title: Strongly dislike this product but there is that auto renewal that ...

text: Strongly dislike this product but there is that auto renewal that continues to renew my subscription and I just get so caught up I haven't been able to cancel.  #hgtvmagazinerocks


title: Blah - Utter Crap

text:
Rolling Stone takes itself way too seriously. It's a magazine about the entertainment industry. At least "Us" and "People" know their limits.
Beyond that, they've turned into complete pop journalism. Their stories are stale and the topics have been covered by other magazines months or years before them.
For example, at the time of the writing of this review, Dec. 2003, the cover has Brittney on it. "Brittney Who?" I have to ask. Her career is already on the decline, and Rolling Stone features her half-nude on the cover.
Let's ignore the up and coming bands with talent, let's ignore the state of the music scene. Instead, let's indulge in pop journalism and try to write unskilled articles about politics and other things that have nothing to do with music.
When I want news, I'll read the NYT or the WSJ. When I want to read about music, I'll have to look elsewhere. For only when I want to read low-intellect pretentious crap will I pick up this full-color bird cage liner


title: Would probably be great if I was middle-aged

text: Amazon offered me a subscription for this for $2. I'm really interested in food, health, etc. so I thought it would be a good read. It's not bad, but I can't relate to half the articles because they're directed at women over 40. I'm 24.


title: This is a gift.

text: I order this for my daughter every year and she love's it.  Will continue to subscribe as long she enjoys it.


title: Sew Beautiful

text: Beautiful magazine with patterns and instructions. Great pictures of projects.Can not wait for next ediction to arrive at my home.


title: Great story

text: Great magazine


title: Legalized soon in this state

text: Great articles


title: Good but not great

text: It’s good but not what I was expecting to read


title: Enjoy the magazine

text:
I find this magazine a nice capture of what is going on in Orlando. While I miss Scott Joseph's food reviews, (He's at Orlando Home and Leisure at the time I'm writing this review) I enjoyed the reviews in the 7/2010 and 8/2010 issues.

Calendar listing is great and the annual dining awards are reason enough to subscribe.


title: Always meets my expectations

text:
Never disappointed in their articles - always something interesting.
I like the do it yourself articles - especially electronics.
I've even learned how to use carpentry tools from PM!


title: Fun & inspiring

text: A good magazine for fashion suggestions for all ages plus some great ideas for do-it-yourself cosmetic & fashion creations.  I look forward to each issue.


title: My daughter now wants to get into Yoga

text: My daughter who is now into Yoga, wanted this magazine.  Amazon always has good prices.  So it was very easy to order.  It did not take as long as we thought.


title: Yoga Journal

text: I love this magazine.  I ordered during an amazon promotion and am so glad I did.  I started getting the mag well before the expected arrival date and I just love it.  It has wonderful tips and is a very peaceful magazine.  I highly recommend it for anyone who loves yoga.  :)


title: Wonderful!

text: I purchased this magazine for my mother who is a yoga fanatic.  She teaches it, breathes it, lives it, and found this gift a wonderful addition to her daily lessons.  The tips and suggestions have been very insightful and beneficial!  She has been very grateful!


title: Love this magazine

text: Love this magazine, I always take out the pages with the poses on them and put them on a 3 ring binder!  I now have my own reference guide!


title: Five Stars

text: I have always loved this magazine. It is perfect for all student levels with a variety information.


title: I thought the review said it was for beginners through ...

text: I thought the review said it was for beginners through professionals, but it seems to be above beginner knowledge.  I do find it interesting and hope that it helps me to strive to improve and learn more.


title: TERRIBLE SERVICE in 2011

text: We bought this for my mother 2 years in a row about the same time.  The first year, no problem, she LOVED it, received it according to the time expected, etc.  This January, we again ordered it as a gift for her--and she STILL has NOT received it.  It's May.  We contacted the company a few times through Amazon, and nothing is clear.  The last delivery estimate change (after we had to contact them in March) was April 6th.  We're May 3rd AND still NO magazine.  I'm very disappointed because my mother really LOVES this magazine.  All I want now is a refund.


title: Yoga Journal

text: Yoga Journal is an excellent pubication for anyone interested in yoga.  Contains relevant information, tips and is an very good resource to learn or to increase "yoga" knowledge and skills.


title: Five Stars

text: Great price and arrives on time.  I enjoy the magazine.


title: Five Stars

text: excellent


title: Very Good

text:
This magazine is a good one to read if you are someone who practices yoga.  It is subject to some of the same things that people will find annoying with many magazines for the most part.  Yes, it has changed with more advertisements, but many magazines have had the same thing as they try to keep going.  The subsciption is reasonably priced and they need to stay in business.

Basically you need to look past that and read the articles.  There is alot of valuable tips and very good information about yoga in the pages that will benefit you and makes it worthwhile.  Every month I glean one or two things at least that I find personally worthwhile and it keeps me up to speed about yoga in general.  If you are concerned, just pick up an issue before subscribing and give it a chance and read the articles.  You will be happy you did.


title: Love Yoga Journal

text:
Very happy to be receiving Yoga Journal again!  It's always an excellent inspiration for me to try new poses and get back on my mat.

Michele


title: Solid journal but could be much more

text: A solid yoga journal for describing how to perform common and even complex poses. The major complaint I have for this journal is that advertising comprises about 50 percent of its content. Much of the advertising is pseudoscience in nature which is unfortunate because it risks diminishing the credibility of the obvious health benefits of yoga.


title: Yoga journal

text: This magazine offers some great articles and information whether you are a new Yogi or have been practicing for years.


title: Easy to Remember

text:
I live in a rural area and have severe osteoarthritis, including two complete knee replacements, two carpal tunnel releases, and early cervical arthritis.
I belong to the local rehab-gym facility, but I'm lucky to get there three times a week.
I love Yoga Journal because it's at home, and it reminds me every day of each little thing I can do to stretch, strengthen, whatever. It helps me when I want to reach for a pill to think, what if I did 10 minutes of stretching?
Also, I'm a writer, running a cell phone business, and I also work at the library. So the articles give me pause and allow me to rethink my crazy life and help me balance things. I can't recommend it too highly.


title: OK, some useful bits, lots of ads

text: Some tips, a useful article here and there, but then, do you really need it?  Just a bit less tree in the world, and how is that very zen?


title: Will Review It If It Ever Arrives

text: Ordered it and paid for it in full, (two-year subscription) on January 6 as a gift for my wife. It is almost June and it's no deal from Deal Universe.


title: Wonderful

text: I love this magazine


title: A snail is faster....

text: I still have not received the yoga magazine that I oredered in March.  The estimated delievery date is June 3rd.  I don't understand that. I will not be ordering magazines from amazon again!


title: My daughter & I love Yoga Journal

text: Yoga Journal is one of those magazines you wait impatiently for every month, because there are always good things inside. Even if you aren't into Yoga, there are articles about how to make your life better.  And, of course, they show various poses and how to do them.  My daughter took a Yoga class and I have just been using DVD's, so seeing the poses (some new to me!) and reading the instructions and contraindications for each pose is very helpful too.


title: Yoga Journal

text: This is a fine magazine although - but some of the views expressed there are a little far-fetched for me.


title: This at such a great price (Prime membership + some kind of sale I ...

text: This at such a great price (Prime membership + some kind of sale I think) was a steal! I ordinarily veer away from things like this as I hate to exercise in the first place, but when stress gets the best of you, you start looking at other options, and it's nice to have easy ideas NOT on an electronic device-because even THAT is a small accomplishment for many.


title: Five Stars

text: Helps keep me inspired to practice!


title: Where is it

text: I would LOVE to review this purchase however I have not received it yet.  Every other Amazon.com purchase I have made has been fab, I hope this one shows up soon.<br />Cynthia


title: Bad Deal-"Deal Universe"

text: I paid for a one year subscription for Yoga Journal in February sold be Deal Universe through Amazon payments. I never received the magazine after inquiring about the subscription in June and now again in July. According to other reviews, this must be a common practice by this company.Bad way to do business.


title: Great Magazine!!!

text: This is one of the best fitness magazines out there, I really like and recomended.


title: Five Stars

text: Good Mag.


title: very good

text: very very good


title: Great for Tweens

text: My advanced 9 year old loves this magazine and even was invited to take their surveys to review and rate each addition which has made him feel special.  He often show me an article he especially found interesting or funny opening up some extra research or discussions.


title: what a waste

text: way to much advertisement, like about 75% of magazine. it would have like 3 pages in a row of ad's. then finally I got to little recipe boxes that was lacking in instructions... "ALL RECIPES"  magazine is 10x better.


title: Five Stars

text: Great magazine to read, beauty tips great .


title: Great publication

text: And the hat was cool too, my son enjoys it more than I do! I like he great articles and very informative.


title: good magazine

text: My granddaughter loved this magazine!!


title: Watch out for auto renewal

text: I did not ask for auto renewal, I asked to have it stopped and still don't know if I have received a refund. In fact I did not receive the original<br />subscription!


title: Great product

text: Great product


title: Good and Getting Better

text: For years I subscribed to Car and Driver, and it was my favorite automobile magazine. Then the quality started going downhill, so I let my subscription lapse during the dog days of the auto business from 2008 through 2010. The quality and page count of C&D was at its lowest point. Last year (2011) I caught a few issues on the newsstand and noticed that the quality was getting better. I subscribed at Amazon's cheap price, and it has been well worth it. I plan to let the auto-renew continue. If they screw me on the autorenewal price, I'll update the post.


title: Good way to keep up with what's going on at the Smithsonian.

text: Not the meatiest publication out there but provides a broad variety of subjects & keeps us up on what's happening at the Smithsonian Institute. We have subscribed to this publication for many years, both for information & to support our national collection of memorabilia.


title: Autoweek mag is great!!

text: I have been getting Autoweek Magazine for more than 15 years and think it is the best auto related magazine of them all.  It is bi-weekly, so it is up to date.  The contributing editors, like Denise McCluggage, have been around cars and racing forever so they can give insights that other mags just cannot.  Others, like Natalie Neff, have a real way with words that make the car stories come to life. They seem to have a pretty fair bias in their reviews, with the only exception being a bias in favor of Porsche, no matter what Porsche does.  It has good racing coverage, good long-term reviews with fair reporting and interesting insights as to what is happening in the automotive world right now.  In buying it through Amazon, I can get it at a price even cheaper than as a current subscriber.


title: Amazon

text: This is not a review of TV Guide, just want to mention that Amazon provided a great price for my renewal.  I was able to renew at 1/2 the price and with no hassle.


title: Great articles.

text: Great articles.


title: It is funny and insightful

text: As a former girl and current teacher, I highly recommenced this book for current girls 12-14 years old. It is funny and insightful. A great selection of authors!


title: Unprofessional and Bad Business Practice

text:
I paid them for one old sample copy they sent, but they never acknowledged it and kept pestering me with  invoices ("collection notices") of magazines that they never delivered. These notices sound like extortion:

".... But if we do not hear back from you within 10 days, we'll have to place your name in our permanent "Delinquent File" and suspend all future credit privileges with our company. Why jeopardize your credit with us for such a small amount of money? Instead, please return the invoice above with your payment now and keep your credit in good standing.....

