• Title: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
• Author: James Kahn and George Lucas
• Genre/Subject: Movie tie-in
• Publisher: Ballantine
• Publication Date: 1984
• Start date: 4/10/2023
• Finish date: 4/11/2023

Review:

Yeesh, what a clunker.

Like the Zeller’s burger, it tastes way better in your nostalgic imagination.

This was great as a movie.

As a book (adapted from the Dazzling New Film!), it creaked and galumphed along, borne gaily along on a tide of racism and archaic notions of cultural identity.

Even as bad as this was, it’s still better than the Crystal Skull abomination movie.

2 stars. 2? Yeah, Short Round is awesome.