Gumpisms: The Wit and Wisdom of Forrest Gump
by Winston Groom
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With an Introduction by P.J. O'Rourke THE WORLD WILL NEVER BE THE SAME ONCE YOU'VE SEEN IT THROUGH THE EYES OF FORREST GUMP America's most lovable new hero is winning smiles and hearts everywhere these days - in the Paramount motion picture, Forrest Gump, starring Tom Hanks, and in the novel by Winston Groom (available in Black Swan paperback), hailed by critics as one of the funniest books they've ever read.Now the fun continues in this delightful confection of wit and wisdom from the world show more according to Gump... 'ALWAYS BE ABLE TO LOOK BACK AND SAY "AT LEAST I DIDN'TLEAD NO HUMDRUM LIFE"' show lessTags
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This book seems to me to be an extension of the movie. Most of these Gumpisms are probably what Forrest would think or say, I just don't think these were in the movie. Some are just common sense sayings.
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A teensy collection of simpleminded mottoes, one or two to the page... that reads like Everything I Really Need to Know I Learned in Ziggy's Little Instruction Book.
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Winston Groom is the author of 20 books, including Forrest Gump; The Aviators; Shiloh, 1862; and Conversations With the Enemy, a Pulitzer Prize finalist. He served in Vietnam in 1966-67 and now lives in Point Clear, Alabama.
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- Fiction and Literature
- DDC/MDS
- 818.5402 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American miscellaneous writings in English 20th Century 1945-1999
- LCC
- PN6162 .G796 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Collections of general literature Wit and humor By region or country
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