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Summary: READ IT
Review: At first I only bought Timeline for a required summer reading project, but i finished in a day cuz i was hooked! From the beginning it was exciting, when a mysterious man was found in the middle of no where and later dies in a bath of blood, and the end was extremely satisfying too. I recommend anyone to this book, it's seriously good, Michael Crichton is a genius.
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Summary: The best Crichton book yet!!!
Review: I have read just about all the fictional Michael Crichton books (which are all, by the way, superb) and I have to say that Timeline is the best of them all. The descriptions and diagrams of quantum physics contained in the book aren't too dull and are, in fact, necessary in order for the story to make sense. The adventure, suspense, and mystery of the novel make every word exciting. Timeline is one of those books that you can't put down after the first couple of chapters. You'll want to finish reading it fast, just so you'll know what happens and yet, when you're at the very end of the book, you won't want to say goodbye to the characters described in the novel.
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Summary: Review for lazy high school students
Review: In my 15 years of life I have read a total of 5 books with more than 300 pages. This was easily the best of those 5. This was still an amazing book. So if you do not like to read but must for school this is a great book to read and you will enjoy it.
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Summary: Time To Unwind With Adventure Of Old
Review: If you've read Crichton before, you know he comes across as a highly intelligent, very thorough writer who feels details are the key to believable fiction. I was working for a major book retailer when Timeline came out and found it odd so many of his fans were more preoccupied with the release of a third Jurassic Park book called "Embryo" than his latest creation about time travel. Embryo never materialized, and Timeline sold fairly well, but I never heard any reviews or comments about it. I finally procured Timeline for myself and found it reads very much like a classic Crichton tale-a slow buildup with lots of technical descriptions in the beginning, though in this story, thank God, he was kind enough to omit the bulk of the diagrams and such he seems to favor, then on to grand adventure! Considering the scientific theories used and/or created for this piece of fiction, I still found a few points difficult to swallow-mainly character reaction to some of the goings-on. Many things seemed to fit together a little too smoothly, keeping the pace fast and the action almost non-stop, creating a high-flying, swashbuckling story that struck me as almost dull in its predictability and formulaic layout. It comes across as a little boy's knights-n-armor fantasy made true, which isn't bad. It's actually quite entertaining and fun...I just think Crichton could have roughed it up a bit and added a few more surprises instead of letting it play out to its predictable end. A bedtime story for grown-ups. Read it-don't think about it. Just relax and let Uncle Michael tell you a tale about knights and battles and beautiful conniving heroines from a long, long time ago...
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Summary: Even French people will learn about French history.
Review: I like most of Crichton's novels, but as a Frenchman, I was a little sceptic about this author writing a novel whose setting is my country's historical times.I was dead wrong ! Reading this book, which is entertaining ans has lots of action, I have learnt things about my country, such as the fact that people of that time were not smaller but taller than us (they had to endure harsh living conditions, thus natural selection only retained the strongest).
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Summary: A MUST READ!!!
Review: Michael Crichton has taken us from a tropical island inhabited by genetically cloned dinosaurs, from the depths of an African jungle swarming with killer gorillas, to a wild ride back in time to the age of kings, knights, and the bubonic plague. In his thrilling novel "Timeline," Crichton, a true master of fiction, introduces the reader to a very likeable group of "medieval-ly" enthusiastic college students from Yale who embark on a journey, thanks to a New Mexico based technology company that has discovered a way to transport people to parallel universes (all of which existing at a different points in history), to 14th-century France, a very different and deadly period of time, during the Hundred Years War to find their college professor who has traveled back to A.D. 1357 without them. This small group of time travelers must get accustomed to living the lives of "Middle-Age" Europeans they had been studying in college so they can rescue their teacher and return to the modern age. Will their knowledge of the customs and conditions of feudal France enable them to survive and rescue their mentor? Or, will the highly unstable, highly dangerous days of broadswords, jousting, disease, and deceit prove too much for the 21st-century scholars? Only TIME will tell.
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Summary: Crichton's really Great but.....
Review: I think Crichton just wanted to write off a long vacation in France....and this book was the result. Hmmmm, on second thought, I think he had a legitimate seed for a book (regarding the time travel stuff) but couldnt make a story with legs to go with it (Writer's Block)..then took an extended vacation in France to 'forget about writing for awhile'..Then he decided that it would be cool to write off (taxwise) the trip to France by slapping this story together with the Time Travel idea. It just seems like two different ideas 'not so conveniently' combined into one. His other stuff is great though! I just think he can do better than this one.
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Summary: Take some TIME out of ur life to read TIMELINE
Review: Time line is a great book that everyone should read. It starts otu as a mystery but evolves in a action packed book w/ plenty of action to make you want to countinue reading the book. THe story starts out when a man is discovered in the desert, dead. It seems like he appeared out of no where, but you later find out that his was a worker ar itc, or something like that. Well, one thing leads to another and in the end they send back in time chris, Andre and kate(they main ppl int eh story) and 2 tour guides. THings start to go wrong when the two tour guides get brutaly murdered and our heros find them selves alone in 1357 w/o any contact w/ the moderan world. THere is also an added twist, they only have 36 hours to get everyone together and get home. With this in mind our heros go through plenty of things to reach their goal of getting home safe and sound.
THis is a great book and i recomend it to anyone that has an intrest in the middle ages or to anyone that is looking for a great exciting book. (I'm older than 12, just didnt want to have to sign up for anything)
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Summary: Violent and enjoyable.
Review: Crichton has got to be one of the few authors ever to fully explain time travel. You really have to comend him for that, even if there are a few holes in the explanation. So while the physics is a little unbelievable, the history isn't, Although many times the character's lives are saved by movie-like events. In fact, the whole book reads like a movie, but I have no problem with that. Also, this isn't for the light of stomach, as it is one of the most gory books I've ever read. But truly enjoyable. Don't miss it.
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Summary: TIMELINE
Review: A group of historians bite off more than they can chew when they agree to help a little-known but powerful corporation restore a medieval battle site in France. Some bizarre occurrences lead to the realization that the corporation's megalomanical CEO is secretly building an economic monopoly out of the past. The promise of quantum physics has been realized, and time travel is now a dream come true... ...or a nightmare. When Professor Edward Johnston gets stranded in the midst of bloodthirsty armies battling over the site he and his comrades were restoring, only a team of dedicated volunteers can save him. But what was supposed to be a "simple" search and rescue goes terribly awry, and the Professor's friends--not soldiers, not heroes, just historians--must become heroes if they or Johnston are to escape the deadly medieval arena in which they are trapped. Endlessly entertaining and amazingly researched, "Timeline" is a spellbinding story of knights, bandits, castles and damsels in distress, a world of honor and treachery, chivalry and death, a battleground for the future and the past. Crichton's storytelling is nearly flawless, and the book, though long, flies along at breakneck pace. The characters--the good, the bad, and the ugly (and there are many of each)--are all believably developed and highly empathetic. The author even puts a neat spin on the legend of the Green Knight. Though not classic literature, "Timeline" is a great action novel and possibly the best time-travel opus ever. "Timeline" is popular fiction at its apex.
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