Sincerely, Pat Harrington, Credit Manager"

Here is a link I'm going to next, [...]


title: good

text: good


title: floor plans

text:
I read your a copy of your mag and like it except I would like to see you include floor plans of houses when you are showing individual rooms etc. I am going to downsize.

I have 2300 square feet house i own. I am 89 years old and wish to downsize. It would be beneficial to see floor plans so I could get ideas etc.

I watch your love it or list it on tv frequently.

I am trying to get a subscription  to your magazine presently.


title: Politics in a Travel and Leisure Magazine?  Really??

text: I find your November, 2016 issue extremely hypocritical for the following reason.  On one page you printed a full page ad for Trump Hotels.  I'm not sure what that costs but I'm real sure it helps keep your magazine afloat.  While on page 141, your writer, Zander Abranowicz wrote "As we flew in a seaplane bound for Vancouver, I resolved that Clayoquot would be my refuge from a Trump presidency.  Really....political views exposed in a travel and leisure magazine??  Brings to mind a couple of quotes that I hold dear and resolve to live by.  "Don't bite the hand that feeds you when you're full then turn around and expect a hand out when you're starving again."  "The fool's life is empty of gratitude and full of fears."  Also, I hope you will help Mr. Abranowicz relocate to Canada.  I have visited there many times.  Stayed as long as 3 months.  Nice place to visit but I'm not trading it in for America.


title: Healthy

text: Fantastic articles, workouts, food, latest gadgets.


title: Five Stars

text: Classic magazines.


title: Great for NYC fashion/entertainment guys... Worthless for everyone else.

text:
I am going to be so glad when this magazine finally stops coming. It actually annoys me to read it these days - for a magazine that tries to represent the gay community, it is shocking how incredibly narrow and one dimensional it is. 99% of the magazine is focused on a specific type of homosexual - a fashion/entertainment focused New York gay male.

Just look through their top 100 lists - you'll be hard pressed to find one "powerful" gay person who isn't doing acting, fashion, or art.  I live in San Francisco and can say confidently that quite a few gay men and women are shaking up the tech space (Tim Cook anyone?).  Reading OUT magazine, however, you'd think that gays are a special species that are only good at interior design and picking out haute couture. I worry about young gay kids reading this and thinking that this is what defines us as a community.

If you're a gay guy with diverse interests, I'd highly recommend DNA magazine instead.  They are based in Australia but somehow manage to be much more relevant and interesting to someone like me.  They have a lot of fitness/outdoors focused articles, travel writing, and they also have unbelievably hot photoshoots.  Why would anyone read out when this is an alternative?


title: Terrible download on iPad.

text: I have ben a subscriber for over 10 years. The electronic version is terrible. More than 50% of the time cannot download on iPad. Don't subscribe, I will discontinue subscription.


title: Harry Pearson should be pleased!

text: The most honest, revealing audio gear Mag! Harry Pearson should be pleased!


title: Five Stars

text: Crisp clean pages


title: Love the kindle  version of the magazine

text: I am a long time Horticulture subscriber and was so happy to get the kindle version for my iPad.  My only complaint is it sometime comes later than the print version. Most of my other subscriptions come earlier than the print version.  I do like that it is not full of ads, mostly just the articles.


title: Not the same magazine anymore.

text:
I canceled my subscription because of the
increasingly liberal articles.  It wasn't a
magazine I'd leave around for my early-teens
to read.


title: Getting better!

text: I've been a SL subscriber for years.  Every Southern woman has to have it.  It took a dip in quality in the past five years, but with a new editor the content is becoming more abundant.  I look forward to it each month!  Purchasing magazines through Amazon are often a lot cheaper than the offers you will get directly from the company.  I even tried to renew one year asking SL to match the price that Amazon was offering, but they wouldn't do it.


title: Five Stars

text: Nice!


title: One Star

text: Mostly just advertisments.


title: Once Decent Magazine Has Degenerated Into Maxim (Golf Edition)

text:
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1.5 Stars

I've subscribed to Golf Digest (GD) for most of the past two decades but stopped paying for it a few years back; I've been getting a year's subscription as an included freebie with entrance to my annual local golf expo.  However, I've been skimming and skipping more and reading less of the magazine each year for the past half dozen years and it has deteriorated so much that I'd never bother spending a penny on it these days - it has become inundated with a strange blend of tabloid journalism and snobbish pseudo-sophistication that has tremendously diluted any useful or interesting content about the sport of golf.

Think of some of the worst things about the sport of golf.  Over the past five or so years, Golf Digest has actually been PROMOTING many of those negative aspects.

Let's take the male-dominated chauvinism of the sport, as the primary example.  A lot of women are turned off by what they see as a sport primarily played by men who primarily are happy with the status quo of few women participants in the sport.  Anyone who doubts that this is still the case should go to a typical golf course on a weekend - one will see at least a 5-to-1 ratio of male to female golfers, maybe even a much higher ratio - there have been plenty of times I've played here in the upper Midwest on a Saturday or Sunday when the only female on the course was the beer cart girl.  What has GD done to appeal to women golfers, to address the sport of golf from a women's perspective?  Other than have a cover photo in a recent issue of a shirtless Rory McIlroy posing as a Greek god, practically nothing.

Some years back, Golf Digest made available to subscribers a special women's golf insert to the magazine that could be included in one's issues if the subscriber requested it.  I requested it for my wife and daughter and never received a single copy with that women's golf insert nor do I recall hearing anything further about it.  Perhaps the publisher decided to cancel this option almost instantly figuring that if few people responded after maybe only a one-time notice of the option, that it wasn't of interest to anyone, rather than give reasonable notice and then see how many people wanted to take advantage of the optional content.

I haven't sat down with several years worth of GD issues and done a specific count, but I would guess that at most, half of the issues even mention the LPGA Tour or have any content on an LPGA golfer, and if there is such content, it is generally limited to maybe two pages; in contrast, every issue features interviews or articles about at least two PGA golfers and tips and pointers from three to four more.  Several times a year the instructional pages will contain a tip from an LPGA touring pro or female club pro.  But that's it for content addressed to women.  My elementary school-aged daughter loves golf and I've tried to get her to read Golf Digest whenever I've received a new copy, hoping it will keep her interest in the sport high.  A few times she's sat down, flipped through the magazine, and said "Dad, this is just about men golfers."  I'll point out an interview with an LPGA golfer or instructional tip from a female teaching pro (generally never both in the same issue, though) and her response was "That's two pages out of ... what, maybe 150 pages?  This magazine is for boys."  You know what?  She's 100% correct.

Golf Digest's decision essentially to ignore women golfers and include the barest modicum of female content necessary to avoid a label of completely male-centered, is really short-sighted.  What sort of person subscribes to a golf magazine?  That's right, golfers and fans of professional golf. The most fertile source of new subscribers to an activity-based magazine is those who are new to the activity - the magazine will certainly increase its subscriber base if it promotes the activity.  The largest untapped source of new golfers and thus new golf magazine subscribers is women, yet Golf Digest virtually ignores the entire gender, and avoids a chance to grow both the sport and their subscriber base [* FN 1]  And for that matter, once the initial Tiger Woods decade subsided, GD has virtually ignored minorities in the sport of golf.

Sadly, the most prominence Golf Digest has given to women has been in their annual skin.. err... fitness issue, where for the past three years they have featured a scantily clad and attractive female on the cover who is supposedly promoting greater "fitness" among golfers.  Two year ago it was arrogant, snappy, and plastic surgery-enhanced former Golf Channel personality Holly Sonders and last year it was model Paulina Gretzky whose tenuous connection to golf is that she is the fiancée of PGA golfer Dustin Johnson.  Rather pathetically, unless a woman shoots a 58 in a tournament or wins a calendar-year grand slam - two or three LPGA majors in one year aren't necessarily enough, ask outrageously talented but less-than svelte Inbee Park how much attention she received from GD after winning not one or two but THREE LPGA majors in 2013 - it's not likely she will be featured in her sport's so-called premier magazine.  A woman has a better chance of appearing in Golf Digest or on the magazine's website if she's a pretty WAG (wives and girlfriends)of a PGA Tour player than a remarkably skilled LPGA Tour player.  Hell, I bet Amanda Dufner, the very pretty soon-to-be ex-wife of frumpy PGA Championship winner Jason Dufner, has received as much coverage in the magazine and in the magazine's website as any current or future LPGA hall of fame player over the past half decade.

Amid outcry that the magazine is objectifying women and ignoring actual female athletes, this year the "fitness" issue features 20 year-old American star Lexi Thompson, a four-time LPGA Tour winner including a major last summer, as its cover model.  Problem addressed, right?  Golf Digest would have to be freakin' obtuse to screw up that choice of a cover model, wouldn't they?  Well, indeed, the publishers at Golf Digest are just that dumb.  They had Lexi posed topless.  OK, she does have a small towel draped over her shoulders that covers the center of her breasts, but otherwise, she's naked from the waist up.  My family and I are big Lexi Thompson fans - three summers ago, we attended an LPGA major and followed her for the whole 18 holes. How the hell am I supposed to show my daughter a major story on her favorite golfer when Golf Digest chose to show her nearly nude in a cover photo meant to appeal to randy male readers??

