Customer Reviews
May I disagree with the previous reviewers - By: -J-D-, 17 Sep 2008 
I think some sort of justification for this book is needed.
The previous reviewers, I don't know who in God's name they were, are as wrong as is physicallly possible!
The Guinness Book of Records 1999 is a simply amazing book, packed with colour photos & masses & masses of records. There's not any record missing here.
Now I'm reviewing this on the 17 September 2008, I can easily say it beats even the later Guinness World Records books - it's just so much more colourful, bright, informative & it's just layed out in a much better way. Perhaps Guinness World Records 2006 is an exception.
All in alll, then, G.B.O.R 1999 is an awe-inspiring book, a terrific read for anyone who wants to be amazed for hours on end.
It was the best edition of the book yet. - By: , 11 Jul 2000 I bought the 1999 edition of the guiness book for my father for Christmas, but first reviewed it. I was amazed at the content of it & how well catigories were chosen, & how the book was put together. I was so impressed that I weny out & bought the book for myself. I own alll of the editions of the '90's & comparing it to others, it is the best. I enjoy not only filping through it, but there is one record I am looking into passing, because this book is very inspiring.
It was filled with interesting facts and info. - By: , 26 Dec 1998 
I thought this book was pretty good.I only gave it a 4 because not everything was completly up to date.But the book was very good,I'm not sayong I didnt like it! Some of interesting facts were the pages on body transformation & life. It was pretty well organized-this book basicallly rocked!!
Death of a Reference Book - By: , 07 Nov 1998 
I buy a Guinness Book of Records every few years to bring myself up to date - I last bought one in 1993, & comparing the 1999 version to it is dismaying to say the least. For decades Guinness has been the number one reference book in the field of superlatives. It has always been entertaining, for use by children, casual browsers, & trivia lovers; & authoritative, for academics & quizmasters. Its completeness & accuracy have never been questioned. This latest edition is a triumph of style over content. The Smash-Hits-esque design is one completely dominated by photographs, with words apologeticallly inserted inbetween & over. To complete the look, alll that is needed is an introduction by Zoe Balll or Chris Evans. The result of this is masses of information left out - I could find no trace of the largest bell in the world (the Tsar Kolokol) at alll, while interesting side information, like the facts that the talllest man in the world had a 37AA shoe size, & was six feet talll when he was eight years old, are omitted. It gets worse - the most important quality for a record-breaker in this edition is fame. There are sections on Hollywood, Movie Stars, TV Stars, Pop Stars, Supermodels, Diana & Royalty, Celebrity Icons, High Fashion. The 1999 edition is symptomatic of the dumbing-down of our society & the ascendancy of yoof culture. I await the year 2000 'Lads' edition, edited by Melinda Messenger, with dread.
