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Summary: Movie in the Works!
Review: Michael Crichton needs to stop writing books with the future screen in mind. They may end up making a great movie but are a terrible novel.
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Summary: Connecticut Yankees in Jurassic Park
Review: This book takes the high-tech underground lab of "The Andromeda Strain," the constant threat of dismemberment of "Jurassic Park," and the ubiquitous robotic characters of "West World" and mixes them all together. The problem is that the robots are all supposed to be human!Despite the massive bibliography showing what appears to be a superhuman research effort, Crichton's inability to make a convincing human character or plot twist gives his feudal setting all the believability of an evening at the "Medieval Times" dinner theater.
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Summary: Timeline-Crichton
Review: Crichton book, sci-fiction? Hmm well i gave it a try.. This book tells the story of time travelling. How? Ofcourse with a time machine. I never believed in time travelling but as always Crichton trows a lot of "real" information at you. You almost get the feeling that time travelling is possible. The story in this book is good but sometimes a little slow. No doubt the best part of the book is when a team goes back in time to save a dude stucked in time against evil knights.If you really like an adventure book read crichton's lost world it's better.
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Summary: Stinks. Predictable.
Review: No imagination, reads like a childrens scary book or a "B" movie with too much violence for kids. Predictable story line. I figured out the ending half way through the book and it took everything I could do to finish the book thinking it would get better. Folks running around in the Dark Ages from castle to castle being chased through the woods and secret passageways isn't very imaginative. The tech end was weak and not very believable. If your looking for a no brainer book to pass the time, this is it. My used copy goes to the used book store. I wouldn't pass it on to a friend to waste their time.
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Summary: Good Recreational Reading
Review: I read this book over a weekend and found it very readable and enjoyable. Although the pseudoscience presented to explain time travel was pure witchery, most of the novel was spent on the parallel stories of the time travellers' adventures in 14th century France and conflict between a ruthless entrepreneur and his associates to get them back to the present before their 36-hour deadline ran out. It certainly provided enough excitement to keep me going. It also contained a few tidbits of medieval life that were fun for a history buff. I liked this book.
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Summary: What a Waste!!
Review: I have been a fan of Mr. Crichton's work for some time, yet, this was the hardest book to finish that I have read in some time. Don't waste your money. I became bored with the story about half way through when I figured out the end was going to be extremely predictable. The story line sagged badly and became the kind of thing that children's scary books are made of. A bunch of folks running around the dark ages from one castle to another being chased by evil knights. The chases were predictable, the outcomes could be figured out easily. In fact the outcome of the whole story was told in advance at the beginning with few surprises in the middle. In all, it was boring and took everything I could muster just to finish the book. Sorry Mr. Crichton, this one heads for the used book store. I wouldn't pass it on to a friend.
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Summary: Action-packed throughout!
Review: Michael Crichton's latest novel "Timeline" falls somewhere in between the amazing Jurassic Park, or Sphere, and the disappointing Airframe. I would lean more towards the JP side, because of the nicely done plot and character descriptions. The action however, is the best part. Timeline is a great page turner, and if you're a Crichton fan, don't miss it.
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Summary: I'm glad I was given this book as a gift...
Review: ...because I'd be embarrassed to have paid for it. "Timeline" will make a wonderfully entertaining and forgettable movie. As historical fiction I found it intriguing - except... if you read carefully you find that critical elements (the furnishings of the castles, the size & strength of the knights) are *speculation* i.e. fictional not historical. As science fiction, it's pathetic - does anybody remember "Time Tunnel" the TV show? This is at that same level of sophistication: Super-duper computer, cavernous rooms with drifting vapor, showers of sparks, paper-thin characters molded to fit the story. The science is Hollywood science - it enables the story, but only if you don't think about it for more than a few milliseconds. If you stop reading and *think* for a few seconds, it falls apart like wet carboard.
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Summary: Liked it, but...
Review: ...it reminded me of Jurassic Park (or a bid for a screenplay). I would view this as a "diet" fiction. With the exception of the science it isn't complex. The characters are able to bumble there way to the end. It has the requisite violence, the damsels in distress and even a clumsy professor. What more could you ask for?
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Summary: Great but a little too violent
Review: This book was very good and kept me interested the whole time i was reading it. I am not a big fan of reading so when i like a book it must be good. The imagination behind the story was fun along with the actual historic facts. I can't wait to start another one of his books! The only drawback was the endless fighting. It got a little boring but quickly picked up again!
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