Book Vs Movie "The Poseidon Adventure" (1971)

<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Book Vs Movie: “The Poseidon Adventure” (1971)</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><strong>The differences between the super gross book and the really fun movie (We are not going to hide our bias here!)</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><strong><img src= "https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/show/60822/PoseidonAdventure.jpg" alt="" width="257" height="386" /></strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">At Book Vs Movie, whenever people say “Duh--the book is always better than the movie!” the Margos would say “yeah--have you ever read</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Jaws</span></em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">?” Well, now we have another book to movie adaptation that features a horrible, racist, sexist, homophobic, and misogynistic novel that became a fun hit film. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sportswriter</span> <a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Gallico"><strong>Paul Gallico</strong></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">helped many stories become excellent films including</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Pride of the Yankees</span></em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">,</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">The Snow Goose</span></em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">, and the stage musical</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Carnival</span></em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">! He wrote over 40 books, numerous short stories, and dozens of TV and movie scripts. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">He began his career working for the sports desk at the</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">New York Daily News</span></em> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">and later became a prolific travel writer spending 10,000 miles on the road in the U.S. for</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Reader’s Digest</span></em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In 1969, he published</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Poseiden Adven