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Forrest Gump

By: Winston Groom
Narrated by: Mark Hammer
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About this listen

 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... Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Literature & Fiction

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This is a great film so I thought I'd try the book.

It was a good book. The film it is not - some considerable differences. The basis of the story is vaguely similar.
Astronaut, wrestler, chess player and actor ..... and ran for the senate. Bubba is in it as is Lt Dan. Though not quite the same way.

The book I feel is better as a story. Will listen to it again sometime.

Not the film - just different

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Absolutely loved this book. Far better than the film and it was told really well by Mark Hammer. Its surprising how much they left out of the film. I will highly recommend this to anybody.

fantastic book

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this is another book that I wish I'd read before the film
awesome story

fantastic

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It got a bit surreal at times like I was expecting Forest to wake up from a acid trip any moment. Despite that it’s one of the most enjoyable listens Ive experienced on audible so far.

Hugely entertaining

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The concept of it being told by an 'idiot' is great but somehow lends itself better to a film than a book. I have to say the film is better as a film than this is as a book. The film is of course excellent and this book is also very good. Id recommend. The book is told at the same pace as the film so forest gets up to alot more in the book, the storyline is only 5% similar I reckon. Trouble is it gets abit far fetched and kinda silly in places. Still very good, even abit of a tear jerker

Very difficult to review, it's a very different storyline, but it the same pace of the film so more happens as it 4x longer.

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