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Summary: Winston Groom does it again ya'll!!!!!
Review: I say Gump and Company is a grand book! First of all, it has many actual people and events in history. For example Saddam Huessin, the Ayalljah of Iran, former Presidents and many more. Plus it has sports in it such as football.
Thus I say for these basic reasons, that you should read or even better buy the novel Gump & Co.
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Summary: Bird Cage Liner!
Review: This is truly horrible writing. I mean, really, it's so bad that I can't sit through more than two pages at once. If I had a bird, this would be a good cage liner, however. As it is, I'm throwing it away. It's too awful to inflict on anyone else. I bought my copy of this book at the Dollar Store and believe me, I overpaid. Simply awful stuff.
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Summary: Save your money!
Review: What a terrible disappointment this book was. If Forrest hadn't coincidentally, and irritatingingly consistently, kept bumping into his old Vietnam buddies the already weak plot would have ground to an even slower crawl. Mr Groom has not done himself any favours here. Stick to the original and move on!
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Summary: father, son and a hillarious story
Review: yes thats what gump and co. portrays. winston groom weaves an interesting story but somehow lacks if compared to forrest gump, first novel of the sequel. groom had tried to cover a lot of incidents to make the novel interesting, which ofcourse is. but somehow it lacks in the emotional trauma which could've been a fascinating part of the novel.
forrest had now got the responsibility for forrest jr after jennie passed away, and her mother wants him to take care of his son. he is trying his best to take care of it, and things are happening around him. his son is very intelligent (unlike him) who makes the things more interesting.a novel worth reading atleast once.
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Summary: If you got past the first book, this is about the same
Review: I am assuming that the people who want to read the 2nd book have actually gone ahead and read the first book. The books, both of them, don't follow the story line of the movie. However, they seem very similar to each other. The second book does have the same cynical attitude, with the same roller-coaster ideas as the first book (rich one minute, penniless the next). I agree that the plot is even more unbelievable than the first book (taking down the berlin wall with a football game, for one example) but it seems to follow in the same spirit. I guess I do like the more cynical attitude of Forrest as in the book, and I can see how a movie might be able to be drawn from this sequel as was done with the first book, but I am guessing that the public (in general) wouldn't necessarily like it. I look at the Forrest Gump books as taking a break from reality, and I cherish their unbelievability (who said that every good book has to be 85% believable?) but there seems to be something missing here too. You can see Groom's anger(?) at the movie through Gump's meeting with Tom Hanks. I think that's the best part of the book. It makes fun of the complete difference in characters between the books / movie by pointing it out in Tom Hank's dialogue with Gump. I enjoyed this book, and if you have an open mind, you might too. It's not a bad library read.
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Summary: More of the same
Review: This book is almost exactly like the first Gump book, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. Again, we see Forrest getting into outlandish situations, such as helping invent New Coke and playing the junk bond market with Michael Milken and Ivan Boesky. This book, while not up to the standards of the original Gump book, is still worthwhile reading.
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Summary: Decent but nothing great
Review: Basically this book is a booring rehash of the first book. Groom was obviousely riding the success of the movie with this one. Well the story begins pretty much where the first book left off and Forest is rich... very rich. He meets up with little forest and the two have adventures that take them all over the country. Same basic stuff as in the movie, great feats, amazing luck, bla bla bla, but here here they are mostly just plain silly - like the part when he gets poop all over the town. It indeed is worth a couple laughs as this was the first time in my life that I actually laughed out loud while reading a book, but thats about it. The writing just seems rushed and tiresome. Nothing great here folks unless you're a big Gump fan.
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Summary: one of the most tiring books I've ever read!
Review: I am sure that after the great performance by Tom Hanks portraying Forrest Gump, everyone is dying to hear of a sequel to the movie. Gump & Co. brings that to the readers except Forrest's life does not match up to the life of Forrest from the movie. Forrest isn't having the best time of his life and he needs to survive all the hardships being thrown to him. Reading the book is suppose to give you the sense of reading the continuation of his life. The past references that Forrest makes in the book are not equivalent to the movie itself. In the movie for example, his long time sweetheart Jenny was buried under "their tree" in Forrest's backyard. In the book, I really wanted to put the book down. Some parts just didn't make sense. The movie and the novel were two entirely different things. I highly do not recommend this book if you are interested in reading a sequel to Forrest Gump. Just wait for the actual movie sequel.
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Summary: A GREAT sequel!!!
Review: Why is this a great sequel? Because it is every bit as crappy as the first installment. If you are such a wealthy person that you do not need money for ANYTHING else, go ahead, be my guest ... WASTE your money on this. Personally, Id rather eat shrimp excrement than read another novel by Winston Groom. ZERO STARS!!!
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Summary: A good book with a little too many good things.
Review: Winston Grooms proved to us that he had a great amount of creativity, but I think he took it a little too far. The book would have been fine if he left out the "New Coke," deal and the "Holy Land Theme Park." Sadly, the book turned too crowed with so much happening so quickly, and with too little detail. However, Forest's character was wonderfully developed and displayed through the grammatical errors and poor english he used to write the book with. All around it was a good book, but with too many good things.
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