Posted on 06/14/2011 10:22:10 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Adam Mansbach has had three novels and a book of poems published but it was a brief Facebook update wishing his two-year-old daughter would "Go the F--- to Sleep" which helped him hit publishing gold.
Now a year later, the resulting parody of a children's book may be the unlikeliest hit book of the summer.
Ahead of U.S. publication on Tuesday, the expletive-laced book of rhyming verse has advance sales of over 100,000 copies and is in its fifth printing, which takes copies in print to over 400,000.
The movie rights have been bought by Fox 2000.
"After a particularly difficult time putting my two-year-old daughter Vivien to bed, I posted on Facebook ... 'Be on the lookout for my forthcoming children's book, Go the F--- to Sleep,'" Mansbach recalls of the unlikely night which changed his professional life. "It was a joke. It was not a book I had any intention of writing at the time."
Mansbach got a good response and in the coming weeks retold his joke again and again, winning positive reactions from fellow bleary-eyed parents who urged him to write the book.
Eventually he did, aiming to voice the love a parent has for a child while capturing the inner frustration of a parent who, however loving, also hears a darker inner narrative as the task of bedtime drags on and on.
Among the verses are:
"The eagles who soar though the sky are at rest
And the creatures who crawl, run, and creep.
I know you're not thirsty. That's bullsh--. Stop lying.
Lie the f--- down, my darling, and sleep."
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
Welcome to the SJSAMPLE club.
Sample has already resorted to insults as you just did.
But - as I know that is the norm for those who are losing arguments and can’t defend their incorrect and immoral positions - I expect that.
You’ve been throwing around the insults the whole time. Every time you try to draw equivalence between this book and that pervert it’s to attack people that see no problem with the book by trying to say we’re excusing the behavior of the pervert. You lost this argument the instant you first posted that link, that was your strawman and you’ve been using it for ad hominems since.
The only incorrect claims here are yours. And you’re the one that pushed the immoral position of declaring this hate speech. You are everything you’re saying others are. And on top of that you’re obsessed with a pervert.
ping
You'll have some 'splaining to do regarding the dildo that Ma Kelly hands to Lil while she's rumaging through her purse. And after the wedding when Ma Kelly says to Lil: "Now that you're part of the family there's something I think you oughtta know: I go both ways."
Funny movie, but I wouldn't show it to my kids.
My sister showed it to my kids once. Once! ;)
LOL - thanks for sharing.
And some wonder why this country is in the shape it’s in when on a site that promotes what FR promotes we have people thinking this type of trash is funny. I thought it was sick and I agree with you.
Thanks.
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