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Review #1

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I recently developed a fascination with the concept of time travel along the line of a person’s own consciousness so I looked forward to this book.

The basic premise is that a middle-aged man has a heart attack and dies in the year 1988 which is when the book was published. But he wakes up to find himself young again. He is in the year 1963 when he was 18 years old. Somehow, his consciousness has traveled back in time. He is in college but has all of his knowledge and memories from the future.

He lives through that life and has the heart attack again on the very day and the very minute he had it before. He finds himself back in 1963. He seems to be living his life over and over. But he notices the times are getting shorter. On one time around, it starts in 1965 and then in the 1970’s and so on so he knows it won’t last forever.

At first, I must admit I was disappointed. After a great first couple of pages, I started to get bogged down and bored with the
seeming superficiality of the escapades of the main character, Jeff Winston. But this was a necessary part of the story. Shocked and disbelieving what has happened to him, he gets caught up in the very fact of being young again and all the feelings he had back then. He tries desperately to end up meeting and being with the woman he loved before but he doesn’t say exactly the right things at their first meeting and his entire life takes a different direction.

At first, I didn’t identify with the character. His college experiences were very different from mine aside from being over a decade before mine. But I eventually realized that, as he lives his life over and over, his experiences are blending into a sort of universal experience.

On the one hand, he longs for things that are deep and meaningful, for the truest kind of love. But, at the end of his life, no matter how wonderful a relationship was, he finds himself back in 1963 or close to it with everything he loved gone. One of the most poignant events is when he develops a serious relationship with a woman he knew the first time around but it had been a college relationship that never went anywhere that first time. On one of his “replays”, it becomes one of his richest and lasting relationships. Then he dies again and finds himself back in 1963 again and this woman he loved is now a girl he has barely met and he just can’t go through the motions because this girl is not yet the woman he loved. So he drifts sometimes into “replays” where he lives superficially for sex and knows it is superficial but he just cannot bring himself to love again only to have it all undone again. It just hurts too much. Then, in later replays, he does it again even knowing that it will end in pain because it’s worth it.

Along the way, he searches for reasons behind why he has these replays and tries to find out if he is the only one. There is another story that runs parallel with his own, a woman who also replays. Truthfully, I found her story to be even more interesting than his but I’ve already given away a lot of information.

At times, the character is self-indulgent. At times, he is selfless. While time travel is the method of telling the story, it’s really about human nature and mortality. It’s Hamlet’s “To be or not to be” soliloquy sung to the tune of time travel. It is definitely worth reading.

Review #3

Audiobook Replay by Cris Dukehart

Stories exploring the myriad possibilities of time travel are nothing new, however, time travel stories that explore their direct effects on a person’s core character are a rarity. That said, Ken Grimwood’s “Replay” offers a story, strength and experience that has the rarity and luster of a fist-sized diamond.

“Reply” begins by showing ubiquitous, 40-something everyman Jeff Winston dying of a seemingly random heart attack in October of 1988. Upon dying, Jeff instantly wakes up 25 years earlier as the 18-year-old version of himself, replete with all his memories and knowledge from the life he just left. Jeff, essentially, has the opportunity to live his life anew knowing what the future has in store for him. The possibilities, obviously, prove endless. Knowing the outcome of every major sporting event in the next 25 years, Jeff becomes a gambling phenom who is able to build a fortune unavailable to him in his previous life. Aside from providing himself with vast new riches, Jeff now has the opportunity to live his life to a different degree. This opportunity, of course, poses plenty of possibilities, all stemming from the same question: if you could do it all over again, would you? The obvious answer, and the one Jeff picks, is a resounding “No,” and Grimwood brings his reader along for the ride while exploring what Jeff does differently.

“Replay” works on a number of levels. Grimwood is fully aware of the obvious choices anyone would make in Jeff’s shoes (i.e. would I marry the same women? Would I follow the same career path? Would I take that one big risk I always regretted not taking, etc.), and clearly touches upon those choices in appropriate measures. Where the book thrives, however, is Grimwood’s exploration of the less-than-obvious choices: Would I try to save JFK? Would I try to prevent Gaddafi’s rise to power? Would I try to change the world for the better? It’s in these facets and more that Grimwood gives the reader a chance to sit in Jeff’s mind while he wonders if his repercussions could benefit humanity or endanger it.

On a wider scale, “Replay” offers the reader a chance to ponder our own individual impact on the world around us. While Jeff “replays” his life not just once, but several times over, he constantly ponders his lot in life. He often wonders why he was offered this opportunity and how he could best use it. These questions come up while he also sets out to discover if he is the only one experiencing these replays of if there are others like him. Grimwood takes these seemingly singular ideas and threads them into some of the more grandiose questions we often find ourselves asking, primarily, “Why am I here?”

Along with offering his readers plenty of meaty, hypothetical bones to chew on, Grimwood also tells a damn fine story. His prose are cleanly structured but still emote a subtle, subliminal pathos that, much of the time, may better convey what the reader is feeling from Jeff’s story than they could explain themselves. Grimwood does a masterful job of pacing a story that could have easily been told in 20 volumes into a hearty 300 pages. It’s very rare that a book of speculative fiction can offer something for literally everybody, but Grimwood’s ultimate “What if…?” story truly does contain something that is capable of evoking an emotion out of any reader. Highly recommended.

Review #4

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Firstly, I give 4 stars, not because there is anything wrong with it, I really enjoyed it.. it is rare I give 5* for a book..but it was very close.

I don’t usually read fiction – though read this because I had/still have(!) some life choices to make, someone on YouTube recommended..
It was odd reading this book about extended life, knowing that the actually author passed away years ago – at least he contributed something of IMHO significance by penning this story.

I read it over 2 weeks, it caused me to think much and took me to another world and I questioned what I’d do if I was in this situation.. this in itself I feel gave me more perspective in my own life and my direction & purpose..
[e.g. ‘what would I do , if I woke up at 17 years old again?’ actually, what I realised is, it totally depends on what life direction you chose.. being younger would be great.. but you still can’t do everything, you still have limited time.. eg is family important, or a career making films (like one of Jeff’s fellow friends)]

Book was really enjoyable, I won’t say ‘I couldn’t put it down’ but I definitely looked forward to reading more. I’m not one who feels I need ‘escapism’ when reading – though I enjoyed this book giving me this..
Some interesting points towards to end, a young girl said to Jeff when deciding a decision to make “It’s ok I have all the time in the world”
and that seemed the opposite of what Jeff had discovered – despite having a significantly extended time , time was still very precious..

Anyway – enough – if this book appeals to you enough to read this review to the end – it’s probably a good indication you should read this book..

Review #5

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I had no expectations of this book or the author when I bought it. I had just watched the Tom Cruise/Emily Blunt film – Edge of Tomorrow and was looking for the novel it was based on. This book was in the “other recommendations” section and I bought it – reading time isn’t an issue during a pandemic lockdown.
It was slow to start and I didn’t really identify with the main character, even though we were of similar ages, but as the book went on it was clear that Ken Grimwood was capturing life and what it means to be given a second chance.
The use of real events to help craft the story and not going on a political rant helped keep the storytelling of a life journey on an even keel, without alienation of a group of readers.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book and couldn’t put it down from half way in to keep the momentum going of the characters and the impact of their choices on love, money, life and the world.

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