Timeline

Writer: Michael Crichton
Genre: Fiction


Tired of reading uninteresting fiction I decided to re-read this one. Had read it long back so I had forgotten the story and it helped. Crichton and his plots never disappoint you.

An old man is found wandering and disoriented in the Arizona dessert. He has no memory of how he got there. The couple that rescues him takes him to a nearby hospital where he soon dies due to a cardiac arrest. Everything seems normal but it isn't so.

Meanwhile somewhere in France, a group of historians are trying to recreate the medieval era but the process is slow and time consuming much to the dismay of their financiers  A sudden twist and the group find themselves in the middle of the ‘Hundred Years War’ and they have to get their way out into the modern world. Will they succeed or be stuck in an age which they have only read about?

Crichton and his love for technology makes him write some beautiful plots. One of the most successful movies of all times, Jurassic Park was his imagination so that will tell you something about his capability as a fiction writer. This book, although not his best, is still a wonderful read. But yeah, the climax wherein the group of historians decide to payback their chief financier in his own coin was a kind of let down. I mean it's really more of a feel good ending than a pragmatic one ;)