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Summary: Excellant!
Review: I have read all of Michael Crichton's books and I must say, in my opinion, this is the best! I read the book in one snowy night whenthe power was off, by flashlight, that is how good it is! The characters take on a life of their own, I cried at the end, I am not ashamed to say. This would make a great movie (hint, hint) Buy this book, you won't be sorry!
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Summary: Crichton makes an exciting return.
Review: I started this book and was not very impressed with the first 50 pages, but then I got into the rest of it and WOW was I impressed! Crichton takes us back to the excitement of 'Jurassic Park' and 'Sphere' and makes it all even better. I was getting impatient waiting for a followup to Crichton's last novel, but it was all worth the wait. The action is great, the story is even better, and the end pulls it all together and makes for a great book.
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Summary: show me the money
Review: I have enjoyed many of his previous books. This one has a compelling plot, time-travel, quantum mechanics, 13th century France. But Crichton delivers only the bare bones of a novel, it is more a screen-play for an action-adventure flick starring Leonardo. Very unsatisying.
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Summary: Timeline
Review: A terrific book that I hope will becomes a movie. Some of the quantum theory was a bit complex, duh, but interesting. I found the book exciting and hard to put down. The ending was quite a surprise. I recommend this one.
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Summary: Entertaining, Funny, Ridiculous,
Review: Crichton certainly does thourough research when preparing to write a novel. It seems to me that despite all of his hard work, the final product is always half sci-fi thriller, half Hollywood fluff. Nevertheless, Timeline is a fun book to read. No philosophical paradoxes or political manifestos. We want to keep on reading because each page contains a bit of information we may need later on. Sometimes it's just one sentence or phrase but there is always something there. Timeline is good. Sphere and Jurassic Park were better. Read it and you'll be satisfied. Not blown away but satisfied.
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Summary: Horrid
Review: As with some of Crichton's other novels, this one is bearable if you turn off your brain and just visualize the action. The quantum theories presented are very young and for the most part, disregarded my most physicist. The most discouraging thing about the story is the gigantic holes! It is painfully obvious that Chrichton was hoping that readers would not catch-on to how short the novel would have been if it was constructed with any logic.
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Summary: A little slow beginning, good middle, too predictable ending
Review: Overall, Timeline excels in the middle of the story. It is very good and very fast paced. However, the beginning and the end drag it down. The beginning takes a little too long setting up characters, but not developing them, and letting us know just how quantam physics works. I don't really give a damn how the hell they get in the past. I just want to read about them in the past. The book read like a movie all the way through, but it was also highly detailed and highly scientific. Overall, the middle of the book was terrific. It perfectly describes the way I think of the middle ages. However, the end is predictable and too neat-and-tidy. Crichton tends to wrap everything up in a rather smarmy style, giving everyone their just-deserves. Overall, the story and writing are solid. However, this book has a very juvenile ending that completely overcompenstates for its smart beginning. I'd have been more impressed if Crichton had concentrated on creating a good ending than a good, if a little slow, beginning.
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Summary: Different and captivating
Review: The medieval era has never been so interesting. I bought the 16 hr. version of the audio book and was very skeptical after reading the summary. But right from the beginning, it grabbed my interest and curiosity and never let them go. Another Jurassic Park..improbable but he makes you believe it could happen!
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Summary: Made for the big screen
Review: This is yet another screenplay in hardcover. I liked his earlier work but it's getting hard to make it through his latest efforts. I think the major issue here is the lack of any character development compared to what MC has demonstrated in the past.
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Summary: A (Major!) Suspension of Reality
Review: The last Michael Crichton novel I read was The Lost World and coming back to him, I discovered that he is still in top form. The science and the action and the suspense are all here, and if you are one of those readers who can willingly let go of reality for a couple of days then this novel is great. While not a new concept, time travel becomes something entirely original and profoud in Crichton's book and traveling back to feudal France (I could think of a hundred other hackneyed places to go to) makes it distinct from all others. Contrary to others, I think the historical information is a wonderful addition to the book. The ghosts of camera angles and stunt coordination and costume design for the inevitable film are evident in the pages and while this has no deep and meaningful revelation about the workings of life, it is an enjoyable adventure, in a category all its own. To me, Timeline was like candy: not nutritious, but extremely tasteful.
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