He becomes a Congressman, a stock market extraordinaire, a political pundit, a Jeopardy champion (interesting because Pollack too was a 3 time Jeopardy winner), and more. He tries out different careers, different styles of living, different cities, different personas. And this happens over and over and over again. This time, a failed screenwriter named Brad Cohen goes to sleep on his 40 th birthday after realizing he hates his life. The books had extremely similar premises.
Repeat almost seemed like a replay, or a repeat, of Replay. The second book was Repeat by Neal Pollack, which just came out last year. Rather, thru its superior cerebral tone, the message of the book comes out: that life is best when things are a little unpredictable and there are endless possibilities out there for you to tackle. The book never bothers to explain why this is all happening to Mr. And when he finally dies for the last time, he opens his eyes and is still on the phone with his wife. He feels trapped – like nothing he can do will change anything. As the book progresses, he dies many times, and each time lives a little differently.
Once he realized what has happened, he begins betting on sporting events that he remembers, makes a fortune, and dies at the age of 43 again, a very unhappy man. Then he wakes up in his 18 year old body again. And as he wonders what she is going to say they need to talk about, he has a heart attack and dies. The book opens with a 43 year old man, Jeff Winston, on the phone with his wife, who tells him they need to talk. The first book was Replay, a 1986 award winning novel by Ken Grimwood. And all I thought about – through all three books was what I would do differently if at the end of my life, I woke up and was a kid back in the 1980’s again. There was a little bit of science fiction in all of them – but not too much. They all focused on people who would die, and then their lives would start over again – yet they would remember everything from their previous lives.
What if you could do things again? If you could live life over? What would you change? This is the premise of three books I recently wrapped up on my iphone. Other career fields that would have been more exciting. When we put our feet in our mouth and need to pull them back out again. When we should have spoken up instead of staying silent. When we should have taken the road less traveled – or the one more traveled. Moments when we turned left, and later wished we had turned right.
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