I honestly think that the publishing crew and senior editors at Golf Digest either came over straight from Maxim magazine or are a bunch of middle-aged dufuses (or is the plural of dufus spelled "dufi"?) who desperately want to be hip-and-trendy and think their subscription woes are caused not by people going to digital sources rather than hard copy magazines, but by the lack of "racy" content.  The annual skin/fitness covers drive away women readers and who do they attract?  For every guy at a train station or airport news kiosk who is looking for something to read on his commute who might grab the "fitness" issue, at least another one will buy Sports Illustrated instead, not wanting to be seen reading a "skin rag" in public.  It's pretty well known among males of puberty age or older that the internet is overflowing with graphic imagery of a purile nature, so I doubt a single guy has decided to subscribe to GD thinking "I've been looking for a source for photos of scantily-clad females and until now I've not been able to find one,  I've always thought that golf was a fuddy-duddy sport, but this cover story has changed my mind!  Ring me up as a new Golf Digest subscriber!"

Online right now on GD's website there is an instructional article featuring a tip from Blair O'Neal, one of the more famous women in the world of golf, and certainly not among the most skilled.  Hmm, Blair O'Neal, an LPGA star you are asking?  Nope.  She's got no bio on the LPGA site (and they retain bios of pretty much anyone who played a regular season in the past 15 to 20 years or so - the head pro of one local course played on the LPGA Tour for a few years back in the 90's earning not much more than enough to cover her travel expenses and she's still listed on the LPGA website) nor does she have a Wikipedia page, which nearly all athletes of any even modest level of accomplishment have.  So who the heck is she?  O'Neal was a contestant on several seasons of the Golf Channel's reality golf competition show The Big Break who is best known not for winning anything (I spent but a minute looking but found nothing to suggest she's made the cut of a single LPGA event if she even played in any, likely on sponsors exemptions because of her semi-celebrity status).  Blair O'Neal is known for being cute, blond, leggy, and posing in a bikini in the opening credits introducing the season's Big Break contestants.  We have several hundred present and past female golfers who actually have accomplished something by earning and keeping an LPGA Tour card, yet not one of those athletes, who, unlike Blair O'Neal, actually are world-class golfers who have accomplished something in the sport of golf, were deemed by Golf Digest to be worthy of consultation on golf instruction.  Yep, for Golf Digest, easy on the eyes in a short skirt is more important than actual knowledge and expertise.

I did just recall one article in the magazine in which they sent a cute female staffer who owned at least one tight tee-shirt undercover to work as a beer cart girl and surprisingly, did report rather candidly that the typical sort of guy such female golf course employees encounter (the pompous, windbag sort of Golf Guy who ironically is the target audience of Golf Digest) is quite a tool.  But that hardly is an article of interest to women who like the sport of golf and quite frankly I think the main reason it got published was some boss at Golf Digest took a look at his intern or staff member's chest and said to himself "We've got to think of some way to get that published in this magazine!"

So not only does Golf Digest essentially ignore, if not offend, women golfers, but they also ignore families who like to play golf.  I think I can recall a single article in all the years I've read and received Golf Digest that addresses how to further one's children's interest in the sport (and the more I think of it, the more I believe I could very well be mistaken and it was actually an article about kids in Tennis magazine that is coming to mind).  Multiple issues a year address "golf buddy" trips to Myrtle Beach the Upper Peninsula, etc..., but in the history of the magazine, not a single article has ever appeared on destinations for a family golf trip with children nor have they ever done a single article or list of teaching pros who specialize in teaching kids or done any instructional articles aimed at kids.

The publishers of Golf Digest are not targeting the typical golfer, they are targeting "Golf Guy," a male golfer possessing multiple negative aspects in various subfields of arrogance and snobbery.  There are a multitude of Golf Guys on any online golf forum, they all add about 20-70 yards onto the length of their average drives as they boast about their games, they all claim to be low and mid-handicap players and claim that any person who isn't physically and mentally capable of breaking 90 regularly or who loses more than a ball or two per round is a pathetic hack who should stick to the range and not clutter-up and slow down the course for "real" golfers (forgetting that fewer than 10% of all golfers shoot in the 80s or lower). Golf Guy arrogantly dismisses complaints about the cost of the sport, claiming a $75 greens fee is a "bargain."  A typical Golf Guy will claim to finish a round easily in two hours or less (virtually impossible without rushing frantically, on a wide-open course and without possessing near-scratch playing ability), he claims he plays at least 3 to 4 rounds per week and will make disparaging comments about the lack of time-management skills of anyone who states they cannot play as frequently.  However, unless Golf Guy is entertaining clients on the course regularly or is taking his kids to the course with him, he's not a parent or isn't much of one at all, neglecting his family for his hobby if he is playing that often, given how time-intensive the game of golf generally is.

If you've played enough golf, you've seen plenty of Golf Guys on the course - they're the ones wearing wool dress pants on a 95*F day because "they respect the traditions of the game," they pseudo-respectfully refer to famous golfers and treat them as gods (even long-dead or more populist ones or ones who were arrogant horse's arses [** FN2]) as "Mister Hogan" or "Mister Palmer" or "Mr. Nicklaus."  The typical Golf Guy was the first one wearing dorky white belts when that silly 70's style revived, and he wouldn't be caught dead in less than a $150 Bobby Jones golf shirt with anything less than the latest model of $500 driver, $300 putter and $1,000 set of irons, all top-tier brands, in his bag.  I once got paired up with a Golf Guy when I walked-on to a golf course and I asked him what he was doing when I saw him snooping into my golf bag.  He responded "I like to know what sort of equipment a man has before I play him for money."  I responded "I don't gamble and if I did, why would you think I'd play someone like you for money anyway?" What a *(&%@&()@!  I am positive he's been enjoying Golf Digest a whole lot these past several years.

Golf Digest's publishers have decided to cater to Golf Guy's snobbish whims and fancies in the past few years, so the magazine regularly features reviews of $70,000 to $100,000 luxury cars (this is related to golf because ... because apparently nothing less will hold two sets of golf clubs in the trunk nor be able to navigate to any local golf course ??), they have had multiple featured style articles on watches priced from $3,000 to $20,000 (because nothing less will enable a "real" golfer to get to his tee time promptly?  Yet aren't most of these same guys claiming that no "real" golfer could hit a quality shot with the distraction of anything appearing on his wrist?), and they have other "golf style" articles that feature expensive, pretentious clothing, shoes, even cigars.  To make Golf Guy feel like he's a really thoughtful, conscientious type of guy, GD includes a monthly column "Golf Saved Me!" with some sappy, feel-good, do-gooder tripe of a human interest story relating vaguely to golf.

Golf Digest does publish a lot of golf tips and instructional columns and articles including a monthly one by Tom Watson.  Over the years I've read hundreds of these golf tips and I've come to realize a few things as I learn more about the game of golf.  First, there are not one or two ways to skin the proverbial golf cat, there are many. There are probably a dozen or two or three different ways to impart moderate amounts of desirable left-to-right or right-to-left spin to hit a draw or fade and there are at least an equal number of ways to reduce excess spin to avoid the dreaded hooking and slicing.  Second, I don't think many so-called golf instructional experts understand golf as well as they pretend and third, I don't think most of those golf instructors are as clear of communicators as they think they are.  Out of those hundreds of golf tips, I can recall and remember about five that have actually helped:  aim right side of fairway but swing parallel to dead center to hit a draw; stand with feet closer than shoulder length for pitches; scoop out a dollar bill-sized divot hitting sand first for bunker shots; take 2 clubs more, position ball back by right foot, take 3/4 swing for knock-down shots into the wind; and after calculating break on the green, add at least 1/3 more, as amateurs chronically underestimate break.  Out of hundreds of tips, I should have been able to retain more knowledge and to the extent that my learning style for sports is not to blame, I attribute this failing to a) often mediocre, less-than-completely-clear writing in instructional articles; and b) lack of editorial consistency - some of these various tips on how to cure a slice, for instance, are simply not consistent with each other.  While golf is probably the most complex of all sports to understand and master, I have retained and utilized a significantly greater portion of the instructional articles I've read in Tennis and Ski magazine, for instance and have found them more clearly written and useful, than those that appear in Golf Digest.

Golf Digest's equipment "reviews" have fluctuated in content but are of minimal worth.  At times they are of the "Here's some marketing synopses on the latest drivers, iron sets, putters and balls coming out this year" and during other periods they have supposed play-test reviews; I'll confess I cannot recall from the most recent equipment issue if they are presently doing just the "Here's what our advertisers tell us to print" or if they are in the phase where they do alleged reviews of the equipment.  Either way, the substantial majority of equipment they review/highlight is made by their largest advertisers and other than golf balls, it is always high-end equipment.  Despite the fact that the majority of people getting into the game of golf start out with some sort of modest-priced beginner's all-in-one set, they have never, ever done a comparison of say the typical $150 to $300 sets by Wilson, Dunlop, Top Flite, Adams, etc... nor compared them to higher end clubs (i.e. they are doing the car magazine equivalent of reviewing only Porches, BMWs, Cadillacs, and Ferraris, without a single review of an Accord, Camry or even a Civic or Escort).  Nor has GD ever done even a single article on how to select used equipment, particularly an used set for a beginner (often a better option because the 1st and 2nd tier equipment actually does hit straighter and longer than cheap beginner sets).  Maybe if several of the big online auction sellers of used golf clubs took out full page ads in GD this would change.

