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Timeline by Michael Crichton

6 reviews

kfquarium's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Blood, War, Animal death, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Misogyny, Cursing, and Confinement

Minor: Child death, Excrement, Rape, and Sexual content

omair's review

adventurous informative tense

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.25

Timeline reads like exactly what you would expect a Crichton novel to read. If you know what that means then you probably know how you'll feel about it. If that's not your cup of tea, then you're either going to read this for the practical conversation on time travel and the science behind it, or you're reading it because it explores a less glamorous medieval setting, but also one that is less often written about too.

Normally this would all be appealing to me, but this time it misses. Unlike some of his other work, like Jurassic Park, the generic characters that are our protagonists never rise above their predictableness. Timeline ends up being an easy-enough read, but never feels to capture me and rise above. That's not to say it's a bad book, but it is one that won't linger in the mind. A sad sort of irony for a book about time travel to be one I would likely never revisit.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Classism, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Gore, Death, Misogyny, Murder, and Sexism

Moderate: Alcohol, Vomit, Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Kidnapping, and Gaslighting

Minor: Cultural appropriation, Excrement, Genocide, and Gun violence

cj13's review

adventurous fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Violence, and War

Moderate: Pandemic/Epidemic

shieldbearer's review against another edition

tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

There were some things I really liked and some things I really didn't. The premise is excellent. You can tell the book is very well researched. however, the weak point really is the characters, except for Lady Claire and Merrick. Kate.. man I really liked some things about her, but she didn't has a much of a presence as I'd have liked, though I do love the way her skills as a climber were so vital to so many sequences. I felt it dragged some with unecessary complications, and I really wish the character dynamics were better fleshed out between everyone. Fuck Chris though, like his development was rushed and hamfisted just so he could get to fuck Kate in the epilogue.  I really don't see the point of making Lady Claire pretend to be a boy, though I do appreciate her

relationship with Merrick was NOT the main reason he stayed in the past.

I also wished the doctor and the cop from the start had a more significant role and didn't end up scapegoated. 

Some of my dissatisfaction is from this not being the book I would have written, but I really, really disliked Chris. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, War, Murder, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Infidelity, Child death, and Blood

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexism, Confinement, Acephobia/Arophobia, Vomit, Medical content, Torture, Religious bigotry, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Pregnancy

Minor: Rape

jdgr's review against another edition

adventurous tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Misogyny

Minor: Pedophilia

meganpbennett's review against another edition

adventurous challenging informative tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

Timeline is an interesting time travel science fiction novel. It starts with several tangentially connected parts - a man found in the desert, rambling about Quantum Foam, and an archeology dig at a Hundred Years War castle in France - that eventually come together to form the basis of time travel. We have an interesting cast of characters, who all have a specific skill set that helps them when the learn the truth. When they learn that time travel is possible. 

Michael Crichton write a remarkably plausible story about time travel, where people have to travel back to the high middle ages to rescue someone who got accidentally stuck, and survive all of the issues of a castle in the middle of the Hundred Years War. Hey, at least there's no Plague, right?

I remember reading this book when I was in high school and ended reading all of the hard science sci-fi books by Crichton, and haven't read it since. I vaugely remembered a few sections, but not much of the bulk of the plot. It's still quite interesting, and the depictions of the high middle ages is one that take into account a more modern historical opinion of the time period, making allowances for the propaganda of the Renaissance. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Death, Blood, War, Xenophobia, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

Moderate: Vomit