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Summary: A great ride into the 14th Century
Review: I found this book an excellent source of entertainment. It is at heart ( or so it seemed to me) a rather old fashioned adventure with a breathtaking pace that really comes alive. Mr Crichton is to be commended for bringing the 14th century alive for a modern reader. I understand that people who don't care much about history may not appreciate all the details of medieval life but I found it fascinating. Is it a perfect book? No, there are a couple of details that I would have preferred different, but overall, it is a book very hard to put down once it gets going. The time travel element is definitely different ( a far cry from Jack Finney's great classic " Time and Again") but it is a thought provoking theory. I am sure it would make a great movie, but no movie could possibly match the book for excitement, but then, movies are very rarely as good as the book. Having read 3 previous works by this author I have no problem stating this is the best I have read by him . The book is filled with all sorts of quaint ( to us ) characters, full of surprising situations, ingenious chases and escapes and I found myself caring for the good guys in the book.
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Summary: A true reaction to Timeline, by Michael Crichton
Review: Timeline by Michael Crichton is a true classic. If you are into mideval novels, or if you're into a good book that will make you want to keep reading, then this is for you. I highly suggest you read this book; it is very intellectual and teaches many things to the reader. Either get this out of a library, or if you don't want to wait, then buy it. The hardcover book is about 450 pages, each one grabbing full attention from the reader. I truly believe this is one of the best books I've ever read.
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Summary: Couldn't put it down
Review: This book made my nine hours on an airplane go by so fast. I was so into this story, that I felt as if I was there. Crichton once again is a master of suspense, and kept me on the edge of my seat as his characters go from one escape to another. I loved the concept of present day people going back in time to the time of knights and battles.
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Summary: A Wonderful blend of history and sci fi - great reading
Review: A tense, taut and highly engrossing drama. OK, not Shakespeare, but a thrilling page turner that builds to a terrific climax. Reads like a screeenplay (not a concidence, surely) and is easily digested in 3-4 hours. Would recommend it to anyone.
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Summary: Quite easy to put down, actually
Review: I read about three quarters of the book and became so thoroughly fed up with it (no need to list the reasons yet again - book is like a film script - book is an amalgamation of action sequences - characters are stereotypcial etc.) that I did in fact put it down and turned to something else, but what a sorry state of affairs: the author can not manage to kindle enough interest in story or characters to keep the reader until the end: I just didn't care anymore. Maybe I was misled by the promising introduction and the first, say, twenty pages of the book, but the expectancy created therein is just not meet anywhere in the book.
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Summary: Lighten Up! It's NOT Dostoyevski
Review: I hope I spelled that right. Anyway, my point is.... this is a highly entertaining novel, and I thought it was extremely fun and I couldn't put it down. So it reads like a screenplay. So what! Sometimes you want a good old cliff-hanger, and this one does not fail to deliver. The whole concept of time-travel was very well explained, and I think Crichton's material on fourteenth century France was very detailed and well researched. I thought this was a great book; by that I mean it kept my attention and I wasn't too distracted by the "cinema-ready" pace of the prose. If I want to broaden my horizons intellectually, I will go back to the same Joseph Conrad book I've been plowing through for the past year. Meanwhile, though, a diversion like "Timeline" was entirely welcome!
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Summary: Mediocre!
Review: I never developed any feel for the characters..couldn't (or didn't care) to even visualize any of them. And why did they need these historians to go get the Professor? I never could figure out the point.
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Summary: Timeline - it's not Jurassic Park
Review: Crichton's latest attmept at mixing the present, high-tech world with the old, low-tech one is good, in fact, it's very good. But it just doesn't measure up to his previous projects. Perhaps this is the price for creating so many good works. The story, like most of his story lines, requires an enormous leap of faith to accept a technology that is just a bit beyond what we already have imagined. That's the easy part. The hard part is to keep us is suspense on what turns out to be trips a alternate universes and past times. I ddidn;t even try, and yet I was able to pick out the villian some 100 pages before it was revealed. But I sound disappinted. Acutally, it is a good read, I recommend it for everyone, and Cricton followers will once again relish at this new work from their favorite author and wonder who will play each of the parts in the movie.
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Summary: Tons O' Fun
Review: This book is one of the fastest reads you will ever come across. Jousting, sword fighting, fudal battles, and a quantum mechanics lesson wraped all in one. On of the most fun books I have ever read. I give it a year and a half before its in the movie theaters.
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Summary: Amatuer Writing
Review: This book, which has a very interesting story line, is among the worst written books I have ever read. It is repetitious and takes forever to get to the end that everyone knows will occur.
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