<![CDATA[Timeline]]>

false <![CDATA[Timeline]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1210660334m/7669.jpg 7669 56 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 1525987 book 1999 Timeline total:13358|5:2695|4:4516|3:4184|2:1513|1:451| 13358 47564 15542 971 1 3 false false Wed Mar 26 15:56:12 -0700 2008 Sun May 18 10:00:08 -0700 2008
Timeline, in my opinion, had a great premise. Swashbuckler disguised as Sci-Fi. The problem I had was that Cricht...more...]]> 2 2 false false Sat Nov 11 00:00:00 -0800 2000 Wed May 28 10:18:43 -0700 2008 Wed May 28 10:20:18 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 2 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 19 13:05:01 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 19 13:05:01 -0700 2007
That said, while I did a lot of skimming, this was a perfectly fine book to read while on mass transit... as long as I kept the cover down so that no one would know that I was reading crap.

And now you know that I sometime...]]> 4 2 false false Tue Jan 22 14:46:57 -0800 2008 Tue Apr 15 13:05:47 -0700 2008
I still quite like the book.]]> 5 3 false false Tue Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004 Tue Dec 23 08:53:13 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 23 10:05:18 -0800 2008 This book was my introduction to Crichton and I fell in love!
I fell in love because this is an author who does extensive research on the subjects he writes about. So he not only entertains, he teaches you something in the process.
In Timeline, Crichton combines science(quantum te...more...]]> 2 1 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Sun Oct 19 23:19:10 -0700 2008 Sun Oct 19 23:47:16 -0700 2008 1 more...]]> 5 2 false false Sun Apr 27 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu May 08 00:14:54 -0700 2008 Thu May 08 00:15:58 -0700 2008
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 ...more...]]> 4 3 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Thu Mar 20 16:34:30 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 17 06:39:43 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 1 false false Tue Jul 24 12:23:53 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 25 12:18:01 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 1 false true Mon Feb 18 02:16:55 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 21 06:53:04 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Mar 25 12:11:35 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 25 12:11:39 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Sat Jan 31 16:49:17 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 31 16:49:30 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false true Mon Dec 29 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 30 11:58:53 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 30 12:04:39 -0800 2008
On a positive note, the science descriptions were phenomenal. I enjoyed the story, and found it difficult to stop reading; it was action packed, dealt with me...more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2000 Mon Oct 27 10:56:12 -0700 2008 Fri Nov 07 08:09:10 -0800 2008 2 This novel was exciting and unique, I could hardly put it down. Cool quantum technology that I barely understood aside, I felt like I was transported to the 100 Years War along with the team that sets out to find the Professor. And that's what makes a goo...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Nov 08 12:13:10 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 08 12:20:39 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Oct 21 13:40:51 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 21 13:41:00 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Thu Apr 17 00:00:00 -0700 2003 Wed Sep 30 11:13:28 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 01 04:01:23 -0700 2009 Leselust kommt erst sehr spät auf

Wäre das Buch nicht von einem Star geschrieben, hätte es wohl kaum jemals eine Chance auf die Bestsellerlisten gehabt. Wenngleich man ihm zugute halten kann, dass er sehr ins Detail geht und gut recherchierte Fakten allgemeinverständlich darlegt - so...more...]]> 1 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 04:06:13 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 04:42:35 -0700 2009
The scientific parts were interesting, though the...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001 Fri Jul 17 11:51:31 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 17 12:48:12 -0700 2009
Fortunately, for those of us in the second category, we can e...more...]]> 2 0 false false Sat May 16 09:22:39 -0700 2009 Sat May 16 13:10:26 -0700 2009 Prey and Jurassic Park, although Jurassic ...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=7669