Forrest Gump (Anniversary) | 
pickA soft pick. If you can suspend disbelief like you could for the movie while also not expecting the book to be a lot like the movie, you might enjoy this! While fast paced and easy to read, Forrest didn‘t exactly charm me with his antics. About halfway through I started thinking “oh geez, what now” instead of “oh boy, what next.”
Trigger warnings: racial slurs, detailed descriptions of combat
My second #roll100 for July!
#MoviesInMay #TomHanks
#CastAway #ForrestGump
These are from my favourite movie list. Hanks is very talented actor I watched almost all his movies.
#movie #litsyfun
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pickAs it turns out, the movie was a bit of a travesty of what is basically a rip off of Voltaire's Candide, rolling in Americana. Not for the easily offended, and racial dialogue has, thankfully ... evolved ... but it might be worth the quick read if any of that appeals, and there are laugh-out-loud passages in the last 50-60 pages. Also, Vietnam ...
And another author passed away!
I wonder what year I read this🧐...I remember that I actually checked it out from the Library, late nineties or early two thousands...but I loved it and I read the follow up “Gump and Co” as well!!
“My mom always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.”
#Cadbury #Temptations #CloseEnough 😂😂
#Temptation #AyUpAugust
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Hubby is reading Forrest Gump while I read The Secret Life of Bees 🥰 #happy #marriedlife
#wanderingjune @Cinfhen @BarbaraBB #goodnightsaigon When I think of Vietnam I think of this book and movie - and also Gump, the Wierd Al song 😄
“I don't know if mama was right, that we each have a destiny, or if if was Lt. Dan, that we are all just floating around, accidental, like on a breeze, but I think...I think...maybe...it's both happening at the same time.”
#QuotsyMay19 | 31: #Forest / #Forrest
📷: Made with Typorama
My mind went two different directions with #BornToRun Forrest Gump because of the obvious and Bonnie and Clyde because of a couple becoming outlaws on the run. #MarchIntoThe70s @Cinfhen @Lizpixie
1. In my teen it was Heathers, in my college years it was Forrest Gump. Still love both.
2. My Florida Road Trip where I followed the path of one of my favorite book characters, Tim Dorsey‘s Serge Storms.
3. Don‘t really read nonfiction.
4. Green. Although it‘s not easy to be.
5. If you do #audiobooks who is your favorite narrator?
#friyayintro
Don't ever let anybody tell you they are better than you, Forrest. If God intended everybody to be the same, he'd given us all braces on our legs.
Gump's mother.
(didn't read the book. Quoted from movie)
#QuotsyJuly18 #jungle
Excuse the wee bit of profanity in this jungle quote from Forrest Gump. 😉💩I've actually not read the book (yet), but from seeing the movie a bunch of times I am assuming it's about Forrest's time in Vietnam.
I didn‘t even know this was a book until recently. It‘s now on my TBR list. Great scene in the movie, though! Everyone‘s #chasingpavements, finding their own causes to follow Forrest, and then - 💥 Bam! - he just stops and says he‘s done now, lol.
#AdelesMayMashup
pickThis book has so much more than the movie, which I know most books do. But the book and the movie are so different that it's almost like they are entirely different stories. So many funny things happen in this book, I would definitely recommend it to anyone!
Just realized this was a book. Glad I found out. Can‘t wait to read it. 📚📖
I'm loving this #5movies prompt because movies are my next favorite thing after books! (After #1, the movies are not listed in any particular order.)
1️⃣ Forrest Gump (1994)
🥀Beauty and the Beast (1991)
🔥Rebecca (1939)
💉Pulp Fiction (1994)
📝Dead Poets Society (1989)
Spending the day in Gatlinburg with my brother and nieces (visiting from N.Y.), first time I've ever eaten at Bubba Gump!! All time favorite movie.
This is the only Jenny I can think of, crazy because it is such a common name! But this movie came out when I was in school, and for years people would say, "I love you jennay....."
This might be my favorite movie of all time, but I have no intention of ever reading the book! 😁
#funfridayphoto
It is difficult not to appreciate a humble being who knows nothing else but to love fully and never give up. 👍🏻😊#RunForestRun
Took a picture of this along the MD Ice Cream Trail. I adored the sign until I noticed there are 2 R's in Forrest Gump 😕
I had a hard time thinking of a book for this. And I haven't actually read this, just watched the movie, but Forrest is the most innocent character I could think of. When looking for a cover pic, I had to search for one without Tom Hanks, since I cannot stand the movie tie-in on books when I buy them, or, it seems when I need pictures of them 😉 #augustphotochallenge @TheSpinecrackersBookClub
Sitting at Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. Here in Orlando, Florida makes me wonder if the book is as good as this movie...
