Timeline - Michael Crichton Reviews

I'm inclined to think there're definitely 'good' Michael Crichton thrillers, and 'bad' Michael Crichton thrillers, and while 'Timeline' I'm afraid kind of firmly falls into the 'bad thriller' camp at the moment I'm having a bit of difficulty recalling any of the 'good' ones for comparison.* For example during a lean period I recently re-read ...  Read the complete review

Background: I recently read my first Michael Crichton novel 'Prey' to appease my Dentist. And as I am due back to see him next week I thought I would try another so we don't spend all the time talking about my receding gums. About this author: Michael Crichton is not only a great writer of both fiction and ...  Read the complete review

I have only read one Michael Crichton book before this, and that was ‘Jurassic Park’, which I thought was a poor effort after I had seen the film as his language really didn’t captivate me or make me visualize the story, and for this reason I was not keen to read ‘Timeline’. This desire was lessened even more when my husband finished it and said ...  Read the complete review

From the outset I must admit that this is the first Michael Crichton that I have read, although I have seen a lot of his work adapted on film. It is difficult to judge how films relate back to their original novels and usually I’m reluctant to compare the two genres directly but judging from the nature of the Crichton adaptations I have seen ...  Read the complete review

I am not a fan of science fiction. When I see that a book has been written by the author of ‘Jurassic Park’ I would not bother even picking it up. However my husband came home from work the other day with ‘Timeline’ which had been lent to him by a colleague. His colleague had told him that I might enjoy it because of the ...  Read the complete review

From the now world famous writer of Jurassic Park and The Lost World, Michael Crichton, Timeline is another science fiction/fantasy adventure. I’ve read several of Crichton’s books and, for me, this is the area in which he excels. The story revolves around a group of graduate students who travel back in time to save their ...  Read the complete review

Michael Crichton is my favourite author of all. I find he has a really easy going but still intellectual style that makes you read, learn and think. He has written many books, which have been turned into international best sellers and films. His fictional work includes Jurassic Park and the Lost World (JP2), Airframe, Congo and Sphere to ...  Read the complete review

This proclaimed author has done it again. First jurrasic park (3 films and a 2 books plus a whole load of merchindise) this author has come out with yet another brilliant book, Timeline. This book is basically about the physics behind time travel and how a set of people pull it off. An organization backed by a millionaire, have decided to ...  Read the complete review

Another great book by author Michael Crighton, the mind behind other great novels such as Jurassic Park, Congo, and Sphere. In his latest, and possibly greatest adventure, three historians studying 13th and 14th century Europe have to travel back in time using a quantum machine, designed and tested by a technology organisation named ITC. ...  Read the complete review

This book gives a fascinating insight into something we can never be sure about. We have history books that tell us certain things about the past but moving visual or auditory confirmation does not and will not exist for events that have already happened over a hundred years ago. These days we have visual and sound recordings and future ...  Read the complete review

Westworld, Jurrasic Park, The Lost World, The Andromeda Strain. Just a few of the films based on Michael Crichton novels that I’ve seen. Yet until “Timeline” I had never read one of his books. From the films above I guess I would like his stories but he was never at the forefront of my mind when out buying books. It ...  Read the complete review

What an excellent yarn. This will keep sci-fi,techie's,D&Dragon and Medieval fans engrossed. An Old man found in the middle of an Arizona desert,dazed & confused speaking a strange language, dies in hospital. But not before his "re-arranged" internal condition is noticed. A group of archaeologists working on a medieval site ...  Read the complete review

Michael Crichton has a reputation for a gripping sci-fi yarn with a heavy lacing of Science fact thrown in for good measure. Timeline follows this same structure, with plenty of little factoids and interesting snippets littering the narrative. Centring around the adventures of a team of Archaeologists sent back in time to recover their Professor ...  Read the complete review

This blend of modern science and medieval adventure opens with a mystery which immediately draws the reader in. A couple driving through the desert pick up an old man who appears to have come from nowhere. The more we find out about him, the deeper the mystery gets although there are clues emerging from the beginning for the reader to put ...  Read the complete review

Michael Crichton produces the goods yet again. Timeline uses quantum physics as the speculative backdrop to a medieval time travel adventure. Michael Crichton should be applauded for his scientific and historical rigour that shines throughout this polished novel. My only criticism would be that the central characters lack sufficient depth and ...  Read the complete review

I always like Michael Crichton's fictions. I have read his most famous - Jurassic Park, The Lost World, and Congo. Most of his fictions have been brought to the big screen. After reading this fiction, the first thing in my mind about this book is - "The best adventure about new technologies but in an ancient history environment." The ...  Read the complete review

Timeline is certainly an entertaining read and you'll find it hard for it to lose your interest. However, I do feel that Crichton, no matter how much he has researched the idea, is writing a little weaker. Whether this is due to wanting to mostly make money, to turn it in to a film or because he has just leapt on a break-through possibility of ...  Read the complete review

When it comes to books im very selective on what i read. Stories must be engrossing and have good worth of being read. This book caught my attention because of the fact of some sci-fi, adventure seemed to be the idea. I was sort of captivated by the description and felt it was woth a read. From the 1st page i was rushed into a story with ...  Read the complete review

Michael Crichton’s newest novel takes place at the start of the twenty-first century. Technology has advanced amazingly and now, time travel is possible. A group of historians is going to go back in time and see what life in fourteenth-century feudal France was like. What is going to happen to them? As the book deals with time ...  Read the complete review