I'm a mother of 2 girls (8yrs and 19 months) and I can relate to this story quite well especially with my younger daughter who just doesn't go to sleep no matter how many different tactics and methods and schedules my husband and I have tried with her. I have been sleeping with her for the past year and a half and my husband has been on the couch. IMO it's nice to have a book with a frazzled stressed out parent saying what so many of us think so we don't feel like horrid parents. Yes we love our children and they mean the world to us, but that doesn't mean that we don't have the right to get frustrated and laugh at a book about a child who won't go to sleep. I read this book in Chapters and started laughing so hard I was crying because I have been there since my baby was born.

I needed a good laugh.

I can't imagine anyone more qualified to do the audio version of this book than Samuel L Jackson. It's genius. I can't remember the last time I laughed so hard. I highly recommend this to anyone, especially someone who has struggled with a small child at bedtime.

I really hope I was not the only person who felt offended while reading this book. This is a rare thing that happens for me, and only happened once (Wetlands, Charlotte Roche) before. I had read so many good things about Go The F*** To Sleep that, even though I don’t have children, I just had to give it a read. First I read the book and felt like I missed something, and then I listened to the audiobook. The only redeeming quality for the story is the fact that Samuel L. Jackson does the reading for the audiobook and the contrasts between his voice, the story, and the music that’s going on in the background is priceless. The story is about a child who, obviously, won’t go to sleep and will go to any means to stay up—ask for water, another story, to go to the bathroom, etc. Irritating to new parents, no doubt, though I’m sure not all kids are like this (and don’t even try to say they are—I’ve heard stories, don’t get me wrong!). While I appreciated the audiobook to some extent, the story just didn’t do it for me. Yes, I’ve been around kids who don’t want to go to bed at night—so don’t think that I don’t know what it feels like—but this story isn’t for everyone. Not everyone feels the urge to swear at their kids and go crazy because their kid won’t go to sleep. Not everyone “gets” the same one-dimensional type of humor that is this book. Not everyone finds the over-usage of f*** hilarious. I sure didn’t. Personally, I didn’t see it as a refreshing read, as so many have touted it to be, I saw it as offensive and something I wouldn’t want my (nonexistent) children to accidentally find. If anything, the story could’ve made its rounds as an email complete with pictures, and maybe an audio attached—as a story book (which is at least $10), and something you’d only laugh at once during the initial read, it seems like a cash-cow. I’m sure it would be a great read for some parents, but honestly, past the first few pages, the gimmick gets old and it’s just too repetitive. There may have been a huge hype going over the book when it first came out, but, as I said, it’s a quick way for the authors to make money, and both the language and content will not be for every set of new parents.

When I first picked up this book and read it in the store, I literally laughed out loud like a page in. It was embarassing but the book was just so unsensored and truthful that I had to buy it. It would make a great stocking stuffer from the kids lol.

An absolutely side splitting bedtime story for adults....I cannot tell you how many times I have secretly uttered those very words in sleep deprived desperation!! Critics of this story take themselves waaay to seriously. Just because a person thinks this is funny or has said or thought this about their child, doesn't mean we don't love them, or that we are somehow lesser parents. It's all part of the right of passage as a parent who deals with a sleepless babe! If anything, it says something that we can look at it with humour!

People who do not like this book have no sense of humor. It is so funny and true. I know exactly how he feels, and its great that the author can relate to parents and enlighten us and give us a great laugh at the same time.

This book cracked me up.

Everyone needs to calm down, it's clearly just a joke.

I must say this book did make me laugh, but I definitely wouldn't buy a copy for myself.