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Summary: Gump II
Review: The second Gump book was better than the first. That's all I have to say.
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Summary: Sequel
Review: When I read the first Gump book, I hated it. ''Gump & Co.'' was great. It was even funnier than ''Forrest Gump''. i would love to see this book made into a movie.
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Summary: This Book is one of the best books I have ever read!
Review: I loved this book. It was even better than Forest Gump! I just loved it. Forest shows us how he actually is not a stupid idiot in this book. He goes through happy and sad times. But in the end, things usually work out fine. He tracks down Ltn. Dan, Bubbas father, Jenny is always there to help him. He also started a brand new relationship with little Forest. Read this book, I know you'll love it!
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Summary: Don't read this book!
Review: This book (and impending movie) was the worst ideas in the history of bad ideas. It simply isn't needed. Something was captured with Gump I and it will never be re-captured. Forrest Gump was on of the most original and great stories of all time and should have been left at that. Greed made this second story and will probably make a third and fourth etc.. To me this book does not exist. It is a bastardization of Forrest Gump.
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Summary: It was a good funny book
Review: I thought that this was one of the funniest books I have ever read and will ever read. It also had good content and a very good plot to it. It was all around one of the best books I have ever read. They used a lot of very funny phrases. -Andrew Pratt
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Summary: Hated it. A lot.
Review: This was, by far, the worst book I have ever had the misfortune of reading. It was more insulting and moronic than an episode of "The Dukes of Hazzard." The only thing I was grateful for at the end is that I borrowed it from the library and didn't actually spend money on it. Avoid this at all costs. You've been warned.
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Summary: The Antithesis of Forrest Gump is this sequel.
Review: I picked up this book in its first week out. As I began reading it I saw humor in the New Coke foul-up. It all went down hill from there. I kept telling myself it would get better. It didn't. Then it became a challenge to see if I could finish the book. Why did I do that? Wah ta waste of time
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Summary: New Coke in book form
Review: Save your money and wait on the inevitable movie sequel. Gump & Co. resembles Forrest Gump only in the transfer of some characters and well-worn linguistic twists. Like New Coke....who needs it?
Groom's effort will no doubt lead to a movie deal someday and I hope the screenwriter(s) are able to completely revamp are pare down (start with the Saddam Hussein and Oliver North bits) this droll book.
Those who saw only the movie and didn't read Forrest Gump will find a number of character anomolies in Gump & Co. I just wonder how the movie (and original book) could be so warm while this sequel is cold and rather flat. To his credit, Groom has interjected some bits of genuine humor like naming Ivan Bozosky instead of you know who. Wouldn't Mike Milkedem have been more true than Milligan? Anyway, I'll be interested to see the movie and Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump dealing with Tom Hanks the actor in New York.
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Summary: Allusion in Gump & Co
Review: Groom uses allusion in Gump & Co. to show that unfortunate circumstances can lead to fantastic adventures. He writes this book as a sequel to his celebrated novel, Forrest Gump. He continues the same comic spirit as he tells this story, of Forrest and little Forrest and their adventures through the 80's and 90's. - A. Kestner, BDH
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Summary: Father-son combo "and that's all I got to say about that."
Review: The two strong characters in this sequeal to "Forrest Gump", Forrest and Little Forrest, work together through a tough time of maturing for both of them. One of which is battling the times of a pretty normal teen age, and the other, who is trying to overcome the fact that he is just and idiot.
Even though Forrest Gump admits he is an idiot, I believe that Mr. Groom is using this novel to help increase the I. Q. of Forrest or to raise the critics views of intelligence of him.
From pig farming to door to door salesman, there is always something that goes wrong, and sometimes it isn't even Forrest's fault. Jenny's spirit or ghost assists Forrest through the novel, through the tough times and the good times she is there reminding him that he has a someone to look after and reminding him that he isn't an stupid idiot.
And to Mr. Groom, I don't think this book was a mistake, even though "they still put rubber mats around spatoons!", and I do think someone should make a life story about you, and that you should let them!
by J. Parish
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