Sh*t My Dad Says Audio CD – Unabridged, November 30, 2010

Reading a section of this each morning brightens my day! This Dad definitely does not spoil his children. He doesn’t say much without using lots of cuss words, so if swearing offends you this is not the book for you.

I just finished reading "S*** My Dad Says," by Justin Halpern. This is the phenomenon that started as a Twitter site and has recently been turned into a half-hour sitcom on CBS. And I just have to say...This book is hilarious!The book is a look at the wonderfully strange character his father is and how he got to know his father better as he grew up through the quirky, sometimes jaw-dropping, but always hilarious quips his father would come up with.The author, Justin Halpern, grew up as the youngest son of Sam Halpern - a retired Naval doctor who went on to be a practicing oncologist and frequent expert lecturer on nuclear medicine at the University of California San Diego. At the age of 28, he moved back home after a split with a girlfriend.The concept for the book actually began as way to track his father's unique outlook on different subjects by using his quips as his status updates on Twitter. The way Halpern describes it, he started out with a small group of fans - mostly friends and family who knew him and his father - and it snowballed. Before he knew it, he had thousands ... and then millions of fans following his Twitter posts. With the growing interest in the Twitter posts, publishers were trying to beat each other as they beat a path to his door.The result was a hilarious, yet touching, look at his relationship with his father.The format of the book lends to the uniqueness of his relationship with his father. Each chapter is structured the same way - it starts with a story that revolves around one of his father's quips, but the story gives you insight to Halpern's relationship with his father. Then, after the story, it follows up with anywhere from five to ten different quotes on a variety of subjects. (One of my very favorites is "On Getting in Trouble at School": "Why would you throw a ball in someone's face? Huh. That's a pretty good reason. Well, I can't do much about your teacher being p*ssed but me and you are good.")This book is one I will be re-reading again and again and again and again and again. When I started this book, I got so engrossed that - on a Sunday night/Monday morning - I looked up at the clock and saw it was 1:30 in the morning. And I agonized over getting a few hours of sleep before work or continuing to read this book. Eventually, due to the nature of my job, sleep before work won out... but I couldn't wait to pick up the book again to finish it. I was sneaking moments during the day at work to read just a few more paragraphs. And, after a thoroughly depressing and disappointing horrific afternoon at work, I eventually returned to this book to help lift my spirits some tonight.Definitely a FIVE OUT OF FIVE rating!!

Okay, so I have a Blackberry 9700 and I have the Kindle application on my phone. I was browsing through the library and found this book. It sounded remarkably like the guy I followed on Twitter so I decided to read the excerpt and realized it was! So I purchased the book and have been reading it in my downtime at work and I have to say that I have been laughing all day! I could not believe that someone's dad was this vulgar but at the same time at least you always knew what he was talking about and did not try to push things under the carpet like a lot of sensitive people tend to do these days. I am enjoying every moment and cannot wait to get home and order a pizza and finish this book.For the people who are complaining that the book was too vulgar, I refer you to the title. If you have profanity in the title, what made you think it was going to be innocent like "A River Runs through It"? In this day and age it seems that everyone is so uptight. You can't say this; you can't say that, etc. It's nice to see someone who was not afraid of his own shadow in his own house and who was not afraid to stick up for his son's when needed-be. My mother was not as frank as he was but she certainly has had her time or two down at the schools defending me and my siblings. I say that times, work, economy is so hard on everyone right now. Sometimes you need to just sit back and ask yourself "what did he just say??" and have a good long laugh instead of bringing more unhappiness in your life by over-analyzing and complaining all the time. You have enough of that and I certainly do. We call this sort of humor close to what is termed "grave-yard humor", especially with the line about the dog. So stop complaining, sit back, grab a beer and some pizza, and laugh!I know this is not supposed to be a literary genius book and I am good with that. Again, my life is stressful and I am tired and I just like the fact that I could just laugh because I have not genuinely done so in a very long time! Hope you all enjoy it as much as I did! 5 stars all the way!

Soit on sourit soit on rit ! Attention il faut l’acheter en VO sinon ça n’a aucun intérêt.

It is a very easy to read pleasurable book, filled with daily suggestions on how to live your life said in a blunt, funny, and especially true words, if your day has gone wrong this is the best book to cheer you up and it is also true

Libro brutal, me encanta las historietas que cuenta, y la verdad que muy bueno y también para practicar el ingles viene de lujo. Un a de las pocas compras de libros en ingles recomendadas.

The things explained in a very nice manner. Read it thrice. Give it a try. Happy reading for sure. Thank you

loved this book.... ... great for the metro to workand not too long.. very funny..must read... Iwas disappointed it was quite short