Book Review: Timeline by Michael Crichton

I have never been a Michael Crichton fan. I think I read one of his books in high school and wasn't impressed, and never went back for more. I have heard that he can be hit or miss, so I just never bothered gambling on that, I guess.

Aaron, however, loved this book and has read it a few times, he says (and it came out in 2006 so that says something!). Now, Aaron loves anything having to do with time travel, whereas I am not quite as enthralled. It's just so stressful - will they get back? Will they change the past? Will they see themselves in the past and therefore destroy life as we know it?!?

I do love all things medieval (as does Aaron), so I decided to give this book a try. And I'm glad I did! I loved it!

It's about these students (and a professor) who go back in time to 14th century France, and get embroiled in a battle. It had a lot of gibberish about quantum mechanics (and this makes no less than 4 books I have read in the past 3 months having to do with quantum mechanics, and I don't know how that keeps happening) which I actually enjoyed, since I like learning, but then you don't know how accurate Crichton is being, and I'm too lazy to research quantum physics on my own, so I just assume it's true and think it's neat. And apparently all the authors used the same researchers, since they all pretty much agreed with each other, so who knows? Maybe I just learned a little something about quantum physics!! Or should I say I know something and I don't know something at the same time! Err wait, does that only hold true if I'm inside a box? And a cat?

Well, it's confusing stuff.

Moving on, I loved all the medieval stuff - that is the one period in time I have always wanted to live in. Although after reading the book, I'm not actually sure I would want to do that anymore....

Anyway, it's a fantastic book and I'll definitely be reading it again!