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Title: interesting premise, poor execution
Review: Timeline started out well--a group of academics are sent back to France in the Middle Ages and must survive until they are returned to the present--but it quickly became boring and tedious to read. Page after page, the characters were constantly fighting for their lives as they encountered a ridiculous number of contrived mishaps, accidents, and villains. After surviving so many deadly situations, you knew they were going to be alright and return to the present, but with such a predictable plot, you couldn't feel any tension and anxiety for the characters. Crichton did a good job of describing what it must have been like to live in France during the Hundred Years War, but he forgot to include a good plot and interesting characters in his book. Total tedium.
