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    Replay

    Written by Ken Grimwood

    Narrated by William Dufris

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    About this audiobook

    A time-travel classic in the tradition of Jack Finney's Time and Again, Ken Grimwood's acclaimed novel Replay asks the provocative question: "What if you could live your life over again, knowing the mistakes you'd made before?"

    Forty-three-year-old Jeff Winston gets several chances to do just that. Trapped in a tepid marriage and a dead-end job, he dies in 1988 and wakes up to find himself in 1963, at the age of eighteen, staring at his dorm room walls at Emory University. It's all the same...but different: Jeff knows what the future holds. He knows who will win every World Series...every Kentucky Derby...even how to win on Wall Street. The one thing he doesn't know is: Why has he been chosen to replay his life? And how many times must he win-and lose-everything he loves?

    Winner of the 1988 World Fantasy Award for best novel and published in eleven languages, Replay unravels the answers in a masterful skein that captivates our imagination.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateNov 24, 2008
    ISBN9781400180103
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    • 5/5
      Jeff Winston, 43 years old, dies suddenly of a heart attack, in October 1988.

      Then he wakes up, in 1963, eighteen years old and a freshman in college.

      With all his memories of his previous life intact.

      He's got it all to do over again, except that this time he can do it right. He can amass all the wealth, fame, and success he missed out on the first time around.

      But his death happens again, on the same date, and he has a third chance. And a fourth. What's going on? Why is this happening? And is Jeff all alone, or are there others like him?

      New readers of Replay are likely to think of the 1993 Bill Murray movie, Groundhog Day, but Replay precedes it by almost a decade, and Jeff Winston has to relive more than just one day, with far bigger lessons to learn than how not to be a jerk.

      Over the course of the repeating cycle of the last twenty-five years of his life, Jeff explores the limits of how much control we really have of our lives and of events around us. Can he change major historical events he knows are coming? Can he build a better relationship with his wife--or a worse one? Does he need to marry the same woman at all?

      It's a fascinating exploration of free will, destiny, and how to build meaning in your life.

      Highly recommended.

      I bought this audiobook.

