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Title: I wish I could go back in time to when Crichton wrote well
Review: The book starts *exactly* as Jurassic Park. An unexplained medical emergency. A scientific mystery based around a mega-wealthy, but secretive company. Except this time, instead of bringing the past to the future, Critchon brings the future to the past.Ever since The Lost World, Crichton has sold out. He doens't write books anymore. He writes bad movies -- formula movies -- that will undoubtedly make oodles of money.In Timeline, the characters are as shallow a river in Death Valley. The villians are mindless monsters who have no motive or reason to thier madness (even the Raptors in J.P. acted more intelligently). The plot takes the same twists and turns over and over again -- until the reader knows what is going to happen before it does.The best part of the book: The 3 Page Introduction. Read that, cry for the lost potential of an old-style Crichton story about time-travel, and move on. Don't waste your time here.
