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 Cool Magazine October 27, 2004
Greggo (Euclid, OH USA)
16 out of 21 found this review helpful
I love Mental Floss magazine. It is an informative magazine that keeps me turning the pages, unlike some of my earlier magazine subscriptions. It has a lot of hidden history, and it takes seemingly difficult or boring topics and makes them easy to understand. I would subscribe to it forever if I had to.
Witty and entertaining! June 30, 2006
Emma (Oklahoma City, OK United States)
16 out of 26 found this review helpful
MENTAL FLOSS provides some of the wittiest, entertaining, and might I say even thought provoking reading available today! It's a great way to start the day or to take a break from work, life, stress, dissertation writing, etc! When you need to laugh or go just "hmmmmmmmmmm...that's interesting", pick up MENTAL FLOSS!
Floss Your Funny Bone February 9, 2007
Barbara Ann
15 out of 16 found this review helpful
Resuscitation - act of reviving a person and returning them to consciousness
This publication does just that. It resuscitates the sense of humor and throws in some facts.
If you are looking for cold hard dry data listed in chronological order and you find humor pointless, this periodical is not for you.
You don't have to be trivia crazed to enjoy this magazine. If you have a sense of humor and (more importantly) enjoy others who have a sense of humor, you have found your magazine. You might even enjoy the information it contains.
 ACCURACY PROBLEMS. June 21, 2007
Penny Names (North USA)
15 out of 18 found this review helpful
I bought Mental Floss as a gift and I have been borrowing the recipient's copy to read. As a matter of fact, it got passed around. It is fun, well written and very understandable but everyone had the same complaints.
Mental Floss would get 5 stars if it just could solve two problems. First the biggie: I appreciate how difficult it must be to cover such a large array of topics and some very complex ideas in a few sentences. Because of the briefness, accuracy is extremely important. I think the magazine tries too hard to make the facts fit into an overall theme so the reader sometimes walks away with an distorted impression of the subject. (To be clear I am not talking about the writer's opinions. This maganize handles that well.) There are also a few (not many) out and out mistakes.
The second less important: The layout need works. Once I get use to the busyness and the color it actually make sense but it still could be approved upon.
Get these two things fixed and this magazine could easily be "5 Stars" and a much bigger seller. There is definitely a place for a magazine like this. It is starting to sink in all levels of this country (U.S.) that knowledge is important and this magazine fits the bill in our time-pressed society. Also, quickie facts presented in a entertaining way has always been popular with people (note all the stars and praises it gets in the other posts).
 Very disappointing! December 7, 2007
true crime lover (Tampa Bay area, Fl)
15 out of 25 found this review helpful
I was very excited when I ordered this magazine. Now, a year later, I haven't even read the last issue. This magazine has very interesting information and it could easily be a great magazine. However, some of the writing is inane. I get the impression that the editors are so lacking in creativity (or is it just the writers?) that articles are poorly conceived and poorly written. By the painfully obvious attempts to stretch the articles to acceptable lengths, I am reminded of the words my College English teacher wrote on the essays of students who were desperately trying to reach her required 500 word minimum and were not being too successful: "Words full of sound and fury signifying nothing." I know those are Shakespeare's words but they were apt for the writings of those students and also, sadly, fit the articles in this magazine.
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