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Summary: No me lo banco mas
Review: compren este libro por el amor de Dio
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Summary: Excellent!
Review: With the second millennium ending, visionaries greet the future with awe, wonderment, and hope. One such being, Robert Peniger the CEO of ITC introduces a quantum mechanics based technology that opens a doorway into the past. Theorists believe that there are multiple earths existing along the time-space continuum with each containing its own past. With his new prototype, Robert believes he can control the doorway to our own history.On a dig in France sponsored by ITC, students stumble upon strong evidence that their leader Professor Johnston is living in the mid fifteen century. An ITC official invites the students to go back in time to bring the professor home. Three of the history majors agree. However, their mission is nothing like the piece of cake they anticipated. Instead, they fight to stay alive in a culture radically different than the technology loaded era they know. Based on scientific theory, Michael Crichton combines a thriller with a work of historical fiction. This unusual mix blends into a fabulous novel. Medieval France is brought to life (through the eyes of late twenty-century visitors) in minute detail. The two subplots are exciting and cleverly blended into a great story line. TIME LINE is innovative thought provoking, and entertaining. Mr. Crichton proves he is not a dinosaur, as readers will have no strain staying up all night reading this terrific tale in one sitting. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: Crichton does it again!
Review: If you liked Jurassic Park, you will love TIMELINE. Crichton has written a heart-stopping thriller; one that boils over with unforgetable characters. Booking professors, beautiful grad-students, and the unforgettable "Marek", Timeline catapults the reader over a landscape of history. His exhaustive research makes TIMELINE the first book to convincingly portray time travel as possible--if not probable. Cancel any early appointments you may have, TIMELINE will keep you up all night. Absorbing, engaging, and sheer delight, TIMELINE is bound to be this year's favorite.
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Summary: Timeline review
Review: Timeline by Michael Crichton is one of the few books I've read of his. This book really shows how imaginative authors can get with their writing. Between the thrills and the suspense of this novel, it is definitely an attention grabber. Even though the book is really not meant for my age, at 14 I still found it pretty easy to understand.
I am not one for medieval stories, but this wasn't just a regular medieval book. It was a book about archeology and science, and a whole lot of action. This is why I didn't find it as boring as I imagined. There was science added to the book as Michael Crichton usually adds, but not enough for you to not understand the story. It is interesting seeing the main characters Chris, Andre, Diane, and Kate, adapt to this new way of life, in this "barbaric" world. This story had high points and low points. There were parts where I squeezed my book with anxiousness and times where I just want to throw down the book and tear it to pieces because it was so boring. I think if the author just spent a little less time describing what was in the story and tell the story, I would like the novel much, much better. One thing that I liked about the book is Michael Crichton's violence. I being a boy, love violence (in fiction) and he has very good fights and action parts in his books.
I liked this book, but I didn't love it. It seemed to move way too slow for my liking. I like books that bring me fast into the heart of the story, and this book didn't do it for me. Although I liked the suspense in this book and the mystery it wasn't my favorite. For example, the note from the professor that read, "Help Me" left me longing for more of the story, but the story dragged on, and on and on. I liked all the action in this book though. The main battle between Castlegaurd and La Rouge was great. Michael Crichton's Timeline is a book that I would recommend to people who liked Jurassic Park or medieval stories but if you don't like slow moving books, I suggest something else.
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Summary: Maintains Tradition
Review: I found this book fascinating and informative. It stays true to the Crichton style. I found the history very interesting as well as his theories of time travel vs. demension travel (the trick with the lights works, by the way). As many readers challenge the scientific ideas behind this and other Crichton novels, I think it is important to point out the same comments were made toward Wells. This novel is full of free thinking and provocative ideas. Simply wonderful!
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Summary: Knights and Fair Maidens ....Adventureous!
Review: Great plot and story. Very original and well thought out.
In a nutshell: A billion dollar corporation has found a way to travel back in time and study the past for its own personal gain. Some of its scientists get trapped in medievel europe and the story follows the corporations' attempts at getting them back.
Great detail and focus on the characters and places like Crichton usually does. If you enjoy stories about Knights in shining armour rescuing fair maidens with an additional sci-fi time travel twist, you'll really enjoy this story. The plot is well thought out and keeps the reader guessing all the way.
This book completely overshadows its' movie counterpart (as is usually the case) which lost a tremendous amount of detail and tone in its' screen adaption.
Great nighttime read! Hark ... who goes there?
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Summary: Deeply flawed but enjoyable
Review: Ok, this is popcorn fare, no question about it. If you're a quantum physics nerd, a middle ages buff, and willing to suspend disbelief for a fun yarn (like me) you'll enjoy. If not, stay far away.
SPOILERS
Here are the biggest flaws in my opinion:
-the title of the book is timeline, but it is supposedly made clear that what they are doing isnt time travel at all. Which it clearly is. I suppose we just have to assume the guys running the show didnt know what they were doing, but you'd think they might bother to, you know, check that out. Kind of a big deal.
-Crichton does a masterful job of showing the middle ages in a fresh light, particularly how dangerous it would be for us soft futurites. Heck 2 army rangers get their heads seperated within seconds of arrival. But then 4 scholars manage to battle it out in one improbable escape after another, wiping out dozens of trained warriors as they go. Yeh, right.
-The ridiculous prohibition against taking modern tech back to the time. Wasnt it a different universe, so who cares? Oh yeh, forget that. And why is some wierd knock out chemical ok, but not a beretta? Nonsensical, and a total plot contrivance.
-Didnt it ever occur to these shmoes to send somebody back to get help? It wouldnt have worked but they didnt even try?
-Ok those are just pet peeves, but whats up with the end? They decide to basically murder Dolinger, for what? Being an A-hole? Is the penalty for being a greedy corporate SOB now death? Everyone involved volunteered! Should the guy who runs NASA be condemned to brutal death after every space accident? Whats with Crichton and condemning marginally nasty but ultimately harmless quasi-villians to horrible deaths aka the actor in State of Fear? Just weird. Why not have the professor slit the throats of the rest of the command team while theyre at it?
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Summary: Not very memorable.
Review: The biggest problem with this story, IMO, is the lack of cohesion due to Crichton taking an ensemble approach to the story. Crichton is an author who favors plot over character, and that's unfortunate, because a plot without great characters is never as memorable as a plot WITH them.
I admit to being captivated by the quantum physics aspect of the story, though that's not enough to rate a novel highly.
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Summary: War and Peace? No. Fun read? Sure.
Review: Timeline is never going to go down as a classic of modern fiction, but it is everything you would want it to be, a fun, fast-moving read with enough interesting scientific concepts that verge on plausability to suspend your disbelief for long enough for you to enjoy the story.
I haven't read much Crichton and have heard from the faithful that a lot of his other stuff is better, but this one kept me from getting to other things that I should have been doing and that's always a good sign.
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Summary: My Favorite Book
Review: Timeline is my favorite book. I bought it, read it and loved it. Then I gave it to my mother who loved it, she gave it too my father who loved it, he gave it to my sister who loved it and sent it on to a friend of hers. I like to imagine that it's still being passed along. I bought a second copy and lent it to my best friend, who lent it to his sister, who lent it to her other sister who lent it to a friend and so on. I'm pretty sure I'll never see it again. A great sci-fi journey.
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