Good book

How do you rate a book? Is it by the way it makes you feel? By the amount of new information you learn? Or some other emotion? The kinds of books I read are either biographies about people I find interesting, about travel, or, just plain funny. I love Bill Bryson who combines travel and humor. I've read most of his books and recommend them to people who like smart, funny writing. I also like Dave Barry, who was a writer for the Miami Hearld, I'm not sure if he still is, but he also writes books that I find hilarious. I use to find out about a lot of the books I've read from a syndicated radio show, Mancow. That show is no longer on in the immediate Des Moines area, so I've had to look at ather sources for my reading material. I found an article the other day in the DSM Register about a guy from Ankeny, Iowa, just north of me, who wrote a book. The story sounded good. He left a good job with a company in Denver to become a truck driver so he could write a book about all of his adventures. I pulled up his website and found that his humor might just be right up my alley. I'm a few chapters in and I have to say that, so far, I was 100% right. How do I judge a book? If it makes me LOL (Laugh Out Loud), its a good book. It made me cry last night. Marcy even made me read it out loud, she said because she wanted to see what was so funny, but my guess it was to see how far off the deep end I have gone. She thought it was funny, but since there was a lot of the "F" word, not as big a fan. I hope the rest of it is just as funny, because it is one of those books that I just don't want to put down.