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PoindexterOglethorpe

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12. I've read that one!

Sat Feb 3, 2018, 06:23 PM

Feb 2018

Not alternate history, but two books that should be better known are Time on My Hands by Peter Delacorte and Replay by Ken Grimwood.

In the first a man who writes travel guidebooks is given a time machine on the understanding that he go back and prevent Reagan from becoming President. The man who originally has the time machine believes that Reagan was the worst President ever, and the country would be better off without him. The book came out in 1997. I read it then and have reread it several times since, but not since the current President took office.

The second asks the question, "What if you could live your life over? Then relive it again. And again." Excellent. It should be a movie or a limited series.

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Anyone reading Lincoln in the Bardo? [View all] Laffy Kat Feb 2018 OP

I've read it, a few months ago. I liked it but it really is hard to describe. The Velveteen Ocelot Feb 2018 #1

I know. I've never read anything like it. nt Laffy Kat Feb 2018 #2

The audiobook is supposed to be amazing. nt sweetloukillbot Feb 2018 #4

I have not read it, and probably won't. PoindexterOglethorpe Feb 2018 #3

I don't know if I'd say sci-fi sweetloukillbot Feb 2018 #5

Excellent point. PoindexterOglethorpe Feb 2018 #6

Agree completely sweetloukillbot Feb 2018 #9

Recommend Kim Stanley Robinson roscoeroscoe Feb 2018 #7

Yes getting old in mke Feb 2018 #8

Yes. That is an excellent book. PoindexterOglethorpe Feb 2018 #10

Agreed! roscoeroscoe Feb 2018 #11

I've read that one! PoindexterOglethorpe Feb 2018 #12