The Man Who Walked Between the Towers

This book is about Philippe Petit and his amazing attempt (and success) to walk between the used-to-be-existent Twin towers of New York City. He was a person that performed in a circus and did the tightrope walk. He really did other things like juggle but I really have to say the tightrope walk because that is basically what he did (except for the fact that they were between the tallest buildings in New York at the time). The thing that made this different was a) super duper height and b) no net to catch him if he fell and finally c) most of the watchers eventually became police trying to arrest him.

You are obviously not supposed to do this because you would almost surely fall and die. But he didn't. It sounds crazy especially since he was on there for quite a while but it is true (this obviously must appear in Ripley's Believe It or Not book somewhere). I responded to this book in a few ways. First, "Wow that dude that they are talking about is amazing!" Second, I pretty much liked the book a whole lot. Last, see if I can find something about that or something similar in my Ripley's Believe It or Not book. I think this guy was amazing, brave and quite a dare devil but this list probably goes on quite long. I think that I wouldn't do this because I barely go on the balance beams that are at some playgrounds and if I did it, I probably wouldn't be very good at it. The other reason is that I probably wouldn't be that brave. I'd call myself crazy over and over again if I suddenly dreamed of myself doing it.

The pictures are great too, as well as what happened. The pictures basically give you the sense that this is not an exaggeration. The images of the towers probably looked much like what you would see in a photograph. The pictures at least to some people actually give you the image of what it might be like from his point of view; in fact, it makes Mom feel kind of dizzy and activates her fear of heights!