What magazines do you like?

[Takver]

In a thread the other day just about everyone seemed to hate the glossies - so what magazines do people like to read. I'm talking about ones that you will actually cough up the cash to buy - not the ones you'll read if they're hanging around.
I'm asking cos I was in Smiths at Paddington station last week and couldn't find anything at all that I fancied reading on the train - so what am I missing out on? As obscure as you like.
For starters, the one magazine that I do have a subscription for is The Land - but it only comes out 3 x a year, so thats not much train reading . . .

I think Junior might give me a severe inferiority complex - I'm more charity shop than harvey nix.
Haven't read Private eye for years, maybe I should try it again.

oops sorry about repeat, not sure what happened there

The Gloss. It's an Irish mag. I buy it because a friend writes for it and I sometimes have illustrations in it.

My guilty pleasure is bridal mags.

Haven't had real cause to read one for years, but whenever a friend gets engaged I rush out and buy armfuls 'for her' then pore over them 'for her' to give 'her' wedding ideas.

So bunting and cupcake! the Martha Stewart Weddings is just The Best!

I don't think I like any magazines. I have given up all my subscriptions and I feel ....strangely liberated!

ANd if I'm having a coffee in Borders, I tend to pick up 'Real Simple' magazine - also pretty bunting and cupcakes.

LoL maidamess - that was kind of why I started this post - was wondering how I could not fancy anything in Smiths, sure that there must be something out there

We also have Empire and SFX in our house good reads if you like film or sci-fi/ cult TV.

Real Simple - pasta & rigatone? My idea of a quick and easy supper is beans on toast with a fried egg on top

You knwo, I missed an issue of Vogue about 2 months ago, for the first time in 15 years, and I felt the same, Maidamess.

my life didn't end because I'd missed one, and I didn't feel the crushing weight of pressure to read through every expensive page of it.

Still love it really, though. It's my door to the other place I used to inhabit pre-DCs

only scanned thread but seen and agree with

junior (yes dubious fashion but good reading)
living etc
new yorker
elle decoration (ignore this though because there is nowt to read!)

I go temporarily blind if I go into a Smiths or wherever because there are way too many magazines crowding the shelves, I can't find anything decent amongst the celeb tat.

going off on a slight tangent, we stll buy the Sunday Times every week and (with 3 dcs under 4, youngest a newborn) the darned thing sits there like a big paper whale waiting to be read. Am sure we only use the Culture for telly after 9pm when we might get an hour to ourselves.

I like
Woman and Home{grin]fab affordable clothes and make up,not at all middle aged!
She-much improved recently
Red
Eve- although going off this a bit
Good Housekeeping again,not as good recently
Have stopped buying Grazia
Never buy Vogue anymore,or Elle.

I'm just about to take out a subscription for The Week as I never seem to have time to read a daily paper anymore.

If having a coffee in Borders, I will read Economist, New Yorker, Prospect.

When at MIL's I'll have a flick through all her home decorating magazines.

I like the Economist and Prospect (dh has subscriptions) and have been known to dabble in the New Statesman - we are soooo highbrow . My MIL gave me a subscription to Junior for Christmas which makes me howl with laughter (we are so not a bunting and cupcake family, and certainly are inclined towards £200 dresses for 4 year olds ) but I am now strangely addicted.

I really like Grazia and OK - fortunately our office manager buys them and donates them to the office so I can read them without feeling bad about spending money on them.

I subscribe to The Bookseller (for work, natch) and BBC Homes and Antiques, which is much better fun than it sounds.

Have love/hate relationship with Vogue, but have not purchased it since DS was a newborn. Will prob buy again when I am earning again, but not every month.

Heat suxxx [raspberry emoticon] and I will never buy it again! Used to occasionally succumb, but not since they printed those stickers mocking Jordan's disabled child.

On a side note, I also love to read cover shouts on el cheapo rags such as Chat and That's Life - eg "He had a machete, but I married him" or "Fifteen bridesmaids AND MY BOWELS" (genuinely seen on That's Life)

vanity Fair
Private Eye
Vogue
In Style
New Yorker
GQ

Sometimes Grazia
Sometimes Heat

Another vote for Prospect.
Wired is my favorite, though.

I know you will all think how awful,but i like reading chat as its so bad its good

sorry, would not want to misrepresent -- it is actually "that's life!" (note exc point)

Cover shout: "How could I forget I had a son?!" Implied answer: That's life!

Granta - although I'm horribly behind and they're stacking up beside my bed It's about the only magazine subscription I've bought that didn't feel a complete waste of time and money.

Paperdoll totally agree love titles like i didnt know he had another wife in wales

Beeny, "Was my dead dad right about sailors?"

or

"I found mum dying in her bikini"

That's life!