Forrest Gump

Yesterday I read Forrest Gump by Winston Groom. Well, technically I guess you could say I started it a week ago, but then I only read the first couple of pages. We went back home yesterday and for the ferry I had to pick something to read (it's a three hour trip) and I didn't want to read what I'm currently working my way through: The Fry Chronicles. No ofense, Stephen Fry, but I wanted a made up world to live in for a while, not this thing called reality. So anyways, I read almost all of Forrest Gump yesterday, and finished it around 1.30 am this "morning".

I can't quite make up my mind on whether I like the movie or novel better. I think it depends on if you saw the movie before reading the book or vice versa, becuase in the few cases where I like the movie better, I've always read the book after seeing it. So yes, I think I like the movie better (I definitely like that ending better, without spoiling anything). They've boiled a few of the novel's characters together but I don't find that to be something negative at all. On the other hand, the movie is missing a lot of events, such as Forrest going into space, and then barely getting away from cannibals..

The movie is more realistic, and I think that's why I'm leaning more towards it, but as I said; I don't really know. However, a really nice detail about the book is how it is written. It is written in first person, as if Forrest himself had written it, and to make that authentic the writer ignored every possible grammar rule there is, and messed up the spellin A LOT. As I said, it's a nice detail, and I did really like it, but some times it took a few seconds extra to figure out what he meant (for instance axe instead of ask). And being the besserwisser that I am I often corrected the grammar in the beginning (but then realised it took too much time and gave up).

I really recommend that you read it, and it probably gets a 3 or 3,5 out of 5 from me. :)

xoxo
Frida