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| Original Title: | Timeline |
| ISBN: | 0099244721 (ISBN13: 9780099244721) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | France,1357 |
Michael Crichton
Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 489 pages Rating: 3.85 | 180819 Users | 4411 Reviews
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| Title | : | Timeline |
| Author | : | Michael Crichton |
| Book Format | : | Mass Market Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 489 pages |
| Published | : | June 2000 by Arrow Books (first published November 16th 1999) |
| Categories | : | Science Fiction. Fiction. Thriller. Time Travel. Historical. Historical Fiction |
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In an Arizona desert, a man wanders in a daze, speaking words that make no sense. Within twenty-four hours he is dead, his body swiftly cremated by his only known associates. Halfway around the world, archaeologists make a shocking discovery at a medieval site. Suddenly they are swept off to the headquarters of a secretive multinational corporation that has developed an astounding technology. Now this group is about to get a chance not to study the past but to enter it. And with history opened up to the present, the dead awakened to the living, these men and women will soon find themselves fighting for their very survival -- six hundred years ago.Rating About Books Timeline
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This was the first Crichton novel I read, which is probably to his advantage. I knew it was fiction, so I was able to pick it up and cruise right through it. Had I started on The Andromeda Strain, or Airframe, I might have thought he was a non-fiction writer and not given him a proper chance. As it turns out, I was instantly hooked, and began to furiously and ferociously collect everything I could get my hands on by Michael Crichton. Now I've read most of his novels, and have met him in person.The very concept of time travel makes no sense, since time doesnt flow. The fact that we think time passes is just an accident of our nervous systems of the way things look to us. In reality, time doesnt pass; we pass. Time itself is invariant. It just is. Therefore, past and future arent separate locations, the way New York and Paris are separate locations.There is a reason why Crichton was a blockbusting bestselling author, he had a knack for explaining things that do not make sense in such a
Read the book now. Watched the movie much earlier. Although both are above average at best, I will be in the minority when I say I prefer the movie...it had a better storyline and characters were more fleshed out. Book Andre Marek or movie Andre Marek? Definitely movie Andre Marek...it's Gerard Butler guys! 😍😍3.5*
This book. This is THE book for me.
I was stunned at the lack of character description in this book. It's no wonder these novels are made so easily into screenplays. Granted, it's only the second Crichton novel I've ever read, so perhaps I should know better?The premise of Timeline was strangely dichotomous pro/anti-science. I'm not sure if the author is implying that people are what make innovations morally wrong, or that extreme innovations are morally wrong by themselves. This story is another instance of the low-tech
Having enjoyed Jurassic Park, I wanted to read more Crichton. Timeline now being the second novel of hes that Ive read.What I found most fascinating were the complete flip between the two stories, as in Jurassic Park its about being the past being brought to the present. Whereas Timeline is very much a journey back in time and a perceived perceptions of that era being completely changed.As a group of history students are transported back to 14th-century France to rescue their professor.Weve all
My reaction to this book was a lot more favorable than Stacey's --but I do have to agree with some of her criticisms. Because of his "hard" sci-fi orientation, Crichton insisted on trying to extrapolate an explanation for time-travel from existing science, his vehicle being quantum theory. Since this is too complex and counter-intuitive for most people to understand (and some of us suspect it of being a bunch of hooey anyway!), the "explanation" doesn't serve much purpose, and does wind up being
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