Does Anyone Read Lots of Magazines?

[Emor]

I myself am not that big of a book reader tbh. I rarely get through an entire book unless I have to for some reason, generally for school, and even then I tend to just read a chapter and write an essay just on that specific chapter.
But with magazines I can read them for hours non-stop. And it's always been like that really. I remember with the first nintendo magazine I got I read every single page, even on the games I didn't like, and I cried when they were changing editors(LOL).
And this is someone who doesn't like reading generally and has a below average reading speed.
When I discovered the Scientific American website I spent probably around 5 hours solid just reading different articles, and on the first transhumanist magazine online at around 10 PM I was still up at 3 AM reading it.
I used to also obsessively keep up with engadget and gizmodo rss feeds until it got too much(dude, there's like 5 new articles an hour and sometimes I read all the comments) and now I just try to avoid those sites incase I go back to that but yeah.
It's no longer interfering with my life, I think engadget and gizmodo were just isolated cases(lol, isolated cases).
But yeah, I can get through a 100 page A4 magazine on pop psychoneurology in a day, but with a 200 page A5 book it's probably gonna take me like 2 months lol.
I also keep all the magazines I get. I have around 500 in the loft and around 40 in my room and probably 5-10 in my school bag xD.
Yes, I am proud. .
EMZ=]

 

[Sipe]

I don`t read any magazines. I used to hate reading books as well. But there has been books I loved. Right now, the best book I have ever read is Agatha Christie`s classic named "Ten Little Niggers" now days know as "And Then There Were None". But I have always liked the original so I looked for the book with the original name. But notice that I don`t like the name because it offends black people. I just like original.

I have started to read more books. Now days I read mainly philosophical books because I want to learn more about the great thinkers and philosophers of the history. I like Agatha Christie`s detective books as well.

Oh! And I also read manga. Not so much as I used to tho. My top three favorites are Death Note, One Piece and Suicide Island.

 

[PanPaniscus]

No I don't read a lot of magazines but I do have a subscription to "Viz". Which is the best magazine ever made. Ever.

 

[poodlepiglet]

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[Calvert]

But I also enjoy magazines I read a lot of scientific magazines as a kid, I always thought the womens magazines were full of crap. 

That's what my science teacher in Senior High said. Don't know how the topic came about.   :lol:  


I'm not a reader. I can read with no problems but i'm slow and usually can't be bothered reading a book. I had some of the Harry Potter books and got like 1/5 of the way through then gave up. I used to buy Playstation magazines but mainly to look at the pictures and play the demo disc. Sometimes though I'd read a few articles. In my opinion gaming magazines are expensive. 

 

[Emor]

@Sipe: I watched a movie called, 'Identity'(I think) based on that book. I read the basic plot and it seemed very interesting. I've read some philosophy assignments(idk if it's fair to call the assignments when they were like 100 pages), but that was because they were an obsession at the time. Philosophy assignments just seem to explain normal things in a long way so I quit reading them.
@Monkey: My Dad gave me a copy of Viz magazine and let's just say I didn't like it. Made me look down on him when he said he read it. This was a couple of months ago and I was going through a weird phase so idk how I'd be now.
@Poodlepiglet: I read quite a lot of science magazine but only read the biology articles. I also buy two monthly magazines which are a mix of psychology and neurology. One is 'THEBRAIN' and the other is, 'Scientific American MIND'. Another magazine I read is H+ which has a mixture of biology, psychology, neurology and technology articles, but at times seems a bit unrealistic. There are some other magazines I read to do with science but I they're not my favourite(like Scientific American, HEALTH, etc.)
@Calvert: Yeah, magazines are very expensive now. When I first started getting Nintendo magazines they were like £3 an issue and now they're like... what... £6? Thankfully most of the magazines I read now are imported from the US so they're only around £4-£4.50. You'd think they'd cost more considering they're imported but probably over the span of a year I'm saving a £100 on magazines for equal, if not better content. What sucks with gaming magazines is that there's pros and cons with getting them from the US when you like in the UK. The only computer magazine I read(well, did, considering Borders closed down) was 2600 which is released every quarter for like £6 imported. I only read the letters though because they made me laugh. Most of them were conspiracy theorists trying to persuade the magazine to inform people how casinos has messages in the music they played that made you addicted to gambling sumblinal in LA or something.
EMZ=P

 

[superboyian]

I always thought the womens magazines were full of crap.

I couldn't agree more, apparently, the magazine thinks being skinny is cool according to my girlfriends magazine...
i just think :wtf: - Imo, I thought that was a whole load of rubbish.

 

[Calvert]

@Emor yeah the price of the official Playstation magazine is like £5.99. No way am I paying that. Besides you can get most of the information on the internet now anyway - usually long before a magazine gets it. I find the only good thing magazines have going for themselves are exclusive interviews and demo discs. 

 

[superboyian]

Speaking of the playstation magazine, I used to subscribe to these playstation magazines through post and best of all, it was cheaper than it was actually getting them from the shops. that was what was pretty good about it, those were the days when I was just game game game no matter what.

 

[142857]

I agree with Monkey, Viz is the best magazine ever made. Not for sale in Indonesia however, for some reason the humour doesn't translate.

Emor and Calvert, it is funny that you read slowly. I was reading pretty much at an adult level by the time I was 6 or 7 years old, but my reading speed was very pedestrian. I would literally read at about the same pace as if I were reading out loud. I had to train myself to read much faster when I was about the age that you are now, going from about 3 minutes for one page of a novel to about 45 seconds.

I go through phases of reading a lot of novels for a few months, then none at all for a year or 2 or even longer. I do like to read magazines. Especially science magazines or National Geographic or similar, but occasionally the typical "lad" magazines and car magazines. I always buy them based on one or two articles mentioned on the cover that spike my interest, then I read those first and then all the rest. They are expensive and hard to come by in this part of the world, so most of the times when I do buy magazines it is at an aiport.

 

[PanPaniscus]

I'm quite a fast reader, if a book is interesting enough I can finish it in day.

 

[Calvert]

Speaking of the playstation magazine, I used to subscribe to these playstation magazines through post and best of all, it was cheaper than it was actually getting them from the shops. that was what was pretty good about it, those were the days when I was just game game game no matter what.

I was nearly going to subscribe to a Playstation magazine myself, but then I realised that I don't read them much and tend to only buy them if something catches my interest on the front cover.


Yes, I remember those days of game game game non-stop. It's a shame I can't be bothered anymore. I used to get a few cans of Coke or Redbull and a big bag of Monster Much and play co-op with my brother for hours on end.