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irá adorar Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Highly entertaining! This book is a favorite. It's the perfect mix of plot and science, the fantastic with the realistic. Crichton explores the possibilities of alternate universes and quantum mechanics - which are not things that the average fiction writer can handle with ease. But Crichton does it, and he does it really well. (  ) jncboyer | Dec 17, 2009 |  An interesting concept in which I lost all interest when it devolved into an implausible action-based thriller. (  ) Audacity88 | Dec 4, 2009 | I'd say this was a really interesting 350-page book packed into a 500-page one. I got more than a little annoyed with the overnarration. They don't even go back in time until halfway through the book. In the first part, while there is some interesting narrative to it, a large portion of it is filled with a science lecture. While it's very clear Michael Crichton did quite a lot of research (in fact, I was more than a little impressed that I couldn't tell where scientific fact ended and his fiction began), but he seems a little too eager to explain it. Not only does he attempt to have his characters explain quantum physics to the average reader, he has several characters (who don't even have names) conveniently stop by the site they're digging who don't understand what everything is for--and a character conveniently gets to explain. Sorry, rant over. Other than the visit from the Exposition Fairy, I thought it was a pretty good read. Crichton put together a shockingly realistic medieval world that I was a little scared by. Even though at times I felt he was just pulling every trick in the book to make the characters' plight last until the last second, that didn't stop me from wanting to read it. Although I was confused by one character's decision at the end, the rest of the characters were pretty plausible. Extremely decent. (  ) Alliebadger | Nov 19, 2009 | Timeline is a fine example of time travel in fiction, a device that fails as often as it succeeds. Like all time travel fiction, there are inevitable holes and inconsistencies. But the great story Crichton weaves masks these holes with ease. And as always there's a lesson here. Crichton forces us to face the uncomfortable truth that we know far less about even our recent past than we like to believe. ( ) SendersName | Nov 10, 2009 | I have been a longtime fan of Michael Crichton books. This was a fun story taking the reader back to medieval times with an enjoyable cast of characters. I appreciated that this book did not have as much of the technical jargon to sort through as Jurassic Park did. This is a great historical fiction/science fiction read. My husband read it on my recommendation even though he is not usually a fan of fiction, and he thoroughly enjoyed it too. The movie was not bad, but did not compare to the original story - of course, what movie ever does? (  ) twystedlocks | Nov 3, 2009 |  sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
Amazon.com (ISBN 0099244721, Mass Market Paperback)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 (retirado da Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:04 -0400) O primeiro ciclo de testes foi encerrado. Visite o grupo Open Shelves Classification para mais detalhes. |
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