Reader's Digest?

Was it ever worth getting?

 

Humor In Uniform is worth at least 83 cents a month.

 

I think that, for $10 a year, it's more than worth it. My in-laws get it, so I've read it on a semi-regular basis for a while. There's always a good selection of interesting reads in addition to the staples of funny jokes and anecdotes.

Heck, I even subscribed to ESPN the magazine for $10 for one year (half the reason, though, was to get the access to the "insider" content on espn.com.)

 

I liked Reader's Digest for when I was coloring my hair and I had to sit in the bathtub for 25 minutes. I skim the jokes, read the marital discord story (if they still have those, I read my mom's when I lived in the same state).

 

The Word Power quiz is always fun to take (for a journo, it should be a piece of cake), and the different anecdote packages have some good stuff. The articles are generally too righty for my taste.

 

RD isn't as overtly-right as it used to be . . . but righty, it most-certainly is . . . their article
selection is anything but middle-of-the-road . . . I've met some of their higher-ups . . .
and none of them will ever be confused with any MOR Dems . . .

 

Does RD still produce those volumes of condensed books?

 

I would drop the $10 you're considering on RD on Esquire or some other magazine. But that's just me.

 

Other than Uncle John, probably the best bathroom read out there.

 

Sirs, Madames,

I could never get enough of "I'm Joe's Liver."

YHS, etc

 

I got sticker shock yesterday when I saw a Newsweek on someone's desk in the office and the cover price was $4.95.