Go The Fuck To Sleep
Go the Fuck to Sleepis 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. Profane, affectionate, and radically honest, California Book Award-winning author Adam Mansbach's 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 absurdities.With illustrations by Ricardo Cortes, Go the Fuck to Sleepis beautiful, subversive and pants-wettingly funny, a book for parents new, old and expectant. You probably should not read it to your children.
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- If you’re talking 6-months old rather than 6 years old, “Go the fuck to sleep” [1] is a good one :) Audiobook version by Samuel L Jackson to boot…
Yes, I suspect the book isn’t quite what you’re looking for, but it is actually a very funny (if adult) book, at least the first time you read it…
[1] https://www.amazon.com/Go-F-Sleep-Adam-Mansbach/dp/145584165...
- A somewhat different bedtime story is, of course, Go the Fuck to Sleep. Most entertaining is when it is read by Samuel L Jackson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Udj-o2m39NA
This book came too late for me and my kids ... maybe someday I'll get a chance to read it to my grandchildren?
- http://pbfcomics.com/book/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_the_Fuck_to_Sleep
Intro to programming in Python - I don't remember which one though. I think it was one of the O'Reilly ones.
- That’s what I’ve been missing in my life. Dagoth Ur reading Go the Fuck to Sleep to my kids.
- I think they've been around for a while—parody versions of the books parents were read to as children. I think "Go the Fuck to Sleep" was a a breakout hit, and that probably fueled a lot of this.
