Thanks for reminding me, MacSpon. I quite enjoyed The Boy Who Invented the Bubble Gun years ago. I should dig it out and read it next.
Nice to see that we have a number of Gallico fans. On a side note, what did anybody think of Love, Let Me Not Hunger? I haven’t seen it mentioned yet in the thread. I was kind of mixed on it–unsure if I liked it or not.
The Snow Goose, yes
All I ever read was The Hand of Mary Constable while home from school due to illness. I had no idea who Gallico was, I just grabbed it from my parent’s bookcase. As I recall I quite enjoyed it at the time.
Huh. I read this, but had forgotten that it was by Gallico – my quick search on him failed to turn it up, or I missed it.
This book was the basis for the very first ABC Movie of the Week, although they changed the title to Daughter of the Mind.
Too Many Ghosts, Gallico’s other book about the same lead character, Alexander Hero, is also well worth the read. (In case I didn’t plug it enough above! :D)
In case you’re a picky nut-job like me, you’ll want this piece of confusing info:
After the success of “Poseidon Adventure” (the movie), PG wrote a sequel, “Beyond TPA,” which picked up where the movie left off and not where the original novel ended. IIRC, Rogo, Martin and Rosen somehow get the helicopter to go back to the hulk; Mr. Rosen wanted to claim his wife’s body and I don’t remember much else about it except it wasn’t very good. When they made the movie of “BTPA,” they tossed out the novel and started over with Sally-freakin’-Field, Michael Caine, Karl Malden and Telly Savalas. That made the novel look like “War And Peace.”