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Title: I'm glad I was given this book as a gift...
Review: ...because I'd be embarrassed to have paid for it. "Timeline" will make a wonderfully entertaining and forgettable movie. As historical fiction I found it intriguing - except... if you read carefully you find that critical elements (the furnishings of the castles, the size & strength of the knights) are *speculation* i.e. fictional not historical. As science fiction, it's pathetic - does anybody remember "Time Tunnel" the TV show? This is at that same level of sophistication: Super-duper computer, cavernous rooms with drifting vapor, showers of sparks, paper-thin characters molded to fit the story. The science is Hollywood science - it enables the story, but only if you don't think about it for more than a few milliseconds. If you stop reading and *think* for a few seconds, it falls apart like wet carboard.
