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There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. Eleven year old Kiisa supposes that the little wagtail will eventually give her more details; in the meantime, she is struggling mightily to adjust to life in a boarding school, for she would much rather be at home with her parents. When circumstances do indeed turn ugly, and lives are at risk, just how courageous can a girl and her bird become?
Enjoy this second episode of J. Myhre's clever, creative Rwendigo Tales as she spotlights the "true meaning of bravery and the value of forgiveness". This is a great series. I enjoyed this book tremendously. I don't want to give anything away so I'll just say this - It's written from a unique cultural perspective yet has universal applications and sympathies.
I read it in two sittings, it's really hard to put down. I'm hoping my 13 year old daughter will read it next. Can't recommend these books enough. My boys and I are loving this series! These adventures are filled with great examples of admirable character qualities and we are enjoying learning about another culture through J.
One person found this helpful. She wanted to know if there was a movie made about it so we could watch it. The night that we finished it usually read it at bedtime , she thanked God for the author during prayer time. My daughter would love a hundred more books in the same genre! I very much enjoyed reading it also! I'm also excited to read the final two books in the series. There's no worries about cliff hangers. Each story has an ending so far , but there are connections.
I would recommend reading the first book before picking up this one. The leading lady in this story is the sister of the leading guy in the first one. They are separate stories, but there are connections that will be better understood with knowing the first story. I especially like the fact that a mother wrote these books for her children. For 4 years, a new story was given to them at Christmas, and that makes these books more special to me. The lessons hidden in the story and the story itself are things that this mother wanted her children to tuck away inside their minds.
I just love that! I enjoyed the details of life in Africa. The first one had a focus more on home life, but this one is more on school life, though both move away from home and school during part of the stories. Giving my children books that open their own worlds to the worlds of others that live very different lifestyles has become more and more important to me as they've gotten older.
This series has proven to be excellent choices so far. There are also animals from the area discussed, which will most likely promote a little extra interest led learning. Aside from life in Africa, there are things within the book that children anywhere can appreciate. Dramatically, the development of characters leaves a lot to be desired. The Professor is, well, The Professor.
Doniger is The Evil Billionaire. While I could accept traveling through the multiverse, one thing I found difficult to buy were the number of times the protagonists escape certain death. It seemed like Hughes was nearly killed every five pages. Erickson runs for her life every ten pages. The 14th century is an age that Crichton illustrates as being overrun by death, and yet, these two rejects from a Gap commercial somehow keep surviving. There is no logical reason for it; Hughes and Erickson leap from one pitfall to the next because the plot dictates it.
The novel wraps up in a predictable and rather glib fashion that I didn't care much for. Then again, each of these criticisms could be leveled against Jurassic Park , with characters who force little outcome in the story and survive much longer than they had any reason to. Crichton is not breaking new ground here. If you're looking for strong characters and dialogue to match the technological coolness, you'll probably hate this. If you loved his past work, you'll probably love this. I'm giving it three and a half stars, rounded up to four stars.
Timeline surpassed expectations in part due to how poorly received the film adaptation was. Gerard Butler, Frances O'Connor and Paul Walker starred as Marek, Erickson and Hughes and may have dialed in performances due to how gorgeous but wooden their characters were supposed to be. The pleasures of the novel are in the anthropological discoveries happening in the minds of the characters, none of which translate to film very well. The physical action -- sieges, swordfighting, foot chases -- was filmed with much more imagination in The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
May 08, Jim rated it it was amazing Shelves: This was a good one. When you step into a time machine, fax yourself through a "quantum foam wormhole," and step out in feudal France circa , be very, very afraid. If you aren't strapped back in precisely 37 hours after your visit begins, you'll miss the quantum bus back to and be stranded in a civil war, caught between crafty abbots, mad lords, and peasant bandits all eager to cut your throat.
