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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. To-date, Timeline is my favorite work of science fiction. Michael Crichton credibly transports us back in time mixing hard science, fiction and accurate history in an insightful trek through fourteenth-century feudal France, exposing modern man’s hubris in a world where dependence on modern technology is a serious liability, a place where life is short, cheap and violent and at odds with our modern sensibilities. A wonderful book. Like a Beethoven symphony, it’s a piece that reveals something new with each reading. Michael Crichton will be missed. (  )Renzomalo | Jul 8, 2009 |   While this book was terribly interesting, it just wasn't satisfying. I guess I expected more. (  )sross52 | Jun 5, 2009 | I am surprised this novel only received 3.5 out of 5 stars. I am also in shock at those who gave the book a 1, boasting that the book had errors yet failed to cite page numbers or precise instances of these horrendous errors that merit the book a 1. I would give this book at the very least a 4, as the breadth covers fantasy and medieval history, the best of both reading worlds. In a nutshell, scientists at the turn of the 20th century find a wormhole back to the 14th century. They lose a professor and soon other scientists and historians into 14th century France where they must fight, love, and try not to screw up history too much (but alas, they have already changed history and just don't know it yet). I read this book while I was digging in Rome. My roommate tossed the book at me and told me as a medieval studies minor I had to read this book. Within three nights, I had the book read, fell in love with 14th century France (or admired the details of war I should say). I would recommend this book for anyone who enjoys fantasy and historical fiction or Crichton in general. If you are looking strictly for a historical account of this time period, well, this is fiction and fantasy, and as such, you have to put on some blinders going into this. ( )ELipke | May 29, 2009 | 1  Timeline by Michael Crichton (Book Review) This book was published in paperback by Arrow in 2006. It is a science fiction thriller that has since been made into a movie. It is fast paced and full of danger, a gripping read. Doniger, Head of ITC plans a theme park with artefacts from the past for profit and he wants to revive it via his time machine. In 1999 his chief historian the professor has got in trouble in fourteenth century France and the young historians need to go back in time to save him. They are unaware of the dangers of the 14 th century France and they only have 37 hours to save him. They get split up but find their way home. It is an old fashioned adventure. Crichton has done alot of research for this book and it shows. He combines science of the future with historical past. Reviewed by Annette Dunlea author of Always and Forever and The Honey Trap. (  )ajdunlea | May 28, 2009 | I read this book first quarter and enjoyed it thoroughly. It's about a couple of archeology students who get caught up in a company's discovery of "time travel". It's really entertaining to read, it's extremely fast paced and one of those you just can't put down. I would recommend it to those who enjoy reading things that take place in medieval times or chivalric times. I did like nearly everything about it. ( )bevangelista | May 7, 2009 | 0.051 seconds to build listing  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com (ISBN 0099244721, Mass Market Paperback)When you step into a time machine, fax yourself through a "quantum foam wormhole," and step out in feudal France circa 1357, be very, very afraid. If you aren't strapped back in precisely 37 hours after your visit begins, you'll miss the quantum bus back to 1999 and be stranded in a civil war, caught between crafty abbots, mad lords, and peasant bandits all eager to cut your throat. You'll also have to dodge catapults that hurl sizzling pitch over castle battlements. On the social front, you should avoid provoking "the butcher of Crecy" or Sir Oliver may lop your head off with a swoosh of his broadsword or cage and immerse you in "Milady's Bath," a brackish dungeon pit into which live rats are tossed now and then for prisoners to eat.This is the plight of the heroes of Timeline, Michael Crichton's thriller. They're historians in 1999 employed by a tech billionaire-genius with more than a few of Bill Gates's most unlovable quirks. Like the entrepreneur in Crichton's Jurassic Park, Doniger plans a theme park featuring artifacts from a lost world revived via cutting-edge science. When the project's chief historian sends a distress call to 1999 from 1357, the boss man doesn't tell the younger historians the risks they'll face trying to save him. At first, the interplay between eras is clever, but Timeline swiftly becomes a swashbuckling old-fashioned adventure, with just a dash of science and time paradox in the mix. Most of the cool facts are about the Middle Ages, and Crichton marvelously brings the past to life without ever letting the pulse-pounding action slow down. At one point, a time-tripper tries to enter the Chapel of Green Death. Unfortunately, its custodian, a crazed giant with terrible teeth and a bad case of lice, soon has her head on a block. "She saw a shadow move across the grass as he raised his ax into the air." I dare you not to turn the page! Through the narrative can be glimpsed the glowing bones of the movie that may be made from Timeline and the cutting-edge computer game that should hit the market in 2000. Expect many clashing swords and chase scenes through secret castle passages. But the book stands alone, tall and scary as a knight in armor shining with blood. --Tim Appelo (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:04 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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