Amazon.com Customer Reviews
Gripes & Grimaces - Review written on May 25, 2006
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.
Losing to US Weekly - Review written on April 16, 2006
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.
A delicious guilty pleasure that delivers exactly what it promises - Review written on January 02, 2006
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.
Cultural Detritus - Review written on August 16, 2005
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
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.