You'll also have to dodge catapults that hurl sizzling pitch over castle battlements. On the This was a good one. On the social front, you should avoid provoking "the butcher of Crecy" or Sir Oliver may lop your head off with a swoosh of his broadsword or cage and immerse you in "Milady's Bath," a brackish dungeon pit into which live rats are tossed now and then for prisoners to eat. This is the plight of the heroes of Timeline, Michael Crichton's thriller. They're historians in employed by a tech billionaire-genius with more than a few of Bill Gates's most unlovable quirks.
Like the entrepreneur in Crichton's Jurassic Park, Doniger plans a theme park featuring artifacts from a lost world revived via cutting-edge science. When the project's chief historian sends a distress call to from , the boss man doesn't tell the younger historians the risks they'll face trying to save him. At first, the interplay between eras is clever, but Timeline swiftly becomes a swashbuckling old-fashioned adventure, with just a dash of science and time paradox in the mix.
Most of the cool facts are about the Middle Ages, and Crichton marvelously brings the past to life without ever letting the pulse-pounding action slow down. At one point, a time-tripper tries to enter the Chapel of Green Death. Unfortunately, its custodian, a crazed giant with terrible teeth and a bad case of lice, soon has her head on a block.
Through the narrative can be glimpsed the glowing bones of the movie that may be made from Timeline and the cutting-edge computer game that should hit the market in Expect many clashing swords and chase scenes through secret castle passages. But the book stands alone, tall and scary as a knight in armor shining with blood. May 28, Eric rated it it was ok Shelves: He writes excellent action and adventure scenes, but his characters always seem flat and one-dimensional, never doing much more than dodging dinosaurs or white gorillas.
Not surprisingly, what I feel is his best novel to date, Disclosure, lacks the heart-pounding action and delves more into conflicts between characters, which I found much more compelling. I had high hopes for Timeline, a weighty book that had drawn good reviews from the few publications I take book reviews seriously.
Unfortunately, it lacks the depth of character of Disclosure but still packs a good punch. International Technology Corporation, ITC, headed by the brilliant but abrasive Robert Doniger, has invented a new method of time travel based on quantum technology. Anyway, ITC has a problem: Doniger needs to bring him back, but only to avoid a public relations nightmare. That about sums up the plot. Crichton sprinkles it with his usual scientific jargon and high-tech toys, though to his credit he does make it understandable to the non-scientific reader. Toward the end, the book actually grew somewhat tedious.
It's a light, enjoyable read. Not much more than that. View all 4 comments. Dec 23, Lisa rated it it was amazing. This book was my introduction to Crichton and I fell in love! I fell in love because this is an author who does extensive research on the subjects he writes about. So he not only entertains, he teaches you something in the process. In Timeline, Crichton combines science quantum technology and history medieval in a heart-stopping adventure. A group of historians are given the opportunity to literally enter life in fourteenth-century feudal France.
But this is not your typical time travel story. This is THE book for me. Apr 30, Paul O'Neill rated it it was amazing. A time travelling, sword swinging, science laden, probability speaking, historically interesting, magnificent tale! Even though Crichton is a popular author, I think he's underrated. At least that's what I think in the two books I've read the other being Jurassic Park. I must read more of his work. Anybody got any suggestions?
The format of this book is perfect. The way each chapter ended with a cliff hanger reminded me of George R. It creates something that you just don't want to put A time travelling, sword swinging, science laden, probability speaking, historically interesting, magnificent tale! It creates something that you just don't want to put down. Any fans of suspense, time travel or just thrillers in general need to read this. Five well earned stars. View all 8 comments. Nov 17, StoryTellerShannon rated it liked it Shelves: Since there are over reviews, no need for me to list the details of the story.
They're at other posts. Here's my feeling of the reading experience: A Mad Scientist has built up a corporation to exploit his discovery that people can be squirted into the past, and returned the same way, through wormholes in the quantum foam. In the schema of this novel, actual time travel is impossible. It is also impossible to transfer physical items any larger than the scale of the quantum foam from one parallel universe to another. It is, however, possible to strip a macroscopic object -- e.
