Where Do Nudists Keep Their Hankies? by Mitchell Symons
...and other questions you never thought to ask
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Published by Bantam Press, out November 2nd, hardback, 224 pages, £9.99.
In a nutshell.
Humorous, interesting, easy reading, entertaining
What's it all about?
Mitchell Symons takes the reader on a whirlwind tour of numerous questions related to sex and adult subjects. Finding answers to questions that many people have probably wondered at least once in their lives, Symons brings a quirky subject matter to life calling on the experiences of his mates and certain contacts he made when researching his previous books.
Questions such as 'why is it called the missionary position?' and 'do nuns and priests have to be virgins?' are a couple of the more printable examples of the "adult mysteries" that Symons sheds some light on, in a lighthearted and readable way.
Who's it by?
Mitchell Symons is a columnist for the Sunday Express and the author of trivia work That Book, This Book, The Other Book and Why Girls Can't Throw, a similar question-related book. He was also a principal writer of early editions of Trivial Pursuit. Fact.
As an example.
On 'can eunuchs have sex?'
:
"Fascinating question; prosaic answer. Some and some. Though there aren't too many around these days - harems not being what they once were - eunuchs have always fallen into two types: those without balls who could still have sex (even if their chat up lines might be a bit shrill) and those without any tackle at all who, er, couldn't.
And that's that."
Likelihood of becoming a Hollywood blockbuster
None, nadda, nil.
What the others say
"Hilarious, a little bit rude but amazingly enlightening," Amazon.co.uk
So is it any good?
The book is a great light and funny read and would make a great Christmas gift for the grown man who still giggles at toilet jokes. Each question involves Symons talking to either his mates in the same way any guy would (and probably has) in the pub or to an expert that he likes to ridicule or compliment in the lead-in. When all is said and done and you breeze through the 220 odd pages, you probably won't know much more than you did when you started reading it, but it'll be the most fun you ever had learning from a book.
7/10
Chris Webber