I have a problem with Golf Digest ball tests because they appear to be based solely on snobbishness and reputation of the ball manufacturer - in fact, the ball reviews are called the "Hot List: Golf Balls" - what matters is what is "hot" - i.e. trendy, not necessarily what works the best.  Accordingly to Golf Digest, if it's small, round and has a "Titleist" logo on it, it's an automatic inclusion into the Hot List! as a best-of-the-best product in every price range, something that does not correlate to my experiences at all playing with that brand of balls.  Let me admit that there is an excellent reason why more touring pros play Titleist Pro-V1 and Pro-V1x than all other balls combined - from my experience and that of every other good golfer (well, I'm too inconsistent to be called "good" but I do make a lot of good shots) I know, Pro-V1s do go the longest and have the best feel and spin on the greens of any ball on the market - they really are the best.  However, I have found that all of Titleist's other, cheaper balls are mediocre performers against other similarly-priced balls, yet invariably, without exception, ever, GD rates all Titleist balls, not just the deserving Pro-V1s, as 5/5-star/gold-rated products.

I also don't care for Golf Digest's social tone, beyond just the snobbery about non-golf accessories and luxury items.  This month's cover story is about long-hitting (both of the ball and allegedly the drug pipe) PGA star Dustin Johnson who recently came off a supposed self-imposed hiatus from the game while he "addressed some aspects of his personal life," which he has not specified but apparently has not denied the generally-accepted statements that he was in treatment for polysubstance abuse.  There is also a fairly credible bit of information floating around that Johnson has for years had a cocaine problem, he failed a tour drug test, it was not his first time failing such a test, and his break from playing was actually a secret PGA Tour suspension.  There are also supposedly reputable rumors that Johnson had been shagging the wife of one of his fellow Tour members, ending their marriage; gee, Tiger-haters, how do you reconcile your love of Johnson with your hatred of Tiger in light of their at minimum equivalent marriage-wrecking adultery?  While I am glad that Johnson has straightened out his life to the point that he's playing well again, I don't think he deserves a cover story in Golf Digest nor the sympathy he's receiving from Golf Guy and Golf Digest unless he comes clean, admits his addictions, and starts to doing anti-drug promotions.  Most iterations of Golf Guy are probably willing to forgive and hero-worship Dustin Johnson but loathe and will never forgive Tiger Woods, who longtime contributing GD writer Dan Jenkins recently lampooned quite obnoxiously in the magazine for his indiscretions [*** FN3], which I believe represents the sentiments of the magazine hiding behind a curmudgeonly journalistic legend.  You see, Johnson is engaged to a blond beauty and committed the less-than-fully-pleasant-and-not-quite-socially-acceptable act of buying illegal substances sold by criminal syndicates who murder thousands of innocent people each year, whereas Woods committed the much more heinous crime of, first, being a person of color marrying a beautiful, naturally blond woman (even worse than if she was an unnatural blond) and second, cheating on her multiple times, most atrociously with women who were for the most part less attractive than his naturally blond, blue-eyed wife. While Tiger Woods is the biggest star the sport has probably ever known, I am confident that there are plenty of other PGA stars whose marriages ended because a cocky athlete always on the road was unfaithful, yet because those other stars were white, Golf Digest took no notice of them.

The magazine is not altogether worthless, though, because of the pro-tour golfer content.  I do read many of the interviews of PGA (and the rare LPGA) star, which tend to be pretty well-written.  I like the "What's In My Bag" monthly column where they show a photo of a PGA or very occasionally an LPGA touring pro's bag and clubs and we get the details and story behind why he is playing which equipment and what little superstitious item he carries for good luck.  And there's a couple of semi-regular articles written by one or more anonymous journeyman PGA pros that supposedly candidly say what is right, wrong, and/or interesting about playing on the PGA Tour that a non-touring pro might not have realized.  Finally, the magazine will usually include a pretty detailed and sometimes interesting article on whichever course is on this year's rotation for the U.S. Open, British Open (no, Golf Guy, it's not "THE Open" any more than UVA is "THE University" or OSU is "THE Ohio State University") or PGA Championship and that provides a nice background if I've got the time to sit down that weekend and watch some golf.

In conclusion, this magazine was never perfect but it has really deteriorated over the past half decade.  The magazine essentially ignores women, completely ignores integrating kids into the sport, and increasingly has focused on a whole lot of content that really has nothing to do with the sport of golf from either the perspective of an amateur playing the sport or a fan of the professional tours.  Golf Digest caters to the sort of guy who boasts about his healthy lifestyle and respect for family values, yet likes to sneak off to smoke cigars in the nudie bars, who boasts how generous he is as he tips the cute-but-inattentive waitress 30% while leaving barely 5% for the outstanding but plain and overweight woman who waits his table the next night.  If the phrase "arrogant, snobby putz" can accurately be applied to you and you like golf, well, Golf Digest will be just your cup of tea.  It's been a couple of years since I last subscribed to Golf magazine, but I remember it equaling in most ways Golf Digest's strengths or mediocrities and not having the issues and weaknesses such as promoting male chauvinism or snobbery like Golf Digest so blatantly does, so I'd recommend Golf over Golf Digest.

FOOTNOTES:

[* FN1]  However, for any honest person wanting to talk about gender inequality in sports, one of the several fingers that most deserve to be pointed must be pointed squarely at women themselves.  If it's not figure skating, gymnastics or diving, most (but not all) women, if given control of the remote, won't watch sports on television, not men's sports, not women's sports, not any kind of sports.  When I attended an LPGA major a few years back, not counting families and heterosexual couples, groups of male fans there outnumbered female fans by a 2 to 1 margin, at least.  I've also attended quite a few Div. I women's basketball, volleyball and hockey games over the years and there are always more male fans in the seats than female fans.  Next time you watch a WTA match on television, you'll see more men in the stands than women and Anna Kournikova retired years ago.

[** FN2]  Golf Guy's reverence, even hero-worship, of a number of golf legends not just as athletes but as people in general makes very little sense.  Ben Hogan was by any reasonable person's standards an aloof, unpleasant person who routinely gave snarky non-answers to questions from journalists or fellow golf pros alike and screwed over a friend of his, who lost a position as a golf pro at a prestigious country club because Hogan failed to send in letter of recommendation.  Just last week while sitting in a guest role commenting on the Player's Championship, John Feinstein (who might possess more current knowledge about golf and the PGA tour than any journalist alive), knowingly referred to Jack Nicklaus and Tom Watson as "not nice people."

[*** FN3]  For many years Golf Digest featured a commentary column by covering-the-PGA-since-the-dawn-of-time sports journalist Dan Jenkins, who for reasons that are unknown to me, is lauded and revered by probably 99.9% of the Golf Guy community.  Jenkins was friends with Hogan and knew all of the legends of golf during the middle of the 20th century and his specialty, aside from his access to all of these golf stars and legends, was his allegedly brilliant wit.  To me, Jenkins was to sports humor what Carrottop is to regular humor or graphic stories of deer hunting would be to romance on a first date with a PETA member.  He's the sort of crusty, pompous old goat who might call someone an idiot for claiming cigarettes are unhealthy or declare someone is "un-American" for stating that the legislature's attempt to pass laws promoting religion in schools violates the First Amendment (these are just hypotheticals, not actual examples that specifically and accurately can be attributed to Jenkins, but I wouldn't be even slightly surprised if they actually were applicable).  For quite a while Jenkins seems to have taken a sabbatical and/or retired, but a few months back he published in Golf Digest a snarky, pseudo-clever "interview" with Tiger Woods, who will not in fact talk with or grant Jenkins a real-life interview because of some past comment or another. Woods got all upset and by foolishly going online in protest, guaranteed that a washed-up, bitter old has-been got triple the readership his article otherwise would have received.  Jenkins despises Tiger Woods and while I have no proof of it, I'd bet at least a pet, if not a future grandchild, that if Tiger was blond and blue-eyed, Jenkins wouldn't have much, if any, problem with him; it's awfully hard for an old leopard to change his spots, few white octogenarian Texans have always been open-minded about dark skinned peoples, and nothing that Tiger Woods has done should reasonably inspire that much contempt.


title: 1/5  Lots of Marketing Fluff, Little Substance

text:
Want closeup photos of people exploding out of deep powder with fine snow crystals spraying everywhere, pics of cute ski bunnies, and photos of desserts or appetizers?  How about a periodical that focuses on trendy terms like "vert," "avy" and "brah?"  If you said yes, SKI is your magazine.  Want photos showing the entire mountain or its views, as well as articles containing facts, statistics and useful information about ski resorts and equipment?  Well, keep looking, SKI Magazine is too cool and sophisticated to bother with such pedestrian fare.

I would think that at least 50% of the reason most people would subscribe to SKI Magazine would be to obtain information on ski resorts for planning a skiing vacation.  SKI Magazine is remarkably useless at providing the sort of information a real person, as opposed to some urban hipster marketing industry person who has never been on a mountain, would want to read about.  In the magazine's annual best ski resort issue (the first issue of the season, mailed out in September), which ranks the top 50 resorts, most of the photos show a closeup of the aforementioned skier exploding out of powder or show some other closeup of a skier on snow, with no reference at all to the location.  Is he in Colorado, Utah, British Columbia, Austria, Vermont...?  Maybe even in the UP of Michigan?  We can't tell - there's no background usually shown.  Do most people base their vacations on where one can most likely find cute chiquitas with huge smiles wearing ski outfits?  Apparently the folks at SKI Magazine think so - they always include several such photos as the solitatry photo for a particular place in their resort issue.  The September 2013 (for the 2013-14 season) resort guide features a photo of a slice of chocolate cheesecake for one resort.  Gee, I was thinking that a photo of the mountain views might help steer me in the right direction on picking a ski vacation destination, but no, how silly of me - that slice of cake is much more relevant.