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    • 5/5
      This is one of my favorite fantasy books. Jeff Winston dies at 43 years old in his study, only to wake up in 1963, in his college dorm room. All of the memories from his life are still intact--allowing for the usual fuzziness for detail that creeps in over the years. We follow Jeff through many permutations of his life. In the first, he focuses on becoming wealthy and powerful. Though successful, this 'life' ends in tragedy.He wakes up back in his study, only to die immediately. (Although he isn't aware of it at first, each "life" begins a bit later in his personal history than the previous iteration did, and each brief return to his original life and his next death also shifts--at a much slower rate, but backwards in time.)I was struck by the poignancy of his many lives. Attempts to court the same woman, with subtly varying results. "Losing" both his wife and his children with each return to his study, since no two lives are exactly alike, so minute shifts in words and actions make changes in people around him and even result in different children.In one of the most poignant pair of "replays", Jeff ends up in a version of his life in which someone has created a film which has an immense positive effect on viewers around the world. In the next life, Jeff tries to see that the film is again produced but he is not successful. The chance for a much-changed future for humanity has slipped away.I think this is a love-or-hate book. And I think for some people it may take some time to settle into the story. I found details of his first iteration during his life on campus a bit dull. Sort of "been there, done that". But I kept reading. I was glad I did. One very good thing: over the course of the book, Grimwood telescopes much of Jeff's early years, skipping virtually unchanged events and details that don't need repeating, while focusing on the aspects where Jeff either tries to make changes in what will happen or inadvertently causes such changes.Great, great book! I'm always recommending it to others.
    • 5/5
      Page one: "Jeff Winston was on the phone with his wife when he died." It is 1:06 p.m. on October 18, 1988. Three pages later and twenty-five years earlier Jeff will wake up in his college dorm room, eighteen years old again, his whole life ahead of him. It's spring, 1963, and Jeff knows exactly what's going to happen, like a book he's already read and doesn't feel much like rereading.Or does he? It doesn't take much to alter the story, even on this first day back. With a little planning, a little capital, and somebody to place the bets for him, Jeff quickly amasses a small fortune based on his foreknowledge of several key sporting events that year. A multimillionaire by twenty-one, Jeff and his partner form an investing firm, Future, Inc., and Jeff lives out his second life a rich man.And on October 18, 1988, at 1:06 p.m., he dies. Again. And comes to himself at college, in the spring of 1963. Again.In what could be a gimmicky and cheap conceit, Jeff lives his life over and over, each time differently, rarely better, sometimes worse. He lives, he learns, he dies; each time he awakens with the memories and knowledge of all his previous lives. But Replay is not gimmicky, and it's not at all cheap. Rather, Replay is a thoughtful study of fate, self-determination, free will, what it means to be a good person living a good life. Jeff lives lives of fabulous wealth, of decadent hedonism, of quiet isolation. He attempts to influence world events, only to discover that certain events will happen. He meets a fellow replayer who is his soulmate, and together they move through their lives, trying to make sense of it and to make a difference.Replay is intelligent, thought-provoking, and beautiful. It is a truly satisfying book that leaves one wanting more.
    • 3/5
      I found the viewpoint character of this story difficult to sympathise with*, even allowing for the fact that the story starts with a dramatic life event and the subsequent disorientation that arises from the resulting events. There are some very interesting ideas about the way that reincarnation and enlightenment are supposed to work, but in a particularly constrained environment that reads as just a little too wish fulfilment at times. * I've reached the point where comfortably well off middle class baby boomers are really really difficult to identify with, at any point in their life span. This one doesn't help by transgressing the mores of the times, while not actually comprehending what it is that he does.
    • 4/5
      Set 1963-1988. Jeff Winston dies in 1988 at age 43, and wakes up at age 18 in 1963 with full knowledge of his previous life – over and over.This written by a man, from man’s perspective, and for men. The sexual exploits were a little – what? Over the top? One-sided? Too much a confirmation of Jeff’s masculinity?Because of a “skew” that set the beginning of the replay forward each time, Jeff was eventually able to live past 1988 (still with the memories of his replays) into new & unknown waters.Pretty classic time-travel stuff.
    • 3/5
      This book is ambitious in terms of the scope of things it tries to address. It's a universe where 'The Butterfly Effect' is minimal. Apparently he hasn't read any Ray Bradbury because when he makes money on a sure thing, he can keep making bets without fear of losing. That is until the loop where he makes tons of changes. And of course it doesn't result in a better world. When does it ever? He has a fairly passive attitude towards fixing things in general. Mostly he seems to be a hedonist until that also gets tiring. The author isn't afraid of hyperbole. When one of the other characters makes a movie it's the best movie ever made. When he writes a book it wins the Pulitzer Prize. One of the best points he makes is how our government would really fuck things up if they had the foreknowledge to intervene in world affairs.
    • 5/5
