This is just about the only book where I've head the movie is a lot better. So, I decided to buy a copy and see for myself.

Read this book over the bank holiday weekend, and honestly cannot understand what all the bad press is about. I thought this book was great! Sure, it was farcical at times, but that is kind of the point. Maybe people like the movie better because in the film Forrest doesn't use terms like the "N" word? Well, growing up in the south at that time, even a retard would use such language because it would be what he heard. Personally, I liked the book better than the film. I like that instead of making Forrest Gump just a hapless fool, they made him an idiot savant, who could easily grasp a course on advanced light theory or beat a grand master a chess. This is truly one of the funniest books I've read in a long time, and I'm so glad for all the negative press it got here on bookcrossing because otherwise I might never have read it.

WILD RELEASE NOTES:

actually released this on langworthy road, not daniel adamson road. Left it hanging on a branch. I really hope the person who finds it reads it and enjoys it as much as I did.