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An old man wearing a brown robe is found wandering disoriented in the Arizona desert. He is miles from any human habitation and has no memory of how he got to be there, or who he is. The only clue to his identity is the plan of a medieval monastery in his pocket. So begins the mystery of 'Timeline', a mystery that will catapult a group of young scientists back to the Middle Ages and into the heart of the Hundred Years' War. Imagine the risks of such a journey. Imagine the impossible.
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When you step into a time machine, fax yourself through a 'quantumfoam wormhole,' and step out in feudal France circa 1357, be very, veryafraid. If you aren't strapped back in precisely 37 hours after your visitbegins, you'll miss the quantum bus back to 1999 and be stranded in a civilwar, caught between crafty abbots, mad lords, and peasant bandits all eagerto cut your throat. You'll also have to dodge catapults that hurl sizzlingpitch over castle battlements. On the social front, you should avoid provoking'the butcher of Crecy' or Sir Oliver may lop your head off with aswoosh of his broadsword or cage and immerse you in 'Milady's Bath,' abrackish dungeon pit into which live rats are tossed now and then forprisoners to eat.
This is the plight of the heroes of Timeline, Michael Crichton'sthriller. They're historians in 1999 employed by a techbillionaire-genius with more than a few of Bill Gates's most unlovablequirks.Like the entrepreneur in Crichton's Jurassic Park, Donigerplans atheme park featuring artifacts from a lost world revived via cutting-edgescience. When the project's chief historian sends a distress call to 1999from 1357, the boss man doesn't tell the younger historians the risksthey'llface trying to save him. At first, the interplay between eras isclever, but Timeline swiftly becomes a swashbuckling old-fashionedadventure, with just a dash of science and time paradox in the mix. Most ofthe cool facts are about the Middle Ages, and Crichton marvelously bringsthe 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 badcase of lice, soon has her head on a block. 'She saw a shadow move acrossthe grass as he raised his ax into the air.' I dare you not to turn thepage!
Through the narrative can be glimpsed the glowing bones of the movie thatmay be made from Timeline and the cutting-edge computer game thatshould hit the market in 2000. Expect many clashing swords and chase scenesthrough secret castle passages. But the book stands alone, tall and scaryas a knight in armor shining with blood. --Tim Appelo
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Rating:  - Some worthy entertainment value
_Timeline_ is about a handfull of historians who travel back to 14th century France to retrieve a professor who is trapped there.This book is about what I expected: lots of sword play, lots adventure and lots of killing.Not that this is a bad thing, but it gets tedious after a while.The theories of how these individuals manage to travel into the past (millions of parallel worlds, foam worm holes, etc.) is fanciful, but lacks any particular sense of reality.I enjoyed the individual battles ... Read More
Rating:  - Can this happen...?Would you go if you could...?
I couldn't believe it but this is only my second Crichton book!How crazy is that?I was in Goodwill one day (one of the BEST places to find great older books) jamming to music on my iPhone and going through the hardcovers when I saw this book.
I read `Jurassic park' a while back but, like I said earlier, nothing by Michael since then.So I bought it and... well... here I am!A book about time travel going back to the 14th century?Ok, I'll bite.Michael has a true gift for telling ... Read More
Rating: - A real page turner!
Timeline is an interesting juxtaposition of six-hundred-year-old medieval history and futuristic science fiction. All history and science fiction buffs should go ape over this book, especially if can dig walking around 14th Century Europe during the first twenty years of the Hundred Years War. Yikes!
In this novel, France and England are hard at it in a series of scattered wars over English possessions in France as well as England's claim, led by Edward III, to the very throne of France. ... Read More
Rating:  - Fun to read but nothing holds together (spoilers)
Michael Crichton knows how to write a suspenseful book that keeps you on the edge of your seat.But the reader normally expects that the plot will make some sort of sense at the end.A few well-drawn characters would also be a plus.Here the villain is investing billions of dollars in a technology for travel to alternate universes, which just happen to be replaying our past (why this would be so is never explained).Although these are defined as "alternate" universes, somehow someone in that universe ... Read More
Rating:  - Time to Sleep? Nah.
Admittedly, the science in Timeline is weak in comparison to other Crichton novels. However, I really stopped caring once he took me, convincingly, to the middle-ages.This book is one heck of an exciting adventure!-Stephen Prins, author of: Strife of the Lorin
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