The typical skier would like to see all of the following stats for each resort:

-Base and summit elevations
-Vertical drop
-Number of trails and total size in acres
-Breakdown of difficulty of trails (# of beginner, intermediate, expert)
-Number and type of lifts
-Annual snowfall and percentage of trails covered by snowmaking
-Season (e.g. November 20th to April 15th, weather permitting)
-Lift ticket cost

Out of the 50 resorts they boast of on the front cover of their resort issue (actually only 40 in the 2012-13 best resorts issue - in SKI Magazine math 30 Western resorts + 10 Eastern resorts = 50 total resorts), they gave vertical drops on maybe five resorts and about the same with annual snowfall or size in acres.  They give no stats at all for at least half of the resorts, instead focusing on on-slope or resort area dining or how remote or cold its location is.  About the only helpful information that the resort guide typically provides is information on any expansion (added lifts, new trails, new lodge facilities, increased snowmaking, etc...) a resort has made since the last season or maybe a comment on how the resort ranks for families or off-slope activities. In other issues, longer articles on ski resorts generally omit half or more of the list of basic stats, instead focusing for half a page on some new restaurant at the resort and its brilliant Swiss chef or the environmentally-conscious ruminations of the resort's new manager, which would be material information for somewhat fewer than a dozen people in the entire world in deciding what resort to ski for their next vacation.

I'm not sure how reliable their rankings are for resorts, anyway, since they are allegedly based on surveys from "over 10,000 SKI subscribers."  For example, the allegedly #5 ranked  ski resort in the East is Holiday Valley in New York.  Could people genuinely have felt this 750' hill is a better resort than Stowe, Killington, Sugarbush and Whiteface, all of which rank below it?  I've skied Holiday Valley and it never would have occurred to me that it would even be in the top 20 in the rankings of Eastern ski resorts, let alone the top-5.  Perhaps the resort hired a firm to stuff the balot box, as marketing companies do for book and other product reviews on this and other websites.

Equipment reviews tend to contain so many generalized terms that they don't really help. They don't quantify anything, either based on actual figures that could quantify performance objectively, or on say, a more subjective 1-10 scale for the testers to use to rate particular characteristics.  The magazine takes care not to ever say anything negative about any ski for fear of displeasing an advertiser.  The only conclusion one can draw from reading SKI Magazine reviews of skis is that they are all good, since they don't provide any information to the contrary.  On the topic of candor and negativity, they did say that Killington has been mismanaged in recent years but did not describe how or why - that is the only negative comment I can recall appearing about any advertiser in the past two years.

As for positives, well, the skiing techniques and tips tend to be pretty good, though - more clearly written and easier to understand than, say, the golf instruction articles in Golf or Golf Digest magazine.  The beginning of each issue usually does contain some pretty amazing photos of mountains and skiers (although often only accessible by helicopter) that get one wishing for the first big snowfall.  And finally, one can obtain subscriptions (6 issues/yr) pretty cheap from a variety of sources - I think I got a 3-year subscription from a magazine discounter for something like $12.

Overall, the negatives outweigh the positives with this magazine.  The perspective tends to be about 50% Madison Avenue uber-cool junior advertising executive ("the on-slope bistro's saffron creme brulee is TO DIE FOR!"), 45% jaded semi-pro ski bum looking for fresh, back country double black diamond runs (Brah! Get out of your yurt and let's go munch some fresh pow!"), and about 5% regular, typical skier.

EDIT 9/14:  Well, the September 2014 issue came out and its equipment guide now does use a numerical rating system for skis and boots, including both an overall rating and a value rating, although the latter appears to be somewhat arbitrary. There is a disclaimer at the end of the article, though, stating that all of the skis were good, so no advertiser's feelings get hurt.  However, we have a continuation of the hipster language with a reference to "groms" in an article on teaching kids to ski (is a "grom" supposed to be hipster for "kid?").  And we have more arrogant assumptions without explanations - in a guide to back country skiing, there's a section on avalanche airbags, without ever mentioning what exactly they do (I looked one up on REI's website and they act much like flotation devices in water, keeping a skier on the top of the avalanche instead of being buried). An article on the Steamboat resort remains annoyingly free of useful statistics, as usual. Plus it seemed like more than half of the magazine was taken up by special advertising sections extending many pages for several ski resorts, meaning one has to wade through a whole lot of pages just to get to the magazine itself.  So while the new equipment rating system is a step in the right direction, the rest of the magazine continues to emphasize attitude and advertisers at the expense of providing useful, informative information.

EDIT 3/2/16:  I just reduced the rating for this magazine to 1/5 star.  I did this for three reasons:

1)  For subscription year 2015-16, they sent me a grand total of 3 issues.  Either they omitted a bunch or have scaled back so thoroughly that they have literally halved the number of issues and thus halved the value of the product.  I think it's therefore fair to halve my rating.

2)  Although they are getting better than they were in 2014-15 and prior years, the magazine still features a significant number of model-skiers wearing hats, not helmets.  This is reprehensible.  Last year I rode a lift with a guy who pointed to the spot on the slope where a beginner had crashed into his best friend a dozen years ago, the spot where there was an icy patch, and the specific tree that his best friend had slid into head-first, splitting open his skull and killing him.  He applauded my good sense in wearing a helmet and said that if his friend had been wearing one, he'd be alive and on the lift next to him that day instead feeding worms in some cemetery.  This year I was on a lift that stopped for about a minute, 50 feet over a beginner (one could tell by her short rental skis) who didn't think she needed a helmet.  I looked down, saw all the blood where her head hit a tree, and saw the Ski Patroller desperately trying to administer CPR to keep her alive, and realized he was probably just trying to keep her organs functioning enough to harvest them for organ donation - she was clearly dead.  Yes, this is very sobering.  It was rather traumatic for my elementary school-aged kid to see, also.  The problem is that the general public thinks snow is soft (unlike asphalt for a helmet-free motorcyclist, the risk involved in skiing are not self-evident), no one at all at the ski resorts is adequately promoting helmets or describing the dangers and risks of this great sport, and then we keep seeing all these fabulous, glamorous, and insanely adventurous skiers in magazines who eschew a helmet for a trendy, colorful hat.  Ski Magazine should be ashamed of itself for not making it mandatory to be wearing a helmet if a model wants to appear in the magazine.  Neither my daughter nor I will ever forget the dead young woman we saw this year.  I doubt many, if any, people at this magazine have any appreciation whatsoever for what is actually involved in skier safety and they are so badly dropping the ball by failing to promote helmets.

3)  In all of the issues I've ever read over the years, Ski Magazine has never once addressed the issue of skier safety.  That's right, they have never once published an article (at least not in the past 3 years or any other years I've subscribed) that addresses any aspect whatsoever about skier safety.  Let's be blunt, the entire ski industry has lawyered-up and legislator-ed up like virtually no other industry, and as a consequence, no players in this market are doing anything other than the very bare minimum needed to avoid liability (for resorts, that means minimal compliance with the recreational immunity statute that protects them from suit by injured skiers, in the form of tiny, never-read warning print on their waiver forms).  The only entity that I've seen in the ski industry that actually has taken any affirmative steps to promote skier safety is Breckenridge, which has very prominent signs up on a number of their lifts that serve intermediate, advanced and expert terrain "NO BEGINNERS."  Ski magazine could serve as a valuable forum for promoting safety.  Instead of some horse manure article on which resorts now have restaurants serving Pho (Vietnamese noodle soup), promote instead resorts that are going out of their way to keep people from getting injured.  If there was a resort that adopted a mandatory helmets policy (see #2 above), promote and praise that resort and soon others would follow.  Ski Magazine could take a leadership role in the ski industry in promoting safety and saving lives, but it does absolutely nothing, preferring to be driven by marketing concerns, not the concerns of genuine skiers.

EDIT 12/22/16:  The January 2017 issue just arrived and it is crammed with articles and features that suggest to me that the magazine is run by people who neither know much about skiing nor care about the sport.  I'll preface these critical comments by listing the positive first and stating that this issues article on Snowbird did list some important stats and did focus on a lot of relevant information about upgrades the resort has done or will complete in the next few years, so this was a marked improvement over most resort articles of the past few years.  However, the issue also contained an article (one of several of a continuing series on automobiles) on full-sized SUVs that get better gas mileage.  I don't know about you, but a ski magazine is just about the last place I'd consider as a source for what new vehicle to purchase.  I'm pretty sure not a single person has ever sworn at how old, worn-out, in need of repair, etc... his or her car has become and then, behind the wheel or staring at it in the middle of the garage, suddenly said "Wait a second!  I know where I'll turn for advice on my new ride - Ski Magazine!!"

The magazine's content continues to suggest that someone high on its editorial board came over from a culinary or wine magazine with no experience at all with skiing - they insist on trying to shoe-horn articles or prominent portions of articles about resorts on the topic of food and drink, in lieu of more relevant information about the actual skiing experience at those resorts.  At least in the January 2017 article, it appears the author actually attended the particular food and wine event at Beaver Creek about which she was writing.  Most of these articles that fill up pages of every issue do not seem to reflect that anyone from the magazine personally sampled the food mentioned in the articles, but could have been based on responses and photos supplied by resorts' marketing directors to inquiries about promoting the resorts' food and beverage options.  People do take gastro-vacations, but their destinations are places like New Orleans, New York, San Francisco and the wine country, Chicago, etc....  Maybe a few dozen families each year take a resorts' restaurants into serious consideration when they plan a ski vacation.

That portion of the magazine that is created by genuine skiers continues to dedicate its focus to expert skiers. The cover story for this month's issue is skiing Alaska and almost all of the article is on heli-skiing, of interest really just to experts.  Ski also used a ski-hipster term in that article that was new to me, derogatorily referring to "Herbs," I suppose to indicate non-experts or, people like me who do not know what a "Herb" is.  The page on the Bear Mountain section of Killington is devoted to mogul runs.  This focus is akin to car magazines devoting 70% of their reviews to 600hp supercars that 99% of their readership cannot afford.

Here's what I'd like to see included in this magazine, beyond what I've outlined above:

- At least one monthly article devoted to family ski trips - focus on what resorts have a good quantity of beginner and intermediate terrain, which have good kids skiing programs and instruction, which resorts have abundant nearby off-trail activities for that one family member who isn't as avid of a skier.

- A monthly instructional article aimed at transitioning skiers from the "can somewhat comfortably ski blues" to the competently handle black diamond terrain level of skill.  The substantial majority of skiers fit someplace in or near this range of ability.

