Reviews for Gump & Co

The average rating for Gump & Co based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-03-13 00:00:00 Ethel Bowles 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. This book was anything but those things. 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. Gump and Co. is one of those books, using the same predictable tropes again and again and not really having any plot at all. 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. 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. What also bothered me is that it had 10-year-old-cartoon logic. 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. 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.

Review # 2 was written on 2008-11-14 00:00:00 C Jacobs "Gump & Co." is another thoroughly entertaining book. There is one note though, this book is not a continuation of the book "Forrest Gump", it was written after the movie's success and it actually continues the storyline from the movie, not the original novel. If you liked the movie read "Gump and Co." after watching the movie. If you liked both the movie and "Gump and Co." then read "Forrest Gump" and view it as just an alternative life for the character Forrest Gump. Forrest Gump is a great character and all three are worth your time.