Magazine Subscriptions

[sweetnpetite]

I got lost over at Amazon again and found myself discoving all sorts of political, spiritual, and health magazines along with a few odds and ends. I found things about magazines I'd heard of but never considered reading along with a plethora of worthwhile magazines I'd never even heard of. I could never subscribe to *all* the ones I would want to.

Anyway, it led me to be curious and to ask over here. What magazines do you subscribe to or read often? IF you are political, particularly, do you read across the spectum or do you just read for examle, liberal, conservative, progressive, libertarian, socialist, feminist, ect. publications?

Also, what is your light reading?

And what are your guilty pleasures?

If your not political- same questions. Do you have complaints about your magazines (ie. repetious, to fluffy, to dry, to much sizzle and not enough steak?). What would you change if you could. (maybe another reader will be able to give you suggestions)

In reading through reader comments, I found that many magazines that were too hard core for some wheren't hard core enough for others. Some where too fluffy for some but to serious for others. This is not a place to judge each others reading choices, just a bit of study of sweet's curiosity, and hopefull a place where we can help each other find something we've never known that we were always looking for.

 

[tolyk]

I don't subscribe to any magazines, but I do pick up a couple as often as I can.

Photolife, a canadian photography magazine. It has taught me a lot, and I enjoy the articles. I guess it would be considered light reading.

As for guilty pleasures, I'd have to go with Swank I love the articles, they're funny as hell, and they do great photo shoots, though often too repetative.

 

[lil_elvis]

We subscribe to Newsweek and I generally give it a read - not every article, but at least the lead paragraphs of everything. The Wall Street Journal get delivered here everyday and during lunch I'll read the front page as it's got a good summary of world and national news (and x-referenced to detailed articles within if I want to know more) as well as the op-ed page and the letters/rebuttals to get both sides.

Also get the local paper at home and give it a look see after work.

Guilty pleasures (sorry no porn - who needs it when you've got lit?) are cooking mags: Fine Cooking and Cooks' Illustrated. They're both great if you like to cook. No fluff on trendy restaurants/resorts/travel. Just in depth articles on a technique or one specific recipe or food science all geared to cooking at home (no $300 duck presses or other special gadgetry required). Might be why I'm perpetually looking to lose about 10 lbs.

 

[glynndah]

I subscribe to Newsweek, National Geographic and Discover. I'll read anything I can get my hands on. A guilty pleasure used to be those "true" confession magazines such as True Story, True Confessions, etc. Supposedly true stories of women and their problems, modern day morality tales. Typical title, "I cheated on my husband and now my baby's dead." I haven't read one in ages, but I saw an ad for one a few weeks ago so I guess they're still around.

 

[lil_elvis]

I subscribe to Newsweek, National Geographic and Discover. I'll read anything I can get my hands on. A guilty pleasure used to be those "true" confession magazines such as True Story, True Confessions, etc. Supposedly true stories of women and their problems, modern day morality tales. Typical title, "I cheated on my husband and now my baby's dead." I haven't read one in ages, but I saw an ad for one a few weeks ago so I guess they're still around.

And I can't resist reading the headlines in the National Inquirer (and their ilk) while waiting in the grocery check out line.

 

[sweetnpetite]

I subscribe to Newsweek, National Geographic and Discover. I'll read anything I can get my hands on. A guilty pleasure used to be those "true" confession magazines such as True Story, True Confessions, etc. Supposedly true stories of women and their problems, modern day morality tales. Typical title, "I cheated on my husband and now my baby's dead." I haven't read one in ages, but I saw an ad for one a few weeks ago so I guess they're still around.

they are

I hear they are a very lucrative market.

 

[sweetnpetite]

And I can't resist reading the headlines in the National Inquirer (and their ilk) while waiting in the grocery check out line.

My baby's daddy is a two headed ailien!


And i'm suing him for child support.

 

[lil_elvis]

My baby's daddy is a two headed ailien!


And i'm suing him for child support.

Hey, I met that guy!

 

[sophia jane]

I get lots of magazines, but I don't necessarily read them all every month. I get Cosmo, Entertainment Weekly, Child, Parenting, Parents, Fitness, Shape, and a few others I can't remember now. I'm thinking about subscribing to Newsweek, but I don't at the moment.

(For anyone doing magazine shopping, check ebay first. Lots of times you can get bundle deals- like I got the three parenting mags for three years each for less than $10 total. )

 

[glynndah]

The Weekly World News is the one to read. All the others are getting too high-faluting and putting on airs. Color photographs and slick paper! Really! If you want to read about Bat Boy and his courtship, how to tell if your neighbor is a space alien and the currently forecasted date for the end of the world in black and white with obviously faked genuine artists' renditions in pulpy black and white so the ink rubs off and gets your hands filthy like God intended, the WWN is the paper for you.

 

[impressive]

Ugh. Magazine subscriptions. School fundraising. *shudder*

 

[Dar~]

I subscribe to Cooking Light. It is an awsome magazine. I do agree With Lil e though I really don't care for articles about good places to eat, I want to make home a good place to eat.

My husband gets Men's Health

 

[JRaven]

My baby's daddy is a two headed ailien!


And i'm suing him for child support.

So, which head are you suing?

I get National Geographic and Reader's Digest.

Actually, my husband get the NatGeo. He has the same name his father had. So, when his dad died, he just put in a change of address. It still says, "Member since 1961". My oldest son also has the same name. (real creative, huh?) He has already stated that he'll do the same, put in a change of address. When our son turns 75, he will have been a member of National Geographic for 100 years.

I like to sit up in bed and read an article in the Reader's Digest before going to sleep.

Otherwise, I get three different trade magazines related to work.

Jenny

 

[R. Richard]

I get Chess Review, Inside Kung-Fu, Muscle and Fitness and Scientific American. I also read Investor's Business Daily which is more of a newspaper than a magazine.

 

[yui]

In Style and Mental Floss.

 

[logophile]

Midwifery Today

 

[dr_mabeuse]

It seems to me that if you want to write well, you should inundate yourself with the best writing you can find. That's why the New Yorker is a joy. Everything in there is just so beautifully written. I subscribed because I was embarrassed by how many times I swiped the mag from my doctors' and dentists' offices because I had to finish an article or a story.

Their cartoons are my guilty pleasure.

I also get Atlantic and Harper's, but really, they've become awfully predictable. And Biblical Archaeology Review, because the stuff fascinates me. (About a year ago someone found a stone ossuary or box that purportedly once contained the bones of Jesus's brother James. Big Hoo Hah in the biblical archaeology community. Turned out to be a skillful forgery.)

Stopped getting Model Railroader because I disagreed with their new editorial policy.

Online I subscribe to some science update e-mag, and Chemical & Engineering News, the organ of the American Chemical Society.

--Zoot

 

[Alex756]

KMT - its my fav of the egyptology mags.

guilty pleasures... I admit to reading WAY too much teen fluff in waiting rooms. Its like I swear my Drs either have highlights, some teen fluff or feild and stream.

Recently one of my favorite horse magazines went out of business so I am in the market for a new one.

Oh and I have yet to find a good salt water fish mag, everything is fresh water.

-Alex

 

[cheerful_deviant]

OK, let's see here...

TIME, Newsweek, Family Fun, Parents, National Geographic, Car & Driver.

Oh, and some Cooking Light rag that a kid going door to door fundraising suckered me into.

Edited to add: Engineering News Report, commonly knows as ENR.