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Summary: Quantum Leap
Review: Quantum mechanics is a subject that fascinates me. It is obvious that Crichton did his homework. I enjoyed the scientific side of the book the most. Once its characters were back in history, it became a historical romance novel. I don't think it is up to Jurassic Park, but it is close. It is definitely worth the price of the book.
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Summary: More sci-fi hi-tech fun
Review: At first I was a little disappointed with the technology that Crichton was using in this story. The idea of not actually traveling back in time but going to an alternate location wasn't what I expected the book to be about. After a while and reading further on, it all sort of grew on me and became more interesting. The concept being many evolving universes beside each other; or multiverses. The story became exciting when the team was sent to 14th century France to save a colleague. Crichton uses a vast knowledge acquired of these dark ages to enhance and describe the happenings in this era. Crichton seems to have a knack for hi-tech sci-fi thrillers such as "The Andromeda Strain" and "Jurassic Park". "Timeline" is right up there with the best of them. This was a fun book to read.
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Summary: Timeline took me back
Review: I got this book on tape. It was so good I found myself setting in the car listening to it. This book is really a must have.
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Summary: Whoa! Typical Crichton!
Review: Oh wow. I really love this book. Crichton does it again. I love all of Michael Crichton's books and this one takes the cake. If you like Crichton, you will have fun with this one for sure.
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Summary: Timeline Book Review
Review: Timeline is a book based on a group of archeologists studying the Middle Ages. They find themselves in a high-tech lab in New Mexico where the company tells them that Andre Marek, Chris and Kate must travel back to 14th century France and rescue thier Professor. They encounter many hardships, and they lead you into a world without mercy.I thought this book was on of the best ever made! It was extraordinarily great and a good read for anyone. It is very realistic, like all of the people in 1362 speak Occitan, and you get to glimpse that language. It is also great for anyone to read because it ties in science, romance, action, etc. with the Middle Ages. Some of the book is about how a company puts together a "universe travel" machine. In all I think that this is a great book that I would reccommend strongly for anyone to read. Good job, Chrichton.
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Summary: Best of Crichtons work
Review: I have read many of Michael Crichton's books and I feel he has topped his best with TIMELINE. The story has been written with such perfection so that it flows like a rollar coaster, just when one feels the action is getting wilder, it exploads with details and even with the words on the page, I was able to see every second of the joust. WAY TO GO MICHAEL ! (and sorry Egghead closed.)
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Summary: Interesting fantasy, but reads too much like a movie.
Review: I've read many of Michael Crichton's novels, and I generally like his work ... but this book wasn't particularly satisfying. It was absorbing enough, even a little exciting at times, and obviously Crichton did his homework on 12th century France ... But this book reads too much like a tie-in to a movie that hasn't even been made (and God knows it's just a matter of time before the movie IS made). Most of the various conundrums the characters find themselves in are resolved entirely too quickly and neatly. Crichton is quite up-front in admitting that the notion of time-travel remains in the realm of fantasy, but even he could have explored the paradoxes involved a little more convincingly. If books were meals, this one would taste okay but certainly wouldn't be very filling.
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Summary: Xcellent
Review: The book put me there! Period! Whether it be the techno offices of ITC or the veridian green countrysides of mediaeval europe. I was there, I was educated, and I wanted to climb into the book and go back in time just for the 37 hours that the protagonists were. And in a sense I did! The protagonists were pushed to their physical and mental limits and the illustration of this therein painted how rough a time it was to survive in. I loved the politics, the battles, the history of it all. The individuals that did best were the ones who were both strong of heart, mind and body and that was how our protagonists were created. The writer clearly paints how brutal it is to kill a man with a sharp weapon. It can get pretty gross but in my opinion it should be articulated that way so you can appreciate the evil, or courage if you will, when going into battle and forced to face such a horrible task.
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Summary: Timeline- Couldn't put it down
Review: If you have read Crichton before, then you should need no further encouragment to read this novel- it is excellent. Timeline takes Crichton out of his post Jurassic Park slump with flying colors! The mix of Science and Imagination are just about perfect. As a Historian myself, it is nice to see this profession the subject of a Crichton adventure at last. The Physics of time travel are also new (at least to me) and very wild. His bibliography is quite extensive, and assuming that there is some truth to the concepts then our world is indeed a more confusing place than I originally thought. Something about multiple universes is just disturbing- I don't think I can be tricked into believing it as easily as I was with the cloning of Dinosaurs. Still- action and adventure in a fast paced read? This novel has it all.
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Summary: Well written, fast-paced, one-sitting read!
Review: Timeline may very well be Michael Crichton's best novel since Jurassic Park. Michael Crichton has plausibly blended modern technology with history. The story involves a team of scientists sent back in time to a parallel universe. They must learn how to survive in Middle-Ages France and return to the year 1999 before it is to late, and be trapped in the fourteenth century forever.
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