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Title: Save your time and money
Review: Timeline is awful, the usual blend of cardboard characters and page eating paragraph and short chapter techniques.The attempts at creating tension are laughable. If Crichton ever does something unpredictable he might achieve a little tension. But since he does not, you know what's going to happen before it happens.I bit on this one after reading a review in the New York Times Book Review. Having read Timeline and compared my impression with the reviewer's I can only conclude the fix is in -- somewhere there's money changing hands.Timeline is tired and stiff, and deserves one behind the ear.I confess I tried it to see if Crichton had improved since Airframe. He has not, and now joins Robin Cook on my list of writers still dining out on their first book.Readers of the world, rise up! Cast off your chains and demand a good story and characters you care about, not this swill written by a band of monkeys.
