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)

Like a bad term paper..

Yes, I agree with most of the other reviewers. The authors think much more of themselves than I do.

The main problem that I have is the lack of science. Like a bad term paper it is more filler than substance: at least the first hour. The speaker spent most of that time explaining how he and his physician friend fell in love and decided to write a book together.

As a person trained in science, I must admit that only one fourth of the book was listen to. So shoot me - it was necessary to bail. As penance for downloading this mistake, I will go download a Scientific American book.

Don't waste your money

The most insightful thing these two idiots have to say is... well.. I guess there is nothing insightful. I was looking forward to a funny book with a bit of education thrown in there. Maybe some good little tidbits for conversation at a party. When they get to the medical questions, basically the answer is recited out of a medical journal. Nothing the commom person could ever remember (or want to). Better explanations are found through google.

Plus it's hard to listen to such pompous jerks talk about how much money they are being paid. For WHAT?? Some crappy book that was reviewed in People Magazine, therefore brought in a bunch of traffic. PLEASE, don't give them a dime. And shame on Time Warner for giving them the free publicity.

What does dreck sound like?

Dennis is right on the mark. A very trivial book is padded mercilessly with stuff that the authors thought was funny when they were drunk. It isn't. With the printed version, you could skip rapidly over the worthless filler material and finish the whole thing in fifteen minutes or so, and it would still be useful as kindling for the fireplace. With the audio version, you're stuck for a much longer time, and when you're finished you have nothing but the memory of time wasted.

Awful and Sexist

The sexism and misogyny are unbelievable! I couldn't get through chapter 1 before I was too angry to continue. This book is just two patronizing assholes on a mansplaining spree.

What a Snoozer!

The setting of this "story" jumps from 2 Doctors mingling at a party, to an IM conversation they are having, to just plain dictation of medical jargon. Their conversations outside of answeing the medical questions makes no sense and was just a plain waste of time. Some of the questions were interesting, but the explanations were over my head and I therefore didn't learn much.

The only advice I got from this book that I understood and can remember is, "Don't hold in a sneeze". I just saved you 4+ hours of listening time, a massive sinus infection, and a couple of bucks I hope - Skip this one.

No words.

Not my choice of material, could not make it through to the end. I wonder now what possessed me to by in the first place.

really stupid

not worth listening to even for free

What a Snoozer!

The setting of this "story" jumps from 2 Doctors mingling at a party, to an IM conversation they are having, to just plain dictation of medical jargon. Their conversations outside of answeing the medical questions makes no sense and was just a plain waste of time. Some of the questions were interesting, but the explanations were over my head and I therefore didn't learn much.

The only advice I got from this book that I understood and can remember is, "Don't hold in a sneeze". I just saved you 4+ hours of listening time, a massive sinus infection, and a couple of bucks I hope - Skip this one.