
Go the F--k to Sleep
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Narrated by:
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Samuel L. Jackson
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By:
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Adam Mansbach
About this listen
Academy Award nominee Samuel L. Jackson (Pulp Fiction) rocks this mock bedtime story, capturing a hilarious range of emotions as the voice of a father struggling to get his child to sleep.
Go the F--k to Sleep is a bedtime 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. California Book Award-winning author Adam Mansbach’s profane, affectionate, and radically honest verses perfectly capture the familiar - and unspoken - tribulations of putting your little angel down for the night. In the process, he opens up a conversation about parenting, granting us permission to admit our frustrations, and laugh at their absurdity. Beautiful, subversive, and pants-wettingly funny, Go the F--k to Sleep is a book for parents new, old, and expectant. Due to its explicit language, you probably should not play it for your children.
"I was anxious to do the audio read of this book because my agent has twins and he gave me the book and I read it and I fell out laughing. And I remember all those times when I did read to my daughter when she was that age and everybody tells you that reading stories will put kids to sleep, but it never works. It didn’t in my house. Actually if I picked her up and made up a story it worked a lot better. But I did say ‘Go the F--k to Sleep’ to her a lot, and I think at some point she would look at me when I would come into her room, and she would look at me and say ‘Go the F--k to Sleep, Daddy!’. And I would say ‘Yeah, go the f--k to sleep'." - Samuel L Jackson
©2011 Adam Mansbach (P)2011 Audible, LtdCritic reviews
Sleepy time. . ?
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Good book...GREAT narration
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reeee
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So good for all those who were or have children. Listen to this over and over
Brilliant
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This book offers depth, insight and creative desperation for those moments of bliss one often miss's when the gremlins will not go THE F**K TO SLEEP!.
A perfect choice, for the wee one(s) bed time.
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Parental Resonance!
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love it
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Samuel L Jackson narration is fantastic!
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Great Fun!
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As far as earlier reviews are concerned, I think some of the more uptight listeners (why download this if you never swear?) missed the fact that only an exceptionally bad parent or babysitter would *actually* wind up cursing this much at a child at a stretch, and that it's almost certainly intended to be an internal monologue.
Really, though, don't tell me you've never felt the urge to swear at a kid you're looking after when you're frustrated to your limit and they just. won't. give. I wouldn't believe it!
If "blasphemy" (as per a previous reviewer) or more than one swear-word in a story this length will upset you, seriously, don't bother with this. It's far more directed at the kind of people who understand that words can sometimes just be words, and might only be used for emphasis.
Otherwise... enjoy! But maybe don't read this to kids under ten (any older and they'll probably have heard the words at school anyway), unless they're like me and read everything they can get their sticky paws on no matter how old they are. ;)
Brilliant if you know the frustration...
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