The market is flooded with Indiana Jones books right now, and I feel like I picked the wrong one by reading this one. Gresh and Weinberg run through each movie (and the tv show) point by point, giving scientific reasons for what happened. However, because they hit so many points in an order that only ties them together by plot, it was hard to read and even harder to enjoy. First you're reading about South American native tribes, then about how bullwhips work, then about Nazi airplanes and submarines, ending with a section on Judaism. Yes, all of that is central to the plot of Raiders of the Lost Ark, but reading about them in that order makes the book hard to handle. ( )