      A middle aged man dies of a heart attack and wakes up in his college dorm room. He continues to live this 2nd life trying to figure out what happened all the while making some money on bets since he knows the outcome! And it happens again and again only he wakes up a little bit older each time.I read this book when it first came out and have re-read it probably 10 times since. Our original paperback passed around to so many people it began to fall apart and was finally never returned and we had to buy a new copy. It's a fascinating story and always makes us think "what if...."
    • 5/5
      While it's commonly classified as science fiction, Replay's only tie to the science fiction genre is the time loop that the main character is caught up in. The book extends beyond the genre and is actually an surprisingly deep and interesting look at life in general - the choices we make throughout our lives, and the consequences and trade-offs that result from them.
    • 5/5
      I have just finished reading Ken Grimwood's "Replay". It's an oddly moving book, dealing with a man who, upon dying, is dragged twenty-five years back into his own past to inhabit his eighteen-year-old body with the burden or blessing of twenty five years' accumulated memories of the future, until at the age of forty-three the cycle repeats ("replays"), and so again and again. I was first drawn into it by the early-sixties American settings and atmosphere, which I love, but the real heart of the book is seeing how the protagonist deals with the slowly accumulating burden of memories and experiences, and meeting the women who, through their relationships with him in successive "replays" help (or not) to deal with his solitary existence. From the start of the book to the satisfying denouement I was gripped, and I thoroughly recommend it.
    • 5/5
      An intriguing premise, and one that reflects a thought everyone must have had at some time or another - what would I do differently if I had my time again? (I never believe anyone who says 'I'd change nothing', by the way.)Reading this book and spending a little time reflecting on it made me realise that the one change I'd make as first choice might not have done me any good, made me a better person, or been of the greatest utility in the world as a whole. Then I got to thinking that I'd have to replay quite a few times to try all the variations, or to put right various things I'd got wrong.Eventually, though, I spotted the flaw in the reasoning. In the novel, the protagonist Jeff Winston changes his life because he remembers the winner of the Kentucky Derby from 25 years before. I can't remember the winner of either the Grand National or the Derby from last year, let alone 25 years ago. The same goes for any other sporting event that people bet on. About the only thing I could win bets on would be the outcome of British general elections - and I'd have to wait until 1992 to get long enough odds to make it worth my while...
    • 5/5
      A well-characterised and deeply humane story about a man 'replaying' a portion of his life, over and over again. Manages to be profound without being ponderous. For me, this has been one of the real highlights of the Fantasy Masterworks series so far.
    • 1/5
      The main character dies in his forties & then comes back to life in his twenties - again and again. Poorly written and plain boring. I read almost half and just couldn't see wasting my time anymore.
    • 4/5
      Not just a time-travel novel. Also a meditation on life, mortality, lost opportunity . . . Generally speaking, well-done, but somehow . . . the novel doesn't quite live up to its ambitions. Grimwood seems to have a grasp on some of the central problems of modern life, but he doesn't seem to have much insight into how to resolve them. The novel is pretty honest in this regard, but there really seems to be another corner that we might have seen around, which made the book slightly disappointing in the end.Grimwood was apparently working on a sequel when he died, which is a shame. I expect it would have been quite interesting.
    • 4/5
      What if you died and awoke as your younger self, all of your memories intact but your accomplishments erased? What might you do differently in the replay of your life? And what if it kept happening?This is exactly the scenario posited in Replay, in which Jeff Winston dies of a heart attack in 1988 and reawakens as his 18-year-old self in 1963, free of his troubled marriage and his dead-end job, his life a blank slate that he can remake any way he wants. Which he does. Armed with his foreknowledge of the outcomes of major sporting events and corporate successes, Jeff has no problems quickly making a fortune. Preventing societal tragedies, such as the assassination of John F. Kennedy, proves more elusive. But most challenging of all is building meaningful relationships — with a wife or children — and then dying and starting all over again, those relationships simply negated.The author never poses an explanation for why this is happening to Jeff. He is more interested in the choices Jeff makes in each of his lives and how those choices affect the course his life will take. Jeff’s journey ultimately leads him to a deep understanding of how isolated each of us is as we navigate through our lives, and how funadmentally important our connections with others — no matter how impermanent — become. By allowing his character to relive his life over and over, Grimwood is cycling in on the fundamental meaning of life itself. As the story progresses, Jeff’s “replays” become shorter, forcing him also to face and accept his own mortality. This unique story will fire the reader’s imagination long after the book is closed.
    • 4/5
      Jeff Winston, the protagonist of the novel, dies at the age of 43 again and again and relives his life starting at the age of 18 (for the first replay at least). There are no paradoxes here as Jeff is not going to meet his past self in the other life. The only thing that has been transferred are the memories from his past life. This happens repeatedly, and he remembers all his replayed lives every time he starts anew.