There are occasional trivial transcription errors, which can accumulate to become serious, so people make only a limited number of "trips". Further, because some exceedingly similar parallel universes haven't progressed quite as far along the timeline as ours has, you can in effect travel into the past -- as into an area of the French Dordogne which Mad Scientist has been setting up to become -- you've guessed it!
During all of this laying out of the supposedly plausible scientific underpinning of the tale, I confess my disbelief plummeted quite a few times.
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First, if the past you travel to is in a different universe, how come someone stranded in that universe's medieval France is as in the early stages of Timeline able to leave a message that archaeologists can unearth in our universe's modern France? Second, if you destroy me entirely in order to produce a mountain of data that can be used to create an exact duplicate of me, complete with all my consciousness and memories, while that duplicate is to all intents and purposes me, this doesn't alter the fact that my self has died.
To see what I mean, imagine you could produce the duplicate me without destroying the original. Now stand the two of us side-by-side and put a bullet through the brain of one of us. The consciousness of that individual indubitably comes to an end, even though a perfect copy is preserved in the other individual. Third, while I'm moderately okay about the moderns having earplugs that translate various medieval languages for them, I'm still confused as to how, when they speak , they can be understood by medieval French speakers merely by sticking the occasional "sooth" and "prithee" into their dialogue.
Fourth, the whole bit about reassembly on the far side of the wormhole always happening Just Because That's The Way The Multiverse Works seems a complete copout. Whatever, our gang of gallant archaeologists is sent back to rescue their stranded colleague and of course immediately everything starts going wrong.
The bulk of the novel is made up of them having extraordinarily tedious adventures that seem to have been plotted less for a novel, more for a multiple-choice adventure gamebook. The writing is at best pedestrian, and often enough lurches into the slapdash. One of the main baddies seems to be a dead ringer for Blackadder, albeit with a French accent. We get occasional throwaway lines that seem to presage the bonkers pseudoscience of Crichton's final novel, State of Fear , such as "Even the most established concepts -- like the idea that germs cause disease -- were not as thoroughly proven as people believed" page Me, I was wondering why the hell he'd sent archaeologists on the rescue mission in the first place: It was only because I'm working on an essay about time-travel stories that I finished this dreary effort, and only because I got it from the library that it didn't get thrown at the wall a few times.
Apr 24, Stephen rated it it was ok Shelves: My least favorite Michael Crichton novel. I just never became interested in any of the characters or the story line. Jan 22, Rad Ryan rated it it was amazing Shelves: A novel for all-time. The one who made me to love books. I was 13 at that time, I always make a fool out of myself. My classmates were asking me how can I understand it or do I understand it, all kinds of questions who irritates me.
I mean how hurtful and so hateful with it! There are more books than to read! And my goal for my life is to read more than books or even more! I love Michael Crichton for this book! So far I've read 4 works of him and this one is the most that I like. With all the Time-Travel Theme and Quantum Physics thing, mixed with Middle Age, and the characters became history more than they know.
All the actions going from every side of the fight. This novel takes a group of historians, and test their courage, faith, hope, and the will to live among a time they don't belong and shouldn't exist. Timeline takes you to a thrilling, one-of-a-kind adventure who will take your breath in a deadly fight between their life and their timeline. View all 18 comments. Apr 02, Kris - My Novelesque Life rated it really liked it. Halfway around the world archaeologists make a shocking discovery at a medieval site.
And with history 3. And with history opened to the present, the dead awakened to the living, these men and women will soon find themselves fighting for their very survival—six hundred years in the past. A very swashbuckling adventure! Oct 27, Jackie rated it it was amazing Shelves: Time travel gets me almost everytime! This novel was exciting and unique, I could hardly put it down. Cool quantum technology that I barely understood aside, I felt like I was transported to the Years War along with the team that sets out to find the Professor.
And that's what makes a good novel into a great novel for me, and Timeline delivered. One of Crichton's best.
