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u/w4rfr05t · 30 pointsr/tipofmytongue

May be Replay, by Ken Grimwood. Loved that book, and thank you for not spoiling the fun for those who haven't read it.

u/VikingCoder · 18 pointsr/AskReddit

Replay by Ken Grimwood.

Pretty dang good book, with pretty much this premise.

u/aronnyc · 11 pointsr/suggestmeabook

Replay by Ken Grimwood.

u/Jake999 · 10 pointsr/books

Yes, came in to advocate Replay as well. It's definitely one of my favorite books that I read this year.

u/maltzy · 7 pointsr/booksuggestions

Replay is a bit different, but I love this book.

https://www.amazon.com/Replay-Ken-Grimwood/dp/068816112X

u/woowoo293 · 7 pointsr/books

I only have one:

Replay by Ken Grimwood. A thoughtful book about a man stuck in a groundhog-dayish temporal loop.

u/h0nest_Bender · 7 pointsr/comics
u/bitter_cynical_angry · 7 pointsr/AskReddit
u/Artie4 · 6 pointsr/timetravel

Replay by Ken Grimwood.

https://www.amazon.com/Replay-Ken-Grimwood/dp/068816112X

If you haven't read it, you really shouldn't be here. 😉

u/xamueljones · 6 pointsr/rational

Changeling Space Program (My Little Pony) - the changelings are attempting to be the first on the moon. It has realistic depictions of rocket research and the author is basing the characters' progress on his ability to build a rocket on the Kerbal space game. It's a great read and hilarious. But the updates are on the order of months in between.

Replay (Original) - it involves a man repeating his life with the repeats getting closer to his death date each time. It's not what I consider rational in the character's investigation and use of the power, but his emotional struggles were very vivid and well written.

The Red Knight (Harry Potter) - A great story where Ron goes back in time to his birth, but the world he is reborn into is an AU so he has no idea of what to expect from the future.

Forged Destiny (RWBY) - It's a re-imagining of RWBY as an RPG-like world where everyone is a gamer character and the plot of RWBY is dramatically different as a result. I would recommend anything written by Couer Al'aran. He's a brilliant writer.

Auburn (RWBY) - RWBY with Jaune, Weiss, Blake, and Ruby on a team together. The author Super Saiyan Syndaquil has written some other good fanfics, but Auburn's my favorite.

u/anatidaephile · 5 pointsr/booksuggestions
u/Baned0n · 5 pointsr/SF_Book_Club

Replay by Ken Grimwood

A bit of an older book, but one of my favorites. Shares similarities with the movies Groundhog Day or Edge of Tomorrow, but published in 1986, this was before either of those.

>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?"

u/GeoffJonesWriter · 5 pointsr/suggestmeabook

Here are two of my favorites. both are great reads.

Replay by Ken Grimwood is kinda like Groundhog Day writ large. It's about a guy who relives the 60s, 70s, and 80s over and over again.

11/22/63 by Stephen King is about a guy who finds a portal that takes him from the present to 1958. He decides to live for a few years in the past and try to prevent the JFK assassination.

And if you like the idea of a dinosaur time-travel thriller, look up my book and see if it interests you.

u/love_an_ood · 5 pointsr/books

I just looked this up and here was the top result, Ken Grimwood

u/e40 · 4 pointsr/reddit.com

Glaxnor, I almost always agree with you, but here we part ways. It may be true of certain types of SciFi, or even the entire Fantasy genre, but not all. Replay and Altered Carbon are two that disprove this, for me.

u/argylesox · 4 pointsr/books

I'll toss in Replay by Ken Grimwood. Guy dies of a heart attack to find that he's back in college, with all his previous memories. And then it gets weird. Started reading it in bed one night, wound up reading the whole book in one sitting.

u/[deleted] · 3 pointsr/AskReddit
  • The man who folded himself


  • Memoirs of an Invisible Man


  • Jumper


  • Wildside


  • The Practice Effect



    List of top 100 sci-fi novels, there are tons of lists like this.



    Big edit: I forgot one of the best books I've ever read, that happens to be sci-fi. I don't know how.


