Singular Types and Other Stories, by Tom Hanks

Looking for a Tom Hanks book has a lot of movie interest. I don't know, it's like you buy this storybook waiting for its first page to open with the scent of chocolate from Forrest Gump's box of chocolates; or with the concern of facing a solitary reading like a castaway watched by his willson ball; or with your feet on the desk of the watchman of the green mile ...

And yet you know it's going to be a safe bet. It is not the same to buy a book by someone famous simply for being on television or for standing out as a sports star than to buy a book of stories by someone as interesting as this chameleonic actor whom many of us discover in Big and who has unwittingly accompanied many of our best movie moments.

And it ends up being gratifying ... And it can even be said that there are certain winks or parallels with some of his most famous characters, because in this set of stories we find a guy as skilled in bowling as Forrest Gump in anything he proposed.

But beyond the cameos that may sprinkle some stories, and perhaps it is more a matter of subjective impressions of the reader, these 17 stories seem composed in a kind of intermissions in which Tom Hanks, the actor, is shedding the skin of the character that tap into these short compositions that maintain that common thread between the fantastic and the real.

17 stories give for many characters, for many scenes ... it is the magic of the brief, it is the fantastic of literature turned into lightning bolts that can end up being more effective if possible than the greatest novels. Because such a high set of stories goes a long way in terms of the cinephile consideration of the matter: the knowledge of that inner forum of the great actor Tom Hanks, the space in which that creativity inhabits that allows him to become such disparate characters.

And in the end you see Tom Hanks himself in each character, because he has a place in all of them. And among the stories from here and there, from the simplest to the most fanciful, the most interesting thing is discovered: the author's humanity.

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