Not too much to digest (Readers Digest)

Member Name: blackviolets

Product:	Readers Digest
Date:	08/07/09 (42 review reads)
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Advantages: wide variety of things to look and read at.

Disadvantages: pricey for what you get.

Once a month this pint sized magazine arrives through our letter box. Strictly speaking it is actually my Dads but that doesn't stop me from getting to it first.

Sold separately it will cost you £3.49 which admittedly is a bit pricey for something which is only A5 in size. I do believe however, that if you subscribe the cost in lessened a bit.

This mini mag gives a vast amount of subjects and topics for you to get your teeth into. Containing real life stories from all over the world, health tips and reviews I can't understand why a lot of people around me scoff at it!

Things which you can expect to find in each copy of Readers Digest are:

Readers Letters
Book reviews
Jokes pages
Real stories
Articles or interviews with somebody famous
Health
Money
Food
Gardening

The great thing about it is that even though it is small (rarely goes over 170 pages) it provides absoloutly everything, so when you're looking through it you're bound to find something you'll enjoy.

My favourites are the joke pages, sent in my readers, usually they are really bad and you don't come across many gems, a recipe and mini article written by Marco Pierre White and occassionally the true stories.

These are usually very hit and miss with me, for some reason a man defying death to save the planet doesn't appeal to me as much as a man who couldn't smell (both featured in this months copy) In saying that some other trivial stuff like swimming with dolphins (to me) completely uninterests me. So although there is a wide variety of them it is all down to personal taste.

Despite how many articles, stories and all that you get there is an awful lot of adverts as well. So if you're thinking about dying your hair, cleaning your clothes, want knee surgery, a tiffany lamp or just feel the need to improve your English then flick through the Readers Digest and you're sure to find some random offering.

They are not all up to the same standard and on a few occassions I have found myself missing out most of the pages but overall it is a nifty little magazine which is handy in size. Easy enough to store away for a bit of light reading.

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