People (6-month) Reviews



Amazon.com Customer Reviews

People Magazine Subscription - Review written on January 18, 2008
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Rating: 4 out of 5

I am very happy with my purchase of the People Magazine subscription. It was a great price for 6 months and was delivered to my daughter as promised. It was a Christmas present.

Thanks for great service...
Subscription arrived much earlier than indicated! - Review written on November 24, 2007
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Rating: 5 out of 5

Even though it said it may take 6-8 weeks before receiving the first issue, it came two weeks after I ordered it, which was a nice surprise. I would definitely order other magazine subscriptions through Amazon in the future.
It takes a while at first to come in the mail. - Review written on October 07, 2007
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Rating: 3 out of 5

It takes a while at first to come in the mail, for a WEEKLY sub, i don't see why it took a month.
Depressing - Review written on September 26, 2007
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Rating: 1 out of 5
1 customer found this review helpful, 2 did not.

I hate that this rag is so popular. It just shows what a mindless, celebrity obsessed society we have become.
People Magazine - Review written on August 23, 2007
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Rating: 5 out of 5

This is a great magazine-I purchased it as a gift for my mom and she loves it!
right on time - Review written on August 16, 2007
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Rating: 5 out of 5
1 customer found this review helpful.

This was by far the easiest wa to get a People mag. Came in 2 weeks after the order & has arrived on time ever since. My wife loves it & now she doesn't pay cover price......She will if she has to....So it's a money saver, to boot. Thanks Amazon!!
Superb Service - Review written on June 08, 2007
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Rating: 5 out of 5

I actually was giving this item for my mother's birthday. It was sent so much sooner than expected that I had to hide the issues. It is probably the fastest magazine subscription we have ever received.
THANK YOU
Great captive. - Review written on May 12, 2007
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Rating: 5 out of 5

I sent this magazine as a gift to my brother and he loves it, everyone else wants to borrow it and read it as well, so I would say it gets a great review.
very good - Review written on March 08, 2007
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Rating: 5 out of 5

Wife enjoys reading at work and you get it weekly so by the time you read it a new ones coming.
In the know? - Review written on February 22, 2007
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Rating: 5 out of 5
1 customer found this review helpful.

Want to be "in the know" about your favorite celebs? Then you need this magazine!
If you like this magazine... - Review written on February 08, 2007
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Rating: 5 out of 5

If you like this magazine then you'll be happy! Magazine arrived in promised time.
Guilty Pleasure! - Review written on February 06, 2007
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Rating: 5 out of 5
2 customers found this review helpful.

People magazine is one of my guilty pleasures. I've been a subscriber for years and I just don't seem to tire of it. Ugh. I can't believe I committed that fact to type.

Oh well, what's done is done. I love my celebrity gossip!
People Magazine - Review written on February 01, 2007
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Rating: 4 out of 5

The magazine is great. The delivery is slow. It arrives after the stores have it on the shelves.
People Magazine - Review written on January 29, 2007
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Rating: 5 out of 5

I get this magazine for my mother every year for Christmas. When she is done
reading it I recycle and get to read it also. Great Magazine!
Happy with my purchase! - Review written on January 10, 2007
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Rating: 5 out of 5
1 customer found this review helpful.

This magazine costs a lot but I feel it's justified because it arrives weekly. I enjoy it!
Do not ever order this magazine through Amazon - Review written on December 13, 2006
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Rating: 1 out of 5
1 customer found this review not to be helpful.
Do not ever order this magazine through Amazon. I placed an order for this in July paid for it and still have not received my first issue. After several emails and several telephone calls this has still not been resolved. I would never recommend ordering magazines from here.
Great Magazine! - Review written on November 10, 2006
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Rating: 5 out of 5
1 customer found this review helpful.

People is a great magazine! It has all the gossip without the drama of some of the other magazines. I got my first issue Faster than expected! I ordered Sept. 22nd and have been reading for 3 or 4 weeks already! :) If you are looking for a weekly mag - this is the one to pick!
Pissed Off - Review written on November 10, 2006
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Rating: 1 out of 5
5 customers found this review helpful, 4 did not.

I haven't received this product yet and I'm pretty upset about it.
I've requested that someone contact me about this problem and I haven't been given an answer. I think I'm deserving of some sort of discount or at least an answer.

Where is the product I bought????
People Magazine - Review written on November 03, 2006
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Rating: 1 out of 5
2 customers found this review helpful, 5 did not.