- Focus on skier safety.  Every issue should have at least a half page devoted to skier safety and warning of the dangers of the sport.

- Every article on a resort should contain at least one panoramic photo of the main portion of the resort and a trail map with full mountain stats.

- More articles on skier fitness, particularly in the earlier issues.  I skied probably 20 days at my local Midwestern ski area last year before a trip to Colorado and thought I was in pretty good ski shape, but was rather shocked at how my thighs felt like they were on fire going down 2000+ vertical feet of trails.  I definitely would have done some exercises beforehand if I had a bit better warning of what to expect and some sort of instructional articles to read.

- A monthly article dedicated to the budget-minded skier or ski family.  Have multiple tips about how to enjoy this great-but-expensive sport more economically.  Not some hipster/internet hero/semi-comedic tale of crashing in the back of a VW van or in some ski hippy's teepee while dumpster-diving for dinner, but advice on resorts that give the best bang-for-the-buck, how and when to get discounted lift tickets or airfares, how to save on equipment and gear, etc....  I'll start by giving an example:  on your next trip to Colorado, consider Loveland instead of the better known resorts.  You get at least 100% of the views, scenery, and challenging terrain of the more prestigious resorts, at least 80% less crowds, their lift tickets can be frequently had discounted for about 1/3 of the cost of a Breckenridge or Vail lift ticket, and if one buys a Loveland season pass, it costs about what 3 days at Vail or Beaver Creek would cost and includes 3 days of skiing at Crested Butte, too.


title: Great book company loves them too.

text: Love my books


title: Wonderful source for reliable, nummy, healthy recipes

text: I've received four issues of my subscription now, and I've got to say that this magazine definitely delivers. The meals are simple, tasty, and healthy. The recipes are reliable, perhaps as reliable as those from Cooks Illustrated. You can eat seasonally, and you won't get fat! What's not to like?


title: Questionable information

text: As an animal activist I strongly disagreed with their April edition recommending rabbits and guinea pigs as “great pets”. This made me question their writers and their knowledge of what they are presenting to the public. There aren’t thAt many ideas anyway. Well, half of it seems to be advertisement. 25% ideas and another 25% recipes.


title: Great magazine

text: Has great recipes.  I always enjoy taking seasonal recipes and entertaining people, this is a great resource to find recipes.


title: I love it!!!

text: I have been getting this magazine for 2 years now and it is a lot of fun to read.  I would recomened this magazine to anyone with an interest in science, technoogy, or just likes to read about really cool stuff!!!


title: Five Stars

text: Great magazine


title: Good magazine, however when I tried to out it ...

text: Good magazine, however when I tried to out it on my Android Kindle device it won't hook up to my actual Kindle and makes me use another app for said magazine. Not very impressed and if I had known what it was going to do I would have just bought the print access instead of the All Access as it wasn't worth it......


title: waited months and no magazine

text: cancelled after two months of waiting


title: House Lifestyle Magazine

text: I like getting this magazine. It has some great design references. It probably isn't one that I will renew to read.


title: Short and Sweet

text: If your into science and tech news this is a must have magazine. It's packed full of interesting information and light on ads; but as a whole it is quite short, coming in around 50 pages or so. The writing of the editors seems to be pretty well done, it's informative with an occasional witty quip.


title: to fix the problem

text: I dislike the fact that Im missing 16 editions of from january till today Oct 14


title: Five Stars

text: I'm satisfied.


title: Depressing

text: I hate that this rag is so popular. It just shows what a mindless, celebrity obsessed society we have become.


title: LIVING MAGAZINE

text: WAY TO EXPENSIVE!


title: Good information

text: Always entertaining


title: Disgusting - and not appropriate for Sports Illustrated!

text: My husband said he considered this "swmsuit" issue of Sports Illustrated pornography.


title: Age appropriate magazine

text: With all the focus on being young many trends are just not suitable for the older women.<br />This magazine is a nice guide line so we look good and not silly.


title: Five Stars

text: received as promised - thanks!


title: It's full of good ideas and recipes

text: I love this magazine and look forward to getting it.


title: Tasty foods that are good for you

text:
Often times I subscribe to magazines, I read the first couple of issues I get, and after that, the magazine sits in the magazine rack, unread for months at a time.  Eating well is different.  I look forward to receiving each of these issues to see what new and innovative things I'll be able to make in the coming month.

The recipes are generally fantastic and timely/seasonal.  You will find recipes for squash in the fall, fresh veggies in the late summer, and a little bit of citrus in the winter.  Finding products that work with the recipes during season isn't terribly difficult.

The articles are usually well written and informative, and the magazine is FULL of recipes.  I generally don't get to make everything in the magazine, and that's a good thing.  I haven't tried anything in the last couple months I haven't been happy with.  As far as healthy eating magazines go, this one is a winner.


title: Excellent current visual resource for those who dig shoes fashion wise!

text: A visual gem, excellent images of high heels of all sorts. As a visually oriented photographer interested in current designs, styles and trends Ms Heel Magazine is my first reference choice. The editor Velicia Hill offers information about the footwear industry and what designers are creating. All accompanied with interesting fun filled articles.  A must for all those interested in stepping out and looking smart and hot. Thanks Velicia for addressing an accessory void left open far too long and for your creative sense and desire. I look forward to enjoying many more issues!


title: love this magazine

text: Will reorder


title: Two Stars

text: Very nice magazine...


title: Super!

text: Super!!!!!


title: I wouldn't again

text: Like a cancer you can't get rid of.


title: Loved

text: My husband loved this magazine that o got for his birthday. And it even came earlier than expected!


title: The guide to NYC.

text: I first learned about Time Out while living in London.  The London edition of this magazine became my constant companion, allowing me to find great events.  Now living just outside of NYC, TONY was my first magazine subscription at my new apartment.  Offers many free events, as well as its usual picky reviews.  Great for a one-resource list of the week's events.


title: A bargain, but not serious news

text: I enjoy reading Newsweek despite its overall deficiency in the depth of news it covers.  At this price, it's worth the quick perusal every week.  I would recommend The Economist for those looking for hard news; Newsweek is good for a look at US domestic affairs and current news features.


title: GREAT MAGAZINE AND SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE

text: I renew this subscription every year for my nephew, who is an avid sports fan.  He loves the magazine and passes it along to his older brother each month.  The subscription service is great, and renewing the subscription is very easy.  I would recommend the magazine to anyone who loves and sports.


title: Cool Magazine!

text: Not only is this magazine a fun read, but also informative.  It gives great ideas on what to wear, what make-up or skin products are the best, the latest hot spots and fun places to go, and great ideas for gifts and parties.  The interviews and articles are informative and fun, but my favorite section is when they let you in on a celebrity/prominent person's party or get together.  They give you all the details as well as some recipes of items they serve so you could recreate it if you wanted to.  I like it so much I actually bought the InStyle Party book!  This is a great magazine!


title: What's not to like?

text: My granddaughter loves it.


title: Good value

text: Is a good magazine lot of style tips and you can't go wrong with the price of the magazine good value


title: Great Magazine

text: If you like sewing, you will love this magazine.  It has good ideas and great articles from top people in the industry.  I have many times bought the patterns they reference and have never been disappointed.


title: Newly Coverted

text: I just dicovered this magazine and am more then happy with. I really enjoy this magazine and the perspective they put out there. It's fun and interesting.


title: Awesome magazine

text: Full of fun, informative, quirky articles. Makes me wish farming was in my future and reminds me how glad I am to have been raised on a farm!


title: Great Gardening Magazine

text: Love this magazine - after the gardening magazine that I had enjoyed for years decided to go out of print, I posted on a garden group looking for recommendations and this magazine was suggested to me and it has great articles as well as ideas for projects!


title: Five Stars

text: Love the magazine!


title: Five Stars

text: With Mr. Trump in office, I'm relying on the New Yorker for the truth.


title: did not receive all of the issues

text: great magazine but did not receive all the issues.


title: Outrageous price!!!

text: Elektor bought circuit cellar and have raised the price considerably.<br />I am not sure it is worth $50 per year.


title: Best Sweepstakes Newsletter

text: It's a very good sweepstakes newsletter. I like entering sweepstakes I only wish I could Win once and a while.


title: Fantastic!

text: Worth keeping to read again years latter!


title: Five Stars

text: love this maz


title: Two Stars

text: 1st issue was nothing but food,  i was really disappointed


title: Four Stars

text: like it


title: Nice, but too many advertisements.

text: Too many advertisements


title: No digital edition.

text: The price is cheaper as it does not include the digital edition.


title: up-to-date information in a succint format

text: I've been subscribing to this newsletter for decades and have learned so many things that have affected my eating habits, exercise regimen, supplement choices, and overall good health. The articles are short and to-the-point, providing an objective overview without any hype.


title: Please stop sending this

text: I, too, am suddenly subscribed, but how? I didn't subscribe and now I'm on a baby mailing list and am receiving samples of Enfamil in the mail and countless baby mailings, all deemed for the recycling bin.


title: sent me an OLD ISSUE! I received the May issue on June 21st!

text: I intend to call and complain! I should have received the July issue and yet, I was sent the May issue on June 21st as my 1st issue. I cannot believe they get away with such an insult. Hopefully, it will not be too involved to get them to make it right!


title: Great Magazine

text:
Great articles... This magazine provides lots of informational guidance. Excellent reading.

