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Kilroymail: This is my 3rd purchase of this book. I liked it so much I've ordered others to give away to friends.

United States on Aug 21, 2023

Brad: This book to me is a special book. When people ask me to recommend a book, this one is almost always on the list. This book was written in the 80s so if you one of those new wave super sensitive people, this book could offend a little. If you are a rational thinker, I highly recommend reading it.

United States on Jul 16, 2023

Eric Lee: If you’ve seen the movies ‘Peggy Sue Got Married’ and ‘Groundhog Day’ you’ve got the plot of Replay. The novel begins with the death of 43-year-old Jeff Winston — who immediately re-awakens a quarter century earlier in his college dorm as an 18-year-old version of himself. He begins to relive his life with all his memory of his previous life intact. And the same thing happens again and again, always dying at the age of 43. He tries to correct mistakes he made the first time around, though these sometimes lead to bigger mistakes. Some of the book overlaps with Stephen King’s wonderful time travel book about trying to prevent the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963. Much of it consists of spot-on memories of life in the 1960s and 1970s. And much of it is quite bleak (unlike the two movies mentioned earlier, which were comedies). Though I was not entirely satisfied with the ending, I can’t think of an alternative. Highly recommended.

United Kingdom on Jun 18, 2023

Jasmine: I read that this book has quite a bit of “soft porn” for heterosexual men, and it’s true. I found it a bit tedious.
I like the idea of having a chance at a new life but it didn’t really go beyond that. I won’t read it again.
I haven’t learnt anything new or had a cathartic experience.

United Kingdom on May 13, 2023

Regi Keyz: Firstly, I give 4 stars, not because there is anything wrong with it, I really enjoyed it.. it is rare I give 5* for a book..but it was very close.

I don't usually read fiction - though read this because I had/still have(!) some life choices to make, someone on YouTube recommended..
It was odd reading this book about extended life, knowing that the actually author passed away years ago - at least he contributed something of IMHO significance by penning this story.

I read it over 2 weeks, it caused me to think much and took me to another world and I questioned what I'd do if I was in this situation.. this in itself I feel gave me more perspective in my own life and my direction & purpose..
[e.g. 'what would I do , if I woke up at 17 years old again?' actually, what I realised is, it totally depends on what life direction you chose.. being younger would be great.. but you still can't do everything, you still have limited time.. eg is family important, or a career making films (like one of Jeff's fellow friends)]

Book was really enjoyable, I won't say 'I couldn't put it down' but I definitely looked forward to reading more. I'm not one who feels I need...

United Kingdom on Jul 19, 2016

Doug Mertaugh: I recently developed a fascination with the concept of time travel along the line of a person's own consciousness so I looked forward to this book.

The basic premise is that a middle-aged man has a heart attack and dies in the year 1988 which is when the book was published. But he wakes up to find himself young again. He is in the year 1963 when he was 18 years old. Somehow, his consciousness has traveled back in time. He is in college but has all of his knowledge and memories from the future.

He lives through that life and has the heart attack again on the very day and the very minute he had it before. He finds himself back in 1963. He seems to be living his life over and over. But he notices the times are getting shorter. On one time around, it starts in 1965 and then in the 1970's and so on so he knows it won't last forever.

At first, I must admit I was disappointed. After a great first couple of pages, I started to get bogged down and bored with the
seeming superficiality of the escapades of the main character, Jeff Winston. But this was a necessary part of the story. Shocked and disbelieving what has happened to him, he gets caught up in the very fact...

United States on Sep 07, 2015

Steve D: From the back of the book:

"Jeff Winston was forty-three and trapped in a tepid marriage and a dead-end job, waiting for that time when he could be truly happy, when he died.

And then he woke up and he was eighteen, with all his memories of the next twenty-five years intact. He could live his life again, avoiding the mistakes, making money from his knowledge of the future, seeking happiness. Until he dies at forty-three and wakes up back in college again ..."

First off, Grimwood - what a great name! I'd never heard of him until a few weeks back, never heard of this book. To say more about the story than what's above would, I think, be to damage it beyond repair. Replay is a fantasy novel. It's the sort of fantasy novel that gives the lie to those who think the genre is just about swords, sorcery, orcs, goblins, elves, dwarves, dragons, wizards and farmboys with a destiny. Instead, it's about life, about learning to live with failure and regrets and loneliness, and love and joy and freedom, about how one word in the wrong place can change a life forever.

In fact, it's how Jeff chooses to live each of his 'replays', the mistakes he makes, the triumphs he...

United Kingdom on Mar 01, 2012

Michael P. Ferrari: Stories exploring the myriad possibilities of time travel are nothing new, however, time travel stories that explore their direct effects on a person's core character are a rarity. That said, Ken Grimwood's "Replay" offers a story, strength and experience that has the rarity and luster of a fist-sized diamond.

"Reply" begins by showing ubiquitous, 40-something everyman Jeff Winston dying of a seemingly random heart attack in October of 1988. Upon dying, Jeff instantly wakes up 25 years earlier as the 18-year-old version of himself, replete with all his memories and knowledge from the life he just left. Jeff, essentially, has the opportunity to live his life anew knowing what the future has in store for him. The possibilities, obviously, prove endless. Knowing the outcome of every major sporting event in the next 25 years, Jeff becomes a gambling phenom who is able to build a fortune unavailable to him in his previous life. Aside from providing himself with vast new riches, Jeff now has the opportunity to live his life to a different degree. This opportunity, of course, poses plenty of possibilities, all stemming from the same question: if you could do it all over again,...

United States on Mar 29, 2010

D. M. York: There are many questions people ask themselves about their own lives, probably the most terrible questions we ask ourselves relate to things that we cannot change - what would you do differently if you had the chance of living again. Would you turn left or right? Just how different might your life be if you could go back with the knowledge you now possess?

This book looks at that ultimate question - what if you could go back and do it all over again? Be born into a young body at a point in your life where nearly anything is possible. That is the story of Replay, as the middle-aged Jeff, stuck in a dead-end job and whose marriage is breaking apart, dies of a heart-attack and awakes as his 18 year old self. The book deals superbly with his initial confusion and then the slow realisation that it is a second chance, too that his knowledge of the future can bring him great wealth and even power.

The book I have loved because it is so clearly honest even when showing the darker side to foresight, it looks at what most people would want to do: make money, travel around, not have to work, turn dreams into reality. Jeff is believable as he does not become a superhero nor does...

United Kingdom on Aug 11, 2005