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Why Do Men Have Nipples? Hundreds of Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Martini | 
 enlarge | Authors: Mark Leyner, Billy Goldberg
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  242 reviews
Sales Rank: 9711
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
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Pages: 224
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Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5 x 0.2
ISBN: 1400082315
Dewey Decimal Number: 610
EAN: 9781400082315
ASIN: 1400082315
Publication Date: July 26, 2005
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Product Description
Is There a Doctor in the House?
Say you’re at a party. You’ve had a martini or three, and you mingle through the crowd, wondering how long you need to stay before going out for pizza. Suddenly you’re introduced to someone new, Dr. Nice Tomeetya. You forget the pizza. Now is the perfect time to bring up all those strange questions you’d like to ask during an office visit with your own doctor but haven’t had the guts (or more likely the time) to do so. You’re filled with liquid courage . . . now is your chance! 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.
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 Disappointing January 4, 2009
Overall, I was disappointed by this book. I didn't feel that I really learned anything new. In fact, the "humor" seemed to get in the way of any intersting medical facts.
Also, one glaring error made me question the whole book: On page 168, the writers mistakenly write that "In "Pulp Fiction," John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson are trying to save Uma Thurman from a drug overdose . . ." Actually, Samuel L. Jackson was not anywhere in that scene. In fact, his character did not appear in almost any part of that section of the movie. By this time in the story (chronologically), his character had "left the life" of being a gangster, after having delivered the case to Marsellus. Come on, if you can't get that right, then don't even put that cultural reference in the book.
In any case, I think that Goldberg might want to consider writing books on his own in the future, without the "help" and "humor" of Leyner.
Finally, as mentioned elsewhere, the cocktail party sections at the beginning of each chapter were particularly bad.
 B-O-R-I-N-G December 31, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Let me start by saying that this book is poorly written. It is full of fluff (including IM messages between the authors and a highly implausible series of segue narratives) that stretches the book beyond its 20 page text. Honestly, the bulk of this information could be found in a Google or Wikipedia search with a lot more information. It's elementary education that most of us learned but didn't pay attention to in high school. Pass!
Drunk doctor and friend make money with lies and lame tales of bad medicine. December 8, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book reminded me of cheap bar bathroom rants. The medicine is not accurate. The authors put in topics then refuse to discuss that topic as if it is too inane for discussion. Then why even include the topic? This was the worst book I have ever had the displeasure of trying to read. Perhaps you have to be heavily sedated to read it.
 Lighthearted, Silly, and Quite Possibly Informative October 11, 2008
Why Do Men Have Nipples?, a book of medical Q&A's, has the potential to both delight and mortify.
This book contains many odd and interesting questions. Some questions are ones I'd always wondered about - old wives tales and such - and some are ones I had never considered.
This book paints a humorous portrait of the two personalities behind the book: witty Dr. Goldberg and obnoxiously funny Mark Leyner. The duo seem to have a penchant for bathroom humor, which can get a little stale during the whole chapter devoted to waste-related questions. Still, the book moves quickly, never lingering on a particular question for too long, sometimes offering too brief answers.
Jokes and anecdotes keep the book-cum-trivia collection - light and funny. The answers are explained simply and humorously, and they aren't too verbose or complicated. Great for anyone looking for a good laugh and a little more knowledge- just keep in mind that it's not chock-full of serious answers.
Disappointing August 19, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Very, very little actual medical information. The research is lacking and questions are answered very briefly. The answers provided are not reasonable answers to questions they wrote themselves. It seems like a book that was churned out in a weekend. This book could have been much more but it ended up just being an entire book of filler.
Even though it's ridiculously short, the authors added more inane filler between answering questions. The actual interesting content of this book is easily less than a third of its total (puny) volume. Don't waste your time.
I would recommend a book in the same genre that is way, way more interesting and informative: The Hypochondriac's Guide to Life. And Death.
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