Another book I'd rather have skimmed in the bookstore than actually owned, but this came my way as a Christmas gift a few years ago. It was interesting, and I learned a few things I probably could have easily googled myself if I'd actually had questions about, but it's by no means worth a re-read and could have been at least 50 pages shorter. ( )

Some wierd and wonderful and downright strange beyond belief facts or fictions?? Made for a lot of laughs and 'ah-ha' moments. ( )

This book is pretty light weight. The font is big, and there is lots of "chrome" on the pages, which conspire to make a book which would probably be only 100 pages in a normal font more like 200 pages. The book also suffers from trying a little too hard to be funny, with numerous interruptions for the authors to tell you how terribly clever they are. Its annoying quite quickly. The answers also aren't as detailed and believable as those found to similar questions in "Why don't penguin's feet freeze? (and 114 other questions)", the New Scientist book I just finished reading. I'd say go with the New Scientist book if you're buying something, but read this if you're given it.

http://www.stillhq.com/book/Mark_Leyn... ( )

I picked this book up a couple of years ago because the title was just too good to pass up. "Why Do Men Have Nipples? Hundreds of Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Martini" was a quick and hilarious read. Fascinating questions like "Why does sweat stink and stain?" and "Why do people seem more attractive to you when you are drunk?" are just two of the burning questions presented. Surprisingly enough, the answers (OK MOST of the answers) are truly given from the medical point of view.

After reading this book, I can only wonder at the parties the author/s have been going to. Of course, having occasionally (in the far, far past of course) fallen victim to tipsy (OK, drunken) ponderings, maybe I can understand...but I would hope I'd never ask a stranger. If you enjoy this book (and I certainly did, as did my teenagers) then you need to pick up the sequel "Why Do Men Fall Asleep After Sex? More Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Whiskey Sour." ( )

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- ( )

A cute, witty factbook. It's like those conversations you have at 3 in the morning with friends, except someone has all the answers to your stupid questions you only have a nerve to ask at 3 in the morning. ( )

This is one of those fun little books full of trivia. The authors present a number of strange medical questions (admit it, you've wondered about one or two of them), and the answers. The only downside of this book is the IM banter-annoying, pointless, and yet refered to often enough within the text to actually need to read it. ( )

Although the facts are interesting the link pieces are annoying at best and truly disjointed at worst, I suppose it's ment to show the mind-set and how they link from one issue to another but a few more interesting factoids would have been more fun for me.
Sans link pieces and with more facts they would have probably scored a 4 or more. ( )

Unimpressive. Most of this I already know from former career as x-ray tech, and common sense. Could have been better IMO. ( )

Long at 217 large-print pages, this unfunny humor book – padded with IM exchanges between the authors in which they discuss, apparently presciently, how much money they're going to make with this drivel.
The answers are usually underexplained and sometimes nonsensical. Z. opened it at random to the question "do men need sex more than women?" to which their answer is "yes," because MRIs showed that men were aroused more than women by pictures of people having sex. Z. pointed out that, since they didn't have women read erotica, all that proved was that things that arouse men more than women arouse men more than women. And of course, even had the study actually shown that men want sex more than women, need wouldn't have much to do with it – I have yet to hear of a man actually dying of blue balls. Though it would be funny, unlike this book. ( )

Very humorous. The answers were easy to comprehend and actually made sense. I've always wondered why people get the munchies when high! ( )