And I got a crush on Marek so that helps in keeping it on my favorite book list. I think I'll read in again soon. Total piece of crap book that I got from a book swap.
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That said, while I did a lot of skimming, this was a perfectly fine book to read while on mass transit And now you know that I sometimes read crap. Mar 20, Werner rated it really liked it Recommends it for: Fans of action-oriented science-fiction. My reaction to this book was a lot more favorable than Stacey's --but I do have to agree with some of her criticisms.
Because of his "hard" sci-fi orientation, Crichton insisted on trying to extrapolate an explanation for time-travel from existing science, his vehicle being quantum theory. Since this is too complex and counter-intuitive for most people to understand and some of us suspect it of being a bunch of hooey anyway! Wells, demonstrated that you don't need to "explain" it to get readers to accept it. Crichton should have taken a leaf out of his book. And the characters here are not the most sharply drawn in the genre though some are more so than others, and there are a couple of conversations which are really excellent revelations of character, by the "show, don't tell" method.
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The ending does have a cinematic quality, though whether this is a flaw or not depends on your tastes. Ironically, the last part of the movie version leaves out several of the best parts. In the main, though, I personally thought the book succeeds well as an adventure story, where a group of friends have to find resources of loyalty, courage and ingenuity in themselves to survive, and to help each other survive. Like Jurassic Park , this novel also sounds a well-warranted cautionary note about the potential of self-serving Big Business to debase science as an instrument of profit for the few at the expense of others.
The violence is not gratuitous although there's a lot of it , the time travelers don't engage in illicit sex, and the language isn't noticeably bad. Crichton's villains use the f-word a few times; but rather than encouraging it, this comes across as a reflection of the kinds of bad qualities the readers don't want to emulate! But when she receives a mysterious invitation to a vintage fashion sale in the mail, her once painfully average life is magically transformed into a time-travel adventure. Almost everybody who has grown up in Chicago knows about the Thorne Rooms. Each of the 68 rooms is designed in the style of a different historic period, and every detail is perfect, from the knobs on the doors to the candles in the candlesticks.
Some might even say, the rooms are magic. What if you discovered that others had done so before you? And that someone had left something important behind? The boy-girl friendship depicted was also very nice. Jack and his little sister Annie are just two regular kids from Frog Creek, Pennsylvania.
Then they discover a mysterious tree house packed with all sorts of books…and their lives are never the same! Soon they are traveling through time and space in the magic tree house and having amazing adventures. Disappointed that they have not landed in their beloved New York City, they wonder why they were brought to Massachusetts to meet a young girl named Clara Barton.
Perhaps Clara has a message for the twins? Or maybe they have one for her? But from the start, everything goes wrong. When Amanda turns in for the night, glad to have her birthday behind her, she wakes up happy for a new day. Her birthday seems to be repeating itself.
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C has just come back from a visit to the past. He needs their help because it looks like President Lincoln might quit and never free the slaves With a time-travel gadget and only two hours to spare, Abigail and her friends are going back to the past. They are recruited by an agency that no one knows exists, with only one purpose—to fix broken history. Because time travel is here, and there are those who would go back in time and change the past. To stop time travel from destroying the world… my review author page.
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Well the CIA, naturally. But also corporate agents 5, 29, and , plus two international superspies — one of whom happens to be a chimpanzee. They all want Dr. This six-book series centers around two 23rd century goofballs, Tuna and Herby, who travel back in time to study TJ Finkelstein for their history project. TJ will someday become a great leader who demonstrates honesty, integrity, thoughtfulness, self-sacrifice, respect for others—all traits she hones and grasps through her adventures in this series. Max Quick is a pickpocket, a vagabond, an orphan, and a thief.
Even so, nothing about him seems particularly special. Suddenly, nearly everyone in the world is frozen in time—except for Max. Now Max must journey across America to find the source of the Time-stop. Together, as they search for the cause of this disaster, Max and his companions encounter ancient mysteries, magic books, and clues to the riddle of stopped time. And the closer Max gets to the answers, the more it seems that his own true identity is not what he once believed.
