TIMELINE (Michael Crichton) - July 2/08

Entertaining though overly descriptive, Timeline would surely benefit from a reader with a more pronounced interest in historical matters. Crichton devotes pages and pages to descriptions of historical buildings, classes, and relationships... while the scientific stuff is just as prevalent and impossible to follow. Still, it's generally quite entertaining and there are a number of genuinely thrilling sequences - though the decision to send the corporation's president to the Black Plague era seems rushed and inexplicable. *** out of ****