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Summary: Pulled into the "Timeline"
Review: If you're a Medieval freak, such as myself, you will absolutely love this book! We all know Michael Crichton from Jurassic Park... this book is just as action packed as Jurassic Park, but I myself enjoyed the Story line much better. Michael has a wonder and intellegent way of making us feel like his technological ideas could actually work. This book is pure genius!
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Summary: A book by the best author ever!
Review: This book has all the elements of the genius of Crichton. From adventure to drama, this book has it all. As the travlers go back, they learn new things that the just assumed. Crichton brings to light new ideas on old believed truths.
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Summary: another one from the always reliable Crichton
Review: Mr. Crichton has a knack for making high-concept science palatable for the average Joe. TIMELINE is no exception. He mixes science with adventure perhaps better than anyone else, and this book delivers a walloping, swashbuckling adventure yarn along with his standard "Don't mess with Mother Nature/Dangers of Shortsightedness with Emerging Technology" undercurrent. A film version might be interesting, but bear in mind that some of the film adaptions of his great books (i.e. "The Lost World") have been disappointing bastardizations of his talent. I can highly recommend each of the Crichton novels I've read (I've read about 80% of them). Dont miss AIRFRAME, either.
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Summary: Let's Just Hope They Don't Ruin The Movie
Review: This is an excellent thriller almost right from the get-go. All of the scientific stuff probably lost about a third of the younger audience in the first couple pages but once the story begins and the characters are developed it becomes an all out rescue through time. An amazing sense of how real this could actually be overtook me as I read every page wondering had NASA already tried this and it failed so they let Crichton take a stab at it from the fictional angle. He did on HECK of a job. THis is a masterpiece to put up next to The Andromeda Strain (which has a movie that is being re-done) The Time Machine (Guy Pierce's new re-done flick), and maybe even Bradburry's Fahrenheit 451 (which is also being re-done, supposidly with Mel Gibson).
The only real problem I had, which I took off a star for, was the fact that too many of the phyisically demanding events didn't seem to fit together with these made-to-be superheroes. It was too unrealistic in the fact that the characters where too strong and too dedicated almost to the point of the book having four Batpeople, all of the science stuff was made to be at least the least bit plausable but the characters' physics were overboard.
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Summary: Timeline
Review: TImeline is a great book for those looking for some adventure and knowledge on the world's new science, Quanton. And the ones reading with no knowing of these new methods can learn a ton. But for those people I suggest a second reading for a more in depth understanding.
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Summary: Awsome! True Science Fiction!
Review: Michael Crichton does it again. His latest book, Timeline is just out of this world! In the story, a company finds out how to travel to other parallel universes and thus, back in time. In the mean time, during an archeological dig, an employee accidently lets some information out about the site and cannot explain it. The professor, Johnson, goes to the company and threatens them to let him go back in time. He does so, and becomes lost in a thirteenth century world.
Four of his students are asked to go after him. There, they much find him, and bring him back. But when an accident destroys part of the time machine, they much fight for their survival...
This book was intense! Crichton does a great job at bringing the people back in the last minute, and the events that go on to stop them.
Crichton also does a great job with the people from the 20th century and their interactions with the 14th century people. The life that they lead is brutal, and that is illistrated well. This is also true science fiction. Science + Fiction.
The only problem: it was written three years ago. I'm starving for another book by Crichton!
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Summary: Excellent mix of past and future
Review: This book was very good. It kept my attention the whole way through, and made me want to finish it. It is a book about a group of researchers who go back in time to rescue the leader of the site they are working on. They go back in time by using quantom mechanics. The descriptions of the past and of the new technology are both interesting and realistic. The book takes many turns and the charecters have to face many problems. This leads to a great and exciting book. The ending is great and leaves no questions. The start of the book is fast and interesting so you can't put it down. I would reccomend it to anyone who likes thrillers and suspense.
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Summary: Non Stop Action
Review: In another blend of super science and a long lost age, Michael Crichton marries quantum physics and Camelot in a way that is exciting and believeable...to a point. One question I had throughout was why everyone in the present was so freaked out about what was happening in the past. As they already had the power to travel through time, why not just rebuild the machine and go back to right before all the bad stuff happened? That issue aside, Crichton paints a riveting portrait of modern man suddenly thrust into a Maedival world. A world complete with damsels, knights, brigands, and despots. The characters were all fairly two dimensional (I can already picture Jeff Goldblum as Chris) and recognizeable. Probably the hardest stretch was Marek - who just happened to be skilled in the ancient languages and the martial arts of the period before going back. The most interesting character was the CEO genius who founded the group and the time travel machine. His comments at the end regarding modern man's need to avoid boredom as a primary motivation were thought provoking and all too true. That said - this book will not bore you. It is a great beach/plane read that will take you away to a swashbuckling time and force you to ask on some level, "what would I have done?". Crichton's formula, like Grisham's, is entertaining but ultimately predictable (and this time almost seemed written with the movie in mind). Don't think too much about the man behind the curtain and you'll really enjoy it.
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Summary: A Michael Masterpiece!
Review: Yet another Michael Crichton 'masterpiece'. After reading my first Michael Crichton book, Jurassic Park, I was stunned by the action...until I came across TIMELINE! Despite dinosaurs being my favourite subject, Timeline makes Jurassic Park look rather simple....
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Summary: Good, but too many questions
Review: A very quick, easy read that keeps the reader interested. Although, when reaching the conclusion, you find yourself asking too many questions. Why didnt they just go back in time to before the professor went back? How could these history geeks possibly have a chance in battles of people of that time? The big secret seemed to be the discovery of another time traveler with the earpiece, but yet his presence in the book was predictable and inconsequential. Also, I pose a question on Crichton's explanation of the impossiblity of a paradox. First of all, through minor, the professor's messages were, in fact, a paradox. His actions affected history. Doniger's explanation of the impossibility of this phenomenon was equally frusterating. Additionally, the ending seemed to be a paradox, though never explained. It was said that the castle was lost due to a traitor. Is the professor the traitor?
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