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    Go the F**k to Sleep
    Go the F**k to Sleep
    Go the F**k to Sleep
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    Go the F**k to Sleep

    By Adam Mansbach and Ricardo Cortés

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    The #1 New York Times Bestseller: “A hilarious take on that age-old problem: getting the beloved child to go to sleep” (NPR).

    “Hell no, you can’t go to the bathroom. You know where you can go? The f**k to sleep.”

    Go the Fuck to Sleep is a book for parents who live in the real world, where a few snoozing kitties and cutesy rhymes don’t always send a toddler sailing blissfully off to dreamland. Profane, affectionate, and radically honest, it captures the familiar—and unspoken—tribulations of putting your little angel down for the night.

    Read by a host of celebrities, from Samuel L. Jackson to Jennifer Garner, this subversively funny bestselling storybook will not actually put your kids to sleep, but it will leave you laughing so hard you won’t care.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAkashic Books
    Release dateJun 14, 2011
    ISBN9781453224748
    Go the F**k to Sleep
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    Adam Mansbach

    Adam Mansbach’s novels include The End of the Jews, winner of the California Book Award, and the bestselling Angry Black White Boy, a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2005. His fiction and essays have appeared in the New York Times Book Review, The Believer, Poets & Writers, the Los Angeles Times, and many other publications. He is the 2011 New Voices Professor of Fiction at Rutgers University. His daughter, Vivien, is three.

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    • 5/5
      This is the perfect gift to give to parents once they have overcome their total aweat actually producing another living, breathing human being.It is a hilarious approach to toddler sleeping habits and the illustrations are superb!
    • 5/5
      Hilarious.
    • 5/5
      As I think any parent can relate to this, this is both absolutely 100% true and absolutely incredibly funny. Bedtime might possibly well be perhaps the worst of all 'times' and is such a terror to all kids for some reason. Like their afraid they'll never awake or that they'll miss something in those intervening hours. Meanwhile.... as a parent.... you just want that quiet.... that sweet sweet quiet.
    • 5/5
      Fraking awesome!!!
    • 5/5
      Fabulously funny bedtime book for parents who would like their children to just go the fuck to sleep already! Light relief for exhausted parents everywhere! Highly recommended
    • 4/5
      This book is for every parent who has ever had to put an unwilling child to bed. Yes it’s un-pc, but it hits the nail on the head and is hilarious. Audible.com is offering it free to members for a limited time (it’s only 6 minutes long) and Samuel L. Jackson does a terrific job narrating it.
    • 5/5
      I'd read this to my kids every night.
    • 5/5
      I so wish more parents would sometimes tell it exactly like it is at times. I enjoyed reading it to myself, but I woke everybody up laughing out loud. Oh, what the Hell. It's 7:12 a.m. it's time to wake up anyway! They wouldn't be so tired if they had gone the fuck to sleep! :-)

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      I love this book. I never understood how hard and frustrating it was to get kids to sleep until I had my own. This book makes me laugh and laugh! Also, the audiobook read by Samuel L. Jackson is awesome!
    • 4/5
      Love it
    • 5/5
      A soon-to-be Classic
    • 5/5
      funny as hell
    • 5/5
      Many people have heard this story all over the internet by now. I’ve heard it myself (the version read by Samuel L. Jackson), but it’s been awhile. Getting the chance to read it in print (well, ebook form) was a nice way to revisit it.

      Go the Fuck to Sleep is a great children’s book…for adults. It’s written in the same rhyming, picture coupled with a few lines of verse style that many great children’s books are written in, but adds a subtle difference. It’s not just the F word. The story itself tells of a parent trying to get their kid to go to sleep, but finally realizes, it’s just no use. It’s a great realistic and comedic book that any adult, parent or not, can appreciate…if they don’t mind the “adult language” used throughout.

      I’m very glad I picked up a copy of this one.
    • 5/5
       Oh my. Very interesting! Narrated by Samuel L. Jackson!
    • 3/5
      Go the F**K to Sleep is the nightly routine that many parents go through, as such I am surprised that this is the first time someone has turned it into satire in this way. The book, designed to mimic a children's story book, is the internal dialogue of an exhausted farther who's daughter just won't sleep.The book had me in stitches from page one, although most of the humour seemed from the 'naughtyness' of the liberal swearing throughout, this is not a high-brow satirical piece but is nevertheless a great read. I especially liked the ending, which happened to my own parents more than once over the years. The illustrations however are generally unappealing and the use of several different children in the illustrations instead of just one is confusing and unnecessary. Amusing as it may be, it is not a work of literary genius with lines such as "How come you can do all this other great s*!t, But you can’t lie the f*@k down and sleep?"Overall, it is an amusing story, which all parents will be able to relate to, and would make a great little gift for new parents. Obviously this is not a children's book and should probably be kept away from little readers due to the language.Go the F**K to Sleep is available from Amazon UK for £4.54 and from Amazon US for $7.35. There is also a free audio book version available from Audible, narrated by Samuel L. Jackson.[An ARC copy was provided by Open Road Media]
    • 5/5
      This was a Christmas gift to me, from my 11 yr old daughter (who never would go the fuck to sleep when she was a baby, or when she was a toddler, or when she was a munchkin, or even now as a pre-teen.) She was delighted when I read this to her in my best sing-song 'once-upon-a-time' bedtime story voice, and we both laughed so much she probably stayed awake 20 minutes longer than usual.
    • 5/5
      Have had this on my wish-list for a while. Attended a baby-shower today in which someone received it and I was finally able to read it. It had every mother present in stitches. Very funny and ultimately relatable to anyone who has ever been frustrated by trying to get small children to sleep.
    • 4/5
      This book is so funny. Although I would never actually read this to my son as a bedtime story, this really captured exactly how I feel every single night at bedtime.
    • 5/5
      It really hit home for me!
    • 5/5
      Okay, I have to say that this book is hilarious! Yes, it is crude and crass and has the F-bomb on each and every page. But, having three kids in one year, I can assure you that this is how I felt almost every night from their birth to around age 2. You have to read this with a sense of humor to truly enjoy it the way it was intended, tongue-in-cheek and funny as can be.
    • 4/5
      This made me laugh HARD! The illustrations are very well done.
    • 4/5
      Hilarious!

