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Guinness World Records 2005: Special 50th Anniversary Edition | 
 enlarge | Author: Guinness World Records
Publisher: Guinness
Category: Book
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Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 301252
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 50th Annv
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 11.8 x 8.9 x 0.9
ISBN: 1892051222
Dewey Decimal Number: 031
EAN: 9781892051226
ASIN: 1892051222
Publication Date: August 23, 2004
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Product Description
Discover the answers to countless burning questions with Guinness World Records 2005! This special, 50th anniversary edition includes astonishing, full-color photographs, unique profiles of record holders, a look back at the most amazing record holders over the past fifty years, plus all the newest and most exciting records to date. Youll discover: - The fastest car in the world - The most successful recording artist of all time - The worlds smelliest flower - The worlds biggest pizza - And more! With a beautiful gold, holographic cover, this engrossing volume will be a family favorite.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 7 more reviews...
 These books are always a hit! February 13, 2007
The kids love it and its fun once in a while to wonder about a certain record and look it up!
Unbelievable... January 16, 2007
I'm so surprise I can get this book since I got Amazon notice have stock for me to order..... being this is already two years ago..... and 50th Anniversary Edition......
This book is really really fun and make me more more understand the Guinness Records.....
I'm very high recommand this book in your library.....
An essential reference tool. March 14, 2006
Whilst some readers will always buy the latest edition of this book because they are interested in the largest, tallest, fastest or whatever, personally I have always found this book to be a first class reference source.
It was from the Guinness Book of records that I learned that the largest Turtle known to man was a giant Leatherback Turtle which (to my great surprise) was washed up on the shores of Ireland - and "not" some Caribbean country as one might expect.
Of course, not all the records are repeated from one edition into the next or each book would be identical except for any new records achieved during the past 12 months. For this reason, the reader might need to collect a few editions of the book in order to have as good a collection of records as possible.
Just a few loose thoughts really.
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 Read it all day! January 20, 2006
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Although it's not long enough for you to be able to read it all day, you will find yourself unable to set it down and just keep on turning the pages. Guiness world records:2005 is packed to the cover with intriguing facts from every corner of the globe. Buy it and you'll be quizing your family about the longest nails or the biggest ball of yarn.
 Review of the section on 'Language and Literature' August 30, 2005
2 out of 8 found this review helpful
This review relates to the section on 'Language and Literature' only.
I hate to be a party- pooper but unlike most other reviews of this book I found it to be dismal and self- serving, to say the least.
Guinness informs us in this section that the best- selling book of all time after the Bible and the Koran is the Guinness Book of Records. I have my doubts about the accuracy of this and it seems to me more like a piece of self- advertisment than anything else. Tasteless, even if true.
Worse . The editors of the book do not seem to realize that in Literature it is quality that counts, even when one is measuring quantity. It is absolutely insignificant that some person named Jones happen to put the most words on paper in writing a thing he called a novel. It is however of significance that of all the very long novels ever written Tolstoy's 'War and Peace' is the greatest. There is no hint of Tolstoy,Shakespeare, Dante, or any of the other greats of world- literature in the section on literature.
Trivia and even quadrivia need to be more significant than this if they are to be of real interest.
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