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Summary: disappointing, but still good
Review: I brought this book because I am a fan of Michael Crichton. I brought it after I read the Introduction and the first few pages. At first I think that Michael can give me a picture of the future technology and an exciting adventure of time travel, but I cannot find what I expected in this book. Secondly, the layout of the story is not very good that you can tell the ending of the story after you finish reading half of it..... The last disappointment is the character, who is the major character ... This book do not have a clear picture about who is the major character. This book spends a lot of effort to descript the world in 14th Century and it does a good job in creating attactive pictures of 14th Century. However, I am looking at a scientific story from Michael, not just a story about Knight and WarLord.
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Summary: Good but Disappointing
Review: This is not one of the author's best, but it still held my interest. Character development is very weak and at times the story becomes pretty uninvolving.
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Summary: Great book
Review: This was a great book! I though, from reading the jacket that i Might not enjoy it, quantom foam seemed so hard to explain. But then using and experiment with beams of light an slits, i found it wasn't that different. As in Jurassic Park, this idea for traveling in 'time' or to a different 'multiverse' seems perfectly plausible, as did the resercetion of the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park.Last night, i read untill 1 in the morning, reading the last 300 pages of the book. It was greast
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Summary: An entertaining page turner
Review: I think that Michael Crichton has come up with a book that captures the imagination. I enjoyed the premise of jumping through time even if it is far fetched. After reading the negative reviews I was skeptical about how good the book would be. But, I was glad I bought it.
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Summary: A Timely Alternative
Review: If you want to read some really wonderful books about time travel, scroll up to search and type in Connie Willis. The "Domesday Book"is a magical treatment of time travel and "To Say Nothing of the Dog" is a delightful Victorian/WWII adventure. As for Timeline, wait for the paperback.
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Summary: "Timeline" rules!
Review: Simply put, this is one of the best Crichton novels ever written. It has good amounts of science, lots of action, a good storyline, and chilling villans. You just gotta love it! Being something of a physicist myself, I was happy with the level of explanation on the topic of quantum foam. Buy this book!
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Summary: Good
Review: Book is good. Good words. Good pictures. I liuke the pictures...they was good. Good and delightful. Me like...Oh yes, me like very good. Good story in this good book. Good everything. Good stuff. Good. Good. Good. Me like it alots. Lots and alots. More and more than lots. Its the bestest book I ever has read. Good book.But don't buy it. It stinks. But it stinks good.
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Summary: You were expecting Ivanhoe?
Review: Alright, so it was enjoyable, a very easy read, and no doubt coming to a theater near you. Michael Crichton doesn't even bother to write novels anymore - this was a screenplay, through and through. "Timeline" features lots of crash-bang action, one-dimensional characters, goofy heroes that start weak and end up saving the day, improbable resolutions to impossible situations, amazing coincidences, and laughable romance. But if you go into this book expecting these elements and little else, you won't be disappointed, and may actually enjoy it, as I did. See if you can pick out the number of times the heroes get something like 5,000 arrows shot at them and only get nicked, and the number of times the heroes are on one side of a vicious swordfight with 20 enemies and yet they win. I lost count. Great literature? No. A non-stop, adventurous piece of entertaining escapism? Yup.
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Summary: Disappointing, even for a Crichton fan
Review: I'm a big fan of Crichton's works. I think he has an incredible knack for keeping you involved, but this book just didn't live up. I really anticipated reading this, considering that I love time travel stories, even if they are couched in a cowboys and Indians theme like the Terminator movies. But, to echo the sentiment of other reviewers, this book is a movie. It has an incredibly weak plot, and I didn't even have to read thoroughly to know what was going to happen next. What I liked about Jurassic Park is that I wasn't sure who was going to live and who was going to die. Another annoying thing was that the character development in this book was really bad. There was no main character. I think a good author would've made Marek the main character. All in all, I'd recommend reading it if you are a Crichton fan, but don't expect too much.
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Summary: A Good, Absorbing Read - But not MC's Best
Review: I really enjoy Mr. Crichton's book's for his velocity (He won't waste your time getting started for the first 100 or so pages), for his challenge to my comprehension of scientific possibilities, and more-often-than-not his twisting plots. I also rate as one of my favorite books, Mark Twain's "Conneticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court." So to find both the pluses of Chichton and the premise of "Conneticut Yankee" in the same book was exciting to me. It is a fast-paced bood that will keep you reading -- and excellent book for that 2-4 hour flight for the holidays. But don't expect too much in charater depth, nor the in total plausibility of the scientific basis. I also agree with other readers that some of the scenes, particularly the time transfer and the initial views of the valley, seemed to be almost precise definitions for camera setups for a screen play. But since Crichton is probably on retainer for all future works since the dinosaur movies of his, why should that surprise the reader? So relax and enjoy! I recommend it to you. It's a fun book to read, thoroughly engaging, and it will keep the person next to you from talking your ear off while you're traveling; thus worth it's weight in gold!
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