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Summary: Timeline
Review: A masterpiece! Chricton takes the concept of quantum time travel and gives the reader a mind boggling experience with great historic and scientific refernece. Great for history buffs and science nerds alike!
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Summary: Great Read
Review: Well developed plot line. Enjoyed this book tremendously. The research that was done for the medeival period was tremendous.
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Summary: Just Listen To It
Review: TIMELINE is a lot like a screen play, and the narrow escapes and nick of time miracles do get hoakie after a while, but if you just want to be entertained get the audio-book tapes, relax, and enjoy this fatastic story.
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Summary: Could have been much better
Review: With such a great concept, this could have been much better. I usually can't put Crichton books down but I had to work to wade through this, at times. And the many, many plot holes were big enough to drive trucks through. The unnecessarily gory violence could have been much more subtly handled. A disappointment
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Summary: Timeline
Review: This book is soooo boring. Give me another "Airframe" anytime
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Summary: Guilty pleasures
Review: This is at least the fifth Crichton book I have read cover to cover without really taking a break, going all the way back to Andromeda Strain. Hard to imagine, given his background, that it wouldn't read a little bit like a movie, so I'm not sure why anyone would complain about that. I look at it this way: It's the literary equivalent of junk food, but it's made with the very finest ingredients. Enjoy!
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Summary: A good read
Review: Not your typical Crichton...but it kept me interested throughout. It is a page turner.
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Summary: Too long.
Review: A bit of a disappointment. I can appreciate the research, the science and the history but this book goes on and on and on and... Each event is predictable and ultimately boring. Also there are bad editing errors which detract from the action. How can a character be on a beam she thinks is too wide (six inches) on one page and cross to another "smaller" beam that is a foot wide 2 pages later? Did more than one person write this book? It's frustrating when an author writes the movie before he's even finished the book!
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Summary: Good premise, lame delivery
Review: I was so excited by the premise of this novel that I had trouble waiting until Christmas had passed to buy it. Unfortunately, it read like a lump of coal. I have to agree with other reviewers who panned this one for lack of depth, mechanical story elements, weak characterization, and a sense of impending Hollywood. If you are looking for a good Crichton read, try Airframe or Sphere. Don't bother with this silly book.
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Summary: Made for TV; Tape narrators, lose the attitude
Review: Much of my positive criticism -- fun ideas -- and negative criticism -- predictable, made-for-TV movie quality; endless unnecessary action -- has already been said. So I'll focus on the narration style (from the audiotape version). Narrators, lose the attitude. When you're reading descriptive prose (little enough of it in Crichton's book), just read it. You don't have to give a snide ending to every sentence. Let us use what little of our imagination is left... your snideness distracts from the story.
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