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Replay
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If you could Replay your life, would you try to prevent President Kennedy from being assassinated? BTW You're not reading 11/22/63, which covered this specific time travel problem in 2011. You're reading Ken Grimwood's 1986 Replay.
I mean, after a lifetime of hedonism, right? Like, not my first life, but maybe my second life. At the very least I'd find a way to send an anonymous letter to the FBI.
Replay is a time travel jam where you get to imagine what you'd do if you kept reliving your life and dying of a heart attack when you're 43.
If you've ever rewatched Groundhog Day, read Blake Crouch's Dark Matter or Recursion, you'll enjoy this book. It's a jammy mess of time travel ideas and the ending is ok.
Lets be clear, I'm not sure I'm into how this ends. I didn't really like how 11/22/63 ended either. I mean, how do you end a book that includes time travel? Do you return to a slightly altered version of the present � is it all a dream, because wow, yeah, that could work - do you create the best alternate reality to live inside of - do you become an all-powerful time god?
The only perfect ending to a piece of time travel fiction is Back to the Future, where you return to the better version of the present, having righted all the petty wrongs in your father's life - therefore making your own life better. Don't try to convince me that the ending in the Time Machine is better, I've never read it.
There's a specific moment about 1/2 way through the book where I was like, damn, this part I'm reading right now would be a great tv series, but then the writer of the book didn't agree and did something else.
I don't know how much of this book has been specifically ripped off, but there's a lot of interesting ideas that I hadn't read/seen anywhere else, and this is coming from someone who is currently trapped in a time loop, forced to read books about time loops.
I mean, after a lifetime of hedonism, right? Like, not my first life, but maybe my second life. At the very least I'd find a way to send an anonymous letter to the FBI.
Replay is a time travel jam where you get to imagine what you'd do if you kept reliving your life and dying of a heart attack when you're 43.
If you've ever rewatched Groundhog Day, read Blake Crouch's Dark Matter or Recursion, you'll enjoy this book. It's a jammy mess of time travel ideas and the ending is ok.
Lets be clear, I'm not sure I'm into how this ends. I didn't really like how 11/22/63 ended either. I mean, how do you end a book that includes time travel? Do you return to a slightly altered version of the present � is it all a dream, because wow, yeah, that could work - do you create the best alternate reality to live inside of - do you become an all-powerful time god?
The only perfect ending to a piece of time travel fiction is Back to the Future, where you return to the better version of the present, having righted all the petty wrongs in your father's life - therefore making your own life better. Don't try to convince me that the ending in the Time Machine is better, I've never read it.
There's a specific moment about 1/2 way through the book where I was like, damn, this part I'm reading right now would be a great tv series, but then the writer of the book didn't agree and did something else.
I don't know how much of this book has been specifically ripped off, but there's a lot of interesting ideas that I hadn't read/seen anywhere else, and this is coming from someone who is currently trapped in a time loop, forced to read books about time loops.
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February 16, 2021
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February 17, 2021
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February 18, 2021
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February 18, 2021
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