  • "Replay" by Ken Grimwood. Description: A heart attack, a stroke, he doesn't know. He falls unconscious. He wakes to find he's 21 or so again, and in college. One of the most emotional moving books I've read in my life, and I truly think everyone who likes sci-fi should read it. Sadly, the author is a one hit wonder, or at least I haven't found any other books of his that I enjoyed. Amazon Link... And I just found out he died of a heart attack while writing a sequel to Replay... Officially the only celebrity death I've ever cared about or got emotional over.
u/JaseDroid · 3 pointsr/suggestmeabook

For interesting time travel concepts that are like the Butterfly Effect or Inception....then:

  1. Replay
  2. Dark Matter
  3. The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
  4. Lost Futures
  5. The End of Eternity
u/mike_wrong27 · 3 pointsr/scifi

Not traditional time travel I guess, but one I've read half a dozen times, Replay by Ken Grimwood. A guy lives his whole life, dies, wakes up back in college, lives another life, wakes up back in college, etc., with a whole over arching story about why and how it's. happening.

Apparently the author had a sequel planned, but he died before it was written. Still a really great read.

Edit: added link once I got back to a keyboard.

u/quick_quip_whip · 2 pointsr/Random_Acts_Of_Amazon

“For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

And on a more serious note: “Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita. Did she have a precursor? She did, indeed she did. In point of fact, there might have been no Lolita at all had I not loved, one summer, an initial girl-child. In a princedom by the sea. Oh when? About as many years before Lolita was born as my age was that summer. You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

It's just such a creepy yet beautiful (very long) quote.

READ

this book please

It's on the under five list

u/audiobibliofile · 2 pointsr/books

I second the Ready Player One rec, and I also strongly suggest Replay by Ken Grimwood.

I'm a Stephen King fanatic, and I do agree that the endings are generally disappointing. The thing about King is that his style is incredibly engaging. The short stories have much better endings than the longer works. If you're going to try King, as a tech addict - I suggest you start out with the short story UR.

u/FragileKitty · 2 pointsr/lifeisstrange

We can never anticipate the consequences of what we do today.

But I know what you mean. It would be strange returning to the present and discovering things have drastically changed. A past you don't remember. I'd prefer to live from that past moment forward, ala Grimwood's Replay.

u/jakdak · 2 pointsr/AskReddit
u/mattymillhouse · 2 pointsr/suggestmeabook

Replay, by Ken Grimwood

u/tsteele93 · 2 pointsr/offbeat

This is a really good book on the theme

First thing he does is bet on horses in a big way!

u/MrLister · 2 pointsr/AskReddit

If this thread interested you, I'd highly recommend reading Replay

u/pickup_sticks · 2 pointsr/intj

There's a great book called Replay that explores these ideas from a first-person perspective.

In a nutshell, the main character dies at 43 years old (not a spoiler; it happens on the first page) but then "wakes up" and he's 19 again, with all the knowledge he accumulated over the next 24 years.

So he basically gets to live his life again but make different decisions.

Not only that, but it happens multiple times and he makes different decisions each time.

As an older guy, it really made me think about my own history.

u/sylvar · 2 pointsr/Random_Acts_Of_Amazon

At a 24-hour-long party that my friends throw every year, a gorgeous woman walks in on crutches and I'm thinking "holy crap, she'd never be in my league if she didn't walk funny". I offer to bring her a plate of food and we start talking. She wants to teach French and learn Basque; my BA was in linguistics. She has more favorite books than favorite movies; we discover we have a mutual top-ten favorite other than HHGTTG. We talk all night, crash on adjacent parts of the living room (if anyone stayed up past 3am, they were quieter than our exhaustion would wake us to), continue the conversation during breakfast, and I blurt out something like "You're smart, you love languages, you love books... this may be a bit premature but will you marry me?" >><<recordscratch>><<

...a pin drops and everyone hears it... and the living room was carpeted...

She handles it like a champ, says "Well, we just met, you should probably wait at least a year."