      The novel is more nearer to being classified as a fantasy rather than a science fiction one as Ken Grimwood never dwells on the science of time travel. Instead, the story focuses itself on the psychological effects one might have to endure if put through Replays of life.

      The whole essence of the book can be summed up by the line said by another Replayer in the book, Pamela who puts it as, "We only make things different, not better."



    • 5/5
      Amazing. I have ‘read’ it twice. Will probably go for my third. The story just makes you feel like you want to be inside of the book.
    • 5/5
      My new favourite book. A man relives a 25-year portion of his live over and again, retaining his memories from previous cycles although the outside world is "reset" each time (changes he makes in one stream do not occur in the next). Each iteration he is able to make different decisions, and thus takes several paths branching from the same starting point. A brilliant novel with an intriguing central idea andsuperb exploitation of the implications.
    • 5/5
      This was great.
    • 5/5
      Jeff Winston is given a unique opportunity when amidst a mid-life crisis of sorts at the age of forty-three, talking to his wife on the phone, he has a heart attack and dies. Yes, this is only the beginning of his story. When he wakes up, he’s confused by his surroundings and thinks he must be dreaming because he hasn’t seen the inside of his dorm room since he was eighteen years old. Except he really is eighteen, all over again. He has the opportunity to do everything differently and he starts by using his knowledge of the future by betting on the Kentucky Derby and creating the start of his fortune. He becomes more successful than he ever could have imagined in his first life, he’s happy and healthy and while this life isn’t without its flaws he feels it to be far superior than the first go around. And then he turns forty-three, has yet another heart attack at the same exact moment, blacks out, and reawakens once again at eighteen.Something really resonated in me with this book and I absolutely adored the time I spent reading it. Replay is so spectacularly simplistic yet bursting with brilliance. While it’s tagged as a time travel novel, it’s of a very different sort. With each replay, Jeff retains all knowledge of the past while constantly returning to his younger self. There’s a distinct lack of anything supernatural or science fiction, or even an answer as to why this was happening to him period. While you won’t be able to stop yourself from wondering about the why of it all, Replay’s real focus is more on the profound and of the components of what makes life worth living.At one point or another, we’ve all wondered “If I could go back in the past, would I do things different?” If given the opportunity, knowing the things we know based on the lives we’ve led, would we attempt to try to change things in hopes of creating a better future for ourselves? While I fully agree that our experiences in life is what truly makes us who we are, and I’m pretty satisfied with the way I turned out, I still can’t help but think of the myriad of possibilities of what could be changed or at least slightly altered. In Replay, even though it is told from the point of view of a fictional character, you can’t help but feel as if you’re being given the opportunity to replay based on the way he chooses to live his various lives. His immediate reaction to second chances is money and he spends his life making millions only to discover by the next replay that it never quite made him as happy as he had expected it to. So in the next life he focuses on something different. One thing he does begin to realize is that no matter what life you choose to lead, something is bound to go wrong, even with a knowledge of the future and of memories of past actions. Even with the opportunity to replay, there’s never a guarantee that you’ll end up with anything close to perfect, you just learn to work with what you’re given and make it the very best possible.All life includes loss. It’s taken me many, many years to learn to deal with that, and I don’t expect I’ll ever be fully resigned to it. But that doesn’t mean we have to turn away from the world, or stop striving for the best that we can do and be. We owe that much to ourselves, at least, and we deserve whatever measure of good may come of it.
    • 5/5
      Wow. This book blew me away. It didn't start that way. It was interesting and I definitely enjoyed seeing what was happening, but then, about halfway through it got serious and deep, and so very thought provoking. I finished it and then immediately wanted to go back and read it again. It's already on my list to purchase. It even inspired me to write my own story similar to this. That last probably won't really happen, or if it does it will just be a self-reflective exercise for a weekend or so. But what I pulled out of reading this book hit me incredibly hard. Maybe because I relate to always questioning the purpose of my life as a human on this planet and yet also knowing that it just doesn't matter. What matters is being happy, and true to yourself. Our life is ours and we should make the most out of it because we define what makes us happy, what fulfills us, not anyone else. The way that message is told throughout this story is good. It worked wonders on me. It sounds as though it's worked wonders on many other people too. Highly recommended!
    • 5/5
      This is an exceptionally well-crafted story of time travel. Every time Jeff dies, he returns to his 18 year old self for another "replay". We get to follow the choices Jeff makes for each lifetime and the story experiences a great twist when Jeff suspects he finds another "replayer". This book had me rushing to get home from work so I could continue the story.
    • 5/5
      Ken Grimwood’s Replay is a phenomenal novel that is as compelling today as it was when it was first published more than twenty years ago. From it’s opening line – “Jeff Winston was on the phone with his wife when he died” – to its closing epilogue laying the base for yet another adventure, Grimwood weaves an epic time-travel tale that, for one person, answers the classic question, “what would you do if you could do it all over again?”Grimwood’s protagonist, Jeff, opens the book by dying on October 18, 1988. He then awakens in 1963, to find himself eighteen again, in college, with his entire life ahead of him. He takes the obvious strategy of selling his car, betting on sports, investing in fast food and computers, and quickly amassing a multi-million dollar fortune. Unfortunately, his life does not turn out as he plans and on October 18, 1988 he dies, again.What follows is a twisting, fantastic story in which Jeff tries to recreate his first life many times, abandons all hope to a life of decadence and drugs, discovers another person replaying her life, falls in love, tries (and utterly fails) to change the world and discovers that, ultimately, the best thing he can do is to live his normal life.Grimwood has crafted a time-travelling masterpiece that is completely uninterested in time-travel. Instead, the author focuses on his character and the connections they make. Ultimately, it becomes obvious that, in our lives, we bear relatively little importance. Instead, it is the people we meet and the relationships we form that have the greatest influence on our lives.
    • 4/5
      Jeff Winston is an average man, living an average life in 1988 New York. In his early forties, he manages a local radio station and lives quietly with his wife, wondering how his life became so ordinary. But then something spectacularly out of the ordinary occurs to Jeff one day. Sitting at his desk he suffers what he thinks is a heart attack, only to wake up in his college dorm room in 1963.Thus begins Jeff’s first replay as he lives out every day from 1963 until his next ‘death’ in October of 1988. Jeff explores the age old question of what would you do if you could travel back in time, with all the knowledge that you had of the future? During multiple replays he builds spectacular wealth, marries and loses a child, because lost in despair over his situation during the 1960’s counter culture movement and finally tries to find some peace in isolation. Along the course of his replays Jeff meets two others who suffer from the same condition that he does, including the brilliant Pamela. Replay is a fascinating novel by Ken Grimwood. Unique and nuanced it raises haunting questions about life, time and how both are ultimately what you make of them.
    • 3/5
      I read this back in high school and liked it a lot. It was interesting to reread over 20 years later. I suppose I could be critical of many things, but ultimately the idea of repeating your life over and over -- seeing people/places long since lost, what you'd do differently, what you'd get sick of, ethical pitfalls -- is appealing. It does get a bit New Agey at times, but Replay also has its darker moments, and it doesn't just settle on winning the reluctant maiden as the key to life ala Groundhog's Day.
    • 5/5
      Extremely well done story about someone having to relive a portion of his life multiple time. Not really a time travel story, more a study of humanity. Big recommendation!
    • 5/5
      What would you do if you could live your life again? And what if you had knowledge of what was to come? Would you try to save the world – to prevent tragedies from happening? Would you use that knowledge to become rich? Famous? Would you use it for good or for self-gain? Would your lifestyle be similar to your old one – or hedonistic, or charitable?

