Product details: - Paperback: 256 pages
- Author: Winston Groom
- Publisher: Washington Square Press
- Publication Date: 2002-10-15
- Release Date: 2002-10-15
- Studio: Washington Square Press
- Manufacturer: Washington Square Press
- Package Dimensions: 8.27 x 49 x 75 inches
Meet Forrest Gump, the lovable, hurculean, and surprisingly savy hero of this remarkable comic odyssey. After accidentally becoming the star of Univerity of Alabama's football team, Forrest goes on to become a Vietnam War hero, a worl-class Ping-Pong player, a villainous wrestler, and a business tycoon -- as he wonders with cildlike wisdome at the insanity all around him. In between misadentures, he manages to compare battle scars with Lyndon Johnson, discover the truth about Richard Nixon, and survive the ups and downs of remaining true to his only love, Jenny, on an extraordinary journey through three decades of the American cultural landscape. Forrest gump has one heck of a story to tell -- and you've got to read it to believe it.... Customer reviews:  `Mister Gump, you are a very amusing feller.', 2008-10-10
Like most of the rest of the world, I saw the movie years ago. It's taken me a long time to get around to reading the book and I'm delighted to say that I enjoyed it immensely. While the movie and the book share some common characteristics, they are very dissimilar. Many aspects of the book would not translate well onto the screen and I certainly can't visualise Tom Hanks as the Forrest Gump depicted in the book.
In Forrest Gump, Winston Groom has given us a politically incorrect hero who can unconsciously parody and satirize just about everything and get away with it quite successfully. How so? Well, Forrest has an IQ of `near 70' which means that as a character he has the luxury of making literal observations without having to run them through the generally accepted filters of societal niceness. Nor do we readers expect the same standards of behaviour as we might from those with allegedly `normal' intelligence or better. Our capacity to make excuses enables us to suspend belief and laugh with (not at) Forrest. This kind of humour is not for everyone but for those who enjoy it will find a selection of chuckles and laugh out loud moments.
As impossible coincidences follow action-packed adventures, I found myself wondering exactly what Forrest would achieve next and where he would end up. In fiction, the politically incorrect and the improbable can be funny in a way that is completely unacceptable in real life. Whatever that is.
Jennifer Cameron-Smith
 My momma always said, Life was like a box of chocolates..., 2008-06-14
You never know what you're going to get.
BUT COME ON...its FORREST. It can't be bad :)
This is one of my daughter's favorite movies, so I bought her the book.
She claims it's a zillion times better than the movie.
Read it this summer :)
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