Rob MacGregor
Auteur van Indiana Jones en het orakel van Delphi
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Rob MacGregor is the author of several books
Ontwarringsbericht:
(ger) Rob MacGregor hat mitgeteilt, dass er nicht als "Robert J. MacGregor" bekannt ist und möchte von diesem Namen getrennt werden.
(eng) The name is spelled MacGregor.
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Indiana Jones and the Riders of the Lost Ark #1, Indiana Jones and the Temple Made Of Doom #2, Indiana Jones and the… (1981) 147 exemplaren
Beyond the Bermuda Triangle: True Encounters with Electronic Fog, Missing Aircraft, and Time Warps (2017) — Auteur — 14 exemplaren
Psychic Power with Audio Compact Disc: Discover and Develop Your Sixth Sense at Any Age (2005) 12 exemplaren
Indiana Jones. Der Tanz der Giganten / Das Orakel von Delphi. Zwei Romane in einem Band. (1997) 12 exemplaren
Dream Power for Teens: What York Dreams Say About Your Past, Present, and Future (2005) 2 exemplaren
PSI/Net 1 exemplaar
Indiana Jones és az özönvíz legendája 1 exemplaar
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- MacGregor, Rob
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- 20th Century
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- male
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- EDGAR ALLAN POE AWARD (young adult category 1996)
- Ontwarringsbericht
- The name is spelled MacGregor.
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- 33
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- 2,596
- Populariteit
- #9,898
- Waardering
- 3.4
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- 19
- ISBNs
- 113
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- 2
His trip to his al ma matter in the University of Chicago doesn't quite go as planned, it seems his juvenille hijinks from the first book in the series are still haunting him. He's able to hook up with his old college roommate, Jack Shannon, who's Jazz club is off-the-charts these days, but Al Capone is not down with dat.
The book felt like MacGregor had recently been born-again during his authoring of the series. While biblical adjacent stories are not new to the franchise, look at "Raiders of the Lost Arc", this has a lot of very baby Christian references far beyond the academic fiction of Raiders. Shannon himself has recently been born-again but sees little issue of him committing to his crime-family and his Pentecostal church. He is infatuated by a young woman whose dad comes to speak at his church regarding Noah's Ark.
Indy too likes the new girl, which is the primary reason he agrees to go with her dad on the quest to re-locate Noah's Ark. Dr. Vladimir Zobolonksy for religious/political reasons, Indy for personal/academic. Some Russian communists, and Islamic Fascists try to stop their journey along the way because...why not?
The story kept the plot moving as an Indian Jones film. This is the first book in the series I felt actually would have been better as a movie, mostly because the characters are frequently speaking different languages, which would be much clearer on TV with English Subtitles than reading it all in English and only getting hints on code-switching. Otherwise, MacGregor does a fine job, he is great at making large jumps in time of the plot make sense and feel normal.
The biggest reason "Genesis Deluge" does reach my 5 star is two of the tertiary characters have close loved ones die, yet their mourning is complete in a sentence or two. While MacGregor tries to cover this with the characters' own lives being in such peril that they have to move on quickly, it doesn't feel realistic nor emotionally intelligent.… (meer)