_Forrest Gump_ by Winston Groom is about as dissimilar to the movie as a book could get and still cover the basic premise of the story. For those who don't know what the story is (where have you been hiding?), it is the story of a man who supposedly has a below normal intelligence who accomplishes great things in his life. This may be one of the few times that I've enjoyed the movie version over the book version of a story. Much of the charm and humor of the movie does not appear in the book, removing a great deal of the story's appeal.

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