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2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
Spider Man on top of the World Aug 21, 2011
By Jessica Nolan-bowers
This book was really well written. After the first sentence you needed to keep on reading. I liked how after the Sears Tower climb the fire marshal told Dan that if he kept climbing his buildings he would kill him!!I would like to meet Dan and maybe go climbing.... by Liam Nolan-Bowers (age 10)
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
A remarkable read and a remarkable story Oct 19, 2010
By focus97
This is, without exaggeration, and amazing story by an amazing guy. It's a rare read to be able to traipse along through the mindset of someone who's done what almost-literally no one on the planet has ever done; climb the exterior of major skyscrapers.
It's one thing to be of enough mental fitness to endure a climb on a building's exterior, and another thing to articulate the story with energy, prose, and fun. This book has it. It's really remarkable to read what goes though the mind of someone prepping to face such an incomprehensibly tough challenge. Then to read what other challenges life threw him...
But the idea of climbing buildings, many of them, which is just dumbfounding, takes a backseat to the more important issue Dan is advocating that we all start shifting our attention towards. It scares me to think engineering or design status, and money, can overpower people's concerns for high-rise dangers. I had no idea such an obvious failure of safety was right there glaring at me - and I live in San Francisco and see skyscrapers every day.
The message is there in this book, and I'd encourage anyone to grab this unique literary piece for digestion. The guy, the stories, and the humanitarian effort Dan is pursuing, are all remarkable and absolutely worth our attention.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
An amazing guy, a great story and a wonderful human being. May 11, 2010
By James M. Harrison
Dan has always had that ability to inspire people in a quiet way, even while hanging from the worlds tallest buildings. Years before he climbed his first building people knew him as a sincere, honest broker of life. Now the book is an amazing thrilling ride Dan, one were so glad you finally put into writing...... I couldn't believe the stuff you had to go through in Chicago...holy mackeral...
Good Show...
4 of 5 found the following review helpful:
Real Life Superhero Jan 11, 2010
By Bruce Ainlay
So you're thinking SKYSCRAPERMAN is a true story about a guy on steroids who climbs the tallest buildings in the world. Well, climbing the tallest buildings part is true; but not the steroids. And climbing the buildings is only part of the story.
SKYSCRAPERMAN starts off at what was until a few years ago the tallest building in the world, the Sears Tower in Chicago. At its base is Dan Goodwin, attired in a Spider-Man suit, trying to figure out how to scale the towering monster. It's unbelievable, but he's wingin' it.
And somehow, he pulls it off.
During the interrogation that follows his arrest, Goodwin is accused of making the climb as publicity stunt for Marvel Comics, the home to Spider-Man. But nothing could be further from the truth. Feeling threatened by the real reason, Chicago's fire commissioner confronts Dan during a moment alone, stating, "Spider-Man, if you ever climb another building in my city, I'll kill you!"
More building climbs do follow, and more confrontations, interspersed with motivations, dreams, a dying child's last wish, and even romance. And that's just Part I. Part II fast-forwards to the 21st century to when 'the crime of our lifetime' unfolds before the eyes of 'Skyscraperman'.
Though the book is written like a novel, the periodic images are not a distraction; rather they serve to separate Dan Goodwin from the average person. In the book's foreword, Stan Lee, the man behind the success of Spider-Man, calls Dan Goodwin "a real life super hero". After reading SKYSCRAPERMAN, I couldn't agree more.
Someday, someone will make SKYSCRAPERMAN into a motion picture. When that happens, the whole world will know the story of SKYSCRAPERMAN. In the meantime, for us 'readers', I highly recommend this book!
2 of 3 found the following review helpful:
If it isn't broken...fix it! Apr 15, 2010
By arno
"arno"
`If it isn't broken, don't fix it.' Well...we rarely know when `it' is broken. Stuck in complacency our security appears to be unbroken. When security breaks down we are shocked and surprised. 9/11 shocked and surprised us. Yet Dan Goodwin warned us of a broken system, stuck in complacency, in need of fixing. Read Dan's remarkable story, bringing awareness to a fix that is still needed.
--Arno Ilgner, author of The Rock Warrior's Way
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