found better articles in other magazines that were more interesting and ...
353066
Not worth it, found better articles in other magazines that were more interesting and entertaining.
1078548
Cool articles but it's a very thin magazine and contains lots of ads
620522
Maxim is fluff.  I had to get that out of the way first.  There is really no purpose other than to entertain... men primarily.

Now then, it is not a bad magazine overall.  The photos are pretty cheesy overall, but no more so than the Swimsuit issue of Sports Illustrated.  The articles are for the most part well written, if not exactly pulitzer prize material.  They tend to do a short interview with the cover-girl of the month, and have a few intersting articles if you dig.

Overall, there are much worse ways to spend time than reading Maxim, and it is the perfect size & content for bus/train/airplane rides.  If you travel a lot, this might be the perfect magazine for you.
2025464
Sometimes journalists write great articles.  Then, after there's lots of buzz, they expand the article into a book-length work and the book is subpar.  I felt that way here.
Look!  If you pull together ten Chicano guys and ask them what factors they think helped them to finish an Associate's, you can summarize it with just an article, not a book.  Only chapter 4 has any meat.  Any student assigned this book for a class can read Chapter 4 and ignore the rest.  The rest is just all this jibber-jabber about personal narratives and qualitative research and blah, blah, blah.  I love that another man of color out there has his Ph. D., but this text wasn't really all that.  And further, I don't really think a Latino guy in his late teens could read this and then have a roadmap for how to complete community college.
I really love Men's Studies text.  I am glad this field now exists.  However, I don't recall the author ever asking why he was focusing on males alone.  I have read reports that women are doing better on college campuses than men, but that never comes up here.  He's studying a group of men of color without acknowledging they belong to one oppressed group and one dominant group.
This was just not a strong text, as important as its subject is.
2858577
There are some interesting nuggets here, but overall I think you can get better information from contemporary sources.  Not the worst read though.
3954763
This publication covers a lot of ground and deals with some very interesting topics.  While it can be excessively wordy, it manages to convey some useful information.  However, I felt it fell short on the technical side and some of the articles are simply lost in a blizzard of buzzwords.  Aside from the written presentation, some of the graphical choices were also suspect to me.  Some of the images did not come across well on paper and some of the layout choices, particularly with regard to color made it difficult to read.  For a publication that seems to put an emphasis on style over substance, its the style that makes the worst impression.
352237
I bought this book based on a review which really intrigued me. It's about customer contact centers: their history, how they've evolved, and juicy horror stories that go farther than the frustration most of us have felt. While accurately reported, the book is ultimately disappointing because it reads like a magazine article -- several articles, in fact. It relies too heavily on long, under- or even un-edited quotes which dip into the arcane. It wanders into in-crowd musings on how to fix a company's customer service from the company's point of view, as if written for a trade magazine. It drills down too far into mechanics that would interest only a professional. It's reported, not considered; when the author muses over the effect of contact centers on our lives, it's a rare and refreshing cool drink of water -- this is what I wanted the whole book to be. With regret, I have to say it's not essential, and it ultimately doesn't deliver on the latter part of its subtitle.
2025896
the magazine was nice just was not what i expected. don't think i would reccommend this to any one else
3986573
It was nice to glean bits of interesting places to go in Beijing, but otherwise self-indulgent.  And felt a little cheated as this was a compendium of magazine articles, rather than a book.  Not sure that was how it was presented
1120683
not that deep or informative.  I've gotten more information from reading various articles.
625749
The articles just aren't as interesting as they used to be.  Why would I care about the 20 best places to live in America?  I can't move there, so it's very boring.
2493912
This book struck me more as an article appropriate for someone headed off to college for the first time. Sprinkled with a few neat stories, the emphasis is on forming good habits and asking yourself if the action you choose right now, in the moment, supports where you want to be 2 years from now. I'm not sure I'd recommend this book/article for a friend, it's ok, but lacks the kind of motivating examples that really make a young mind stop and think - the examples/stories cited lack depth. I wouldn't spend $ on this book, reading it for free in the Kindle version was akin to reading a Highlights article.
3731699
You can get a subscription for less directly from OA.  The last issue (#53) was $4.95 in stores.  The previous issue, an annual affair, was $10.00 in stores.  Since they only have 4 issues per year, the sale price above is not a sale.

I never read the magazine all the way through, but I do skim most of the articles and read some of them. The reading material, both fiction and nonfiction, is unusual. "Quirky" fits the bill.  In one fairly recent issue, I ran across a wonderful short story written as if it were a very badly composed term paper.  It was quite funny, even if it was painful to read at times.  I passed it around to several colleagues at the university where I teach & they got a kick out of it. Two nonfiction favorites were articles on (a) AIDS in rural Alabama and (b) an architecture professor at Auburn University whose students build unusual housing for the poor using readily available materials. The piece included photos of the housing.

I also really enjoy the annual music issue, which includes a CD.  Every cut on the CD is accompanied by a short essay (roughly 2 pages) about the singer.  Usually, the music issue will have a mix of a few well known singers singing less well known selections and several singers of whom I've never heard.  I won't say that I like all the singers.  That's not the point.  Exposure to different styles is the point.  I also usually discover a few singers that I like & would never have heard of otherwise.
666691
I would have liked to see more content and less advertising.  The magazine content was not what I remember from many years ago.  The price was right, but not satisfied with the magazine overall.
1756020
As others have said, the quality of this magazine has gone down. It still has some good articles on health issues, careers, and other important topics of interest to women. The pictures are great; if you're interested in fashion it's better than Cosmo (though not quite as good as Vogue). The new editors are too focussed on sex and relationships, though. There's more to most women's lives than our relationships with men. Still more worth reading than Cosmo, though.
3074840
I am not sure what it was about the magazine that I didn't connect with. It just didn't hold my interest beyond a few really pretty pictures. The photography was great, but the articles didn't sustain my interest. It could be that, despite attending high school in the Midwest, I am not that connected with the area. It's a magazine worth checking out because I think there are a number of Midwesterner that will like it, but I am not one of them.
2904505
decent articles.  yet i dislike when any mag tries to get you to go online to view stuff.  If i wanted to read online, i wouldn't subscribe to a print mag.  Bonus is w/ subscription, can get insider stuff online.