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Publisher: Three Rivers Press
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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| Lighthearted, Silly, and Quite Possibly Informative |
| Customer Rating: 4 out of 5 |
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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.
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| Disappointing |
| Customer Rating: 2 out of 5 |
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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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| This book was a disappointment |
| Customer Rating: 2 out of 5 |
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I had high hopes for this book--it promised to answer some nifty little trivia questions we might think of at odd moments, such as the title question. It does have some good answers to some good questions, and is accessibly written.
That said, it has disappointing answers to some questions too, such as what happens when you hold in intestinal gas. Rather than explaining that it's reabsorbed into the lower intestine and then... (or whatever does happen to the gas), they say it just goes away. So I still don't know what happens to it.
Even more disappointing is that the content-to-filler ratio is surprisingly low. The questions are interspersed with long descriptions of the authors at social get-togethers, with little explanation of its relevance to the book, and transcripts of IM sessions between the authors, chatting about the book they're writing, which don't add any useful content.
The book could have probably been improved by removing half of it and focusing better on the weak answers.
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| Great Title...So-So Book |
| Customer Rating: 3 out of 5 |
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You know...I got this book because I saw more than a few rave reviews of it on the 50 Book Challenge community...and boy am I glad that I got this from the library and didn't pay for it or use up a book credit on PBS. For the most part, I knew the answers to the questions already. For the ones I would have been interested in knowing more about, the answers were of the "no one really knows" variety and the remaining few were just not really answered, the question was avoided totally with some humor and they moved on quite quickly.
It has a few laugh out loud moments, but mostly it wasn't at all what the title promises it to be. The questions and answers, while humorously asked and answered are not REALLY answered in most cases or the answers are extremely vague to the point of being inane and useless. It wasn't an awful read...but if it had taken more than a couple of hours to read this, I'd be pissed...it's shallow, vague and utterly obvious that the editor/publisher did a pretty slick job with the title and cover, because those are about the most enticing things about Why do Men Have Nipples? I wouldn't recommend it, except maybe as a quick, slightly amusing read...it's not REALLY going to answer any of those questions that you've got wandering around in the back of your head...and the one's it does, you probably already know the answer to or there is no answer. This book is annoying in the way that those Discover Channel specials that claim to tell you the secret of the Bog People or some other such unknowable thing...when all they are really doing is presenting all the evidence and then telling you no on REALLY knows...I hate that. The title of the book (like the title of these types of programs) promise one thing, but deliver something significantly different...interesting and informative (or entertaining...and sometimes all three), but not really delivering what was promised. C-
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| entertaining fluff |
| Customer Rating: 4 out of 5 |
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Fluffily entertaining. Best to read waiting in line to buy a book with more meat on it.
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