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You should definitely read Sphere and Prey if you haven't! Also avoid the Timeline movie at all costs unless you are trapped on a flight.
by tnecniv 8y ago
You should definitely read Sphere and Prey if you haven't!
Also avoid the Timeline movie at all costs unless you are trapped on a flight.
- ggm 8y agoI rather liked the timeline book, but it's juvenalia. I liked his reasoned (if entirely hypothetical) comments about the mistakes we make visualising the past as white, because we see whitewashed walls, when they were probably as polychromatic as they could be in the circumstances. And I liked his characterisation of the poor as probably predating everyone they could, not some robin-hood fantasy of nice people waiting for gifts of food. But the whole quantum foam and nasty scientist at home angle was just trashy. Geniuses like this don't rise to the top of corporations. Oh wait.. hang on...
- tnecniv 8y agoI did like the Timeline book as well, but I read it at around 13. It did really change a lot of images I had of the period though. One thing that sticks out in my memory was a comment on how much distance the average serf could cover in a day from walking since it was their only mode of transportation. The movie, though, is just completely middling. It's not bad enough to be fun but not good enough to be exciting. I watched it on a plane, which adds two points to any score I would give a movie, but if I was at home I would have probably turned it off after 45 minutes.
- throwaway2016a 8y agoPrey and Timeline are two of my favorite. Micro (which was finished by another author after Crichton's death) is also very good an dissimilar to Prey. Since I like Timeline so much it made watching the movie so painful.