Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: informative and humorous

Depending on which of Bryson's works I am reading, I am alternately delighted/entertained or sickened/annoyed. I have realized in the course of reading his catalog of books that he seems more in his element with some subject matter than others. Because I so despised his European tour book, I expected to hate this book, too, but I read it anyway, perhaps just to fuel my desire for complaining. Bryson's style here is informative and obviously well-researched, informed heartily with his own anecdotes of trail life, arduous, rewarding and sometimes humorous.