      Although I’m perfectly happy with my life, there have been times when I wondered what might have happened if I’d made different choices – worked harder at school, married my first ‘love’, taken a different job... I think at some time or another we’ve all had the fantasy of revisiting the past.

      For Jeff Winston, this fantasy becomes reality when he suffers a heart-attack in 1988… and wakes up as a college freshman in 1963. At first he’s completely bewildered, but soon he comes to realise that this situation could work to his advantage. After all, a well-timed bet might change his fortunes – and he is onto a winner, being able to back a dead cert.

      But will he be happy with his new-found life? And what will happen when he dies once more – and wakes up in 1963 again?

      I mentioned on the Book Club Forum that I don’t “do” fantasy and was challenged to read this by another member. I needn’t have worried though – it was great. It’s such a good story. Despite the fantasy element of the book, Jeff is a totally believable character. Although he changes the course of his history, he doesn’t become egotistical and try to change his life into something extraordinary or to make himself into a hero. I guessed a few things in the book but that didn’t detract from it at all.

      If I have one, tiny, criticism of the book it’s that some of the secondary characters, even some of those with whom Jeff becomes very involved, maybe lack a little depth, but that’s only a minor criticism. I hardly like to admit this, but this is definitely one of my favourite reads of this year. Thanks for the recommendation, Steve. :)

      According to Wikipedia, Ken Grimwood was working on a sequel to Replay when he suffered an untimely heart-attack at the age of just 59 and died. Or maybe he just went back to being 18 again…?!
    • 5/5
      Please do not judge this book by its' cover!!! I loved this book and couldn't put it down! Really makes you think, how would I live my life over if I had the opportunity? What would I do differently? What would I do the same? If you liked The Time Traveler's Wife - you'll LOVE this read! :)
    • 5/5
      I loved this book. Who has not thought about making different decisions if we were able to go back in time. The story was so moving especially the sections about Jeff and Pamela. Some of his descriptions were a bit long but all in all wonderful story and food for thought.
    • 5/5
      I read the first seven chapters, took a break because of a busy week, and then finished the rest in one sitting. An excellent, interesting, very well-written book. I loved it.
    • 3/5
      The premise of this book—that people can replay parts of their lives over and over again—drew me in from the beginning. It allows Grimwood to explore lots of different scenarios, at least shallowly. None of them quite worked for me, but the character's choices were always believable. By the end, the book gets quite sappy, and it feels cliched. The novel would have benefited from more internal conflict.