For the parents

This might very well be the best book ever written:

http://www.amazon.com/Go-F-Sleep-Adam-Mansbach/dp/1617750255

I know I'm going to get a copy as soon as it comes out. M wife and I are gibbering wrecks about half of the time after we finally get the kids to sleep.

A friend posted that on facebook about a month ago. I would buy it just to read it.

We preordered a few.

The joke gets a little tired by the end of the book, but the entire premise is fracking hysterical.

"Customers who bought this, also bought"

WTF?

A friend of my brother knows the dude that wrote the book and my brother had the whole thing on his computer, too funny.

http://www.slideshare.net/spencermolly/go-the-f-to-sleep-7940745

In reply to Per Schroeder:

Maybe someone was not being 100% honest.

LMAO!! I hope it's as good as the title!

The slideshow has the complete book--but we ordered a hardcopy--I think it'll be worth it.

Im kinda glad that link is there. it's not nearly as funny as I had hoped.

mndsm wrote: Im kinda glad that link is there. it's not nearly as funny as I had hoped.

It is, however, an eerily, hideously accurate portrayal of the first 4-5 years of parenthood. I also don't think I ate a hot dinner in the first 2 years of the experience.

Yeah, the humor (and the horror) is in the detail. That thing is spot-on.

Margie

mndsm wrote: Im kinda glad that link is there. it's not nearly as funny as I had hoped.

I agree. More like a crude and disgusting attempt at humor by an unfit parent. I feel sorry for his children.

I can't help asking: Are you by any chance childless, Red?

I am with Margie. The book is spot on. And I am a great dad. I adore my little ones. But sometimes I just wish they'd go the berkeley to sleep.

Mrs. Mofo and I had that conversation just last night.

The vast majority of fights my wife and I had in the 2 1/2 years after we adopted our first two children and EVERY fight we have had in the 4 1/2 months since we adopted our newborn has been about sleep.

Marjorie Suddard wrote: Yeah, the humor (and the horror) is in the detail. That thing is spot-on. Margie

My two boys are 20 months apart in age. The book is mild compared to some of the thoughts I've had.

Marjorie Suddard wrote: I can't help asking: Are you by any chance childless, Red?

NO!

I have two boys, ages 7 and 5. Just got back from the ballfield.

So, who's this guy's target market? Adults are going to read this book and find it worthwhile? Really? Or are new parents going to read it to their children so they can learn the F-bomb before any of the kids in their preschool class? It's despicable!

1988RedT2 wrote:

Marjorie Suddard wrote: I can't help asking: Are you by any chance childless, Red?

NO! I have two boys, ages 7 and 5. Just got back from the ballfield. So, who's this guy's target market? Adults are going to read this book and find it worthwhile? Really? Or are new parents going to read it to their children so they can learn the F-bomb before any of the kids in their preschool class? It's despicable!

Lighten up Francis.
Says here that it is the Amazon #1 seller:
http://www.fastcompany.com/1753287/go-the-berkeley-to-sleep-number-one-amazon-piracy-adam-mansbach

Something remarkable happened today. A children's book hit the No. 1 spot on Amazon.com's best-seller list. And it did so a month before the book is even slated for release. You may have heard of the book--it's a best-seller after all. Go the berkeley to Sleep by Adam Mansbach, began its life as a joke Facebook post in June. It was a particularly trying instance of bedtime with his 2-year-old daughter, and Mansbach let off some steam in the form of a humorous status update to his friends: "Look out for my forthcoming children’s book, ‘Go the — to Sleep.' " The response from his friends was so fierce that Mansbach decided to make his joke book a real one. Go the berkeley to Sleep, which he bills as a "children's book for adults," will hit stores on June 14, published by the Brooklyn press Akashic. If it's not even due for a month...

In passing there is some truth to it. I remember some of those nights. I did manage to get through four kids without telling them to go the berkeley to sleep. Not my style though, so I don't think I'll be buying a copy.

1988RedT2 wrote: So, who's this guy's target market? Adults are going to read this book and find it worthwhile? Really? Or are new parents going to read it to their children so they can learn the F-bomb before any of the kids in their preschool class? It's despicable!

It looks like gallows humor more than anything else.

I thought it was hilarious... from an aunt that often put a wee nephew to bed. I can still recite most Dr. Seuss books...

Nobody's going to read that book to their kids, it's rather a sympathetic piece from one tired parent to all the other tired parents out there.

Lesley wrote: I thought it was hilarious... from an aunt that often put a wee nephew to bed. I can still recite most Dr. Seuss books... Nobody's going to read that book to their kids, it's rather a sympathetic piece from one tired parent to all the other tired parents out there.

This.

Margie