Go the Fuck to Sleep

I don't have kids of my own, but I did grow up with several younger siblings, and this book is as funny as it is brutally honest. I think a few of the rhymes could have been better, but it's overall still a very funny book, and a good joke that can be shared between parents, and the ending of this book is so realistic and appropriate. Yeah, go the FUCK to sleep, wouldcha???

I laughed until I cried even after several readings. Written and illustrated as if a kids bedtime book, the text drops in profanity to reveal what many an exhausted parent have thought when at wit’s end to make their child, however adored, go to sleep. Hilarious! But not for those who don’t like the f-bomb.

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, show more 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. show less

At the urging of a friend, I read this book expecting to laugh my head off. Don’t get me wrong, I smiled and grinned a lot, and maybe even had a smirk, thanking nobody in particular that I’m not a parent. Instead, what I thought most was, FINALLY, somebody is willing to put their neck out and admit what a pain-in-the-arse it can be to be a parent SOMETIMES. None of this sunshine and rainbows 24/7 bull crap that everyone thinks he/she should project as a parent, complete with a plastered-on fake smile, even though they haven't sleep for days and their blood vessels have more coffee than blood. God forbid you actually admit that all you really want to do is swear like a sailor every night you try to put your kid to bed.

Go Adam show more Mansbach Go. Tell the world how f’ing f’d-up it can be to be a parent - despite how much you love your children. show less

I probably wouldn't say the title out loud at work but that wouldn't keep me from reading this on a train -- and laughing out loud. Come on, admit it,if you're a parent, you've already written this book (though probably not as well) but, alas, only in your head. Probably more than once. Night after sleepless night. So you're not going to be as wealthy as Adam Mansbach will be very soon but you can still appreciate him just as well. Give this book to every new parent you know but, for best results, kindly wait until the happy glow of delivery has worn off and she has just realized, as Erma Bombeck so succinctly said, why animals eat their young. And she's looking for a fork. Destined to be a classic forever.

It was when my oldest daughter was a baby that this first went viral. The crassness of the title (and ever other line in the book) captures the frustration of parents struggling to get their kids to sleep so that they can do other sutff (like watch a movie, or talk). I found it amusing, even if it wasn't particularly nice. I noticed when bookstores started carrying the physical book but paid little interest. I did however scoop up the free audiobook from Audible.com when I saw that it was read by Samuel Jackson (the quintessential bad Mother F_____). It was amusing. I listened to it once but then turned it off and deleted it from my Kindle so that my kids will never hear it. Don't want the kids learning the F bomb from me or my audio books.

Ferocious parody of bedtime reading books making the guilty rage of exasperated parents explicit. Clever, funny, and visually rich, this would be less effective without the harshness that offends some readers.