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Summary: Actually, I give it 6 stars. The best book EVER!
Review: I read it in one day! Picked it up and couldn't put it down. A must read for everybody.
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Summary: Fun, fascinating adventure of "what ifs:?
Review: I first read this book about 5 years ago, and passed it along to a friend-- was so taken with the concept that I bought it again--- and again passed it along to a friend. Finally bought it for a 3rd time... (Am I in a replay here?) I'll hang on to it this time. A fascinating exploration of the concept "what if you could live your life over, knowing all you already know?" A good, one-sitting book. Even my friend Abby (who usually takes months to finish a book) stayed awake long enough to read it in three days!Nancy Moore
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Summary: Riveting
Review: I read this book in one sitting. 'Nuff said. Well, I'll say a little more. This is not a story of big ideas (although the central idea is interesting) or big adventure, but it is an interesting exploration of human nature that has a unique emotional resonance.
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Summary: Pass it along to all your friends. This is a GREAT book!
Review: I read this book for the first time about 3 or 4 years ago and remembered that it was very good. I brought it with me on our vacation thinking that I'd read it if I finished reading the other 2 books I brought with. I actually had plenty of time. I was surprised by what I didn't remember from the first time, so the book seemed fresh to me, almost like I hadn't read it before. It really is a fascinating look at what a person would do if they could live their life over again. And maybe a lesson about how we should live the life that we are living... all the clichés: don't take anything for granted, live your life to the fullest, yaddy, yaddy, yaddy...I gave the book to someone I met on our trip that needed some new reading material. I hope he enjoys it as much as I did. Now I need a new copy!
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Summary: Book of My Decade.
Review: I read this for the first, of many times, nearly 8 years ago. It has been my favorite book ever since. WOW! The concept is just too fascinating! I have bought well over a dozen copies for friends and family. Everyone agrees, this story is too good not the share. Thank you, Mr. Grimwood. Great Story. Great Imagination.
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Summary: A finely-wrought, mesmerizing tour-de-force
Review: I normally review only newly-published books, but recently came across something older that was too good not to share. One of my favorite stories, and one that has haunted me since I heard it, is the one told by comedian Stephen Wright concerning two babies born within minutes of each other and laid side-by-side in the hospital's nursery. Ninety years later, they find themselves once again side-by-side, this time as two old men on their deathbeds in the very same hospital. One turns to the other and says, "So...what'd you think?" It's an extraordinarily concise encapsulation of the central mystery of our lives, which is why we even have lives in the first place. But imagine if you had your life to live over. Not just a day or a week but your entire adult life. In the case of Jeff Winston that amounts to some 25 years, the period between his death of a heart attack in his office in 1988 and his reappearance as an 18-year old in his college dormitory in 1963. Once the shock wears off, he does pretty much what I might do: start playing the stock market and the sports book, knowing in advance exactly what is going to transpire. Naturally, he becomes a very rich man; it's not a difficult feat if you parlay a few Kentucky Derby longshots into a nice little bundle and then use it to do things like buy as many Apple and Microsoft shares as you can on the days their IPOs opened. You might even exploit your wealth to pick yourself up a nice trophy you spotted at the Caesar's Palace pool and do some serious international partying, maybe even spend a little time trying to alter the history you know is coming. Is it possible to intercede on behalf of John Kennedy and prevent his assassination? Reading the first part of Replay is to watch Winston wallow in all your delicious fantasies but to feel, as he feels, the growing realization of their shallowness. It is inevitable that disappointment is the ultimate endgame, and you anticipate feeling cheated by yet another science fiction-y time travel saga. Except that you're barely a fourth of the way through the book when he once again succumbs to a heart attack. What gives here? He starts all over. Right back to his dorm room at the age of 18. Now armed with the lessons learned from his two previous shots at life, he gets to do it all again, and that's what distinguishes this extremely clever, thoughtful and finely-wrought novel from your run-of-the-mill, overgrown pulp-magazine short story. What would you do now: lead a more noble life? A more debauched one? Find a better mate? Try to change the world or just make your own small corner of it more livable? The obvious reference here is to the movie "Groundhog's Day" but Replay has about as much to do with that light farce as chess does with Go Fish. I don't want to spoil the fun, except to tell you that Jeff Winston gets to live his life over and over, each time with all his memories completely intact, even able to set things up in one life in preparation for his return for the next round. Author Ken Grimwood thankfully doesn't squander the premise, but wrings out of it some wonderful stories, a very human lead character, and a number of philosophical divertissements that, while occasionally threatening to fall over the cliff of self-indulgent preachiness, somehow manage to stay relevant and readable. Since discovering this treasure of a novel, I've learned that it is fairly common for fans to buy them by the bushel as gifts. Once you read it, you might be tempted to do the same. - lee gruenfeld
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Summary: Brought me back for more...10 years later!!
Review: I originally read this incredible story in 1989. Ten years later, I found myself still so involved in this intriguing concept that I had to find it again...Thank you, Ken Grimwood!
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Summary: Keep "Replaying" this book! It's a blast!
Review: I first read this book back when it was in my "book of the month" club back in the 80's... absolutely loved it!.. then kind of forgot about it... well, I'm now about to turn 40 and thought it would be fun to read again! and it is! I've forwarded this to some friends who absolutely loved it as well... now I need to find more of Ken Grimwood...
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Summary: Fascinating and thought provoking.
Review: I couldn't stop thinking about this book when not reading it, and then for some time after finishing it. What would you do if you found yourself thrown back in time? The possibilities are endless. I reluctantly purchased this book after finding it on a list of top 100 science fiction books of the century. The premise seemed so far fetched. Far fetched or not, this book is brilliant, entertaining and it makes you consider what has happened in your life, and what may happen yet based on your decisions. What a great book.
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Summary: Replay reading Over and Over thru the decades
Review: I first read this book and was unable to find it again after I moved. This book changed my outlook on life and the future. If you have not read REPLAY - READ IT NOW!!!
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