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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I always though Vanity Fair was my go-to. You know, the one I grab at the kiosk at the train station or at the airport book seller. But I realized that I really hate reading it! I can't stand the clutter of pictures with the highlighted text captions. Articles have only been OK. It is not visually beautiful at all. So I am giving up on it. Will look at these others as my "go to".  [/quote]
I'm with you (pp with "too much vanity in Vanity Fair"). I still enjoy  occasional "long articles" in VF (and sometimes I actually learn something new from them) but on several recent occasions I felt this "bad aftertaste" after looking through a copy and first I couldn't put my finger on it, just something very annoying and I think it is a contrast between intelligence and depth in some of the articles and extreme materialistic shallowness in everything else - and I'm not talking about the ads. So I finally came to conclusion that there is indeed too much of actual vanity fair in VF for my taste (I used to think that the name was entirely tongue in cheek but it seems like they take it as a mandate now). So now I buy it only if there is a specific article I want to read and it is not available online - probably once a year or so.

If you are a woman - see if you enjoy More.

But in general my feeling that magazines are indeed not what they used to be thanks to the Internet. I recently picked Time in my doctor's reading room - and my reaction was "is it for real?" A shadow of its former self (and probably will be dead soon).
Sad indeed.. [/quote]

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