I recently read The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August and I can't get the concept out of my head. It's kind of a Groundhog Day, but for an entire life. What would you change if you could relive your whole life again, but all knowledge and choices were open to you? Would you stay in the same work field? Would you keep changing professions? Would you just spend your time traveling and learning languages? Would you take a "break" life and just sit on a beach the whole time?
I can see trying to fix the world for the first couple of lives, but after always returning to square one I can see giving up on that quickly.
It was such and interesting read, but I'm still conflicted about parts. If you don't want to know anything else about the book, stop reading here.
Okay, possible spoilers ahead.
The books pace was a bit slow at times, but I still found it engaging. My feeling about the protagonist is that over his lives he slowly turned from being the hero into the villain. Sure, he was saving the world and doing it the only way that he thought was possible, but... The part that really tweaked the "villain" part for me was essentially the monolog part at the end. Don't only villains monolog? And isn't that were their plan fails and the "hero" is able to use the knowledge they gain from that to ultimately save the world?
Still interesting. Anyways, back to playing with foam blocks.
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