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Summary: My All Time Favorite
Review: Michael Crichton's Timeline is the best book I have read in my life.
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Summary: Great Read
Review: I enjoyed this book very much. It had a great storyline with lots of surprises. The characters were entertaining and the book kept me turning pages.
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Summary: Can't believe I read this...
Review: ...I wish I could go back and stop myself from doing so, it really was terrible - like a bad episode of Sliders gone horribly wrong, and that's really not saying much.extremely predictable with atrocious characterisation, read just like a template for a bad sci-fi film (and, god forbid, I just read it's actually being made...) I gave it one star only because I couldn't give it no stars. Quite simply a waste of effort, time and money.
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Summary: AWESOME !...
Review: Thank You Michael Crichton for writing this book. It's been a long time since I've had soo... much fun reading a book. I won't go into big details here. Pick it up and try it.
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Summary: A Fun Romp through the Dark Ages
Review: Michael Crichton's "Timeline" is a solid, genre-stretching effort from the author of "The Andromeda Strain." Crichton is perhaps best known to readers as the author of several popular technothrillers wherein he weaves an enormous amount of research into a compelling narrative. Now Crichton takes us out of the laboratory and into the Middle Ages, courtesy of some well-known quirks of quantum physics. When a multi-disciplined group of experts on the medieval period discover a message requesting help in perfect modern English in ruins dating back to the 14th century, they embark upon a time-travelling adventure melding science fiction with historical literature. The results are decidedly mixed. Crichton's twists are often telegraphed and his characters rarely rise above their archetypes. He displays a solid knowledge of the medieval period and quite ably explains the quantum mysteries in terms accessible to the layman. The tale itself is straight-ahead adventure of the "Jurassic Park" stripe---this is fast-food fiction, not "Wuthering Heights." Still and all, Crichton's "Timeline" is like a terrific television show---it's fun, entertaining, and mildly informative to boot.
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Summary: Not my kind of book!
Review: What is a virtue to some is a defect to others. I cannot
stand books packed with characters performing impossible
stunt jumps, running away untouched under a shower of
arrows, a single guy with a sword mowing down scores of
enemies. Makes me want to close the book immediately. This
has allways been a poor substitute for a sound plot, based on more credible abilities. I also believe that the character construction is very
unidimensional and thus quite predictable. For example, we have characters whose hobbies are climbing cliffs and jousting.
Can you guess what skills will come handy later on the book?
This characteristic renders the whole story as lacking a real
element of surprise, a punch line. Having said this, I think the novel is very "professional",
well crafted and put together. If one does not mind, or in
fact has a taste for "hollywood" acrobatics, the novel is
enjoyable enough as it bears also some points in its favor:
it makes a nice job in reconstructing medieval life and it
is easy to feel transported to that place and time.
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Summary: Excellent book
Review: This was an excellent book with many plot turns that keep you guessing. I rarely read books, but this I couldn't put down! The book is about a time machine that allows you to travel to the past and then something gos horribly wrong when one of the characters steps out in the world of old and gets trapped in the past. The entire rest of the book is about the "rescue mission," but the catch is they only have a limited amount of time to return to the present before they will all be trapped in the past for good! It was a very compelling book that made me want to constantly read the next chapter to find out what happens. An excellent book that any action fan should enjoy.
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Summary: Crichton is the master!
Review: I bought this excellent book a couple of years ago. I am embarassed to admit it took me till a few days ago to start reading it. However, when I finally took it off my bookshelf, it was read over two days and I was left thinking, "This is dynamite!" Crichton has a way of making you feel that you are right in the middle of the action yourself. On this occasion the main locations are the premises of the time travel machinery constructors, "ITC" and France in the 14th century. The only bit that I got stuck at was the detailed descriptions that Crichton comes away with from time to time (sorry, no pun intended) In particular the actual time travel process (he tells us that it isn't actually time travel in the HG Wells sense of the word, but quantum physics version that whisks you away to 14th century France in a parallel universe. You lost me there Michael!.) If the rumours are correct then the movie of the book is certain to happen. Already Billy Connolly and Anna Friel have been touted for parts as professor Edwards and Lady Claire respectively. If Ewan McGregor isn't busy at the point where casting begins, I would sign him up for the part of Chris Hughes, one of the heroic student group that undertakes the perilous journey back to France at the time of the hundred years war. Timeline is a superb read from cover to cover. Hughes and his group are sent back to rescue Edwards and get into all manner of scrapes as they endeavour to find the man. The story is full of the regulation good guys and bad guys with the lead baddie wearing regulation black which will help the movie director no end! All in all a riveting read at the turn of every page and even supplys us all with a novel twist at the end. More than that I won't say for obvious reasons. Just let me finish by recomending this book to all of you that read this. Mine was bought back in 2000 in the waiting area at Brisbane International Airport for the princely sum of A$ 17.50. Money well spent. Bring on the movie!
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Summary: One of Crichton's Best
Review: Imagine a time where knights and kings ruled lands of war and lands in great celebration. Picture the French castle of Castlegarde surrounded by forests and a river, bustling with people from around the countryside. Across the river is a mill bridge, and on the other side is a monastery: The Monastery St. Mére. For Professor Johnson and his graduate students, it would be a dream come true to see this. Studying medieval times, the group was researching the French region of the Dordogne River when a bizarre change of events sends the students to a remote testing facility in New Mexico to try to help their troubled professor. Using a new and controversial technology, they travel to the medieval times of France, only to be trapped there with a war brewing. What will happen when the grad students and the professor try to get back home before they're all killed? Read this excellent book by Michael Crichton to find out. I thought this was one of his best books so far, and I've read most of them. It is fairly historically accurate and is very well researched on Crichton's part, making the story very believable. If you want to have a good book to read, this is an excellent choice. I couldn't stop reading it once I started, and I sat and read for a few hours each weekend for a few weeks until it was done. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in science fiction, fantasy, and medieval stories, with an accurate twist of fact.
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Summary: Michael Crichton has done it again...
Review: Michael Crichton has done it again: written an excellent book that keeps you hooked and is written almost as if he meant for it to be made into a movie. It opens up with what would seem like a typical opening scene for a sci-fi/mystery movie. A man dressed strangely for the climate is found wandering in the desert, babbling nonsense. When he is examined at the hospital, things get even weirder. Soon you learn about ITC with its experimental technology in quantum mechanics. Flash over to an archaeological site in France, where historians are attempting to recreate a model of a former castle and town. Put this altogether with people who talk too much, and soon you've got quite a dilemma. More is revealed as the story goes on. Once you are transported back to medieval France, the action is almost non-stop. Thing turn sour at the present-day ITC laboratories as well. Action, suspense, and overall excitement encompass the remainder of the novel. There is almost never a dull moment. I would recommend this book to anyone, especially if you are interested in quantum technology or medieval times. All in all, an excellent realistic science fiction adventure.
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