Replay - Groundhog Day in Novel Form, Sadly Without Any Groundhogs

Replay

By: Ken Grimwood Published: 1998 320 Pages

Briefly, what is this book about?

A man dies and is sent back to his 18 year old self to relive his life over, and over, and over. Every time he dies he's sent back. He dies in 1988, and awakens in 1963, so there's a lot of discussion of those years (Kennedy Assassination, Moon landing, Iran Hostage crisis, etc.)

Who should read this book?

I came across a recommendation for this book on a Youtube channel that was doing a survey of all the movies that had functionally the same premise as Groundhog Day. And he included the book as sort of an appendix in other things people might want to check out. If you're a big fan of the Groundhog Day contrivance, then I think you'll like this book.

Specific thoughts: Great on a personal level, weak on a world-building level.

This review will go from spoiler free to light spoilers to full on spoilers. I will let you know at each transition.