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As the middle child of five in a loud Italian family, Leo is an observant and sensitive 12 year old who sometimes feels invisible, and yet, he enjoys being by himself. And I don't know how well the book will translate across time, to readers 100 years from now, when names like Dustin Hoffman will probably no longer mean anything.

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It's cleverness is only exceeded by the book's probing insights into love, values and the human spirit. Because when you get right down to it, Replay has a sick and amazing premise, but Ken Grimwood's writing leaves much to be desired. It takes you on quite a wild ride through the 1960's through the 1980's and it lots of fun to read especially if you lived during that time.

We are who we are and all we can do is begin to find a way to be that person more happily, more honestly, more real-ly. October 18th, 1988 is an insignificant date, but for Jeff Winston it is a day that will live in infamy.

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We were outside running in those hills all day long, and at night we'd gather on the porch where more stories would be told. Americans of baby-boomer age (and older) will probably personally remember all the historic references and follow along with the book as if re-living their own lives. This reasoning, provided by someone who even tells our two replayers how and why the world is a stage for a certain group of people watching the replayers in the bloody stage of history they live in, a stage they make even worse, is an exciting concept! It becomes apparent to the reader that the replay phenomenon is not limited to the three individuals experiencing it in the novel, nor is it limited to the 1963-1988 timeframe. The author deliberately avoids any attempt at a scientific explanation for the ordeal/blessing Jeff is subjected to, because the point of the novel is self discovery and the Meaning of Life.

He works his way through money, sex, children, nihilism, and it turns out that he keeps dying at the same time but wakes up older and older, skipping at first days then years ahead. The older Jeff is thinking I’ve never had sex with such an uninhibited woman in my entire life, and the younger Jeff is all libido. He wastes several of his lives and inadvertantly ends up with much blood on his hands when he tries to alter the course of history, but it is this that makes him relatable.