We keep in touch by email. I drive a few hours across the state to pick her up for a weekend (because she doesn't know how to drive) and show her my city. Within a few months she moves in and we're loving it.

At the same party, one year later... well, would YOU have waited any longer than necessary?

TLDR: Later this month we'll celebrate our 9th wedding anniversary. If I can afford it, her anniversary present is going to be hand controls for our car so that she can learn to drive. Life is sweet.

u/Boutros2x · 1 pointr/AskReddit

Replay by Ken Grimwood.
I really enjoy time travel movies in general, and this book has a fairly interesting twist on that premise. I definitely recommend the book, and would love to see it as a movie.

u/acepincter · 1 pointr/AskReddit

This book is exactly that story, in multiple threads of time. I thought it a good read, although it hovers between Sci-Fi and romance, it was an amazing thought experiment.

Basically, he takes one life and becomes an amazing investor and gambler-millionaire (a la "Grey's sports almanac-style prediction). He ends up repeating another life and swoons the girl that got away. In his third life he retires to the farms of Oregon and lives in solitude. Then, he begins to notice that the history he remembers is not what seems to be happening, someone else is changing history alongside him - and that's when it becomes really fascinating.

u/Drodant · 1 pointr/AskReddit

This is the plot of "Replay' by Ken Grimwood. Wonderful book, also served as the inspiration for Groundhogs Day.

http://www.amazon.com/Replay-Ken-Grimwood/dp/068816112X

u/dverast · 1 pointr/writing

Replay by Ken Grimwood. Science Fiction (time travel) with more emotional content than teenage me could handle. Not all Sci-Fi communicates emotion very effectively, but Replay absolutely nails it. No other Sci-Fi story I've read since even comes close.

u/dnew · 1 pointr/funny

Agent Washington.

That said, you'd like this: http://www.amazon.com/Replay-Ken-Grimwood/dp/068816112X

It's awesome.

u/VisualBasic · 1 pointr/AskReddit

You would enjoy the book Replay. It's essentially that story.

u/rockstaticx · 1 pointr/AskReddit

Anyone interested in this kind of concept should read the utterly fantastic Replay by Ken Grimwood.

Short version: Middle-aged guy has heart attack, then all of a sudden he wakes up and holy shit he's back in college. He gets to relive everything over again, from betting on the World Series to how he met his wife. And it gets much more interesting -- and thought-provoking -- from there.

u/spizzike · 1 pointr/AskReddit

There's this great book by Ken Grimwood called "Replay" that is like, this exact same scenario.

http://www.amazon.com/Replay-Ken-Grimwood/dp/068816112X

Basically, I'd just try to correct past mistakes and try to get a high paying tech job way earlier using my existing skillset and not squander everything.

although, doing that stuff would be harder without the google. hmmm...

u/tawood79 · 1 pointr/AskReddit

Replay It's like a cross between Back to the Future and Groundhog Day. One of my favorite books!

u/hafu · 1 pointr/self

Replay by Ken Grimwood. I mostly read sci-fi and this is one of my favorites.

u/LucidSen · 1 pointr/exmormon

I really enjoyed it, and based on its high ratings (4.5 stars with over 700 reviews) so did many others:

https://www.amazon.com/Replay-Ken-Grimwood/dp/068816112X

Hope you enjoy it!

u/YourRoaring20s · 1 pointr/AskMenOver30

You should read the book Replay. It's basically some guy's fantasy about re-doing his own life multiple times.

u/br0ck · 1 pointr/books

Lately I've been loaning out Replay a lot. It's a page turner that really makes you think about what you're doing with your life.

u/Xinil · 1 pointr/AskReddit

Just read a book about this (written back in the 80s) called "Replay." Basically, a guy has a heart attack at 40 and gets put back in his 18 year-old body with all knowledge of the next decades. Really good read, check it out: http://www.amazon.com/Replay-Ken-Grimwood/dp/068816112X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1302060545&sr=8-1

u/kevad · 1 pointr/AskReddit

One of my favorite books deals with this topic. (Not going all the way back to a newborn, but in his college years)

Replay by Ken Grimwood