I would recommend this magazine as great reading...Kudos, Outstanding


title: Not much good to say about it

text: I received my first issue, the October one in September, after subscribing in July. I received my September issue after the October issue. I never got the November issue, but was automatically billed another year in November. The magazine is half the amount of articles from the original at best.  They would be best off to quit publishing rather than completely ruin the good reputations RD had


title: the best food guide and recipes at 82 I thought I knew a lot but there is always an improved method.  thank you Cooks Illistrate

text: Great tool for the cook their recipes, methods and buying guide are a cooks bible.. Keep up the good work and comeee back to TV


title: Just what I wanted

text: Just what I wanted


title: Laughter

text: I really like Readers Digest . I remember my Mother who also would read it and get laughs from the decent stories in , Laughter The Best Medicine .<br />Thank's to all the People that bring us such a great magazine .


title: My most favorite design magazine!

text: I keep all my Milieu copies and use them as resources for several years or more.


title: Excellent

text: Comes in on time and in perfect condition. The only thing that sucked was not getting the coasters, but overall a great magazine subscription to have if your interested in fashion culture.


title: Was just Okay

text: I was kind of disappointed in the magazine...maybe it was the particular issues I received that didn't interest me.  Very slanted towards an "oprah lifestyle" rather than real life.


title: Stopped del on their own

text: I paid for a year worth got six months . I connected them 3 times , were told they would connect me with in 24 hours .Have not heard from anybody . Very bad service .


title: Five Stars

text: everything was delivered as stated


title: Five Stars

text: Have always loved this magazine!


title: The Economist

text: I received a subscription to The Economist as a birthday gift.  After perusing this publication on the newstands it's great to have it arrive at home. I've received several issues already and am catching up on my reading.  Thank you for asking!


title: give it a try

text: I never picked up this magazine before but after reading it for several months I've come to enjoy the articles


title: GQ - A guide to Gentleman's Etiquette

text: GQ magazine provides information regarding style, entertainment and spare time activities men should be enjoying. For around $12-15 a year, its a must have for true gentleman.


title: Great information

text: The information. Non biased. Great information.


title: Fun magazine with a little bit of substance

text: So this magazine is fun.  It's got all the fashion.  It's got some industry gossip, right?  But it also has a little bit of substance.  It does non-flippant book reviews. The movie reviews are pretty good. Many of the articles are not fluff.  It is really a super enjoyable read!


title: Kudos for real people looks

text: Have to admit that I received a subscription to style watch from a low-cost magazine provider in exchange for airline miles, so I was pleasantly surprised when I opened the new Stylewatch and saw that they are using models who are not only typical to the industry standards but also heavier.  Sometimes it can be hard to tell if a style that looks good on a stick thin model will be realistically something that translates to every day life.  Way to make it easier to figure out, Stylewatch!


title: Good for kids.

text: My granddaughter greatly enjoys getting her magazines.


title: Excellent publication

text: I thoroughly enjoyed the science articles.


title: Very informative

text: Like the frequency, interest appeal, and current information of the magazine articles. Don't like the European tendency to talk down about the United States. That's probably not avoidable, but I don't believe that U.S. stubbornness and tenacity are totally detrimental. We have bad, good, and great potential.


title: Great value

text: All four of my daughters ranging in age from 18 to 10 love perusing this magazine. I loved the price on Amazon!!


title: A fun and imaginative way for kids to learn about nature.

text:
My youngest LOVES this magazine and lights up everytime it arrives.

He most loves the interactive pages.


title: paris review

text:
I do not hate this magazine in any way.  I have not received it.

When it is delivered I will be happy to give my review, which will be positive.  After all I ordered it because this periodical is generally excellent.  I read it on line, at a local book store or in the public library often.


title: Matt Taibbi is the only reason I read it anymore

text:
I grew up with this mag as a young kid/teen,

Came to see it as a good source of pop culture knowledge,
It does not work anymore as a music mag.

But!

Now, the only reason I read it is for Matt Taibbi

And honestly, that is enough. that's all you need.

His articles are incredible.

5 stars for Matt Taibbi


title: A terrific magazine if you have older kids!

text: I just bought a copy of this Parenting School Years magazine and decided to get sign up. I used to subscribe to Parenting when my kids were little but then stopped when we were out of the diaper stages.  I never saw anything out there that talked about the stuff you need to know as they get older. They have some excellent articles that cover many of the "tween" issues from eating disorders to cliques. I've been clipping some recipes too, and my daughter likes to look at the fashions for her.


title: Disappointing as a Gift for My Sister

text: I ordered it as a gift subscription for my sister.  They sent it to me instead, even though I gave them all of the right information in the right places.  It takes more effort than it's worth, usually, to correct a gift subscription, especially since this one doesn't come every month and we live in the same city.  It's a newspaper, not a magazine.  It's not colorful, in the way that it appears in the Amazon photo.  This is simply a reflection on quality and what you could expect it to look like.  I'm not sure about the content.  My sister doesn't mention it much.  She doesn't have a lot of time to read, so she was looking forward to having something that she could read in little bits to make her laugh.  I don't think it's been so great in that sense.  It'd be like holding on to the funny pages in the newspaper for a month or more.  I probably didn't read the product description well enough, so I wanted to suggest doing so if you're interested in it.


title: Where did my MORE go?

text: This used to be such a GREAT magazine when I found it about 10 years ago in my mid-40's.  They have since then started to cater to the younger woman (30's) and barely touching on those women in their 60's.  I know a magazine can't be for all ages, but the founder of this one started it for women in their 40's and beyond.  Due to ALOT of complaining on their website, it has refocused a bit more on the original target group.  However, the magazine is about 1/2 of the size it used to be, the articles are just too serious and uninteresting.  I can read it online.  I've been a subscriber for about 5 years now, and have just let it lapse with the latest october 2014 issue.  It used to take me a couple of hours to get thru it as it, and I'd read it again.  I flipped thru it in about 15 minutes and said, "I'm done".  How sad they've ruined the original format.


title: Great price

text: My dad loves!


title: Two Stars

text: Some how I got a bad subscription to rolling stoned


title: ... devoted population of the sailors of aging but well loved sailboats. I'm one of them

text: A unique magazine targeted at the devoted population of the sailors of aging but well loved sailboats. I'm one of them, so read every word each issue.


title: Many grammar and spelling issues.

text: Every issue should be edited. Multiple mistakes! Like 12 pages total and most are advertisements. Sad really.


title: Willing to put up with the  stipulations -  A good buy.

text: Very Great magazine! Cannot order multiple subscriptions & to get the discounted price you have to agree to unwanted solicitations.


title: Good magazine but...

text: Great magazine and  more informative and enjoyable for the children then highlights magazine. Cannot order multiple subscriptions & to get the discounted price you have to agree to unwanted solicitations.


title: Good price if you are willing to put up with the strings attached.

text: Good price. Difficult to order & have to put up with junk mail. Does renew where last subscription left off so there are no  duplications.


title: Well illustrated most basic level articles written by non-English speakers

text: Excellent illustrations. Simple (CP high school level) and limited commentary to a pop-level. Most articles are written by Spanish speakers (for cost savings or some unknown reason), which almost limits the language to Pidgin English. For serious readers - subscribe to Archaeology Magazine or similar.


title: Great magazine, lots of good info

text:
I can't think of too much to say about a magazine, but if you are a photographer (amateur or pro) or just interested in art, this is a good magazine with a good mixture of artistic insight, techniques, gear review, and artist interviews.  Not cluttered with ads like some other photography magazines.

If you are into landscape photography, I would suggest another magazine like Outdoor Photographer.


title: Five Stars

text: Meant to order popular science however i couldnt complaining once i started reading through these


title: This magazine has gone downhill

text: I had a subscription to Make for a couple years prior to their shutdown and it's totally garbage now. The size of an actual magazine has gotten smaller. And the all important Desktop Fabrication issue is a joke. Not sure why they keep sending me renewal notices several times a year.


title: Five Stars

text: Great mag


title: Five Stars

text: Very informative


title: Five Stars

text: Always great stories


title: Five Stars

text: If you like science this is for you


title: all good hear

text: recived each issue


title: i was robbed.

text: only received 2 issues


title: Five Stars

text: Simple tips and lots of encouragement to be more wellness minded.


title: Five Stars

text: Every issue there is something to stimulate my interest in photography.


title: Biznez Man

text: With all that has happened since August of 2007, there is no better magazine out there to keep you informed of what you need to know now!


title: Five Stars

text: Daughter very pleased with subscription.


title: TV show in print

text: If you like the tv show, you’ll love the magazine. Great recipes.


title: Great Investing Even Better  Editorial

text: The investing advise, fundamental and charting is the best in the market.  The other people writing reviews about the IBD Editorial as right-wing extreme are incorrect. It is a CAPITALIST, FREE MARKET perspective. If you believe in free market economics, you will understand that the other comments are probably coming from socialist minded readers, still good investors perhaps, but have their views incorrect. IBD does not push social agendas, it pushes what is good for the market, the free competition of corporations, less government intervention and prosperity.  If you want to learn about the free market capitalist system, then read these editorial pages.


title: Great Magazine

text: Always love reading the recipes. . . .


title: When Did Magazines Go To Cheap Paper

text: The magazine pages feel funny. The overall quality is not bad, but not like magazines you buy at the book store. Popular Science.... the content is what it should be.


title: Great learning

text: Kid loves it


title: Five Stars

text: Always a wonderful and helpful read!


title: Good magazine, still waiting for digital copy.

text: I have not received the digital publication yet, but the hard copy is good.  The publisher doesn't want to send me the digital copy and I would like your help to get this straightened out!  Can someone help with this problem please?


title: Boo, Hiss

text: I had selected "Large Print" version, as advertised on the website. I received the standard print version. I questioned Amazon about this and the answer was "We don't have  LARGE PRINT version". Back to using large magnifier, which is a major nuisance.


title: Subscription Never Started

text: Paris Match the magazine is fine, but we never received it. It's been over 4 months since the order was placed and not a single issues was sent. We also asked for customer service but only received ineptitude.


title: It's smaller

text: Still love reading it!!


title: Best Magazine Ever!

text: I absolutely love MacLife! This magazine is packed with practical tips, how-to's, reviews on products and apps, and features that you would never even know about for all the Apple products you know and love.


title: Fascinating must read for aviation buffs!

text: This magazine provides comprehesive coverage of worldwide military aviation events and achievements.  Consistantly well organized, with clearly written news and feature articles, all written from a unique British perspective give the reader a global overview of military aviation.  Feature articles on the Air Forces of the world, from Albania to Zambia leave no details uncovered.  Equipment inventories, attrition rates, maintainence capabilities, and personnel interviews precisely summarize the military aviation capabilities and performance of air forces the world over.


title: Great Magazine

text: Great magazine


title: DO NOT BUY THROUGH AMAZON

text:
In the past, I have gotten this mag for my son and purchased through the publisher directly. it was great.
I bought it this year (DEC 1) through amazon and it is now almost March and still have not recieved an issue. If you want to buy this do it directly, NOT through here. Unless of course you want to wait half a year for the subscription to start...

