The Bargain Nexus - Replay

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780688161125
ISBN: 068816112X
Label: Harper Paperbacks
Manufacturer: Harper Paperbacks
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: 1998-08-05
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Release Date: 1998-07-22
Studio: Harper Paperbacks

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Summary: Replay
Comment: The premise of the book is what we all wonder about as we are going to sleep. What would you change if you could live your life over? Replay provides you the wisdom of deciphering how to live this life with proper persepctive. This read could be a text book for a class in Phsych. Someone needs to make this into a movie...

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Summary: If only I knew then what I know now...
Comment: This is probably the most interesting book I've ever read. I could not put it down. I consider it more of the mystery/thriller genre.

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Summary: Replay visited
Comment: I was interested in this book after hearing a review on PRI and thought the it might have a profound plot. As I began reading the story seemed quite shallow but as I kept reading it slowly became more and more deeply involved in some serious thought.
The tale is interesting and causes one to think about one's own life and what he/she coulda, woulda, shoulda done with it.
The plot moves right along without a lot of description of "scenery." The dialog is to the point and helps keep the story moving ahead.
It was a "good" read.

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Summary: Do-over
Comment: This time travel (sort of) novel was an unexpected pleasure. An absolutely ordinary, out-of-shape, going nowhere guy named Jeff Winston has a heart attack at his desk and dies. But he awakes suddenly--in his life of 25 years before. Replay is the story of his several lives--a life where money is the sole object, a life where Jeff's only child is his focus, a life of solitude in the mountains. What Jeff learns in his unique journey through time is the point of Greenwood's novel.

This book is quite different from the usual time/travel science fare. It's really a story of time and how we spend it, our goals and priorities, what makes life worth living. For that reason, plus numerous historical references to the 1963-1988 time period, teens might find it a bit tedious, but I loved it.
Highly recommended.

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Summary: Unforgettable
Comment: I can't really say much that others haven't done before--and better--aside from stating that this is a perfect book in every way. Grimwood has an astonishing talent for balancing rich narrative detail with concision; I can't imagine anyone else who could condense an entire lifetime into a single chapter without losing one iota of flavor of the characters or their environment. This is a model every writer should emulate.

The story itself is equally superb: by turns poignant, disturbing (for he doesn't shy away from the uncomfortable possibilities of reliving one's life), nostalgic, surprising (I was caught off-guard again and again), and always compassionate.

An absolute must-read.

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Jeff Winston, forty-three, didn't know he was a replayer until he died and woke up twenty-five years younger in his college dorm room; he lived another life. And died again. And lived again and died again -- in a continuous twenty-five-year cycle -- each time starting from scratch at the age of eighteen to reclaim lost loves, remedy past mistakes, or make a fortune in the stock market. A novel of gripping adventure, romance, and fascinating speculation on the nature of time, Replay asks the question: "What if you could live your life over again?"