Replay - Ken Grimwood

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MarkS73

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Anyone read this book? I just finished it and this was so much fun! Especially if you enjoyed 11/22/63.
Apparently this book's been around since 1986 but i just discovered it on Goodreads.

I'm not good at reviews so i'll just post a blurb:)

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?"
 

Walter Oobleck

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Yes, I read it in 2011. Enjoyed the story. One among many time travel stories, the story of trying to stop the assassination of JFK only a sidelight in this story, not one of the main running themes. Wondered at the time if there if the characters are realized in full, given the fast pace of the story. Did Winston become somewhat of a fatalist? I think I had that sense, the death of hope, why make memories when they are taken away? This after his initial acceptance of being a replayer, his desire to make a difference.