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Title: Good Idea, Good Start, Disappointing Follow-through
Review: I don't read Crichton, but I got this book as a gift. The beginning got me all excited-- this is a really cleaver idea! The first 75 pages were very mysterious and you wondered where the author was going to take this. But the book regresses quickly into a series of chase scenes with causal beheadings at every turn. There are serious plot holes (why not go back to 10 seconds before the professor arrives to keep him from getting lost? If they are traveling to a different dimension and not a different time, how does Marek end back in this dimension?) And the one open-ended mystery of the book (who else has an earpiece? de Kere? Guy?) is resolved in a couple of throwaway paragraphs. Maybe this is how Crichton writes (eye candy for the computer game generation), but I think he dropped the ball on this one.
