The
Guinness World Records 2018 edition features thousands of interesting and
amazing records. As a book, it’s pretty
special. Where else can you find out:
·
The
fastest marathon run in pajamas?
·
Largest
human jigsaw puzzle piece formation?
·
Largest
firefighting aircraft?
·
Youngest
volcano?
·
Tallest: bicycle, Easter egg, tree, statue, mammal, or
building?
·
Longest
tongue on a dog.
·
Oldest
donkey, people, cat, amusement park, hotel, or cave art?
·
Fastest:
plane, human, tank, roller-coaster, tennis serve, or bird?
But the
sections, pertaining to books, comic books, and society interested me
most. Here are a few interesting
factoids featured in this information-packed book:
· Longest
novel translated into emoji-Moby Dick. It consists of 206,052 words. The translation, finished in 2010, is called Emoji Dick.
·
Most
expensive comic book sold at auction – a special edition of Tintin in America went for $1.6 million
in a June 2012 auction. The comic book
was created in 1932. However, the most
valuable comic is Action Comics #1,
June 1938, the debut of Superman, the
first superhero with super powers. Value?
8.14 million dollars.
·
Highest
annual earnings for an author – James Patterson, according to Forbes, raked in 95 million bucks from
June 2015 to June 2016.
·
Largest
book signing belongs to Vickrant Mahajan, who signed 6904 copies in one sitting
in January 2016 of his book. Yes, Thank You Universe.
·
Most
published writers per capita – Iceland has five books published per every 1000
citizens. Over the course of their
lifetime, one in 10 Icelanders will have a book published.
·
Oldest
living full-length audiobook - a 1935 album features Joseph Conrad’s 1902
novel, Typhoon.
·
Largest
library book fine ever paid - $356.14.
Days and Deeds was returned to a library in Illinois 47 years after it
was loaned out in 1955.
·
Most
expensive typewriter - $89,473 was paid at a London auction in 1995 for a 1952
typewriter that Ian Fleming commissioned after completing Casino Royale, which launched the James Bond series. The special typewriter is gold-plated.
·
Most
expensive printed book – one of 11 copies of the Bay Psalm Book sold in 2013 for $14.16 million.
·
The
first book printed in English was sold at auction in 2014 for $1,851,460. It was a translation of a French work,
entitled The Recuyell of the Historyes of
Troye. It was published in 1474 at a
time when most books were printed in Latin.
·
The
most expensive book of any format sold in 1994 to Bill Gates for a mere
$30,802,500. It included hand-drawn
notes by Leonardo da Vinci, dating to 1508 containing a collection of his
observations, musings, theories, and illustrations.
Maybe
you can set your own record related to books.
Get started now!
“Cultivate
above all things a taste for reading.
There is no pleasure so cheap, so innocent, and so remunerative as the
real, hearty pleasure and taste for reading.”
--Robert
Lowe, Lord Sherbrooke
“In
books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own. I learned who I was and who I wanted to be,
what I might aspire to, and what I might dare to dream about my world and
myself.”
--Anna
Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life (1998)
“Books
are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age. They support us under solitude, and keep us
from becoming a burden to ourselves.
They help us forget the crossness of men and things, compose our-cares
and our passions, and lay our disappointments to sleep.”
--Jeremy
Collier, “Of the Entertainment of Books,”
Essays upon Several Moral Subjects
(1698)
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