Between the Bridge and the River by Craig Ferguson

Great book. Hysterically funny, witty, can't put it down book. A mixture of Hunter Thompson, Douglas Adams, Kurt Vonnegut - pretty high praise for a first time author. For a transplated Scotsman, he nails Americans, good time religion and the entertainment business right to the wall. Ferguson flies his creativity just as the bumblebee flies.

From the book:
Apologia: This story is true. Of course, there are many lies therin and most it did not happen, but it's all true.

In this sense it is deeply religious, perhaps even biblical.

History: Nine of the first thirteen signatures on the American Declaration of Independence were from Scotsmen or men of Scottish descent.

Confession: It is a sacred rite enhanced by allegory, exaggeration and lies.

Time: Is only linear for engineers and referees.

Science: The laws of physics state that given the mass-to-wingspan ratio of a bumblebee, it is impossible for the creature to fly. But it does.

Ferguson takes a pair friends from Scotland and a pair of brothers from the Deep South in America and shows you their separate yet divergent paths to success and their downfalls. Sex, love, drugs, religion, alcohol, mass murderers, Carl Jung, the Soul and short stories within the story make appearances.

It's not often a comic, an actor can successfully crossover to other media's, Ferguson does where Chris Elliott doesn't.

Added info: This book is not for the Gentle Reader. It is not sanitized for your protection.