Rating:  Summary: This would make a great movie Review: I rarely read Science Fiction but this book was a pure pleasure ride. While I was reading the book I kept thingking... this would make a great summer movie, it has all the thrills.If you are looking for a little summer entertainment then this is the book for you.
Rating:  Summary: QUICK READ-- GREAT BOOK Review: I thought LINK was an incredibly delicious read. It was fast, easy, and imaginative. I was really turned on by the world it presented and some of the hotly debated issues it presents. I got it from a friend who highly recommended it, and I feel compelled to do the same thing. Check it out. It's got interesting characters, a fascinating premise, and a pace that truly doesn't let up.
Rating:  Summary: Absolutely wonderful book! Review: I thought LINK was one of the best action adventure novels I have read in quite some time. I was hooked from page one, and unlike one of the reviewers I was riveted until the very last page. I also don't have a problem with the science portions of the novel. I found them interesting found for thought-- but read the novel as a work of fiction. It seems that some people have forgotten it was just that. If I had wanted to look up anything the book deals with in depth, I would have chosen the NON-fiction section of the book store. Seems that some of these "science fiction" fans forget that. Besides, most time travel novels I've read are absolutely ludricous in their assumptions about the possibilities of time travel-- I just read them because they tell good stories. For any readers out there that are into reading adventure novels, just for the thrills and the characters and setting, check this novel out for sure. You won't be sorry!
Rating:  Summary: Entertaining and thought provoking! Review: I truly enjoyed reading Link. It opens a plethora of opportunity for fireside discussions concerning the possibilities, for and against the premise of this novel. A few of us even went to the public library and looked up some of the resourses listed in his bibliography. However, keeping in mind it is purely fiction, it is a great read, ... Mr. Becker has done a tremendous job, and I look forward to more of his novels.
Rating:  Summary: Not A Scientific Text Review: This book is definitely not for rigid scientific minds who cannot think outside of the lines. Becker is not throwing out evolutionary theory, but questioning some of its unproven assumptions. That maybe too difficult for some readers, who treat evolution as a religion, to consider. Fundamentalist thinking in science is just as limiting as in religion. Too bad, one then misses out on enjoying a fast-paced, well-written novel that is fiction and not trying to prove anything. It's easy to suspend belief when you have an open mind, and your own beliefs are not threatened. Enjoy 'Link', I did.
Rating:  Summary: Someone buy the movie rights for this! Review: Forget whether or not you believe the concepts. It is fiction, after all, in true X-Files form. This was a good entertaining read.
Rating:  Summary: Link Review: I have been an avid science fiction fan since 1950. "Link" has good artwork on the cover, and an interesting premise. However, despite the fact that I can easily accept time travel, interdimensional travel, faster than light travel, teleportation, telekenisis, telepathy, forcefield shields, I became incapable of suspending disbelief of all the really bad "science" tossed at me, one after the other by Mr. Becker. I could not finish reading the last half of the book, something that has not happened to me in many, many years. I thought the book was so bad that I went to the publisher's web page, only to find it was not up. Was the book actually edited? I am willing to wager 100 times the list price of this book, that it was written with Motion Picture Rights, not Pulitzer prize clearly in mind. Stanley R Goldfarb
Rating:  Summary: Link Throws Out Evolution With Bathwater Review: Sure, "Link" is a lot of fun -- it would make a great Hollywood summer action flick. But intelligent readers will notice a lot of links missing. The characters end up dismissing all of evolution just because of one case of extra-terrestrial intervention with one species. They don't even pose the question that begs to be asked: even if extra-terrestrials did give humans a civilizing push, where did the ET's come from? The mysteries examined merit more creative conjectures.
Rating:  Summary: Exciting Read Review: I picked this book up at the airport and was sorry when my flight ended and I had to put the book down. It's fun, creative, fast-paced and an easy read. It's pure entertainment! Enjoy.
Rating:  Summary: Bad science and shallow characters Review: Walt Becker started with an interesting idea (aliens produced Homo Sapiens from Neanderthals 40,000 years ago) and some interesting characters (three paleoanthropologists and an arms dealer) and proceeded to push both of them too far. The premise becomes unbelievable (bipedal aliens that looked very much like humans who were able to breed with Neanderthals given a little help) and the characters never get beyond two-dimensional. It seemed like Mr. Becker had simply bit off more than he could chew, trying to explain dozens of unexplained mysteries while putting his characters through as many adventures as possible. It became very difficult to suspend disbelief (both at the underlying premise and the choices of the characters), a probablem that was compounded by the book's factual errors and inconsistencies.
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