Recent, recommended, reading: "The curious incident of the dog in the night-time", by Mark Haddon. Caveat lector: it's very English, and contains some of the ripest four-letter words in existence (but in totally realistic context). Here's a taster:

And one day Julie sat down at a desk next to me and put a tube of Smarties on the desk, and she said, 'Christopher, what do you think is in here?'
And I said, 'Smarties.'
Then she took the top off the Smarties tube and turned it upside down and a little red pencil came out and she laughed and said, 'It's not Smarties, it's a pencil.'
Then she put the little red pencil back inside the Smarties tube and put the top back on.
Then she said, 'If your Mummy came in now, and we asked her what was inside the Smarties tube, what do you think she would say?', because I used to call Mother Mummy then, not Mother.
And I said, 'A pencil.'