Here is the info they provided me on the shipping of the mag.

"If you want a subscription to be a Christmas present, you will need to place your order at the beginning of October or first week of November to ensure delivery by January 1st.  The reason is that most publishers do not print a magazine in December or January.  They actually print these issues in advance of the holiday season.  Any orders made in late November, December or January are processed for the first available issue of the next year.  In this particular case, that issue was the April'10 issue.  This issue was created in January and February, printed in late February and then shipped.  It ships out from the printer's office to a distributor, it is then labeled and shipped to customers.  So as you can see, the start of a subscription is dependent on the publisher's print schedule, distribution/labeling process, and availability of issues.
Thank you, [...] Vulcan Service/Magazine Express"

they do not have the speedy service that amazon usually offers...


title: Fun magazine

text: Great magazine to flip through for good ideas on the West Coast! Wouldn't pay the price per mag so the subscription was perfect, definitely took a few of the ideas and made a reality and ripped out some pages for future reference!


title: Four Stars

text: Love Readers Digest as always. However my first issue was very late in arriving.


title: Five Stars

text: Love the recipes


title: Five Stars

text: great magazine


title: price descrepancy

text: This magazine is available for $14.95/year through NWF directly.


title: Religious Overtones

text: Religious articles are a detriment to an otherwise good magazine.


title: Don’t order through them.  Go direct

text: First delivery not for months??  Wouldn’t order through them again. Go direct to Popular Science


title: Don’t expect delivery any time soon

text: It’s not this great magazine, it’s the delivery date. Why do I have to wait months before the first delivery. I wouldn’t order this way ever again, I’d instead go direct through F & S


title: magazine

text: have not received it. My son-in-law was supposed to receive it for christmas. Perhaps Cowboys and Indians might call me. My mother sent this to my son-in-law for years, and I picked up the subscription for him when she passed. I am hoping it will come to him.


title: Good magazine but renewal process hit a snag

text: I give this as a gift and the recipient is happy with it. However the renewal process through Amazon magazines didn't go smoothly and had to contact customer service to correct the error.  CS eventually took care of the problem and I am satisfied.


title: entertaining magazine

text: My wife loves HGTV and is enjoying the magazine.


title: gift

text: Gift.


title: gift

text: Gift


title: Great for every country girl!

text: I love this magazine! it has great recipes and amazing advice for any "country" girl no matter where you live!


title: Great Magazine

text: Scientific American is a magazine that informs and enlightens.  It is always a pleasure to receive in the mail. Thanks.


title: Older generation magazine

text: Her magazine seems to be for an older generation. I think styles have changed


title: Great pictures , recipes

text: I love Nartha

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title: Five Stars

text: Like the option of having access to it on Kindle.


title: Horrible delivery timing

text: I love the Digest, but I only received four issues in the year, and two of them were the same issue.


I enjoy reading this magazine and am glad I ordered it.Each month I get to read interestingarticles and scan the beautiful pictures.The recipes are also great!It's nice having a little reminder of Southern gentility and hospitality arrive each month.


title: I love this magazine

text: I love this magazine.It's a great compilation of stories,facts,jokes and informative articles.If you can only get 1 magazine subscription,get this one!


title: Love my GH magazine!

text: Love my GH!


title: I have always loved this magazine but it was very hard to find ...

text: I have always loved this magazine but it was very hard to find in my area of Oklahoma.  Getting a subscription to it was the right decision and I am very happy to have it coming to me regularly now.


title: I miss the original In Style

text: I have subscribed to In Style for decades. Through the good times and bad years. I had let my subscription end for awhile when I found myself not reading it when I received it. Then I gave it another chance and found it refreshing and interesting again, new editor was the reason. I knew something was different. Wish Laura Brown would think of the women who are reading this magazine. They are of all ages and incomes. Just sayin.


title: An empty shell of a previously great magazine.

text:
Forbes used to be a great magazine. I had a subscription last year, and has it changed!

First, the majority of the magazine is advertisements. Fine, but you need to make up for it with good content.

The editorial/opinion pieces are great, however these are about two pages in the magazine. Mr Forbes always has something insightful. These are the reasons I am giving two stars. The magazine has a slight conservative approach to public financial policy, and I appreciate that, personally. If you lean more liberal, you probably won't even like these sections of the magazine.

Otherwise, the magazine has no other value; the financial advice is down right harmful in some cases. It is very pro active management when it comes to investing which time and time again has shown to be inferior to passive index investing.

The magazine also supports stock picking at times, which again, is proven to be bad advice for almost everyone regardless of wealth. This is shown in most modern investment studies

The cover stories are hardly interesting. This part is just my opinion, but I have no interest in reading about billionaires or other people's money. I want good insight. I feel like I'm reading a hollow entertainment magazine at times, except it dresses it up for supposedly "business people".

The magazine is in fact so poor, they are trying to get me to renew for a full year and a half for only $14 plus throwing in a watch for free. I might renew just for the watch.

All in all, save your money. I wish I could recommend a good financial/business magazine with similar policy leanings, but I cannot. If I find it, I'll report back.


title: Travel the world a recipe at a time.

text: Great magazine for world culture and the culinary arts.


title: GreAt pictures

text: My grandkids love it!!


title: Not a wig!

text: God forbid, a pig and a wig! As a wig wearer myself I was glad that rhyme was included. This way I can make sure I never accidentally wear my pig!  Your kid's will love this magazine, don't be dissuaded by silly reviews.


title: One of my Favorites

text: SL has always been one of my favorite decorating/cooking magazines.  Always happy when I find it on the discounted magazines section.


title: Not bad

text:
I've read Esquire on and off over the past several years.  Consistently I find interesting articles on a range of topics.  A couple of things that turn me off are the glossy ads (many) and style mavens predictably telling me how to dress.  That stuff must be a miss but for a small segment of readers, on the other hand maybe I'm just not their preferred reader-type.  What is equally tiresome is the sense that every in-house writer for the magazine graduated from the same dry-cleverness writing academy.  Most articles are written in that same voice, or maybe they just need to stop proofing each others' work.

All in all though the magazine is OK, because the topics covered matter. The price is hard to beat.


title: Not a Fitness magazine

text: This magazine is not a fitness magazine. I counted 63 add pages out of 136. And most of the content is beauty and food. There is one workout on 2 pages and like 5 pages of a model who I guess works out, but you have to go the website to get that work out. Ridiculous. I bought this hoping for information and inspiration related to get in shape. This is not that magazine. No wonder it was $5 and is failing. Do not buy this magazine if you actually want information on getting in shape.


title: Almost as good as a bogey free round, we'll not really.

text: The name says it all! If you love GOLF, than how can you not LOVE GOLF magazine? Just tell your significant others that you read it for the pictures, I mean the articles. ;)


title: Like making birdie on the opening hole.

text: Excellent publication, a must for anyone that loves golf. Living in the Northeast, playing in the winter months can be a challenge, having the magaIne to read helps with the "withdrawal."


title: Five Stars

text: Arrived on time, excellent


title: Delicious magazine is DELICIOUS!

text: Delicious magazine is extraordinary!  Great photos, great ideas, great recipes!  Even if you don't cook, it is a wonderful magazine -- and if you do cook, it's truly wonderful!


title: My teen is really into fashion, so I upgraded ...

text: My teen is really into fashion, so I upgraded her Teen Vogue to Vogue.  She loves it and is coming very aware of the designers and beauty products.


title: Depends what you want in your magazine

text:
If you are already riding dressage higher than a training level, this MIGHT appear to you.
I find it a bit heavy on "advanced" terms.
I dropped my subscription after one year.


title: Great Articles

text: This magazine is jam packed with wonderful articles!<br />I have enjoyed every issue so far.


title: Always in great shape.

text: Christmas gift


title: Techie porn

text: The reviews of $10,000 speakers by reviewers who seem to think themselves immune to all bias are as ridiculous as ever. Still, they do review a lot of cheaper stuff, and it's cheaper to subscribe than to buy the Buyer's Guides retail.


title: false advertising

text: The MAGAZINE IS AWESOME, I am giving this rating because of the repeated problems i have experienced in trying to re-up/renew my subscription - there is no credible relationship between Amazon and Breakthrough.  You might as well get your entire subscription thru Breakthrough and stay away from Amazon as you get cheated out of one of the few mags they print a year and it allows NO way to renew - although they will tell you they can.


title: Must Read

text: Great magazine for Texas readers!


title: Beautiful Gardens Made Easy

text: Love this magazine! I send it as gifts for all my gardening peeps!


title: Saveur, where have you gone.

text: I was a long time subscriber to Saveur.  I had every issue but the first.  I looked forward each moth to a truly great reading experience.  Sadly, it changed and is no longer the magazine that I loved.  I stopped my subscription a little over a year ago.  Periodically  I look at the magazine at the grocery store, hoping against hope that it's returned to its roots, but it isn't to be.  Maybe they'll wake up someday and realize what a GREAT magazine it used to be.  Then I'll subscribe again.


title: Still waiting

text: I ordered this in November and we are still waiting for the first issue to arrive.  My daughter can look at the digital version in the meantime but it is not the same as having the print issue


title: Four Stars

text: Got the Golf magazine for husband.  It's the one golf magazine I always looks forward to reading.


title: On-Line is such a disappointment

text: I am so upset that they are no longer doing the monthly magazine.  I used to love getting it in the mail and sitting down with a cup of coffee in the sun and flicking through the pages.  The on-line articles they are sending via email are not new and pulled from prior issues.  The emails are too frequent and it just isn't the same.  I will no longer be subscribing.


title: Not the same as the old TV guide.

text: Does not have daytime listings, only prime time.