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* TagLine: ''If you could live your life over again...''
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-->Near the window was a large desk stacked with books and notebooks, and in the center of it sat a bulky, greenish-gray device that incorporated a video screen, a keyboard, and a printer. He frowned quizzically at it. What was she doing with a home computer so early?
-->"It's not a computer," Pamela said. "Wang 1200 word processor, one of the first. No disk drive, just cassettes, but still beats a typewriter. Want a beer?"
-->"It's not a computer," Pamela said. "Wang 1200 word processor, one of the first. No disk drive, just cassettes, but still beats a typewriter. Want a beer?"
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* TheOmniscient: Jeff's college friend who sets up their bets feels this way about Jeff after Jeff proves right over and over. [[spoiler: It gets to be a little too much for him when he discovers Jeff was in Dallas a week before JFK is shot, so he cuts off ties with Jeff.]]
* TheSlowPath
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* TheOmniscient: Jeff's college friend who sets up their bets feels this way about Jeff after Jeff proves right over and over. [[spoiler: It gets to be a little too much for him when he discovers Jeff was in Dallas a week before JFK is shot, so he cuts off ties with Jeff.]]
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* ShownTheirWork: Grimwood did a good job of researching the time period, from seeing which races and stocks would give the highest returns, to seeing when certain technology was available but hadn't taken off yet (ie, there were commercially available but ''expensive'' word processors and videotape machines available in the 1970's - long before both became popular in the 1980's )
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* HistoryMarchesOn: Several times.
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* TechnologyMarchesOn: With appearances of the [[http://www.wang1200.org/ Wang 1200]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%22_type_C_videotape Sony VTR]].
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* HereWeGoAgain: [[spoiler: A different, completely unrelated character in the epilogue wakes up in 1988, having just had a heart attack in 2013.]]
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* HereWeGoAgain: [[spoiler: A different, completely unrelated character in the epilogue wakes up in 1988, having just had a heart attack in 2013.2017.]]
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** Yet during a different replay when [[TheHedonist he has a lot of sex and experiments with drugs]] he muses to himself that the future of the 1980's has AIDS.
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* DoWellButNotPerfect: Jeff becomes a billionaire his first replay, but on subsequent runs tries to simply make enough to be comfortable and not draw attention to himself.
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* TimeTravelForFunAndProfit: And how. Jeff is lucky to start his replay in May of 1963, right before two ''very'' high-stakes gambles - A [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chateaugay_%28horse%29 not-expected to win Kentucky Derby Horse]], and the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1963_World_Series Dodgers sweeping the Yankees in the World Series]]. [[spoiler: That is, until his replays start happening after those events happen.]]
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* TimeTravelForFunAndProfit: And how. Jeff is lucky to start his first replay in May of 1963, right before two ''very'' high-stakes gambles - A [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chateaugay_%28horse%29 not-expected to win Kentucky Derby Horse]], and the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1963_World_Series Dodgers sweeping the Yankees in the World Series]]. [[spoiler: That is, until his replays start happening after those events happen.]]
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* SerialKiller: [[spoiler: One replayer is certainly making the most of his repeats.]]
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* ItsASmallWorldAfterAll: Averted. There are relatively few replayers, and they only notice each other when one of them affects the timeline once - producing the movie "Starsea".
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* ItsASmallWorldAfterAll: Averted. There are relatively few replayers, and they only notice each other when one of them affects the timeline once - producing the movie "Starsea".''Starsea''.
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* ItsASmallWorldAfterAll: Averted. There are relatively few replayers, and they only notice each other when one of them affects the timeline once - producing the movie "Starsea".
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* PointOfView: Almost the entire book directly follows Jeff, save for the beginning of the chapter that covers Pam's high school graduation, and the Epilogue.
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* TakeOurWordForIt: The description of the movie ''Starsea'', which in-universe was a blockbuster movie everyone was talking about.
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* LegalJailbait: Jeff replays to his early 20's while Pam is still in High School. This doesn't stop them from romance.
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* WhoShotJFK: Jeff tries to stop Lee Harvey Oswald a week beofrehand, but realizes there must be a larger conspiracy because the assassination still happens, just with a different shooter.
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* WhoShotJFK: Jeff tries to stop Lee Harvey Oswald a week beofrehand, beforehand, but realizes there must be a larger conspiracy because the assassination still happens, just with a different shooter.
