which is what makes this a scrap book rather than a journal, despite the attempt to make it look like the latter.
Even with all these little complaints, it's a fun little toy and well worth the $25. In fact, it's cheap enough that one could buy a second copy to cut out various inserts to create or supplement a realistic Jones journal.
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