Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3367 in Books
• Published on: 2007-09-28
• Released on: 2007-09-28
• Format: Import
• Binding: Hardcover
• 256 pages

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Synopsis
Revolutionary new cover design, 100 per cent new photographs, new glow-in-the-dark features. Over 1,500 new and fully updated records, more of your favorite giant gatefold features, insightful interviews from celebrity record holders, including Elijah Wood, Stephen King and, in a world exclusive, Michael Jackson! A unique, behind-the-scenes look at how we approve records, looking at the people, the equipment and guidelines that make up Guinness World Records. Fantastic new contemporary categories including "Forensic Science", "Incredible Stunts" and a??Home Entertainment and Consumer Technologya??

Customer Reviews

Fantastic.....................!!!!!
Thank god for Amazon..................My daughter was desperate for this book but the whole of Essex seem to have sold out!!!

She love's the book, a fantastic buy, has kept her amused for hour's. She also likes making me squirm by showing me some of the gross pictures!!!!

10/10..................a must buy!!!!

No no no
This will be looked at on Christmas Day (or my birthday in my case) then put on the shelf and never looked at again. For goodness, who looks for any longer than 2 mins at who ate the most cheese toasties in a minute? Please get someone something better, like a book with a storyline or a game that they can interact with or a bath soak they can enjoy. Sure, the glow in the dark bits are fun for a three year old but the book has had its day. Go on the internet (you're there now!!!). These massive books just end up filling bookshelf space. Thanks but no thanks. And if the lovely people who got it for my birthday read this then it was cool for a week but get me a book about the Isle of Man TT next time!

The three I'm most recommend
I'd have to recommend three great books for Christmas this year, with GUINESS WORLD RECORDS 2008 topping my list (this five minutes anyway). The other two would be DON'T STOP ME NOW and DO ANTS HAVE ARSEHOLES? which are funny and would make wonderful stocking stuffers.

The usual fare is here in the GUINESS, but there's some new elements that will surprise you as people are constantly coming up with something to break that hasn't been tried, or an attempt to break an old record.

But the biggest selling point for this book is the glow-in-the-dark features. With behind the scenes "footage" this makes for one heck of a Christmas gift.