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* FreeLoveFuture: Jeff's girlfriend in 1963 want to help him get off but remain a TechnicalVirgin. She is horribly offended when he suggests having sex and asks to be driven home. Jeff muses to himself that things are a little more loose in the "future" time of the 1980's.
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* FreeLoveFuture: Jeff's girlfriend in 1963 want wants to help him get off but remain a TechnicalVirgin. She is horribly offended when he suggests having sex and asks to be driven home. Jeff muses to himself that things are a little more loose in the "future" time of the 1980's.
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* FreeLoveFuture: Jeff's girlfriend in 1963 want to help him get off but remain a TechnicalVirgin. She is horribly offended when he suggests having sex and asks to be driven home. Jeff muses to himself that things are a little more loose in the "future" time of the 1980's.
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* AlternateHistory: Given the length of time this character loops, each "reply" is one of these by differing degrees.
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* AuthorExistenceFailure: Ken Grimwood was writing a sequel when he died.died in 2003.
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* HereWeGoAgain: [[spoiler: A different, completely unrelated character in the epilogue wakes up in 1988, having just had a heart attack in 2013.]]
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* LastStand: For one replay, Jeff orders a staff of doctors and medical equipment to stand by to stop the heart attack that sends him back every October 18, 1988. [[spoiler: The doctors are confused that an otherwise healthy man is so worried - but the heart attack hits all the same and despite the doctor's efforts he's sent back again.]]
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Jeff Winston is 43 and stuck in a dead end marriage and job. At 1:06pm on October 18, 1988, he has a sudden, fatal heart attack and the next moment finds himself 18 in his college dorm room in 1963. He makes a killer bet on who he already knows will win the Kentucky Derby and uses his winnings and knowledge of the future to create a fortune 500 company. By 1988 he is wealthy and powerful... and on October 18, 1988 he suffers another fatal heart attack, waking up in 1963 again.
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Jeff Winston is 43 and stuck in a dead end marriage and job. At 1:06pm on October 18, 1988, he has a sudden, fatal heart attack and the next moment finds himself 18 in his college dorm room in May of 1963. He makes a killer bet on who he already knows will win the Kentucky Derby and uses his winnings and knowledge of the future to create a fortune 500 company. By 1988 he is wealthy and powerful... and on October 18, 1988 he suffers another fatal heart attack, waking up in 1963 again.
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* TheOmniscient: Jeff's college friend who sets up their bets feels this way about Jeff after Jeff proves right over and over. [[spoiler: It gets to be a little too much for him when he discovers Jeff was in Dallas a week before JFK is shot, so he cuts off ties with Jeff.]]
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* TimeTravelForFunAndProfit: And how. Jeff is lucky to start his replay right before two very high-stakes gambles - A not-expected to win Kentucky Derby Horse, and the Dodgers sweeping the World Series. [[spoiler: That is, until his replays start happening after those events happen.]]
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* TimeTravelForFunAndProfit: And how. Jeff is lucky to start his replay in May of 1963, right before two very ''very'' high-stakes gambles - A [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chateaugay_%28horse%29 not-expected to win Kentucky Derby Horse, Horse]], and the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1963_World_Series Dodgers sweeping the Yankees in the World Series.Series]]. [[spoiler: That is, until his replays start happening after those events happen.]]
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* TimeTravelForFunAndProfit: And how. Jeff is lucky to start his replay right before two very high-stakes gambles - A not-expected to win Kentucky Derby Horse, and the Dodgers sweeping the World Series. [[spoiler: That is, until his replays start happening after those events happen.]]
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* TimeTravelForFunAndProfit:TimeTravelForFunAndProfit: And how. Jeff is lucky to start his replay right before two very high-stakes gambles - A not-expected to win Kentucky Derby Horse, and the Dodgers sweeping the World Series.
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* AuthorExistenceFailure: Ken Grimwood was writing a sequel when he died.
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* AuthorExistenceFailure: Ken Grimwood was writing a sequel when he died.died.
* GroundhogDayLoop: A particularly long one of 25 years. Notable that this book came out 8 years before ''GroundhogDay'' came out.
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* WhoShotJFK: Jeff tries to stop Lee Harvey Oswald a week beofrehand, but realizes there must be a larger conspiracy because the assassination still happens, just with a different shooter.
* GroundhogDayLoop: A particularly long one of 25 years. Notable that this book came out 8 years before ''GroundhogDay'' came out.
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* WhoShotJFK: Jeff tries to stop Lee Harvey Oswald a week beofrehand, but realizes there must be a larger conspiracy because the assassination still happens, just with a different shooter.
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