You know how in every cartoon you see the main character being the reason the nose fell off the Great Sphinx or made the Pisa tower lean a bit? The same thing happens here with Forrest being responsible for the fall of the Berlin Wall and Iran-Contra. What also bothered me is that it had 10-year-old-cartoon logic. The whole book is really a pointless loop of the same situation, wether it's pig poop, encyclopedias or coca cola, the details change but what really happens never. The whole story can be summed up in one sentence really : Forrest needs money, gets job, is doing well, does something stupid, is chased out of the city, repeat.

is one of those books, using the same predictable tropes again and again and not really having any plot at all.

It really pisses me off when you can just tell from a book that the writer didn't really want to write it and only did it for the money. But fate turns fickle again, and he's soon out on the road selling phony encyclopedias and trying to raise his son, little Forrest, who needs his father more than ever.įorrest's remarkable, touching, and utterly comic odyssey has just begun: in store for him is an explosive attempt at hog farming his own dubious recipe for adding life to New Coke an encounter with Oliver North of the Iran-Contra affair and a chance yet again to unwittingly twist the nose of history.įorrest Gump the movie is one of my favourite things in the world and I picked up this book expecting the same quirky humor and heartwarming feeling I get every time I see Tom Hanks playing this lovable character. has gone bust and now Forrest is flat broke, sweeping floors in a New Orleans strip joint, when a fresh opportunity to play championship football puts him back in the limelight-and in the money. She tells me she's always rooting for me.' The Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. 'Whenever I really get stumped, I go visit Jenny's grave. Now he returns in the long-awaited sequel to the book hailed by Larry King as 'the funniest novel I have ever read.' A little older, and wiser in his unique way, Forrest is still running-this time straight into the age of greed and instant gratification known as the 1980s. Forrest Gump captured our hearts in the #1 New York Times bestselling novel Forrest Gump, and in the blockbuster film, winner of six Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Actor.

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