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American actress, comedian, television personality and author
Recommended by 4 notable people, including Noah Kagan and Joe Hill
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See customer reviews on Amazon →Ken Grimwood spins a compact, character-driven time-loop tale about Jeff Winston reliving adulthood with full memory. it reads as intimate and reflective: scenes return with new moral weight as the protagonist tests wealth, love, and purpose. What works best is its sustained moral thought experiment—what you would change when given do-overs—delivered with wry melancholy rather than spectacle. Limitations include repetitive beats (similar choices resurfacing) and little interest in scientific explanation, so readers expecting action or hard sci‑fi answers will feel let down.
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Jeff Winston was 43 and trapped in a tepid marriage and a deadend job, waiting for that time when he could be truly happy, when he died.And when he woke and he was 18 again, with all his memories of the next 25 years intact. He could live his life again, avoiding the mistakes, making money from his knowledge of the future, seeking happiness.Until ...
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Recommended by 6 sources and appears in Time Travel, Most Recommended Books, and Science Fiction.
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Consider The Republic by Plato. Recommended by 13 sources.
“Plato stages an extended Socratic conversation that moves from concrete questions about justice into broad proposals about an ideal city, the structure of the soul, and what counts as reality and knowledge. Reading alternates brisk question-and-answer snippets with long, cumulative demonstrations that reward careful attention and annotation. Main value: a wealth of thought experiments for testing political and ethical intuitions. Main limitation: repetitive refutations, long policy sketches and dense metaphysical passages can feel abstruse and slow; patience and some philosophical background help.”
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