I like National Geographic, other suggestions

[censored] · #1 04-10-2006, 01:04 AM

I picked up a copy National Geographic this weekend and once I started reading it I couldn't put it down until finished. My family always had a subscription growing up but besides some brief flip throughs at a doctors/dentist office I never really read one as an adult.

What are some other magazine suggestions I may enjoy similar in quality and subject to National Geographic? I also picked up a copy of Discover magazine, which is much smaller but haven't read through it yet.

*TT* · #2 04-10-2006, 01:08 AM

Believe it or not, you may like The New Yorker and Vanity Fair (ignore the pretty photos, the writing is the best in the field).

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[censored] · #3 04-10-2006, 01:23 AM

The New Yorker is the one that has David Sedaris, that's cool. It seems to generate a negative reaction. What exactly is the main problem people have with it.

I'll pick up the lasest issue of both this week. Thanks.

Bluffoon · #4 04-10-2006, 01:28 AM

The Smithsonian is an excellent magazine.

CharlieDontSurf · #5 04-10-2006, 01:41 AM

If your into science etc not just travel/exotic locales
I subscribe to Popular Science, Discover, National Geographic Adventure, Outside, Scientific American etc
I learn [censored]/scientific theories i had no clue about.

ie. Cortez and company/smallpox didn't really wipe out the Aztecs..its was a virus similar to ebola..may have also taken out the Mayans.

LAGmaniac · #6 04-10-2006, 01:50 AM

I was gonna make a joke about you liking African flapjack titties but I don't wan't to get banned so here's an actual recommendation. Archaeology Odyssey is an excellent magazine in the same vein as Nat'l Geo.

[censored] · #7 04-10-2006, 01:52 AM

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I was gonna make a joke about you liking African flapjack titties but I don't wan't to get banned so here's an actual recommendation. Archaeology Odyssey is an excellent magazine in the same vein as Nat'l Geo.

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FYI I'm more of a giraffe neck guy.

AvivaSimplex · #8 04-10-2006, 01:59 AM

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The New Yorker is the one that has David Sedaris, that's cool. It seems to generate a negative reaction. What exactly is the main problem people have with it.

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The New Yorker pretty much exemplifies the "East coast cultural elite." Some people like that, some people hate it.

graydot · #9 04-10-2006, 02:02 AM

I like the TIME, though lately its been too much about politics for me

jman220 · #10 04-10-2006, 02:23 AM

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I picked up a copy National Geographic this weekend and once I started reading it I couldn't put it down until finished. My family always had a subscription growing up but besides some brief flip throughs at a doctors/dentist office I never really read one as an adult.

What are some other magazine suggestions I may enjoy similar in quality and subject to National Geographic? I also picked up a copy of Discover magazine, which is much smaller but haven't read through it yet.

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If you've got some extra Party Poker Points, they've got a subscription for 1 year to National Geographic Adventure for 2,000 points. I'm not sure how this magazine differs from National Geographic itself though.