Magazines

[polkaface]

Omaha how do you read all of those? I get Forbes, Smart Money and Kiplingers (yay $6 internet subscriptions!!) and have a hard enough time keeping up on those three.

[garcia1000]

I get Economist on subscription. It's the biggest bang for the buck in terms of time:knowledge. I read it on the train to and from work. Highly recommended.

I get Foreign Affairs on subscription. It's one issue every two months, but it is really good in presenting the 'establishment' point of view and has detailed and reasoned articles. It's more expensive than the other magazines, I'd recommend it if you are interested in that sort of thing.

I also get Time on subscription. It used to be good, but now it's sort of a cheap tabloid like Entertainment Weekly. When it comes due, I doubt I will renew it. Lowly recommended.

I get Fortune on free trial subscription. It seems like the tabloid version for finance. There has to be something better... any got any suggestions? Also lowly recommended.


I realise this magazine list looks like a thinly veiled brag. I apologize for that!

[StevieG]

I read "The Economist" every week, and whichever of "Gourmet", "Food & Wine", or "Bon Appetit" my wife currently gets on a free trial basis.

For fun reading to kill travel time I like SI and Car & Driver.

I feel really bad that "Jane" is being discontinued. Not that I read it, but of its genre (Cosmo, etc.) it seemed to me to be the one magazine for young women that started with the pretense that they had a brain and planned to use it. I would have been fine with my daughter reading it a decade from now.

[TheRedRocket]

I try to read every National Geographic and I am never disappointed.

Discover Magazine is pretty good. I like to be able to read about science but at a level that I can easily comprehend.

Men's Health is ok content wise but I find that when I get and read it I stay motivated to work out.

I had a year subscription to Time which I enjoyed but ultimately found it too hard to keep up with.

The Harvard Business Review is very expensive but well worth it if you are in management or enjoy reading about business from a more technical or educational perspective.

when I was a kid I used to read Dragon Magazine which was about Dungeons and Dragons and always enjoyed it. My girlfriend says I'm not allowed to talk about this though.

[NickMPK]

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when I was a kid I used to read Dragon Magazine which was about Dungeons and Dragons and always enjoyed it. My girlfriend says I'm not allowed to talk about this though.

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Getting Dragon Magazine was the highlight of my month when I was in middle school. I haven't had a subscription in well over a decade, but I was sad to learn that the magazine recently ceased publication. The final issue of Dragon (#359) shipped out this month.

[gusmahler]

The only subscription I have is to ESPN the Magazine, and only because it's included with an Insider subscription. It's not worth reading on it's own.

OT aside: I was in book store killing time and I happened to see Penthouse Magazine. I hadn't looked at that magazine in about 3 years, so I thought I'd take a look. It's completely changed. Last time I saw an issue, they were as hard core as any of hard core magazines (full penetration, etc.), with a few articles that were supposed to differentiate it from your Club Magazine type of porn. Today--it's nearly indistinguishable from Maxim/Stuff. In fact, the layout seems to be exactly the same as those mags, with the only distinguishing feature being the occassional bearing of nipples. They even show less than Playboy. And have fewer pics than Maxim/Stuff (though they are wearing fewer clothes).

But I can't see how the magazine can survive. It's not *completely* embarassing to be seen reading Maxim. But I'd guess that if you were seen looking at Penthouse, people would think you're looking at porn.

[gumpzilla]

Haha, good old Dragon magazine. I think I subscribed to that for one year. My roommate and I were talking about how we spent more time learning about the rules for those games than we ever did playing them.

I had an Economist subscription for a year, and if I were going to read magazines on a regular basis again I'd give that another shot. But man, that's a lot of reading - that's a dense, dense magazine. My roommate gets Scientific American, which I probably read one article from a month. When I remember it exists, Physics Today is not bad.

[TheRedRocket]

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But I can't see how the magazine can survive. It's not *completely* embarassing to be seen reading Maxim. But I'd guess that if you were seen looking at Penthouse, people would think you're looking at porn.

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this would seem to be a very odd decision on the Part of Penthouse. A brand identity once established is nearly impossible to change especially in the case of a stigma like Penthouse. Additionally they are going to turn off their existing customers. If they are really wanting to go in that direction it would seem easier to start a new magazine all together. As you alluded to, having a Penthouse laying around is not going to acceptable to most people regardless of the current content.

[Vehn]

I haven't seen a penthouse in 15 years but from what I remember there was definitely no penetration or male junk shown, just guys standing behind bent over girls, girls touching each other above the waist, pretty soft core stuff.

[gusmahler]

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I haven't seen a penthouse in 15 years but from what I remember there was definitely no penetration or male junk shown, just guys standing behind bent over girls, girls touching each other above the waist, pretty soft core stuff.

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According to Wikipedia, they went full hardcore in 1998 and went back to softcore in 2005.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penthouse_magazine