Why Do Men Have Nipples?

Hundreds of Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Martini

By: Mark Leyner, Billy Goldberg

Narrated by: Mark Leyner

Length: 4 hrs and 42 mins

Publisher's summary

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.

©2005 Mark Leyner and Billy Goldberg (P)2005 HarperCollins Publishers

Critic reviews

"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)

Horrible!

Neither informative nor entertaining. Total waste of time,

Crude Sophomoric Attempt at Humor

I totally agree with the other posts.

This book mainly consists of sophomoric bathroom humor. And I use the term humor very loosely.

It is crude and non-informative.

There are very few answers to questions posed and even those answers that are included are inconclusive.

The Instant Messaging conversations that are included make no sense other than as filler to extend the length of the book.

I would definitely pass on this book.

Bad language, a real disappointment

The information could have been interesting but the endless banter and the very BAD landguage was to much. I did not finish the book. I rate this as one of the worst books I ever purchased.

Why do talentless people write books?

Would that I had read these other reviews before purchasing this audio book. Oy! Bad attempt at Borsht-belt humor from two self-absorbed New Yawkers. The topic could have been fun and an interesting listen if the authors were less intent on padding out their meager book(let) with their own mindless prattle, and actually answered some of the questions they asked. Answers are short, abrupt and incomplete, and what could have been fun romp through medical human interest stuff was instead a complete waste of time.

Sadly Unfunny

I never believed I would actually "learn" anything significant from the book; but I DID think it would be humorous. I was right about learning little, but sadly mistaken with regard to humor. These authors (and the publisher) somehow thought it would be interesting for us to read/listen to their little computer "chats." They were wrong. I fortunately wasted only 90 minutes of my life before I stopped and deleted the audio file. Unfortunately, I cannot get that 90 minutes of my life back.

Can't recommend

This is the first review I have written in my 18 months as an audible subscriber, but I am writing this one to save others from picking this book. I was disappointed in:

- The sophomoric tone of the writing

- The immense amount of wasted text describing their senseless Instant Messaging conversations

- The few and far between insights into medical questions.

The only really clever aspect of this book is the title and this is probaby one of the reasons why this book is on so many best seller lists.

Ick!

Gad zukes! Not only doesn't the book answer many of the questions it posits, but also its many useless digressions are often in extremely poor taste. Thank you very much, but I don't care to hear a stroke-by-stroke description of one of the author's masturbatory experiences. The worst part: The authors think they are funny -- hilarious, in fact -- but more of the humor is embarrassing on the cringe-producing level. Trust the reviews here. I had to launder my iPod after I sullied it with this dreck.

Your kidding right?

When this book did address the medical questions, I found it interesting, and sometimes entertaining. However, the chat logs between the authors were pointless, in bad taste and dragged on endlessly.

Not a bad attempt for a doctors first try, but horrible from the perspective of a "seasoned writer" as his cohort purports to be.

This is one book I would return if I could.

Don't waste your time

Between talking about how much money they will make for their stupid book the pose but don't answer half the questions.

Irritating

The authors think they are much funnier than they are - a waste of time.