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Andrei Boldyshev andreibold1dbe — Haunting language, good story, but overly didactic ending.

Creative Auxo auxo_creative — Loved the book. The ending made it all worth it. A tad long, especially not being able to just sit and read for very long chuncks of time. Completely worth all the late fees I got charged by the library. Had to return it mid read and request it again....

Teodor Manolov teodormanolov — ** spoiler alert ** After reading this book, I’m amazed that it’s not more popular. “Replay” will probably go down as one of my favorite books of all time. Ken Grimwood took a very common, very human question “What if I could live my life over again?” and created a gripping tale of love, loss, joy, loneliness, and inescapable fate. The plot revolves around Jeff Winston, an unremarkable 43-year-old man trapped in an unhappy marriage with no children. But after “dieing” of a heart-attack in 1988, Jeff wakes up 18-years-old again in the year 1963. This cycle repeats several times, each replay vastly different from the last. And with each replay, he experiences a whole new sense of loss: lovers who don’t recognize him, children who don’t exist, and the wiping away of every piece of wealth and success he has achieved. The other major character is Pamela Phillips, another replayer Jeff meets in his fourth life. The two fall in love and re-meet in each of their replays. But as they find their replays starting at different points in time in their lives, they have increasing difficulty re-uniting. Even in these extraordinary circumstances, the main characters still find themselves tackling the same questions that every other person asks. Why are we hear? What is our purpose? What do we do about it? By the end of the story, our main characters long for nothing more than the unpredictability that comes with a normal life. I’m not going to spoil anything by saying if they ever find that again; I’m just arrogant enough to think that someone might decide to pick this book up after reading my review. But the scientist in me would be remiss for not at least giving this small disclaimer: we never find out why Jeff and Pamela are replaying. God, aliens, genetics, near-death hallucinations, a bad acid trip. I would have loved to find out, but the unknowable answers do reframe the characters’ questions quite nicely. If you’re the philosophical type, you may find yourself thinking about those same questions with the characters and constructing your own answers. If you’re not, then you’re still in for a fun and well-told story. An interesting side note is that the author, Ken Grimwood, died of a heart attack just like his character Jeff Winston. He died while he was writing the sequel to this book. My fun, romantic side loves to imagine that he’s in an alternate universe right now finishing that sequel. Or at least adapting it into a movie or something. But it would have to be rated-R. Who would have thought that a man reliving his late teens/early twenties in the 1960′s would be having lots of sex and drugs?