Russell Smith - I was given a thick paperback copy of the 'Guinness Book of Records' when I ...

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I was given a thick paperback copy of the 'Guinness Book of Records' when I was 11 years old, and I read it gluttonously, cover to cover, paying special lip-smacking attention to all the incredibly gruesome chapters about the violence of human history.

Russell Smith

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Als ich elf Jahre alt war, erhielt ich eine dicke Taschenbuchausgabe des Guinness-Buches der Rekorde, und ich las es ungestüm von Kopf bis Ende und schenkte den unglaublich grausamen Kapiteln über die Gewalt der Menschheitsgeschichte besondere Aufmerksamkeit .

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