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June & July 2020 Group Read - Beach Reads
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This one is tough to rate. Forrest Gump is a favorite movie of mine that has contributed a lot to pop culture for the past almost three decades. Pretty much everyone knows and has used quotes from this movie. Often the mantra is "read the book first" or "the book is better than the movie". But, with this one I went in feeling that the movie had way too much control of my impressions so I spent most of the time trying to ask myself, "what would I think of this book if the movie didn't exist at al
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First off, if you've seen the movie forget that this book has the same title before you read it. While there are a few similarities they are very different works. This was written with a southern flair which I find difficult to portray in most cases. Thankfully this one came across as a success and was very entertaining.
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