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| Publisher: Hearst Magazines
List Price: $54.00
Buy New: $18.00
as of 7/30/2010 09:50 MDT details
Rating:  reviews
Format: Magazine Subscription, Print
Type: Consumer magazine
Subscription Issues: 12
Subscription Length: 12 Months
Issues Per Year: 12
First Issue Lead Time: 4-6 Weeks
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 Oh. Is this it? March 23, 2010
Spudman (Pasadena, MD United States)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Let me make it clear that Mrs. Spudman and I have always liked Oprah. We watched her as a cub reporter on WJZ in Baltimore and enjoyed her on People are Talking with Richard Sher, also on WJZ. When I noticed the opportunity to subscribe to The Oprah Magazine for a great price, I seized the opportunity and anticipated Mrs. Spudman's reading pleasure.
Three months after ordering, almost to the day, her first issue of The Oprah Magazine arrived in the mail. I could tell because the mailbox was leaning under the weight of this colossal magazine. Covers of the magazine, of course, feature a beaming Oprah impeccably coiffed, surrounded by the typical blurbs and teasers found on magazine covers.
Unfortunately our expectations of a woman's magazine with depth and significance haven't been fulfilled. This magazine contains much of the same (dressed up) fluff found in other magazines. Pick up any issue and don't be surprised to find articles about: diets, fashions, relationships and intimacy, health ,beauty, and food. You'll also find advice from Dr. Phil,Dr. Oz, Val or all three. Mercifully you won't find the explicit sexual topics found in mags like Cosmo.
We do like that Oprah's presence in the magazine is low key; she's not omnipresent as Rachael and Martha are in their magazines. Yes, the magazine is oversized and stuffed with glossy ads, but that's what pays for magazines these days.
The Oprah Magazine can be a nice way to fill time between appointments, a welcome distraction in a doctor's waiting room, but not a meaty piece of reading to look forward to every month. I don't think we'll be renewing.
In the world of personality magazines Mrs. Spudman, and even I, prefer Rachael Ray's entry in the field. It's fun, sweetened fluff, that for the most part isn't pretentious and doesn't pretend to be what its' not.
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