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Title: a sloppy Jurassic Park retread -- wait for the paperback!
Review: This is the kind of book that I find myself reading despite myself. It's not very well written, but just entertaining enough to keep one involved. Crichton did it much better in Jurassic Park: Timeline is little more than a rewrite of Jurassic Park with castles instead of the theme park and vicious knights in armor instead of vicious dinosaurs. Unlike Jurassic Park, Timeline is not very well written and frequently absurdly implausible. Having spent my career in Silicon Valley, it's painfully obvious to me that Crichton hasn't the faintest clue of what high technology companies are like, and his plot contortions to set the scene reminded me of a bad high school creative writing assignment. The frequent injections of grotesque violence are clearly written with a future film version in mind: they provide little impact on the written page and add little to the story.
