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Replay 
| 80% Recommended by our customers. Publisher: Ace Catalog: Book Release date: 1992-09-01 Media: Paperback Number of pages: 313 Ean: 9780441715923 Book Isbn: 0441715923  Tip: compare prices with similar booksAuthor:
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| Jeff Winston didn't know he was a replayer--until he died. Then he woke up 25 years younger, lived another life, then died again . . . and lived again . . .and died again. . . . Maybe one of these lifetimes, he'll get it right. Winner of the World Fantasy Award. |
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 Written on October 6, 2008 Summary: Replay will be read again and again Simply put, this book is the best "time book" I have ever read. It caught me from the first page to the last and I will read it again and again many times throughout my life I am sure. A must read. Written on October 5, 2008 Summary: Replay, reread and revisited Prior to having my recent bypass surgery, I bought a copy of my favorite book, Ken Grimwood's REPLAY, to re-read. [...], but I thought it would be especially interesting to re-read now in light of (a) I am now past the age of Grimwood when he wrote the book, (b) I am roughly the age of its main protagonist, Jeff Winston, and (c) I was in some small danger of dying, either through a heart attack before I ever got on the operating table or there itself. Even though I knew the twists and turns of the plot, the narrative continued to hold me. I had loaned the book to a close female friend in recent years who had commented that it had a lot of sex in it (which somewhat turned her off, as it was a very male-centric view of sex), which I hadn't remembered, but which I was aware of this time through. It definitely was male-centric, as it is Winston who provides the internal awareness throughout the first half of the book, and in one of his many replays he goes through a very hedonistic phase. Now that I'm over forty, Winston's actions actually seem more realistic than when I read it in my twenties. There's a reason for the June-December romance in our culture, where women are attracted by older men for their money--Winston, in his replays, is always able to make enough quick bets on sporting events to have a sizable bank account in his youth, which enables him to attract such women earlier in his life. What is revealing here is not that Winston seeks out sex in such a way, but that Grimwood makes it a point that such a lifestyle is as hollow as his first replay, where he simply accumulated a vast amount of wealth and prestige. When Winston discovers that there is someone else in the world who is replaying like him, he seeks her out and over time they become many-lives-long soul partners because of their shared experience. Grimwood also was somewhat prescient about the U.S., terrorism, and how the latter could easily turn the former into a fascist state, by giving us one replay where Winston and Pam actually reveal themselves to the world, only to be co-opted by the government who disbelieves in their story, but keeps them under lock and key, including torture techniques, to get them to reveal the "secrets" of the world. Even though Jeff and Pam provide details that remove certain strong-man governments from power (in the 80s, when this was written, Grimwood's target was Qaddafi in Libya), new terrorist groups form based on the covert U.S. actions, thus starting an overall change in the timeline that Jeff and Pam are unable to provide any details for because it is unlike any replay they've been through. For me, that's the profound illustration of my objection to Bush's tactics since 9/11. Rather than capitalizing on the world sentiment and sympathy for that horrible day to truly direct world opinion against such meaningless violence, Bush and his advisors instead chose the worst possible options of vengeance (in Afghanistan) and pre-emption (in Iraq; let me remind you that Hussein had no use for Al Quaedi, nor that group for him, which seems to continue to be lost in the nattering nabobs of 24-hour opinion news). The atrocities committed in the name of the U.S.'s revenge have only strengthened terrorism, undermined our legal system, and removed any sympathy the globe may have had for us. It may have even contributed to our recent economic troubles, as the continued cost of the occupation of Iraq has been an awful drain. Grimwood saw such a possibility in the 1980s. Ever since reading REPLAY for the first time, I've said that this is the most "life-affirming" book I know of, and it remains so. Winston's discovery through his many lives (and constant deaths) is that life is worth living right in the moment, but by that Grimwood doesn't mean "for the moment." The motto of this book is not carpe diem, but carpe vitam. It's an important distinction. The former is the refuge of people who think of nothing beyond themselves, in a sense that every day must be conquered and enjoyed and provide fulfillment. Grimwood says, yes, but a day by itself means nothing if it's not surrounded by a life that has meaning, typically shared with others. SPOILER WARNING That ending remains as powerful as ever, as Winston dies over and over and over again before the change, and the denouement is as open to interpretation as is the epilogue. If anything, it's that ending, which could not be anything else, that makes this book so fulfilling, so much so that I hadn't even remembered the one page epilogue. Obituaries stated that Grimwood had been working on a sequel to REPLAY when he died, and now I can see what possibilities he had open to him for such, as an exploration of a time and place and a character that was more distant than Jeff Winston and the U.S. of the 1980s. It would have been a difficult book to write well, but I'm sure Grimwood wouldn't have published it if he didn't believe in it. I'm saddened that we'll never see that book. Written on September 26, 2008 Summary: Ken Grimwood... Thank You... Thank you Ken for sharing this book with us... I bought this book based on the reviews written here and once I started it I couldnt stop reading it... Its very well written and very thought provoking... If you have time please read the book... It will make you stop and wonder about life and how you are living it...  Written on September 11, 2008 Summary: Not as good as the hype I did it again. I fell for the pro reviews. It was an o.k. read but not great. Written on September 8, 2008 Summary: Provocative and thought-producing, worth a re-read This book is more than just a time-travel/sci fi book. For me, it was more in the line of a philosophical book asking me to think about about how I would live my life if I had a chance to do it again, and again, and again. It is also a book that asks one to think about what the author's real message is - as a human species, are we gaining in wisdom, or staying the same? As we age, do we gain in wisdom, or is wisdom something that is not experience or age-related, but more a reflection of the kind of person we are? If you tap deeply into yourself, are you a scholar, a scientist, a spiritualist, a hedonist, an action hero, an acquisitor or a distributor, a humanist? Would your tee-shirt say So Many Books, So Little Time, or something else? I like books that make me think, and although I was a bit put off by Jeff Winston's early choices about how he would live a life again, by the end, the choices he selected made more sense as a whole. I grew to care about him as a character. |
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| Catalog | Book | Book | Book | Book | Book | Book |
| Release date | 1992-09-01 | 1997-11 | 2004-12-28 | 1995-02-01 | 2008-09-19 | 2008-07-29 |
| Media | Paperback | Paperback | Paperback | Paperback | Hardcover | Paperback |
| Number of pages | 313 | 303 | 448 | 400 | 576 | 288 |
| Ean | 9780441715923 | 9780915230150 | 9780345460943 | 9780684801056 | 9780061768064 | 9780441016167 |
| Book Isbn | 0441715923 | 0915230151 | 0345460944 | 0684801051 | 0061768065 | 0441016162 |
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