Product details: - Edition: Audio CD
- Publisher: Borders / Recorded Books Unabridged
- Publication Date: 2002
- Format: Unabridged
- Run Time: 570 minutes
- Studio: Borders / Recorded Books Unabridged
- Manufacturer: Borders / Recorded Books Unabridged
Unabridged audiobook on eight compact discs. Forrest Gump is the publishing phenomenon that surged to #1 on the New York Times best-seller list and stayed there for weeks. Satirical and hilarious, this book also inspired the motion picture that won six Academy Awards® and became one of the highest-grossing films of all time. Slow-witted, warm-hearted Forrest Gump is America's most lovable folk hero. From his college days as a star running back for the University of Alabama, Forrest's remarkable adventures carry him through three decades of American life. Vietnam war hero, world-class ping-pong player, and astronaut, Forrest crosses paths with some of the most famous -- and infamous -- people of the 20th century. He compares battle scars with Lyndon Johnson, saves Chairman Mao from drowning, and carries a naked Raquel Welch down Rodeo Drive. If you've only seen the movie, you're in for a treat when you hear the original bawdy, madcap adventures of Forrest. Narrator Mark Hammer came to the Recorded Books studio with a long and distinguished career in the theater. He was a drama professor at Catholic University, and is a beloved acting coach at New York's Stella Adler Studio. He has appeared in major regional theaters, Broadway productions, and on television and radio. Listeners and audio critics agree that the characters and regional dialects they hear in Mark Hammer's narrations are astounding. AudioFile touts this narrator as "one of the finest interpreters of our day."Customer reviews:  Audio Performance by Mark Hammer is Hilarious, 2005-07-30
I read this book once before, at its release in 1986, when it was just a low-profile "quirky" book. The subsequent smash-hit "warm and fuzzy" movie version superceded my recollections of it. Now over ten years later I re-visited "Gump" via Mark Hammer's audio rendition and found it as rich and satisfying as authentic, down-home southern cooking -- not the bland version some try to foist off as southern food. For the most part Groom succeeds at being weird and wonderful, but the "do you want to buy a watch?" scene, and Forrest's movie screen test fell very flat, and the ending, while avoiding predictability, didn't resonate for me. But I laughed (hard) aloud several times at Hammer's narrative, so all's forgiven.
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