Everyone's a critic

Well, she liked the book, but I'm not as funny as Bill Bryson? <Thurston Howell>How dare her?</Thurston Howell> OK, fine, she's got me there. I think I probably am as funny as Bryson, but I restrained myself in the book. Plus, gamma-ray burst beams sterilizing the Earth down to the base of the crust just isn't as funny as getting bitten by a cone snail.