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A Quick Tip by ErinVR

Jul 3, 2010

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one of my least favorites by Crichton

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review by cpw1952. March 20, 2010

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A disappointing weak effort!

What a shame! Compared with Crichton's past stellar work and exciting accomplishments like "Jurassic Park" and "The Andromeda Strain", "Timeline" is a derivative, pedestrian work riddled with inconsistencies and cardboard characters that falls completely flat! ITC, a typical power driven, megalomaniacal firm built on cutting edge technology advances has developed the ability to travel in time. Crichton's clever and extremely well-imagined description … more

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Quick Tip by cdbaker. July 18, 2010

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Timeline essentially uses time travel as a device to thrust modern humans into the medieval past to write an action adventure story in that setting. It begins, for all intents and purposes, when a group of graduate student archaeologists, working on a dig under the auspices of a secretive corporation, find a note from their professor asking for help. It just happens the note was written during the Middle Ages. Thus, they are whisked off in a corporate jet and thrust into the past to find the professor … more

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Quick Tip by RebecaR. July 05, 2010

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The best book I've ever read!

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Quick Tip by Improvbear. July 04, 2010

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One of Crichton's best. Opens a fascinating door into the past, both technologically (the time travel aspect) and culturally (a glimpse of what it might really have been like, based upon lots of research). Well-conceived tale, tantalizingly possible (quantum "fax"? Wow...). Great story.

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Quick Tip by themagicfish. July 03, 2010

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I found this book really interesting. I found deviation from the scientific (that Crichton focuses most of his books around) to the historic refreshing and intriguing. There is no lack of science, but it was a nice change of pace.

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Quick Tip by nosam1. June 22, 2010

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An awesome book by on of my favorite authors...and a lot better than the movie that was made based on it.

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Quick Tip by Scotman. March 28, 2010

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Best thing about this book was development of Middle French language to talk to the natives; better than the film!

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review by MichaelN. May 16, 2009

Rich in Science and History but Predictable

This book had a lot of potential and is indeed rich in history. What hurt this book a lot was that Crichton decided to emphasize and amount of time available for the characters to complete their mission and return. Without completing the book you could easily guess that it would go down to the last second (at least in the movie "Goldfinger" the clock wound down to 007). Quantum physics is the focus of the book and its many possibilities. These include parallel universes, time travel and subatomic … more

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review by chupluf. March 26, 2009

An engrossing, fast-paced, action-packed adventure.

Professor Johnston is working in France as the chief archaeologist on a dig of a historical medieval town when the multi-millionaire Robert Doniger, owner of ITC, the company financing his project, suddenly calls him away to the US. A few days later, his son, Chris, and the students working on the dig learn from ITC that the Professor has mysteriously disappeared. Not long after, while working on the site, they find, inside a room that has been sealed for over 600 years, a disturbing manuscript … more

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A graduate student of biological anthropology. My favorite writers are Peter Straub, Alice Hoffmann, Stephen King, Clive Barker, Ernest Hemingway, Raymond Carver, and E.O. Wilson … more

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Michael Crichton was born in Chicago, in 1942. His novels include The Andromeda Strain, The Great Train Robbery, Congo, Jurassic Park, Rising Sun, Disclosure, The Lost World, and Airframe. He is also the creator of the television series ER.

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