Rescate en el tiempo (1999 - 1357)

by Michael Crichton
Rescate en el tiempo (1999 - 1357)
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July 4th 2006 (first published 2000) by Debolsillo
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Mass Market Paperback, 672 pages

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0307376362   (isbn13: 9780307376367)

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Robert Dolinger es el joven dueño de una empresa de investigación científica llamada ITC ubicada en Nueva México. Se le reconoce como genio, ex...more






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Jenn
07/24/08

Timeline is an excellent book for those who especially enjoy history. Michael Crichton is able to write about historical events from past and present and is able to make it very exciting.

Imagine that you are a student studying archaeology with your team and you are currently digging at your site. Your teacher left the site for a few days to discuss the team's progress but doesn't return. The last thing you knew was that he went to talk to some head of a big business that was interested in w...more
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Jim
05/08/08

bookshelves: science-action
Read in April, 2008
This was a good one.

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 battlem...more
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Eric
05/28/08

bookshelves: fiction
Read in November, 2000
I’ve never been terribly impressed with Michael Crichton. He writes excellent action and adventure scenes, but his characters always seem flat and one-dimensional, never doing much more than dodging dinosaurs or white gorillas. Not surprisingly, what I feel is his best novel to date, Disclosure, lacks the heart-pounding action and delves more into conflicts between characters, which I found much more compelling.

I had high hopes for Timeline, a weighty book that had drawn good reviews from...more
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Werner
05/23/08

bookshelves: science-fiction
Read in January, 2005
recommends it for: Fans of action-oriented science-fiction
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, ...more
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Stacey
05/18/08

bookshelves: scifi-fantasy, so-bad-it-pissed-me-off
Another one-star book for the "so bad it pissed me off" category. I so wanted to like this book. Up until this book I think I read nearly everything Crichton wrote.

Timeline, in my opinion, had a great premise. Swashbuckler disguised as Sci-Fi. The problem I had was that Crichton tried too hard to explain his premises, and ended up making a jumble that even he couldn't untangle.

This book was supposed to have all the good stuff: time travel, knights, castles, fighting, suspense...more
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Franco
04/27/08

This Novel would be classified as a “Science Fiction” because its theme of time travel. In the late 1990’s Professor Johnson leads a small team of Archeologists in a excavation trip in France. Researchers Kate Erickson, Chris Hughes Andre Marek and David Stern fly to ITC, and Robert Doniger is the founder of that company. He made an time travel company and they get sent back to the medieval period and have to survive. Kate, Chris, and Andre are taken by Arnauts men, but are saved by Lady C...more
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Sara
02/20/08

bookshelves: 2007, fiction, loved-it-, made-into-movie
Read in October, 2007
recommends it for: Quantum Leap fans
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Tim
12/17/07

recommends it for: Pretty much anyone, actually, esepecially if they like the medievil world

Following the ever-successsful Michael Crichton formula, he has done it again and this time I rather like it, probably because of the medievil/middle ages slant and gross abuse of childhhod fantasy (so the key character just happened to enjoy training for broadsword fighting, eh? How convenient, Mr. Crichton!!) but still, it's not gonna make for anything too incredible.

A great shock about halfway through, totally unexpected and uncharacteristic, although the usual plot device of a traitoro...more
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Kevin
06/18/08

Imagine that you had the ability to go back in time and visit an era that had long since passed into history. Would you do it? When Professor Edward Johnston discovers that the company that sponsors his archaelogical dig has created a machine that can do just that, he accepts the opportunity to visit 14th century France and then promptly disappears. Up to this point, nobody from the company had done anything more than just go back and observe. Now, however, they will have to interact with severa...more
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Roger
03/17/08

bookshelves: just-read
Read in March, 2008
recommends it for: sci fi/action adventure fans
Michael Crichton is sometimes an absorbing, and for me quick, read. I picked this up at Half-Price Books in Columbus when we visited my son there, and finished it in a day.

