Esto te mandará a dormir

by K. McCoy

Sleep smarter

‘The indispensable bedside classic’ Leland Carlson, Assistant Vice President of the Dull Men’s Club

This Book Will Send You to Sleep makes no claims to be fun or interesting. It is a book you can read in full confidence that you will find absolutely nothing to stimulate your brain. A book, like any other, that will afford you much sleep and copious amounts of pointless knowledge.

Where else will you read about the political crisis in Belgium 2007–2011 or the recent developments in the taxonomy of molluscs? And where else can you find, in one place: a summary of the administrative bureaucracy of the Byzantine Empire? a world almanac of pickled cucumbers? the measurement of the linear density of fibre?

'Prepare to fall fast asleep with the most boring book ever published' Tim Jones, sleep specialist

Genres: Nonfiction, Audiobook, Reference

Paperback

First published January 1, 2018

About the author

**Librarian note: There is more than one author on Goodreads with this name.**


K. McCoy is an independent author who enjoys writing across several genres.
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In her many years of self-publishing, she has traveled around the world, crafting stories based on real-world experiences, combined with hopeful possibilities. Using the knowledge gained within her authorship, K. McCoy now speaks to others virtually and in-person on a variety of subjects within the author community. And through those workshops, she helps authors write drama filled, heart gripping, and authentic stories.

​​​​As a serial hobbyist, you can find K. McCoy studying other languages, tinkering with an old camera, or trying out a new Yoga pose when she’s not writing or working on another bittersweet yet somehow still loveable story.
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You can find out how to connect with K.McCoy by visiting her on all socials under authorkmccoy.

Reviews

[🌶 peppersocks 🧦 · Rating 4 out of 5]

Reflections and lessons learned:
“There are at least 25 species of tubas and root crops across South America…”

This book has thankfully been there for me, within the first week of purchase, for the following sleep interruptions:

* Husband coughing fit
* My post dentist visit tooth change anxiety
* Son vomiting
* Pre work non alarm setting questioning (my subconscious was right - I hadn’t set it…)
* Husband snoring
* Horrific end of the world style war dream resulting in needing to check the house for fire/nuclear fallout

Oh what a week…! I’d have preferred the sleep but this nice settling new soundtrack consists of short descriptions on topics such as mushrooms, screw types, the story of the Lithuanian monarchy, chemical reactions read aloud, chopsticks etc… all rounded off by an hour of gentle sea sounds - lovely stuff, and not always as boring as intended to be! Glad to have something different for the random times to stop me turning to the very odd but compelling Larry Stylinson videos that I’ve only just discovered!

[the_czlowiek]

Ta książka jak żadna inna potrafiła oddać fenomen przeglądania losowych stron na Wikipedii o trzeciej w nocy.

[JiaJia · Rating 3 out of 5]

Effective but didn’t work for jet lag

[Sophia · Rating 3 out of 5]

2.5 stars on for interesting content.
2.5 stars off for not putting me to sleep.

[Zoë · Rating 1 out of 5]

literally had one job

[Andy Phillips · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was supposedly written to be boring, to help insomniacs get to sleep. I assume that's a joke, but it's written as if that's the case, consisting of something like 75 tedious articles. Each one is typically two pages long and some read like excerpts from existing textbooks, academic papers etc. as they don't all finish aftger two paages - the book just moves on to a another subject. I actually found the topics really funny, and in short bursts the humour comes from the fact that they really are boring subjects. Examples include:
- Recent developments in the taxonomy of molluscs
- A brief history of the eyechart
- A world almanac of pine cones
- The story of the Lithuanian monarchy
- A history of artichokes
-Cardboard box manufacturing

You get the idea. My one criticism is that some of the topics are pretty similar to one another. For example there's also a section on the taxonomy of mushrooms, which is pretty similar to the molluscs one listed above (essentially long lists of latin names and groups of species etc.). A few of the ideas are recycled and a few are just lists of things.

The articles I liked best were clearly written for the book. For example, there's one about how the pyramids were built, but done in such a way that it contains no facts or research and is a detailed description of laying blocks next to one another. It's actually quite clever in that it's so tedious and speculative.

Qutie a funny book. It would make a decent present. Perhaps it's best read in small doses, especially as there's no story so you don't have to remember what you've already read, so it can be over a long period.

[Rainer · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read it until the end. And then I fell asleep.

