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Summary: An Unknown Book to be Treasured
Review: Previous reviews have said it all, including the comparison to the wonderful movie comedy, "Groundhog Day". Ask yourself, "What if you could return to a previous point in your life, with all your knowledge and memories intact?" Then add the question, "What would be the purpose of doing it over?" It can make for a better conversation than most, and much of it will be spent on all the personal enjoyment and/or riches that could be had. The discussion, like the book, should eventually reach the deeper questions about what is really important to the individual. I don't presume to suggest that there is a "right" answer, but the search is what the book is really about. It succeeds astonishingly well, perhaps because the tale is told so simply and believably. I have reread this book a number of times, recommended it to many friends, and have come to learn that it now enjoys a status akin to that of a cinema "cult classic". Do yourself a favor and find out why.
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Summary: One to read over and over and over.....
Review: This book has been a favorite of mine for years. It makes you think, it entertains and it opens up many topics for discussion. Everyone I talk to keeps asking me what happens next, instead I just offered to let them read it after I was done. No one has been disappointed. The way it is written has a nice twist to it, so it's definately NOT like anything you've read before.I came online to find a sequel but haven't found one. AHHH!
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Summary: Interesting twist on a popular theme
Review: This book was loaned to me by the owner of my local bookstore who insisted that I must read it even if he couldn't get me to buy it. I finally read it because I felt too guilty to go back until I had. Within the hour of finishing it, I loaned it to someone else and insisted that he read it. When I first started the book I felt an overwhelming sense of, "hasn't this been done already???" But Grimwood's version does take a different route than I'd seen before and certainly goes a little deeper. It is usually fast paced with a few interesting plot twists and makes for a quick read. On the down side, Grimwood is not a particularly good story teller. His characters are fairly one dimensional with little depth and I thought the epilogue seemed random and should have been omitted or wrapped up better . Fortunately, the story is interesting enough that it stands on its own despite a few literary flaws. It has the qualities that will likely make a very good movie. No word on the release, but word has it that Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts will star.
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Summary: Poignent Tragi-comedy
Review: This book relly made me think about what it would be like if a had to live my life over again starting with junior high. During this time period I had to wear braces and put up with my fellow students teasing me. I certainly would not want to put up with these again! I heartily agree with the female replayer's thoughts on having to go through high school the third time around,"a unique subcircle of Hell." Replay was also so poignent that it almost made me want to cry. It has to do with idea of losing everything you've worked for. The part about Jeff's daughter, Gretchen,in one of his life times apparently ceasing to exist is especially tragic. It made me wish that that reality still exists somewhere and somewhen. These elements, in spite of making me hate Replay, added to its flaver.This book was almost Shakesperian. I can't wait for the movie to come out.
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Summary: An exceptional book
Review: Okay, so guy dies and finds himself back in time in his late teenage body but with all the memories of his previous life and the events that will take place. And then once he lives his new life, it happens again, and again and again. With each life and accumulated experience, he tries different things... The premise of the book and what is so captivating is the "well, what would you do?". And he does do the sort of things you would do but also explores the deep levels and consequence of those actions. This is one of those books you will encourage others to read and you will read it more then once yourself. Fantastic.
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Summary: Couldn't Put it Down! - Warning Some Spoiler Contained Here
Review: The plot is so intriguing. Jeff Winston dies and then goes back in time to relive his last 25 years but with all his memories intact. Winston does all the things I would do if I were him. That is; bet on sporting events which I already know the outcome and play the stockmarket for stocks that I already know made a fortune. With his overall confidence he easily woos the women. However, the same confidence and inflated ego proves to be a turnoff to the woman who was originally his wife. Everything Winston does, can not prevent him from dieing again from the same heart attack on the same day and then being reborn again. He then has another chance to make new choices in the same lifetime. The idea for this book seems to have been copied by the movie Ground Hog day, but that was a more comical version and certainly did not cover the depth of the human soul that this book has. In Winston's first go-around he fathers a daughter whom he adores to no end. His soul is virtually ripped apart that he realizes that when he is reborn, his daughter's existance is literally wiped out. In one of Winston's lives he decides to stick it out and go through 4 years of College again. I am sure that most people in their 40's would be terrified of having to put in the mental effort involved in going through 4 years of things they have already learned and forgotten, especially knowing that some subjects will be worthless to their life's endeavors. Winston has to decide with each life whether or not he wishes to start over in relationships with women he already had long relationships with. The author has done a marvelous job of having Winston do his own self-analysis. As a reader we cannot decide if Winston is blessed or cursed. Once you get through the first 25 pages of this book it is virtually impossible to put down. I am very surprised that it is not already a movie. I highly recommend that you don't miss this one!
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Summary: Fascinating Book
Review: As an avid reader, I often pick up books without knowing much about them, and sometimes wonder how I could have missed them. This is one of those books. I have to confess that I've thought of alternate versions of my life if I had or hadn't made certain decisions, and how things would have turned out. For anyone who has hit those major forks in the road and wondered what their lives would have been like if they had taken the other path, this is a great book to read.
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Summary: A Dull Addition to a Tired Genre
Review: Why? Why does one bother to create a story like this; one cliched before conception, as predictable as "Titanic," trite as the latest 20th Century Fox romantic comedy. Worst of all, though, it is BORING! I finished the 300+ pages, yes, but only because I was compelled by my significant other, whom I have yet to forgive. The story's main character learns to charish time, and not to waste any precious moments, despite the quanity. I learned the same.
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Summary: Make time to read this book
Review: This is an indispensible book for anyone who has ever considered the possibilty of living their life over, and who hasn't? Jeff Winston, the novels middle-aged protagonist, is stuck in an unsatisfied career as a broadcast journalist with a marriage on the brink of collapse. Dying seemingly of a heart attack in 1988 he awakes back in 1963 in his old college dorm, to "replay" his life over again, with the foreknowledge of his previous life, and thus the potential to make amends for past mistakes. Yet when he reaches 1988 for the second time he again dies and has to live his life over and over.... His early replays are characterized by largely hedonistic pursuits; making unimaginable riches gambling on the sports events, sleeping with beautiful women, and driving fast cars etc. Feeling the dissatisfaction at these self serving activities, he takes on an altruistic stance in his later replays; preventing major accidents and wars, with, much to his dissmay, disasterous consequences. The novels break-neck speed sometimes stretches the credulity of the readers imagination and it's difficult at times, to fully garner the passing of centuries squeezed into it's three hundred pages. Still that alone couldn't prevent this reader from gulping down it's contents in two mesmerized sittings, when I myself, lost all concept of time. More than just a merely satisfying read, Grimwood here explores some profound territory with regard to time and aging, foolishness and wisdom. Themes from the book, even now three weeks ago having read it, reoccur in my daily thoughts. More than any pulpy self help book, or brow-scratching french novel, this book will make the reader sit up and more fully realize the precious sanctity of this life and the precious little time we have in which to live it.
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Summary: WARNING: This book isn't good....It's great!
Review: I noticed this book sitting off to the side at my work one day and was desperate to read anything. So I picked it up and forced the first few pages down like Pepto Bismol when your sick to the stomach. Then something clicked after those few pages. I was hooked and couldn't stop. It was like drinking Pepto Bismol and finding out that it tastes like a cold Coke on a hot day. I haven't read a book this life changing before. I've read books where I wanted to be similar to the lead character of course. But this just blew my mind. You absolutely have to read this if you haven't yet. I also heard Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts signed on for a movie adaptation also. So obviously this has hooked them also.
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