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2018-07-02 15:40

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** 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?

2018-07-02 17:40

Manuş Baba ‎– Dönersen Islık Çal PLAK TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

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Anyone who's read my reviews of the first and last books in the Twilight saga knows that this review won't consist of much. Twilight was the beginning, the best book, the start of something great. Or at least, it should have been. Breaking Dawn was the bitterly disappointing ending to the saga that had potential, but just didn't deliver. New Moon and Eclipse were the pointless, disappointing, utterly forgettable filler books in this tragedy sandwich. You know it's sad when, three days after I read this book, I couldn't immediately remember what it was about. I still don't remember much of what happened in it, aside from the fight scene towards the end. The only reason I remember said fight scene is because I'm still infuriated that Bella was able to act like such a spoiled, selfish little brat and somehow have fate reward her for it. When Edward and his family are preparing for battle, Bella has an emotional breakdown and decides she just can't live without Edward. So she asks him to stay out of the fight. For her. Internally, she feels terrible for requesting it, but she can't reconcile those feelings with the overwhelming fear of losing Edward. So she never takes it back. Edward, like the totally pussy-whipped doormat he's become (completely uncharacteristic of him considering his behavior in the first and second books), agrees. The explanation is that he feels so badly about leaving Bella for eight months (in the second book) that he can't refuse her anything. Even if it means leaving his family to fight, alone, against a sadistic, revenge-bent she-vamp whose only target is Edward's own precious little girlfriend. So he does just that. He leaves the werewolves and his family to fight alone while he and Bella camp out in the mountains. But wait! It's okay because the she-vamp has other plans. While she sends her army of newborn vamps to fight the Cullens (the ones who didn't allow some selfish bitch to talk them out of fighting, anyway) and the werewolves, *she* loops around to the mountains with her freshly-made lover-vamp to take Bella out while the others are preoccupied. It's a real good thing she asked Edward to stay out of the fight, otherwise he wouldn't have been on that mountain to defend her from Bonnie and Clyde Vampire. Please. Don't even get me started on Bella's other admirable traits. As the series progresses, she gets dumber, more selfish, and less empathetic. I hate this character. She's not the same character as the Bella in Twilight. Not even close. Her attitude and behavior make this book barely tolerable.

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