
Why Do Men Have Nipples?
Hundreds of Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Martini
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Finally, answers to all those strange questions you'd like to ask your own doctor but haven't had the guts (or more likely the time) to do so. If you've ever wanted to ask a doctor:
- How do people in wheelchairs have sex?
- Why do I get a killer headache when I suck down my milkshake too fast?
- Can I lose my contact lens inside my head forever?
- Why does asparagus make my pee smell?
- Why do old people grow hair on their ears?
- Is the old adage "beer before liquor, never sicker, liquor before beer...", really true?
...then Why Do Men Have Nipples? is the book for you.
Compiled by Billy Goldberg, an emergency medicine physician, and Mark Leyner, best-selling author and well-known satirist, Why Do Men Have Nipples? offers real factual and really funny answers to some of the big questions about the oddities of our bodies.
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"Urban legends and perennial wonders get a witty treatment in this lighthearted guide to largely inconsequential yet intriguing aspects of the human body." (Publishers Weekly)
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- Nils J. Rasmussen
- 05-25-13
Excellent Information... Horrible Dialogue....
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The informational content in this book is really quite fascinating, BUT... The authors keep going off on tangents about THEMSELVES, and dictations of (supposedly) humorous conversations between them.I think this would be a GREAT read on paper, (so you have the option of skipping through all the self-indulgent banter), but the audio format is a bit painful to listen to. Don't get me wrong, there ARE tons of interesting gems of questions sprinkled throughout the text. The only problem is that you have to sit through minutes of boredom at a time to get to them...6.5 / 10
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- Michael
- 03-12-06
Banter just does not make it
I loved the actual contect part of the book, why things are. It is just the senseless banter between the two writers that makes the book difficult to listen to.
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- J. A. Endres
- 10-22-22
Did not age well
This book is almost 20 years old now, and while the medical insights may hold, the delivery is well outdated. An over abundance of sophomoric and misogynistic jokes had me cringing for the authors and lamenting my own purchase. While the intended affect is no doubt fun and levity, it misses the mark anymore.
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- patrick sichmeller
- 06-12-15
Interesting book that fell kinda flat
Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed every minute of this tail but it wasn't what I was expecting. The book asked several questions an then proposed a simple answer or occasionally simply stated that we didn't know. I was expecting a slightly more robust set of tails aka the way Malcolm Gladwell did his books.
It was a enjoyable ride but I feel that for this book, the format would have been much improved from a physical copy rather than an audio one.
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- JustScott
- 01-24-06
Could have been much better
At times this book is exactly what the reader is expecting it to be, medical answers to common questions/misconceptions about the human body.
HOWEVER, to get there, you must absolutely suffer through tedious dialogues between the book's co-authors.
My recommendation, sorry audible, is to get the paper copy of this one. It will be far easier to skip the nonsense.
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- damg1
- 12-03-05
Whitless Self-Absorbed Banter Gets in the Way.
Couple nitwits (one a numbingly self-absored writer and the other a doctor) posing and answering cocktail-party medical questions that you can find better answers to on Google. I guess the banter between the two authors is supposed to be funny. It's not. After 10 minutes it was like chewing aluminum foil. Save your money.
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- Lara
- 09-14-06
Self serving but interesting
The authors seem to have written this book for their own amusement and it is heavy with information about them. Some of the anecdotes are amusing, but overall disappointing
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- Jeff
- 11-20-08
Interesting, with gratuitous IM-ing
The book covers lots of interesting medical questions... many of them with answers that went against my preconceptions. I could do without the pointless instant-messaging chatter... mildly amusing, at best.
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- Jayce
- 10-30-06
Worse than expected
The actual science in the book is fairly interesting, but someone needs to tell the authors they're not funny... at all. Way too little information.
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- Rob
- 03-05-13
I was expecting more
Billy Goldberg is very entertaining on his show. The book, however, did not go into much depth on the topics. I think that the creative writing focused on interaction between the two authors rather than providing memorable anecdotes about the topic under discussion.
The concept is great, and a rewrite would possibly turn this into a huge hit, but I cannot recommend the book in its current form
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