Racing against a clock that no longer ticks, Max must embrace his past to save his future—and the world—from being altered forever. In the first book, everyone in the series freezes in place except Max and a few other kids. Everyone can also run super fast and has the power of a superhero. There he meets Samuel Maverick, a soon to be victim of the Boston Massacre. Andy experiences the horrible event and is almost killed.
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In the midst of the smoke, Miranda Roberts barges in, and Andy drops the stick. All three transport back to Antebellum Georgia where Andy and Miranda are the children of a plantation owner. Roger, who is black, is a slave. Without the stick, they are hopelessly trapped. A storm is brewing in ancient Egypt, and chaos threatens the peace.
Fast forward to the modern world where twelve-year-old, JJ visits a museum for a day packed full of boredom. Join them as they search for a mystical amulet, known as the Golden Scarab, which has the power to save the day. All the while, a gang of cranky beasts called Uberdiles half-man half-crocodile will stop at nothing to crush them before they can find the amulet. Life in is simple for tomboy Beverly, moody Maxine, high-spirited Judy, studious Mary, and artistic Ann. But after a class assignment to predict life in the future, they wake up the next morning in a future they could never have imagined, having time-traveled into a parallel universe over fifty years into the future.
With only each other to trust, they must work together and find their way home to , but the more they discover about the future, will they even want to go back? Hannah finds nothing adventurous about the seventh grade—until she meets her new Texas history teacher, Mr. Barrington, who brings in a mysterious trunk and assigns an unusual project: While seeking inspiration among the historical artifacts contained in the trunk, Hannah, her brother Nick, and her friend Jackie are suddenly thrown back through time, finding themselves at an old Spanish mission in San Antonio.
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Adventure beckons, and Emily and Matt are happy to follow. Until, that is, they meet up with honest-to-goodness pirates! One day the world around Owen shifts oddly: Time flows backwards, and the world and family he knew disappear. Time can only be set right when the Resisters vanquish their ancient enemies, the Harsh.
Unless they are stopped, everything Owen knows will vanish as if it has never been…And Owen discovers he has a terrifying role to play in this battle: When the Kings move from L. He and his friends loved to create amateur films … but the tiny town of Pinedale is the last place a movie buff and future filmmaker wants to land. But he, David, and Toria are captivated by the many rooms in the old Victorian fixer-upper they moved into—as well as the heavy woods surrounding the house.
Sounds come from the wrong directions. Prints of giant, bare feet appear in the dust. And when David tries to hide in the linen closet, he winds up in locker at his new school. Then the really weird stuff kicks in: I read the first novel in this series. The Fire Thief hilariously reimagines the myth of Prometheus, the Greek demigod who stole fire from the gods and gave it to the human race.
There, he befriends a young orphan, actor, and petty criminal named Jim. When Jim runs into trouble with the law, Prometheus is torn — if he uses his powers to get his friend out of trouble, he will betray his hiding place to the gods. Terry Deary masterfully interweaves two plots, with action jumping at a whirlwind pace from Mount Olympus to the seedy taverns and elegant mansions of Victorian Eden City. Packed with puns, wisecracks, and sarcastic footnotes, The Fire Thief turns Greek mythology into a laughing matter. Six young friends become Time Soldiers when they stumble onto a secret time portal, leading them to an ancient world of dinosaurs and danger.
The Time Soldiers fight to survive, escape the T. Ned Banks is miserable. His life is going downhill fast. Roop and Suzi are Time Surfers—cool kids who travel through time. And they want Ned to join them! Of course Ned says yes.
But he might get more than he bargained for. A statue; a coin; an old book. Sometimes she disappears for days and all that Ka has left by his bedside is a little stone carving of a cat. She types Bubastis and soon Topher finds himself time-travelling to Ancient Egypt where Ka is in terrible danger.
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