In the true punk spirit of "contempt for the audience". I asked for people's book recommendations, and ignored them all.There was a book on the Bestseller list recently called "Why Do Men Have Nipples?"I saw this and wanted to check it out, of course. Books like this (to me) are instant bestsell...
Okay, so the rundown is as follows. This is a Mark Leyner book, and like the previous book I reviewed by him (The Sugar-Frosted Nutsack), it's a strange and difficult read for anyone not looking for off-the-wall absurdity. While not as difficult a read as some of his other works, it's st...
This is a really weird book, sort of Joycean stream-of-consciousness, pop cultural ramblings. There is almost no narrative to any of the short stories in the collection, rather there are just wild linguistic riffs that bounce all over the place. That said, the language is snappy and fun, someti...
You know, this book is funny. Leyner is writing it. Therefore it is funny. It is really a 3 star book. But I'm punishing it with one star. Why?Leyner is a modern genius. Tetherballs at Bougainville is a masterpiece. My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist is also a masterpiece. I waited SEVEN long years...
Hundreds of Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Martini CONTENTS TITLE PAGEDEDICATIONACKNOWLEDGMENTSPREFACEINTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1. YOU ARE WHAT YOU EATDoes it really take seven years to digest chewing gum?Why does your pee smell when you eat asparagus?Does sugar really make kids hy...
Ike’s Agony:Why His Own Family Fears for His Life How his obsession with polytheism and martyrdom (and online porn) is tearing his family apart. Ruthie lashes out! She leaks X-rated pics of Ike, and gossips about La Felina’s “sham marriage” to Fast-Cooking Ali. T.S.F.N. Shocker: 99% of All Unma...
CHAPTER 1BATTLE OF THE SEXESIt’s 9 A.M. Leyner and I are sitting in our office, awaiting our first patients. After finishing Why Do Men Have Nipples?, we decided to go into practice together. Leyner’s BA in English and Masters in creative writing hardly qualified him to treat patients, and his ad...