C1 Literary Mayhem No 18 / Forrest Gump

Hullo, 

My name is Forrest Gump and

LET ME SAY THIS: BEIN A IDIOT IS NO BOX OF CHOCOLATES.

 here's my story

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B66Lfya61yTuR3VIYWtnaU9tUm8

My creator is the American writer Winston Groom, but I was made popular by Tom Hanks in a Robert Zemeckis Movie
http://www.tomhanks-online.com/media/video/detail/88/forrest-gump-making-of

C1 Literary Mayhem 17/2, The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck

Hello folks,

you might also be interested in the beginning of our this week's novel, The Winter of Our Discontent. We might read it tomorrow, or not.

here: 

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B4iDA8dEogrHY1hocTRNVHRRSTIxTVU1Wk5SRmstdw

C1 Literary Mayhem 17, The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck

once again, before you read this: don't forget the "gorilla" translations (by e-mail) and to check out new books in library: 

here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AoiDA8dEogrHdEVwNWM4cjZVNXVSZW5SM0FMN0NJWGc

and here https://www.google.com/fusiontables/DataSource?docid=119iEakjLOTuZ2XXmx1TkRziHhmC0b3GnAmQEFp4

Hello from John Steinbeck,

 I believe that "Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of human need for it and it has not changed except to become more needed."

Here's some of mine, from my 1961 novel, The Winter Of Our Discontent, for you to read until next week:

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B4iDA8dEogrHQ0tudFRtSWdUWWVQMGRJZ1JBYnJZZw

We are also going to listen to an excerpt from my 1962 Nobel Prize Acceptance speech, which you can see here:

http://www.nobelprize.org/mediaplayer/index.php?id=1303

or here

John Steinbeck - Nobel Prize Speech - YouTube
► 5:27► 5:27	www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SKEODtaQUU3. aug. 2010 - 5 min. - John Steinbeck's speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1962 ...