Twist | 
| Publisher: Heinrich Bauer North America
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Rating:  22 reviews
Sales Rank: 281
Format: Magazine Subscription
Type: Trade magazine
Subscription Issues: 10
Subscription Length: 12 Months
Issues Per Year: 10
First Issue Lead Time: 6-10 Weeks
ASIN: B00006L0D8
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Product Description
A magazine for teenage girls filled with the latest news on entertainment, beauty, fashion, and fun.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 17 more reviews...
 Well... October 15, 2003
Maria (USA)
7 out of 13 found this review helpful
Here's the sinerio: Your sister, Bob, is in the doctors office for a check up. Your mom is in there talking to the doctor about the fungus coming out of her ear. And guess where you are? Stuck in one of those weird smelling waiting rooms.The magazines on the table are People, Time and Twist. You pick up Twist and look at the cover. This issue, like almost all the other ones, has a cover saying "How to get him to call!" "How to get a second date!" First of all...whos "him"? You go through and look at the predictable quizzes, the ways to get skinny without killing yourself and everything else. After a couple pages...you can see Twist was a nice light read but playing with the foam building blocks would have been a better choice.
 Why waste your time reading it? March 14, 2005
Lissy Bouvier (Maine)
7 out of 11 found this review helpful
It is beyond me why any pre-teen or teen would want to read this kind of magazine. I was reading this magazine a couple of weeks ago on a ski trip because my 13-year old friend happens to get it in her mail. The truth is, this magazine lacks substance.
I don't see why people even care what JoJo's friend thinks about her being a celebrity, how MK is recovering in the hospital from being anorexic or what Jesse McCartney's marital status is. Leave the celebs alone; let them live their life. I've seen the same things printed in this magazine over and over. This magazine is shallow and is downright materialistic (i.e. some articles that I have seen on various covers were "Get him to do anything you want!", "What's Jesse McCartney's nickname?" and "Terrified of being alone?").
I don't like most magazines, but if you want a mag with REAL substance, look forth for Seventeen or CosmoGIRL! magazine. And to the preteens--skip this magazine. The editors write at a level that 2nd graders can understand. Read anything but this--your local newspaper, even National Geographic (one of my favorites). This magazine is $17 for 10 issues--don't you think that's a bit pricey? If you're a parent, please don't buy your daughter this mindless garbage. Can't you find anything decent for your kids to read?
 17 YEAR OLD TWISTER March 29, 2003
VERONICA (CHICAGO,IL)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
TWIST IS ONE OF THE BEST MAGAZINES OUT THERE I LOVE IT HAS GREAT ARTICLES GOOD QUIZZES IT'S A GREAT MAGAZINE IT HAS ARTICLES ON BODY AND HEALTH IT'S REALLY HELPFUL I RECOMMEND THIS MAGAZINE.
anti-teenybopper September 16, 2004
Kool Fool (Umpteenth)
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
How's J-Lo doing? Are Jennifer and Brad Pitt still together? What are the Olsen twins up to? Is Orlando Bloom a hottie or what?? Well...
WHO THE HELL CARES??? I got better things to care about than some news about these celebrities--people I've never actually met, let alone "know." Please, teenagers should be steered away from this kind of worthless, trashy magazine (other examples include Seventeen, YM, Teen People, and the list goes on). There are other issues which happen to be more important, you know. Try National Geographic or The New Yorker instead. The newspapers are also good.
Loved it...when I was nine. December 30, 2004
i am the pinky lifter (all over the place)
5 out of 9 found this review helpful
I must say that I've read just about every teen magazine on the market, and this is by far the worst one I've ever read. However, at this point in my life, everything appears superficial and immature.
I first picked up Twist when it debuted on newsstands. I believe that was in August 1997. I was nine then, and looking to be fashion forward among my girlfriends who were still into the Jungle Gym. Because of my insane desire to be cool, and because Twist wasn't too hard for me to understand, I loved it and bought it religiously for about a year. My obsession with it slowly faded as the magazine got progressively worse and I didn't pick it up again...
...until my junior year in high school. Looking through a then-current issue of the magazine, I noticed that the way in which it was written was MADE to be comprehensible to a nine year-old, or the lowest common denomination of older teenage readers. What I'm trying to say is this magazine is totally dumbed-down. It doesn't give girls any credit for being able to think creatively, let alone read above a fourth-grade level.
I also found the content to be more childish and superficial than other teen magazines (although they are all superficial to an extent - that doesn't mean they don't make delightfully fun and entertaining reading to share with friends). Therefore, I recommend this magazine to tweens (9-13), and tweens only. But even they can do better than this magazine. Older readers should check out the somewhat more sophisticated 'Elle Girl' or 'Cosmo Girl', my two personal favorites.
P.S. I agree with one of the other reviewers who pointed out the numerous spelling errors in the magazine. Possibly my biggest caveat is the constant misuse of the apostrophe (i.e. Tuesday's instead of Tuesdays).
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