Gee, I guess I really can't rate it. I ordered it on August 9th, and still have not recieved it as of November 3rd. Guess I'll know better then to order through Amazon again.
Fun read - Review written on August 17, 2006
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Rating: 4 out of 5
2 customers found this review helpful, 1 did not.

This is a fun read. The articles are entertaining and short. Good to pass some time. Excellent for the plane!!
People is the best - Review written on June 26, 2006
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Rating: 5 out of 5

I've been buying this magazine since it first came out. I let my subscription lapse for a few months and sure missed getting People in the mail on Fridays. It's back and I'm glad!!
Enjoyable - Review written on June 12, 2006
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Rating: 4 out of 5
7 customers found this review helpful, 6 did not.

An interesting and enjoyable magazine if you like reading about celebs. If not: This is not the magazine for you. Very rarely will you see someone on the cover of people for being involved in politics or saving someone's life or whatever. Instead you'll learn about Branjelina's baby, the ongoing divorce struggles of Jess and Nick, and other such stuff. But I am not condemming the magazine; I myself enjoy sitting down with it every week and would reccommend it to you.
purposes of journalism - Review written on May 28, 2006
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Rating: 4 out of 5
4 customers found this review helpful, 4 did not.

I find that many people had a lot of negative things to say about "People" magazine and its coverage of celebrities. Opinion leaders are opinion leaders because they have clout and power and communication lines. What they say and do does make an impact. I don't find it offensive to read about them, and I also create my own life and don't need to be "entertained." My suggestion is to be less critical and more active in making a better world. The opinion leaders are for the most part, doing that better than the average guy, -- that's why they are opinion leaders.
Dorothy
Gripes & Grimaces - Review written on May 25, 2006
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Rating: 1 out of 5
8 customers found this review helpful, 4 did not.

I've been a People subscriber for 2 years now & I quite agree with the majority of reviewers... Same Celebrities, different week. If it isn't Tomkat/kitten, it's Branjelina or Benifer 2. Oh, and we cannot forget "Mrs. Oops, I Did It Again" Spears-Federline. Very little on real people/human interest stories anymore, very little...

As for the actual magazine, it seems I've become, through no choice of my own, one of People's Quality Control employees. After subscribing, I informed Customer Service of my allergy to their scented inserts. I was told a note would be made to my account and I would no longer receive inserts in my magazine. Here is where my job of QC employee came in, with my having to remove these inserts several times the first year, then again the second year in which I made another call to Customer Service. They apologized. Stated there was a note on my account regarding my request then they offered to extend my subscription for two more weeks.

Next problem and part of my "new" job requirements... reassembling my magazine. I received at least 4 or 5 issues of People put together either backwards, upside down or with half of the magazine in the front & the other half flipped over in back. In order to read and enjoy these issues, I had to remove the staples, try and rearrange the pages & then line the pages up by the staple holes to reinsert the staples. Again I called Customer Service to complain. Again they apologized then offered to extend my subscription another 2 weeks.

I've since written to cancel my subscription. I've not heard a word back from People Inc., regarding this. We'll see how it turns out.
Same old song and dance - Review written on April 23, 2006
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Rating: 2 out of 5
4 customers found this review helpful, 2 did not.

I echo the same gripe that other reviewers have voiced here: The magazine covers the same handful of people week after week after boring week. How many times is a reader going to see no talents such as Jessica Simpson, Lindsay Lohan, the Tom Cruise-Katie Holmes joke, and THE most overrated, overhyped people of all time Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie on the cover and not get tired of it?

It's nice to know what's going on with certain celebrities once in a while but every single week? Can you say "overkill?"

I'm glad I never got a subscription to this magazine. I picked it up every once in a while on the newsstand but stopped because I was so sick and tired of reading about overrated, overhyped and glorified B-movie "actors" and "actresses" who were lucky to be in one successful movie and haven't done anything of value since.

I picked up a copy today and have sworn it off forever. Don't waste your time or your money. - Donna Di Giacomo
Losing to US Weekly - Review written on April 16, 2006
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Rating: 3 out of 5
4 customers found this review helpful, 1 did not.

People magazine, it seems to me, is getting its bootie kicked by US Weekly. People doesn't seem to have the "inside" hot, juicy gossip that US Weekly has. I still read People every week, but it just doesn't seem to be as "in depth" as US Weekly. And no, I do not work for US Weekly ... I'm simply a college student, who enjoys the hot gossip out of Hollywood, and US, in my opinion, quenches my thirst more so than People.
Tinsel talk - Review written on March 10, 2006
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Rating: 3 out of 5
3 customers found this review helpful, 1 did not.

