| Binding: Paperback |
| EAN: 9780671894450 |
| ISBN: 0671894455 |
| Label: Pocket |
| Manufacturer: Pocket |
| Number Of Items: 1 |
| Number Of Pages: 256 |
| Product Group: Book |
| Publication Date: 1994-07-01 |
| Publisher: Pocket |
| Sales Rank on Amazon: 1,436,101 |
| Studio: Pocket |
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Source:Product Description
The life of an endearing idiot savant is marked by encounters with some of the most famous figures of the twentieth century. Reprint. Movie tie-in.
Average Customer Review: 4.0
Total Customer Reviews: 76
0 out of 0 people found this review helpful:
Rating: 4
Summary: Enjoyable and touching - to a point
I bought this little book in order to give it as a gift to my daughter who frequently has recommended the 'Forest Gump' movie to me. I found myself enjoying the book greatly and having great sympathy for the main character. But after a time the improbabilities ignored at first mounted in strength, and I ended up feeling somewhere after the Vietnam War heroism story (Which I found credible and moving) that the whole thing had become 'unbelievable'.
By the way a far more credible 'holy fool' and one whose story is on a much deeper level of human feeling is Isaac Singer's 'Gimpel the Fool'. That story is great literature, this one is an amusing entertainment.
1 out of 1 people found this review helpful:
Rating: 5
Summary: great
it was a fantastic novel so different from the book the seller shipped it very fast
0 out of 2 people found this review helpful:
Rating: 1
Summary: Dumber 'n a box o' rocks
I'm truly amazed that anyone read this book and saw movie potential in it. (The movie's pretty good) The story line is absurd, the narrative is annoying, the main character isn't the least bit believable, and the whole section on him becoming an astronaut - not only unbelievable, but brutally racist in a way that made me almost physically ill.
I kept reading in hopes that was a brief tangent into the absurd, but the book just kept getting worse. Like another reviewer here, I'm a person who generally finishes a book once begun, and now wish I hadn't. I completely wasted 3 hours of my time. Please don't waste yours on this horrid book.
1 out of 1 people found this review helpful:
Rating: 5
Summary: A book to make you laugh out loud...
I didn't know what to expect - but I found myself laughing so hard that tears were running down my face and I had to put the book down for a minute and just let myself laugh. I didn't want to put the book down though - it was really that good. The movie character of Forrest was a little sweeter perhaps but I really enjoyed the book character of Forrest and I have been happy to discover that there really was a lot more to Forrest's tale than the movie displayed. Forrest is introduced from the first paragraph as having a low IQ but he finds himself in many situations where he has more wisdom than the so-called smart people. This book not only made me laugh - it made me think of deeper issues and so I can not think of a more enjoyable book.
1 out of 3 people found this review helpful:
Rating: 4
Summary: The Book vs. the Movie
My friends have read this book and said it was okay, but it was very different from and not as good as the movie. Very seldom is a movie better than or even an improvement on the book. So I decided to obtain a copy and read it to see. The first day I started reading it I oddly couldn't put it down. I read over half of the book the first day, and then finished reading it the very next day. I loved it and I think everyone that has seen the movie should read it. It was hysterical, interesting, and imaginative, but diverse from the movie. I'm glad I chose this book as one of the last books to read this year.
This is a really good book, but... The author used a style of grammar that I have never seen before. Since Forrest is a little mentally challenged he says things slightly different. And since Forrest is the narrator, the author writes the book in the way that Forrest talks. This is difficult because it is kind of hard to read and comprehend. I had to read some sentences two or three times to get it. I would recommend this book to everyone because it is a great book, but some may not like it more than the movie.
For me I enjoyed the book and I enjoyed the movie. Which is better is hard to say because they are so different. I'm glad I experienced them both.
Gwen Paddington