Timeline is reminiscent of the Jurassic Park best sellers, and reads like it was written to be a movie - lots of thrilling action. Like the JP series, it is also nearly convincing scientifically, although this one is a much bigger stretch than Jurassic Park because it involves time travel. The heroes/heroine, archaeolog...more
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Julie
04/11/08

bookshelves: action-suspense, historical-fiction
Read in August, 2004
recommends it for: Michael Crichton fans, historical fiction lovers
I wasn't expecting this book to suck me in. I bought it at a yard sale for a dollar, and pulled it out just for the heck of it. Let me tell you, I'm glad I did, because it's WONDERFUL. Being a history major I appreciated the historical context (although that also allowed me to fully appreciate the attitude some people had toward the 'academics' in the book), and yet it was balanced nicely by the near-constant action. The characters were so well-written... and despite the end being predictable, i...more
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Punk
06/14/07

bookshelves: sff
Read in June, 2005
SF. Man, I hate quantum mechanics. It makes my head hurt. Coupled with the time/space travel in this book, I'm surprised my brain didn't just go right ahead and explode. But Crichton does a good job of giving us QM for Dummies, with a lot of 14th Century France 101, so you almost understand what's going on. The infodumps are fast and furious, but friendly and low pressure. Once my brain gave up trying to comprehend the intricacies of the multiverse, I had a lot of fun reading this. I only had tw...more
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Pamela
07/21/08

Read in January, 2001
Experienced this as an audiobook in the unabridged form. Awesome entertainment! The story is a perfect fusion of sci-fi and historical fiction. Chrichton does not disappoint with this one. (I have to admit I did fast forward on tape three regarding the discussion on quantum physics--it's a little beyond my comprehension). The reader was very creative and animated which certainly added to the experience. I was looking for something to keep me awake for a 12 hour drive through the desert and this ...more
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Lindsey
bookshelves: currently-reading
recommends it for: everyone!
The main thing to remember here is that the book is waaay better than the film, which was very disappointing. This has got to be my favouritist book ever, (though I do skip over the sciencey bits, it gets a bit complicated)
Basically, a bunch of scientists have developed a way of travelling back in time (that is the complicated bit, they don't really travel back in time, they travel to a co-existing universe, i don't get all that bit to be honest, but the story doesn't work without it) and en...more
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tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
bookshelves: sf
Crichton is incredibly popular - wch is enuf to make me suspicious of him immediately! Nonetheless, I found a few bks by him for a dollar or so & decided to read them. He's prolific, he's directed 10 movies & 12 others have been made based on his plots. I've liked some of the movies. SO, even though he's popular, maybe he's really a smart guy, eh? Nah.. "Timeline" is a time travel novel. There's nothing new here, for dedicated readers of SF like myself this is just anoth...more
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Ryan
03/29/08

Read in March, 2008
recommended to Ryan by: Cliff Corbell
recommends it for: Back to the Future fans
I love time travel stories: from Back to the Future<i/> to Pastwatch: the Redemption of Christopher Columbus, <i>Forever Young, DC Comic's Million month anniversary cross-over, Lake House and, possibly the most poignant of all, Somewhere in Time. Time travel adds a facet to any mystery that I enjoy exploring.

Timeline isn't ...more
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Anastasia
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Sheila
01/19/08

Read in January, 2008
And the time travel weekend continues. I saw bits and pieces of the movie, but had never touched the book before.

This book falls into my general complaint with Crichton: the man does exposition brilliantly, which is a skill most people don't have, but his characters are kinda meh. I would be reading along, totally sucked into the description of a medieval French whatever, and then all of a sudden the book would be next to me and I'd be petting the cat/watching TV/napping. And without fail, I...more
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Jared
07/25/07

When an author can't create anything new you end up with this. This is a Michael Crichton novel so you know you going to get a team of top-notch scientists, some wealthy, eccentric entrepreneur, and a big scientific/horrific dilemma. The only problem is the entire plot. Here we have time travel. A wealthy, eccentric entrepreneur with some scientists figure out how to go back in time. They go to the middle ages. People get lost in time. Now, they need a new team of scientists to get them b...more
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Rebecca
Read in April, 2008
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avg rating (all editions): 3.54 (7499 ratings)
avg rating (this edition): 2.75 (4 ratings)
number of reviews: 600