¡Duermete, carajo! [Go the F--k to Sleep]

By: Adam Mansbach

Narrated by: George Lopez

Length: 5 mins

Publisher's Summary

¡Duérmete, carajo! es un cuento para dormir para los padres que viven en el mundo real, en el cual un par de gatitos ronroneando y unas líneas simpáticas no son lo suficiente para zumbar a un niño pequeño a dormir felizmente. Profano, cariñoso, y franco de manera radical, cuenta la conocida - y callada - tribulación de acostar a su angelito. Bello, subversivo - y para mearse - ¡Duérmete, carajo! es un libro para padres experimentados, nuevos e incipientes. (Y probablemente es mejor no leérselo a los pequeños….) 

[The Spanish edition of the number-one New York Times best seller Go the F--k to Sleep, this 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. 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, they open up a conversation about parenting, granting us permission to admit our frustrations and laugh at their absurdity.]

Please note: this audiobook is in Spanish.

©2011 Adam Mansbach (P)2011 Penguin Audio

Meh...

Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?

At 6 minutes you can't really go wrong...

How would you have changed the story to make it more enjoyable?

It's a 6 minute story not much you can change...

Who would you have cast as narrator instead of George Lopez?

Eugenio Derbez

Do you think ¡Duermete, carajo! [Go the F--k to Sleep] needs a follow-up book? Why or why not?

lol no... because no...

Mejor la versión en inglés por Samuel Jackson

George López as narrator OK, doesn't capture the flavor of the English version by Samuel Jackson. Hard to translate the f word into Spanish.

Not as good as the English version.

I picked this up as a slight "joke" for my good friend and co-worker who is of Spanish origin and who is also a parent. While the humor is still there, George Lopez just lacks the edge in his Spanish narration that exists in the Samuel L. Jackson version.

Classic bedtime book

If you could sum up ¡Duermete, carajo! [Go the F--k to Sleep] in three words, what would they be?

Funny, light-hearted

What did you like best about this story?

Any parent could relate to this bedtime book even if they wouldn't read it to their children.