Chris M

The book has a simple premise, that of people having their minds projected back decades and reliving their lives repeatedly. There is no real conflict to this story though. It's just a thought experiment that many unsatisfied people have had. There's no real problem and solution, and no explanation or purpose, it's just a story about people living life over again and being able to gamble and play the stock market and then live without financial concerns. It wasn't a horrible read, but it's very shallow and I'm surprised this book won or was considered for any honors.

It presents a fantasy view of drug use and drug culture, similar to Go Ask Alice, where people get addicted and go crazy from one experience and the dealers are sneakily giving it away to children. It harms the real efforts to fight against drug addiction by making it so one dimensional and evil.