How to learn the guitar?

[qwerty]

I've had a guitar for ages but never really got round to playing it. I'm quite bored atm so maybe I'll give it a go. What's a good book to get me started? I can do basic chords and stuff but I want to play basic choons etc. Everyone says Good Riddance is really easy for beginners but I tried it and it was hard.

And where do you get those electronic tuner things from? Do they work?

I feel like such a noob.

 

[qwerty]

You can get a tuner from any music shop, or if needs be argos.

What sort of music are you into?

Green Day, Bob Dylan etc. - stuff which is supposedly easy to play on the guitar so its even more annoying that i cant.