false 132900 0553588729 9780553588729 1744 620 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172014288m/132900.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/132900.The_Happiest_Baby_on_the_Block_The_New_Way_to_Calm_Crying_and_Help_Your_Newborn_Baby_Sleep_Longer 1017070 Harvey Karp 2647 915 1 4 true Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Fri May 09 21:05:52 -0700 2008 Fri May 09 22:37:23 -0700 2008
4 years of medical school and better than 4th grade writing skills can generate a book like this. You know what? Forget it: Just make your last name MD. Have someone fill in the sources and make the book run a bit over 100 pages. The fact that Americans (including myself) are looking for instructions allows tripe like this onto the bookshelf to sell millions of copies. It's also why serious literary talent like Mark Leyner will probably never write a postmodernist masterpiece like Tetherballs at Bougainville again: because his medical book, Why Do Men Have Nipples, coauthored with another MD (Billy Goldberg) sold more copies than all of his real masterpieces combined.

You know what? James Joyce's literary masterpiece, Ulysses, has fewer stars than this piece of crap. Is there no God?!?! ]]>