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- Pick any bookish or literary-related media (or non-media item) released more than 5 years ago.
- Write up a short summary (include the title, author, and cover art, if applicable) and an explanation of why you love it. Make sure to link back to The Housework Can Wait and Never Too Fond of Books in your post.
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My Throwback this week is…
Timeline by Michael Crichton
I know I feature Michael Crichton books a lot for Throwback Thursday, and that is for two reasons:
1. They comprise 50% of my reading material in high school and I can’t go back in time and make my past self read a wider variety of authors (the other 50% was John Grisham).
2. Michael Crichton books are awesome, as long as he sticks to hard sci-fi. When he branches out, things get…iffy.
So Timeline is — and I realize I say this a lot — one of my favorite Crichton novels (yes, I have about five different “favorite” Crichton novels. Deal with it). It’s got time travel and castles and medieval swordplay and Frenchmen. The basic premise is a team of modern scientists/archaeologists travel back in time — for science, because actually traveling to 14th-century France is more educational than excavating relics from 14th-century France — and wind up getting stuck there. Oops. And then of course they have to get back, but that is not a simple task, and in the meantime there is INTRIGUE and HORSEBACK RIDING and DID I MENTION THE SWORDPLAY?
It’s action-packed page-turning anachronistic fun, and I love it with my whole heart, or at least the part that loves sci-fi (which is, I’d say, a good 87% of it).
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I think this is the only one by Michael Crichton I’ve not read which is rare because I love his books. Lol I love time travel but it sounds like I’m missing out on the sword play. I want to read it for just the sword play now. Even better found a copy on amazon. Will be my next non review I think. Thanks for sharing!
For some reason I missed reading much Crichton. Heinlein, Pohl, Silverberg, Vance, E.E. Smith, many others. I will have to check it out!
I’ve never read anything by Michael Crichton, which is a shame, because I love sci-fi! I should definitely check these out!![My Profile](http://www.thehouseworkcanwait.com/wp-content/plugins/commentluv/images/littleheart.gif)
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Did this become a movie in the early 2000s? I’m remembering a plot line like this. Yes, I know about the existence of IMDB. I can look for myself… aha! It is a movie! 2003. Gerard Butler. Yes, it’s all coming back to me. I didn’t realize it was a Michael Crichton adaptation.![My Profile](http://www.thehouseworkcanwait.com/wp-content/plugins/commentluv/images/littleheart.gif)
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It’s a very, very POOR Crichton adaptation. You know how Jurassic Park basically changed everything, yet still managed to be awesome? Well, Timeline tried the same thing, but failed.![My Profile](http://www.thehouseworkcanwait.com/wp-content/plugins/commentluv/images/littleheartplus.gif)
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