false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1222796296m/866807.jpg 866807 15 J. J. Smith, Keeper of the Records for <b>The Book of Records</b>, is an ordinary man searching for the extraordinary. J.J. has clocked the world&#8217;s longest continuous kiss. He has verified the lengthiest single unbroken apple peel. He has tasted the world&#8217;s largest menu item. But J.J. has never witnessed great love. That is, until he comes to a tiny town in the American heartland. Here J.J. discovers a world record attempt like no other. Piece by piece, a farmer is eating a Boeing 747 to prove his love for a woman. But when J.J. unexpectedly falls in love with the same woman, a woman as outwardly cynical as he is, J.J. learns why records are made to be broken... and why the greatest wonders in life can never be measured. 624949 2000 The Man Who Ate the 747 total:331|5:37|4:103|3:133|2:47|1:11| 331 1101 420 68 4 1 false false Fri Jul 04 12:36:49 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 06 20:08:27 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Oct 20 00:00:00 -0700 2004 Sat Mar 21 20:47:15 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 10 01:19:02 -0700 2009
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Such is the case for Wally Chubb, a man on a mission to garner the attention of Willa Wyatt, the town's newspaper editor. Wally has b...more...]]> 2 0 false false Wed Apr 02 12:08:58 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 02 12:09:52 -0700 2008
Attention authors, current and aspiring: putting your characters in a coma so they can miracously emerge at the story's climax is a wretched plot device.

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This book is even less dramatic than the second. It's just a love story in which one man literally eats an airplane for the woman he loves, and o...more...]]> 1 0 false false Fri Aug 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Mar 05 10:56:55 -0800 2008 Fri Aug 15 11:34:02 -0700 2008
So far, it seems to be written from a formula.
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The only thing interesting about this book were the world records that were mentioned in it.

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