Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Timeline About 400 Pages Too Long

Timeline is a sad example of a successful and talented author taking a tired formula with a semi-interesting scientific twist (quantum magic)and creating a movie-in-waiting only thinly disguised as a novel. We have come to expect so much more from Crichton. And he delivers so little here. Character development is minimal. And the villains are cartoonish in their stereotypicality. Crichton's batting average has been high going all the way back to early work like The Great Train Robbery. But he took a weak swing here and struck out. This milennium version of The Time Machine meets Bill Gates really bytes.