Replay by Ken Grimwood Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Replay
Book Review: Best Book I Ever Read
Summary: 5 Stars
I first read this book as a 16 year old and it has stuck with me for the last 18 years as the best one I have ever read.I fully recommend it to anyone who is willing to read something a bit different and hope you all love it as much as me, my brother, my parents and everyone else I recommended it to do.
Book Review: Brilliant.
Summary: 5 Stars
I ordered this book from Amazon on the off-chance - I had no background to the author or the book. When I started reading it, I was engrossed. I liked the main character - I could relate to him and I was interested in what he was doing and how he was going about things.
I carried on reading throughout the night - finally finishing at about 03:30 and then I got up and wrote my girlfriend an email - telling her that she had to read the book.
Since then I have forced her to read it and she liked it, loaned it to a friend who is currently going through it and have bought yet another copy for a friend's birthday.
This book really makes you think and put yourself in the position that the main character finds himself in - I would have done many similar things I think... the loneliness that he has because of his experiences... as only he knows what is going on and no-one else can understand really gets you. Then, when he meets a soul-mate... and you think it's all going to be OK - FOR EVER - you start to realise, as they do, that there's some form of time play going on and each time they meet in their Replays, they will be farther and farther apart in their lives... the stress this creates in immense and the unfairness of it all is so annoying to the reader... as you care about what happens to them.
Book Review: Could It Happen? No, It Couldn't.
Summary: 4 Stars
Would you really want to live forever? Because that's how it must feel, when you're born over and over again into a young, youthful body knowing that when you get into your forties you're going to die and start all over again... and again... and again. Could you change anything or would that be changing the future you've already come from? And what about falling in love? How can you love somebody knowing that you'll be taken from them soon and may not find them again when you "replay"? So many questions which are excellently depicted through well developed characters who I grew to love and care about, but when it came to the answers, they just weren't there.
I hoped I'd be left with the question: "could it really happen?" but because of the way the story was wound up, the answer was simply "no, it couldn't". That was a shame and could have been handled differently.
Overall I'd say it was a well written book with lots of plot twists and tons of research must have gone into writing it, but the ending let me down a little, therefore only 4 stars.
Book Review: Excellent, serious-minded SF "groundhog"-style plot
Summary: 4 Stars
"REPLAY" has managed to cross over genres.
Grimwood pulls off a Dean Koontz-type trick whereby the reader suspends disbelief in a plot which is patently impossible:
The repeated returning of a person to an earlier part of their life.
This is un-putdownable.
It pre-dates the movie Groundhog Day (a comic version of the stuck-in-a-time-loop idea). Some sections like the group-sex section in the middle were unnecessary & detract from the otherwise serious timbre of the plot. Also the ending would have benefitted from a `twist in the tail'. Nonetheless, THOUGHT-PROVOKING & makes one ponder the Sartrian themes (every decision creates one's destiny...)
Book Review: Replay Outstanding
Summary: 5 Stars
I have read Replay twice and look forward to reading it again. After all, how many of us haven't wished we could replay our lives. But think about what you have now that you wouldn't have. How many more times will I read Replay before I leave this world!