 | The RecordSetter Book of World Records: More Than 300 Extraordinary Feats by Ordinary People |
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A celebration of the nuttiness and obsessives in all of us, RecordSetter is the new world record– setting phenomenon, a website that believes everyone can be the world's best at something—and where 80,000 people a month come to prove it, or just enjoy watching. Corey Henderson and Dan Rollman, the creators of RecordSetter, are two entrepreneurs obsessed by world records who appear regularly on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and host events in cities around the country. The RecordSetter Book of World Records captures all the exuberance, energy, and quirky good humor of the records and record-setters. Here are more than 300 of the longest, loudest, slowest, weirdest, coolest, and most-difficult-to-break world records. There are Food & Drink Records. Sports & Games Records. Records set by (not-so) average Joes, and records set by celebrities (Most Bunnies Snuggled in a Hammock by Cameron Diaz).
- Amazon Sales Rank: #277550 in Books
- Published on: 2011-11-10
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 352 pages
About the Author
Dan Rollman is the cofounder of RecordSetter.com. Dan is a lifelong world-record fanatic who tried in college, unsuccessfully, to set a Guinness World Record for eating ravioli. A former advertising executive, he set five RecordSetter records, and saw them all get crushed. Dan lives in Brooklyn.
Corey Henderson is a cofounder of RecordSetter.com. Corey is an entrepreneur who's been working in web development since 1997, and proudly holds the world record for Most Fiery Crashes in One Game of Pole Position. Corey lives with his family in New York City.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.SO Cool!
By Alex
I just got my copy six days ahead of the official release because Amazon clearly underestimated shipping times, and I have to say that I love it! The only odd thing I noted about it was the physical size of the book. It's smaller than I expected (larger than a paperback but smaller than a college textbook) but I think my perspective might be skewed as I am a college student that regularly has to buy massive useless books...and lots of them.
The records in this book are quite enjoyable. So many of them are off-the-wall and intuitive ideas that it's hard to stay focused on one record before another catches your eye and distracts you. It's like being a kid and flipping through "Ripley's Believe it or Not" or the "Guinness Book of World Records" all over again! Not only records are featured, either. There are some bios about particularly notable record holders (one I remember off the top of my head is a writer for The Colbert Report). Witty and sometimes goofy commentary accompany every record, paired with small comics or humorous voice bubbles.
In some cases it appears that the book's designers didn't have any usable photos or video stills of the feat, and instead of filling the page with walls of text, they made fun graphics (a la Mythbusters, yet in their own unique style) to illustrate the records for the reader. As a visual person and a computer animation student, I really appreciated that. The book itself also had a very pleasing overall design.
Probably the biggest indicator of how fun and interesting the book is is the fact that I haven't seen it in hours. I bought the book for myself, but the second one of my little siblings saw it, she became enamored and has had her nose glued to the pages since then. She is 10-years-old and dyslexic, so while she has learned over the years to read very well (above her age level, actually) these types of books with visual cues and fun illustrations are still very much up her alley. My other two siblings (9 and 11...I am 22 if you're wondering) haven't even had a chance to see the book's cover yet. My sister is too into it!
To give you a good idea of the positive attitude and atmosphere this book engenders, I'd say a good barometer is the book's back cover. It has four quotes about specific RecordSetter records. These records and quotes, which aren't in any particular order, were made by four people. Two of the people are "regular" record-holding civilians, while the other two are the likes of Drew Barrymore and Cameron Diaz featured on equal footing with the non-celebrities. That's just awesome. It ties in well with the organization's overall attitude about being highly accessible and supportive of anyone who wants to make themselves known.
In short, this book is an innovative and fun new spin on the fusty old record books that have flashy covers but stick to the more traditional side of generic world records. If you want something that puts a new spin on the whole process and is accessible to everyone, then I definitely recommend picking up this book. It's a steal for the $10 price on Amazon. Who can argue with records like "World's Largest Toothpick Beard"?!*
*Note: The toothpick beard category is, oddly, a somewhat contentious category. The beard featured in the book is in fact no longer the record holder. It has been reclaimed by the category's original setter.
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In the interest of full disclosure, I am featured in this book. My record, along with everyone else's (!), has an entire page devoted to it. That makes me very happy. If you're interested, I am on page 104: "Longest Bicycle Ride with Feet on Handlebars." I encourage you to try and break it! My record needs some competition after three years! My other record, not featured in this book but still fully accessible on their website, is "Longest Time To Snow Ski On One Foot." Please break that one as well so that I can break it back again! :-P
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.This is so amazing!!!!
By Daniel Martinez
I bought this because I am a fan of Ella Morton and she worked for the realization of this book. Today it arrived in my hands in Ecuador. This is amazing, so many interesting records, I can go from page to page looking at cool people doing such records, including her record of most times throwing chalk while singing "space odity."
The pages have pictures and they describe very accurately the records and how the measure was made. Page after page, I thought "God must love crazy people, there are many of them."
If you want to have a good time reading, this book is for you.
And that is all I have to say about that.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.Such a fun read!
By spot
I love the book, so many unique ideas and people. I also love the humor in the "yellow jacket comments" through out the book!
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