Story on NPR:
All Things Considered, July 10, 2008 · When I was 19 years old … Oy, I already sound like an old man. But that’s the point. When I was 19, my dreams were even bigger than my hair, which is saying something. And it was in the midst of those dreams that I first read the novel Replay, by Ken Grimwood.
Replay has a simple premise: In the first chapter, the main character, a 43-year-old man, sits at his desk and drops dead of a heart attack. When he wakes up, he feels odd, taking in familiar smells and old sights. He spots a Playboy centerfold of a brunette on the wall, and he realizes he’s back in college, in his freshman dorm room. He’s 18 again — with all the memories of his 43-year-old self. He gets — as the title says — to replay his life.
Review at the Lost Books Archive
See: http://www.lostbooks.org/reviews/2001-02-20-1.html
Link to book on Amazon
Here is a link to the book on Amazon.
I thought this was a great
I thought this was a great book when I first read it – I found it in a bargain bin a few years after it was published. I picked it up again a few years ago, and…. well, it leaves much to be desired. Not a well-written book, a bit on the cornball side.
Replay by Ken Grimwood
I also heard about “Replay” by Ken Grimwood on NPR driving home from work.
I bought the book! Read it over a 24 hour period. One can not put the book down.
And as the “replay” is “shkewed” the story intensifies. You actually envision yourself as Jeff, his agony and desire – become part of his “replays”, attach yourself to those in his past with a sense of happines, salvation, deception, tendernes, and excitement.
But, his Pamela … just to find it (opportunity), graps it, and loose it. Brings this novel to a culminating ending!
A must reading for those that yern a “past”, maybe a second chance or just the “what if’s” in life!
Comment aside.
Was there ever a movie released that portrays Ken’s book “Replay” – his story! Not another as “12:01 AM”, “Back to the Future”, “Groundhog Day” or the “Butterfly Effect”?