Well, apart from the epilogue at the end, I enjoyed it!

Now, if you want a book just written to be a screenplay, try The Lost World.

Didn't the book pick up where the movie version of Jurassic Park left off?

No, it was a sequel to the book. For example, characters killed off in the first novel were dead in the second. Both the book and movie versions of The Lost World were terrible, but the movie wasn't a very good adaptation either...they changed even more than they did for Jurassic Park. The "trailer over the cliff" scene (the best part of both) was kept pretty much intact.

The most glaring problem that I had with The Lost World was this: I can't quite remember the quote, but I thought that it was stated that he did.

Either way, I felt The Lost World was basically a compete rehash of everything from Jurassic Park. I hope Crichton gets back on track soon. Everything he writes now seems to mirror something from a previous work.

I'm about a third of the way through Timeline at the moment. I must say that it's pretty decent thus far. Maybe that's becuase my expectations were lowered so much because of this thread.

I liked Timeline.At least the pace is always on.Airframe is also very good

Plamerjoss-- yes in the book he did.

I just finished timeline and tought was good. I also liked Airframe.

Speilberg didn't wait for Chrichton to finish LW before he started filming. They wrote their own movie and during filming Chrichton's book came out. They took a couple of ideas and tossed the book.

I finished this a few days ago and wasn't all that impressed. It was a quick read, moved along and was sort of entertaining, so I guess I gotta give it some praise. I was just let-down by the story, considering the subject matter involved.

My biggest problem was I saw the movie first and pretty much enjoyed it, then I read the novel and kept waiting for the T-rex in America scene that I thought was a total hoot in the movie. Totally Spielberg it seems.

I still think the original JP novel has some good discussion about the environment and what are duty to nature should be.

I just finished Timeline and i liked it. The "revenge" part was kind of lame, but its only like a page.

I have to agree that Airframe is probably one of this better books. I was actually curious to see how everything came together in the end.

Timeline was basically generic action dribble, good for like a nights read. As for the movie .... Paul Walker + (anything) = crap.

Prey, sigh, I had hopes but its utterly disappointing crap. The whole story felt like he had basically cut up Andromeda Strain and Sphere and pasted it back together.

I read Timeline when it came out in paperback several years ago. What a piece of crapola. As others mentioned, you could tell Crichton had basically written it for a movie..and thats it.

I took it more as Crichton writing for the screen. As I worked my way through it, it just seemed how he wrote some of the scenes was serving as studio bait.

I agree. I didn't care for the book, but the movie was actually worse.

That's why I hate the fact that they changed so much in the movie. I mean it is already basically written for the silver screen.

I read Timeline before the movie was even announced so I guess it didn't really affect my opinion and thus I found it was an enjoyable read. I saw the previews for the movie though and didn't really remember all that much action packed scenes with the explosions...maybe I need to reread it.

I loved Timeline! Loved it loved it loved it! (no! we couldn't tell!)

But as long as we're talking about real Crichton dogs, here's possibly the worst one he wrote: Prey. Ungh! OMG it was so bad, it wasn't even an attempt at cliché! Nanobots. Don't get me started.

Man did I love Timeline though. I guess I'll be the resident non-conformer ha ha. Oh and, wouldn't you know it, I loaned it to my old roommate and he positively ruined it with grape jelly. A hardcover first, of course. Why I oughta . . .

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PalmerJoss is right!

I just finished Timeline, and I must say that I enjoyed it. Maybe it's because I honestly haven't read a novel in what seems like ages (either because I'm already reading heaps of stuff during the school semesters or just don't find time inbetween), but I needed something like this to get back into my book reading groove--an enjoyable and fast read (although long).


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I had problems with some of the science, though, the primary problem also being a somewhat gaping plot hole. Are they traveling to alternate universes or going back in time? If the former, why were they able to find the professor's letter and the stuff about Marek at the end? And if the latter, you'd think that they would have had a HUGE effect on history, at least on French history, considering the domino effect of every little thing they had done. Also, if transcription errors could cause the kind of superficial and internal problems that they do, don't you think an equally bad transciption error of the brain would cause serious brain damage and, at worst, death?

Oh yeah, and what the hell happened to that scientist who wandered off into the desert? I guess we have a vague idea of what happened, and it's not entirely important, but it did seem as though we would find out at some point in the book.

Enjoyed Timeline too.

Easy and fast to read and there's way too less storys about the dard ages (at least I don't know too many).

On behalf of Timeline fans everywhere....this man does not represent us!

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