Once years ago 'People' would have, if I am not mistaken , articles on people outside the worlds of glitz and tinsel. Now it seems to have degenerated into another kind of low- pop-culture mag which belongs to what Mencken called 'the booboisie'.
It is disheartening to think that millions of people give time and attention to this kind of fluff.
Very nice - Review written on February 23, 2006
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Rating: 5 out of 5
3 customers found this review not to be helpful.
Item was delivered when I was told it would be and I didn't have any other issues regarding this purchase. I'd say that's pretty smooth.
People, read people!!!!!! - Review written on January 18, 2006
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Rating: 5 out of 5
2 customers found this review helpful, 2 did not.

People magizine is a great magazine! Not only does it have gossip, but it also has movie, book and song reviews, too!
A delicious guilty pleasure that delivers exactly what it promises - Review written on January 02, 2006
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Rating: 4 out of 5
3 customers found this review helpful, 1 did not.

People is a glossy, relatively thick magazine dedicated both to celebrity gossip and fashion as well as human interest and true crime stories. When compared to other gossip rags like In Touch, US Weekly, and Life & Style, People always comes out on top with its fair and balanced coverage of celeb stories. While the other magazines exaggerate to make splashy headlines, People sticks to the facts and avoids sensationalism.

People has excellent and extensive movie, book, and music reviews. The price is worth it for the amount of media each weekly issue reviews.

People is a little pricier than the other gossip magazines, but it packs a punch of information that goes beyond just celeb lifestyles and fashions.
People magazine - Review written on August 28, 2005
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Rating: 5 out of 5
8 customers found this review not to be helpful.
I purchased a subscription to People magazine as a gift for my daughter. She has enjoyed receiving her copy in the mail every week.
Cultural Detritus - Review written on August 16, 2005
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Rating: 1 out of 5
11 customers found this review helpful, 13 did not.

Any sophistocated culture can be thought of, loosely, as an organism. The culture has has various discrete elements which more or less work in conjunction to create the overall tone and feeling of the culture. The culture takes in information and produces many beautiful and interesting objects and works of art. But, like any organism, after taking in nutrients, stripping away the useful elements, and outputting productively, there is a certain amount of useless inert matter leftover which must be excreted...

Ladies and Gentleman, I give you People Magazine!!!!
Vulgar and puerile. LOVE it! - Review written on August 15, 2005
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Rating: 5 out of 5
6 customers found this review helpful, 1 did not.

Say what you will, People magazine is addictive. I love it for its excess of stars and their surreally sized dogs. It vainly attempts to pander itself to a more general audience with its "human interest" stories. Don't be fooled. And certainly don't buy it for that. Buy it so you can scope out Oprah's new hairdo, Paris Hilton's crazed comments to waiters, and the ongoing sagas of Hollywood marriages. I actually had my mother mail me her old copies when I moved to NY. Sure, it was embarrassing. I mean, it looked pretty silly next to the copies of The Economist, Bazaar, the New Yorker, and New Scientist. But what the he--. I buy it because I'm a voyeur and it makes me feel better knowing there are worse mannered and slightly more shallow people out there than myself. Amen.
People Rocks! - Review written on August 10, 2005
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Rating: 4 out of 5
1 customer found this review helpful, 2 did not.

People magazine is entertaining without being destructive. The perfect relaxation reading. However, what is up with all the Paris Hilton/Nikki Hilton/Nicole Ritchie stuff always? WHO CARES? Evidently somebody, because they're in every issue. Try replacing them with say features on stars and their charitable giving/deeds, and maybe people will become more excited about emulating their people heroes by helping others instead of starving themselves and their precious pets. Do you know how many people you could feed with the money spend on just one those be-jewled dog collars? Neither do I, but if you tell me, maybe I'd think - wow - even I can help out, and so can you. The one thing people lacks is the realization of it's power not only to publish - but to shape the world in a good way, without being preachy.
People Magazine has all the gossip - Review written on August 09, 2005
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Rating: 4 out of 5
1 customer found this review helpful.

Amazon had the best price for this popular magazine and I received my first copy very quickly. I enjoy getting it weekly and keeping up to date on what all the celebrities are up to.