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Title: Timeline = False Suspense
Review: Crichton has sunk to the level of B-Grade movies. It seems to plague many highly successful writers. They invent a ridiculous, unbelievable situation to put their protagonists in a dangerous situation. In Timeline, for example, he has two highly intelligent people floating down a dark underground river in a boat while holding a lit torch. Can you believe that neither person was watching their route ahead? Neither can I, but Crichton has some stalagtites appear that knock the person holding the torch into the river! This is only one of many examples in the book of how not to write suspense into fiction. It was a 23-hour day of traveling, so I did suffer through to a reasonably good ending.
