A quick and easy way to catch up with the week's news (The Week)

Member Name: alk144

Product:	The Week
Date:	13/08/09 (21 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Doesn't take long to read, reasonably priced, informative

Disadvantages: Not witty, possibly too diluted

The Week's slogan is "All you need to know about everything that matters". And I am compelled to agree with them. If you- like me- don't want to be in the dark when it come to the news, and want to read good-quality articles (because lets face it- you really don't care what Jordan was up to last night) but can't give up time every day to read newspapers, then this magazine is for you.

'The Week is a current affairs magazine, which picks the best articles and the biggest stories from the best papers over the course of 7 days. It's great for those with hectic lifestyles, or people who don't want to spend a lot of time reading a newspaper everyday.

Costing only £2.50, it's even cheaper to buy than a paper every day, without missing the world's biggest stories. It's also great because The Week summarises stories, then gives "what the editorials said" then "what the commentators said and finally "what next?" for 3 of the main stories. It also collaborates articles from many newspapers such as The Times and The Guardian.

The magazine features news on politics, Europe, the world, people, health and science, sport, arts, drama, travel, shares and more as well as the pick of readers letters and newspaper articles from the UK and the USA. Even if you don't want to read it all, it won't really matter because they really do pack a lot in so it's well worth £2.50. And there's often deals when you suscribe eg. 6 free issues and subsequently only £1.54 each.

However, the stories are heavily edited and sometimes too condensed for the liking. And it's not particularly witty, like Private Eye. But for the bulk of things, it does what is needed of it. You'll know by know whether it's for you, because it is or it isn't. Although I do think it deserves to be more popular than it actually is.

Summary: Great for people on a busy schedule