Repeat, Neal Pollack
Repeat, Neal Pollack
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Repeat

Author: Neal Pollack

Narrator: Jeff Cummings

Unabridged: 5 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 03/24/2015

Synopsis

Through strange metaphysical circumstances, failed screenwriter Brad Cohen finds himself caught in an infinite time loop, forced to relive the first forty years of his life again and again. Each “repeat,” Brad wakes up in the womb on what was supposed to be his fortieth birthday, with full knowledge of what’s come before. In various timelines, he becomes a successful political pundit, a game-show champion, a playboy, and a master manipulator of the stock market, but none of them seem to lead him out of his predicament. As he realizes he wants to break out of the loop and find the love of his life—the one he hadn’t appreciated the first time around—Brad tries, fails, and tries again to escape the eternal cycle of birth and rebirth. Repeat answers the question: If you could live half your life over, would you do things differently? Be careful what you wish for! Repeating is enough to drive a dude crazy.

About Neal Pollack

Neal Pollack is an American satirist, novelist, short story writer, and journalist. Pollack has written eight books: The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature, Never Mind the Pollacks, Beneath the Axis of Evil, Alternadad, Stretch, Jewball, Downward-Facing Death, and Open Your Heart. A certified yoga instructor, international motorsports correspondent, and three-time Jeopardy! champion, Pollack lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife and son.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kristy on October 01, 2015

This is a smart, funny, thought-provoking look at discontentment and the nature of regret. The protagonist is born in 1970, and I was born in '72, so the four decades he repeatedly lives through match my own lifespan pretty closely. I haven't had this much fun with literary nostalgia for my generati......more

Goodreads review by Pam on March 24, 2015

When my husband asked me what Repeat by Neal Pollack was like I replied that it was sort of like “Groundhog Day” meets “It’s a Wonderful Life.” The person on repeat is Brad Cohen a struggling screenwriter. When sitting with his wife one day, he is lamenting his latest pitch to the network executives......more

Goodreads review by Julie on May 08, 2015

I loved this book. So much of it deeply resonated for me. I'm pretty sure it resurrected some long dead brain cells, which is weird and great and weird. It was a fast read because (1) I didn't want to put it down [cliche but true], and (2) Pollack's writing style is so fluid that reading his books i......more

Goodreads review by Mark on November 28, 2018

Title: Repeat Author: Neal Pollack Publication Date: Mar 2015 Genre: Sci-Fi Score: 4/5 Repeat was a pleasant surprise. It’s not perfect and an obvious derivation of Replay by Ken Grimwood but a very strong 3.5/5 regardless. It tells the story of a man caught in an infinite time loop who disappears on th......more

Goodreads review by Jennifer McLin Ramirez on February 15, 2015

The main character in the book, Brad, gets stuck in an infinite time loop and is forced to spend the first 40 years of his life over and over. In each successive life, he tries new things. By the time he has repeated his life thousands of times, though, there is no longer any appeal to it and he wou......more

Quotes

“I have thought about turning forty every day since I turned forty, and yet no one has captured in more hilarious and humane detail the profound upending that occurs on that day, and the calamitous desire for a do-over. I don’t want Brad’s curse-blessing, but if I had to read this book again and again every day for year, I wouldn’t mind at all.” —John Hodgman, correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and author of The Areas of My Expertise, More Information Than You Require, and That Is All

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