Book Reviews of Timeline

I absolutely loved this book. My English teacher and my dad both recommended it to me claiming it was a great book, and i was not disappointed. I had trouble putting it down. I would recommend this book to anyone who like to read.

Really, you've gotta give it a try!

Can we go back in time? Maybe. Michael Crichton gives us a way back that could work and what happens if something goes wrong. He also shows that we do not know what the past is really like. We can not just think that the people then would act like we do now. The story moves along at an even pace until the end. Then it speeds up as the clock is ticking down. Will they get back in time? Will the machine hold up? Only time will tell.

Breakneck pacing marks this time-travel fantasy based on cutting edge quantum physics, as the heroes try to return a comrade to their own time while staying alive in the shifting and bloody politics of the Hundred Years War.

One of Chrichton's best books by far, great for history buffs like me and for those of us who love the sci-fi in their literature.

Michael is at it again. He brings us a new novel of the advanceing computer age. Its a must read.

Very exciting read. Group of scientists are sent back to medevil France to save one of their friends. Much better than the Paul Walker movie.

I loved it. It really made you feel as though you were back on the middle ages

A very good book. Much better than the movie. Very good read.

Oh, my gosh, I couldn't put this one down.

Very, very interesting. I liked it.

Timeline is a solid effort from Chrichton, so if you like his stuff, you will probably enjoy it. He works the time travel angle in a novel way, which is nice and it gives us a great excuse to learn lots of interesting things about the middle ages. The action feels a little "action-movie"-ish, its fast paced, shallow, and sometimes doesn't make that much sense. The characters are about two inches deep. I can complain too much, though. I read the book in three sittings and had a good time with it.

On a side note, the research that he did (or that assistants did) for this book must have been staggering in scale, even supposing that he made a lot of this stuff up.

Excellent read! Crichton is at his best in this one; I couldn't put it down. It's too bad Hollywood bungled the movie so badly. It could have been on par with Jurassic Park.

I didn't think I would like a "step back in time" type book, but I was so wrong. Michael Crichton did a wonderful job of describing the setting and the characters.

I've read it twice and would probably read it again.

This was a worthwhile read. A very interesting and different story. I don't want to give anything away but as with most Crichton stories, he turns something that is out of reach scientifically (at the moment) into a possibility! I think he focused more on the story than character development which always dismays me but I'd still recommend it.

I am not a lover of "fantasy" books of any kind - but I really enjoyed this one. If you are the same way, this would be a good "starter" book into this kind of genre.

I got about 200 pages in and couldn't take it anymore. The characters were just too bland.

Outstanding writing and so entertaining I didn't want to put it down!

Curl up with this book and enjoy not only science fiction but also historical fiction. A nice break from space ships and the like. The parts that are imaginative science are clearly so, and the parts that are nifty science bits from the past (such as how gunpowder was made in the 1300's) add authenticity to the story. Suspend reality and enjoy a "what if we could" with this fast paced read.
The architecture of the period is pivotal to the rendering of the story. Thank goodness for a few illustrations along the way, otherwise the action may not have been visualized in a readers imagination anywhere near what the Author intended.

Michael Crichton mailed this one in.

Fascinating. The movie version was awful and very different from the the book.

"It is a world of exploding advances on the frontiers of technology. Information moves instantly between 2 points, without wires or networks. Computers are built from single molecules. Any moment of the past can be actualized- and a group of historians can enter, literally, life in fourteenth-century feudal France."
A technical Jarassic Park.

Very fast, entertaining. Much better than the movie.

Another great book by Michael Crichton. Combining exploding technology with suspense.

One of my favorite Crichton books, this one kept me interested throughout.

Crichton is one of my favorite authors, and this book was no disappointment. It kept me interested from beginning to end - and the end was great. A bit of a surprise!

Ohhh this book was such a good read....soooo much better than the movie!!!

suspenseful...lots of action and adventure.
Travel into a time long ago of knights and castles...to save their teacher and friend. Both my husband and I loved this book. Don't watch the movie first...it didn't come close to comparing to the book.

Time travel by Crichton. Can one say more?

Best Micheal Crichton I have read so far. A page turner to say the least. I read it twice (2 years between times). If you saw the movie and haven\'t read the book, ...I\'m sorry, as usual the movie just doesn\'t do the story justice. So much more in the book.

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