Timeline (Unabridged)

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Summary: i would have given it 10 stars...
Review: I am an avid reader, mostly concentrating on fiction such as Crichton, Tolkien, Carr, Wrede, Rowling, etc. So if you don't like any of those, then maybe this isn't the book for you...

But if you do then I would say that this is one of the best books I have ever read. I don't throw that around lightly either. Taking place in a time and place quite different from our own, I was completely drawn into this fictious world of knights and warfare. Having read this book no less than five times, it is still just as interesting each time. I have every single one of Crichton's books and in my opinion this is the best. Of course, medieval (spelling? ha) warfare is a subject I find extremely intriguing, so maybe that's why too...Nevertheless, two of my uncles also read Timeline and agreed with me, so I know I'm not completely alone. :)

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Summary: Review for Timeline by Michael Crichton
Review: -James Maloney

Overall, this book was very entertaining. If you're a person for sci-fi books, this book is for you. I learned a lot too. Now I kind of look at time and space a different way. How it begins with a couple finding an old man in a desert is very interesting. The characters aren't really important at all there but the plot that it leads up to is. The only problem about the book is that there are a lot of characters that are irrelevant to the story. Once you start to get to know a character, they don't come back for the rest of the story.

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Summary: Bad movie script disguised as a book
Review: The subject of time travel has always been of interest to me so when I heard of this book I thought it would become one of my favorites. It didn't.
It's easy to be impressed by the first chapters of the book with all the scientific terms thrown around and the promise of adventure but then that's all the book really is.
The characters are so underdeveloped, it was difficult to care about them. The light romance between two of them felt forced, like, somebody had to get some so it might as well be those two.
My three stars are for giving props to the attention to detail given to the science and history supposedly behind the concept of the book.
It was entertaining, something you can read between classics to give your mind a rest. Your brain won't have to work too hard to read this one through.