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Title: Stick figures galore.
Review: I haven't actually finished Timeline yet, so my review is based on the first two thirds of the book. I've read worse books, but this one is far from good. By biggest problem is that there does not appear to be a single character (with the possible exception of Kate) to care about. All of them are stick figures--no past, no future, just filling a hole in the plot. Also, there's lots of techno-babble about parallel universes, blah, blah, blah. It becomes mind-numbing without being convincing. But I'll finish the book. I'm just hopeful I'll remember this book when Crichton publishes his next one. Excellent Crichton books like the Andromeda Strain seem to exist in another universe--the one where the writing is convincing and the peril seems real. Sigh.
