The bigger problem is that he never learns a thing. I can't imagine how he doesn't just kill himself, considering how every single problem he gets into leaves him worse off than before. Whereas in the first novel, Gump finds himself being in the right place at the right time and usually comes out the better for it, in the sequel everything goes the opposite.

I can't tell if it was a cheap attempt to cash in on the movie's success (being it was written a couple years later) or if the first one was lightening in a bottle. I still sometimes enjoy seeing these kind of things in cartoons, but in books that like to take themselves a bit too seriously and are considered 'clever','witty' and 'wise' is a whole different thing.īasically, everything enjoyable about the novel Forrest Gump is missing in the sequel. 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. Forrest 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.

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