Bryson's book is also very funny -- I've read it several times, and it still makes me laugh.

Regarding Tia's comment that we will be reduced to a single word - "like." A bit of thread creep, sorry. Greatest cartoon I ever saw in the New Yorker: two guys sitting in a bar, and one says:

"Like, what I don't get is how she like, figured out that I'm, like, having an affair with, like, the babysitter."