[Aidan W. · Rating 2 out of 5]

this honestly just doesn't work as a sleep aid.

It was in parts so boring that it's sometimes funny, but the joke wears off long before the 9 hours length of this book.
My favourite parts were the "administrative duties of civil servants in the Byzantine empire", details of how the pyramids were built only in terms of stones being dragged through sand and placed down, and some unforgettable quotes such as "Julius Caesar may have eaten artichokes".

Still tho, there's podcasts and audibooks that aren't designed to make you fall asleep which work much better than this as a sleep aid. and it couldn't even hold a candle to BBC Sounds's The Sleeping Forecast.

I'm glad it's over.

[Luis Andrés Serrallé Marentes · Rating 5 out of 5]

Vamos, foi velo na tenda e quedéi namorado. Un libro que pretende aburrirte e poñerte a durmir. Manexa temas tan apixoantes como a burocracia administrativa no imperio bizantino ou os primeiros anos do reinado dos Habsburgo. Penguin nunca deixa de abraiarme, bravo!!

[sashi · Rating 4 out of 5]

i don't remember a word of it, which is how you know it worked perfectly

[Lulu · Rating 4 out of 5]

Was out like a light.

[Helena Geúve · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was excellent as an audiobook. The perfect amount of pointless information so that your brain doesn't want to engage and stay awake. Better than ASMR

[Amanda Lavelle · Rating 4 out of 5]

My audible app tells me I've finished this book. Can't tell you much about it as I kept falling to sleep- so I guess it worked!

[Alicja Górska · Rating 4 out of 5]

https://krytyk.com.pl/literatura/najn...

"Początkowo sądziłam, że nazwanie lektury „Najnudniejszą książką świata” jest chwytem marketingowym użytym na zasadzie kontrastu. Spodziewałam się, że kiedy ją otworzę, to zaleje mnie masa niezwykle frapujących informacji lub historii. Nic bardziej mylnego! Ta książka naprawdę jest absurdalnie nudna. No, chyba że interesuje was np. historia żwiru albo konwencja wiedeńska o ruchu drogowym – to prawdziwe przykłady tytułów rozdziałów ze zbioru McCoya i Hardwicka. Chcecie więcej? Proszę bardzo: objaśnienie różnych angielskich nazw ściegów, miary gęstości liniowej włókien, różne rozmiary i kolory cegieł używanych w Wielkiej Brytanii…"

[Jen]

DNF audiobook an hour or so after lying awake listening to it in bed. Wasn’t helping me to sleep (too disjointed for that) and I didn’t find it funny at all either (classified as Comedy/Humour in my borrowing app). Oh well.

[Natalie · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have listened to the audio of this book every night for the last 3-4 months. Not sure I’ve actually listened to it all, however… some nights, it’s every effective at putting me to sleep. Others… takes a bit longer. But, I have appreciated it, none the less.

[linh · Rating 5 out of 5]

Something about the anatomy of the Lithuanian construction of the square root pyramids. Though I can't tell or remember anything cause I was sleeping through most of it. It is still being played on repeat for me.

[Marta · Rating 3 out of 5]

Mniej nudna niż moja praca ;)

[Desirée · Rating 3 out of 5]

I mean... It said it was to be boring. It was. Did it send me to sleep? Meh.

[inkiawa · Rating 3 out of 5]

2 stars for the content
1 star for not making me sleep

[Ola · Rating 3 out of 5]

Haven't finished as I fell asleep.

[Karlien · Rating 3 out of 5]

It did

[Frida OG · Rating 5 out of 5]

Muchos datos randoms

[George Berridge · Rating 5 out of 5]

Did not finish. Fell asleep every time I tried. Five stars.

[Maria-Jose Cebrian · Rating 5 out of 5]

Except the first chapter (belgian politics) , I found the book made its purpose, to put me to sleep. Thanks for the useless facts and sleeping hours

[Julie · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 stars. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn’t; sometimes it was kinda hilarious.

[Josie Bembridge · Rating 5 out of 5]

Does exactly what it says. Sometimes I wake up, listen to some random facts about carpets or the post office & fall back to sleep.

[Dawn Campbell · Rating 4 out of 5]

Did the trick!

[Lysh · Rating 5 out of 5]

The most boring book I've ever listened to. But it did what it said it would!

[Melissa · Rating 4 out of 5]

It works