      Definitely not for kids (the language in the book isn't edited as on the cover), the audio book read by Samuel L. Jackson was glorious!

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      I remember those days! I needed this laugh when my boys were little. : )

      I listened to the audio and read the book along with it. Samuel Jackson's introduction is just as hilarious as the story itself. Lol

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      I love this book from the charmingly honest text, to the beautiful illustrations, to Samual L. Jackson's marvelous reading of it in the audiobook format. It doesn't work as well on my black and white first generation Nook but never mind. This is a wonderfully human, laugh-out-loud funny story that even non-parents can appreciate.
    • 3/5
      I can appreciate the vulgar, poetical writing but it didn't live up to the hype it was getting. The fact that I don't have children might be the reason that I didn't enjoy it as much as everyone else did.
    • 5/5
      This is certainly great fun to read.I like to switch between various voices and impressions, it sounds great with a bad french accent.
    • 4/5
      Hilarious children's bedtime story that isn't appropriate to read to children, but very entertaining for adults - and oh crap is it true! It would make a great gag gift for any parent.
    • 5/5
      This book is hilarious.

      Obviously, you really have to keep it away from small children because... well, it looks like a small kids book!

      Because, it's a parody of those kids books that-- as a parent-- you read over, and over, and over, and over, and over again in a completely USELESS attempt to tire out your adorable little bundle of sweetness so they will GO TO SLEEP!!

      This book expresses so well that frustration that all parents feel at some point... I mean, yes, we DO love our kids. No, we wouldn't say these things to our little balls of delight! But oh yes, there are some nights when the little darlings do sorely try us all, no??

      This book is for those nights. Take it out after your adorable darling has finally succumbed to slumber, and slip into a bubble bath (maybe with a glass of wine?) and giggle away your anger and frustration. Because you are worth it! (And it's far better than punching walls!! Really!! Because... well, you gotta FIX the wall later!) Sweet dreams!
    • 3/5
      This book parodies popular bedtime stories such as Goodnight Moon, presenting itself just like a child's picture book. The beginning lines of text on each page have the melody and flow of a gentle goodnight story, which finally erupts into the parent admonishing his child to go to sleep already - a declaration laced in profanity. The first several pages, I thought this ridiculously hilarious each time. I literally found myself snorting or chuckling under my breath every time some absurd expletive would explode from the otherwise mild and soothing story. But after that, it just got old and with the shock factor gone, so was the humor. It's a good thing this book is brief because otherwise it would really feel stale and tedious. Still, the concept is funny and the book obviously got the intended effect of lots of buzz - and presumably lots of sales as a result. I was glad to read it to finally see what all that talk was about and since it only took a few moments to read, it was entertaining enough. But I'm not about to go recommend it to everyone as an absolutely side-splitting, must-read book.
    • 2/5
      It *is* funny with Samuel L. Jackson reading it, mainly because he's such a great actor that he can turn even the worst script (Snakes on a Plane?) into something watchable; but otherwise, eh. Best thing was seeing the kid's mom crashed out on the sofa, getting some presumably well-earned sleep while the narrator went off to do his share of the parenting.

      I think I would have liked it more if the text had been cleverer or more Seussian instead of one long repetitive whine that didn't acknowledge any of the kid's mom's share of the work at all. She's just an object to sprawl on the couch and eat popcorn with (hello, euphemism). Why is it ALL about YOU, Narrator!Guy? Why not tell the kid, "Mommy had a very hard day at the office today, so I need you to help her out and go to sleep fast tonight, okay? Can you help Mommy out?" Then I might've cared when the brat said no and threw a tantrum and Samuel L. Jackson came down with the Voice and said, "Oh, HELL no. Child, even if I have to lock you in this damned room, you are GOING the fuck to SLEEP."

      *sigh* I am so not the target audience for this stuff. The art was pretty good, though.

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