Gump runs for three years, two months, 14 days and 16 hours. He grows a massive beard (Gump fancy-dress costume number two). While there is much on-target humor here, Groom, author of Better Times Than These, has written better books than this. The Story of Forrest Gump Directed by Robert Zemeckis and written by Eric Roth, the 1994 American comedy-drama was loosely based on a novel (of the same name) written by Winston Groom. Gump gains a band of disciples who run behind him. All this takes place after Gump has met Lyndon Johnson and saved Chairman Mao from drowning, which is to say that this is a very broad satire. And although he does not have Jenny as a partner, he learns that she bore him. Forrest Gump Spiral-bound 3,462 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 11.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 21.97 13 Used from 21.97 1 New from 49.00 4 Collectible from 36.00 Paperback 12.99 46 Used from 5.81 24 New from 10.54 4 Collectible from 39.

Instead, he is a mathematical idiot savant, capable of outperforming NASA's on-board computers, which is why Gump ends up on a space mission with an ape and the first woman astronauta mission that ends in the forests of New Guinea where Gump meets a Yale-tutored cannibal. At the novels end, Forrest has attained earthly riches and a powerful reputation.

Like most literary idiots, Forrest Gump is a lot smarter than the people he encounters. Groom's picaresque tale is told by an idiot, the Gump of the title, and follows his outrageous life from early stardom for Bear Bryant's Crimson Tide, through a tour in Vietnam and across the broad canvas of America during the '70s and '80s. There is a joyously madcap feeling to the first half of this unusual novel, but then the absurdity gathers its own speed and begins to run dangerously amok.

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