Nudge, nudge, wink, wink....say no more. (Maxim)

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Product:	Maxim
Date:	23/08/00 (5 review reads)
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Advantages: Good layout, great features.

Disadvantages: Not exactly ideal intellectual reading.

So men's lifestyle magazines haven't changed much, eh? Well, unfortunately you'd be right. The usual character traits are omnipresent as always. A not-very-well-known good-looking woman who is featured in an advert will be there on one page, partially clothed. You'll get your strange events happening around the world section. A jokes page. You'll get your B-list celebrity partially clothed (heck, if you're lucky you'll get an A-list celebrity). Then a real-life story that usually contains extreme violence and usually entails of one man's survival in a foreign destination or a criminal's undoings. And perhaps you'll have a wacky feature that wouldn't be out-of-place with something like The Sun. And then another not-very-well-known good-looking woman partially clothed again. Then you'll get the bits that are added on and masquerade as being useful such as the guide to clothes, cars, accessories and brief, reviews of films, music and books. However not a lot can do it as good as this. A guilty pleasure in every sense of the phrase.

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