Gump and Co. humor tiresome and banal. Gump and Co. Gump & Co. (or Forrest Gump and Co.) is a 1995 novel by Winston Groom. It is the sequel to his novel "Forrest Gump" (1986), and the Academy Award-winning film of the same name released in 1994, with Tom Hanks. It was written to chronicle Forrest's life throughout the 1980s. On the first page, Forrest Gump tells readers "Don't never let nobody make a movie of your life's story," though "Whether they get it right or wrong, it don't matter." However, the character is not an idiot savant, as in the first book,
Forrest Gump (novel) Jenny meet again in college. They go to see "Bonnie and Clyde", and play together in a folk music band at the Student Union, covering songs by Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, and Peter, Paul and Mary. When he and Jenny get together, "we done all sorts of things that... I never even dreamt of in my wildest imagination... We rolled all over the livin' room an' into the kitchen... When we is finally finished, Jenny jus lie there a while, an' then she look at me an' say, 'Goddam Forrest, where have you been all my life?'" Forrest flunks out