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Book Review of Replay

Replay
Replay
Author: Ken Grimwood
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
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I've waited since November for this book on paperbackswap.com and I finally made it to the front of the line.

The premise is fascinating. A man dies while sitting at his desk at work, talking to his wife on the phone. He wakes up back in college, in his 18-year-old body but with all his memories of a life lived. Does he attempt the same disappointing existence or does he try for everything he dreamed of? But that's not the end...on the same day, same time, he dies again. And again, he is back in his college days, replaying his life once again. Then he discovers he is not alone. He's not the only one stuck in a replay.

Jeff dies in 1988 and replays his life beginning in 1963, focusing mostly on the 70s. Its not really my era and there was a little too much of the politics from that time. I'm not sure what I was expecting...perhaps a little different perspective or maybe a more modern tone.