Why Do Men Have Nipples?

De: Mark Leyner, Billy Goldberg

Narrado por: Mark Leyner

Is There a Doctor in the House?

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, bestselling 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

Excellent Information... Horrible Dialogue....

Any additional comments?

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

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.

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This book is almost 20 years old now, and while the medical insights may hold, the delivery is well outdated.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.

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.

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.