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Go the F--k to Sleep

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Go the F--k to Sleep

By: Adam Mansbach
Narrated by: Samuel L. Jackson
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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, Ltd
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Critic Reviews

"Total genius." (Jonathan Lethem, author of Motherless Brooklyn, father of two)
"I wish this book had been around during my daughter's overly protracted sleep rituals! Finally, someone tells it like it really is. This is no-guilt funny and a godsend!" (Cristina Garcia, author of The Lady Matador's Hotel, mother of one)
"A children's book for grown-ups! I really did laugh out loud - hilarious!" (David Byrne, musician, father of one)
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Finally a realistic kids bed time story.
funny and to the point.
My kids were not offended and asked me to play it again.
oh and the. kid's went to sleep with no nonsense.

realistic and funny

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My partner & i loved it, very relatable, I enjoyed the narration by Samuel L Jackson.

very relatable.

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Like the audience of parents and fans alike that listen to this book it could not be narrated by anyone other than Samuel L Jackson. - However I was anticipating for him to throw in the phase of Ezekiel 25:17 from pulp fiction at the end if the child in the book wouldn’t sleep.

Best audible credit I’ve spent.

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This book is life-changing. It's the most perfect piece of media i have consumed. You will not regret going on this fantastic journey

Truly Beautiful

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The narration is priceless and so are the words being read, 5 out of 5!

Beautifully written and read.

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