Replay

by Ken Grimwood | Teens |
ISBN: 0575075597 Global Overview for this book
Registered by Munkeys of Cronulla, New South Wales Australia on 11/14/2005
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Journal Entry 1 by Munkeys from Cronulla, New South Wales Australia on Monday, November 14, 2005
My favourite standalone book of all time.


What would you do if you knew you were dying, then wake up back in your youth, aged 18? This is what happens to Jeff Winston. One minute he’s 43, at the office on the phone to his (unhappy) wife, then pain, then he’s waking up in the dorm he lived in at Uni. After he recovers from the shock, he begins a life taking advantage of the knowledge he possesses of the future (his past). He makes a few bets on horse races/baseball, gets some seed money and starts doing things he wished he’d done. Things are going wonderfully. He is wealthy, married (not to his ‘first’ wife), has a beautiful daughter whom he adores, then at the exact same time he died the first time - he dies again. This time he wakes up and he’s 18 again, but this second replay has started a couple of days after the first. Jeff begins to live the next 25 years again, and like the first time, making different choices as to career, spouse, etc.

On a subsequent replay, he hears all the furore about a movie directed by a young woman - a movie he knows has never existed before. He manages to contact the writer/director, Pamela, and soon discovers he isn’t alone in his ability to be thrown back in time. Pamela Phillips is herself replaying to her very early teens - living under the roof and rules of her parents. The two become lovers and soul mates.

They work out a system of contacting each other as each new replay starts (an 18-year-old boy contacting a 13-year-old girl doesn’t go down too well with her parents) and they soon realise that each replay is getting shorter and shorter.


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