The Spectator [Kindle Edition]

by The Spectator

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Product Description

The Spectator is a weekly delight for anyone who loves good writing, contentious opinion and hard-hitting comment.

With the finest writing on current affairs, politics, the arts, books and life, you'll read regular columnists who delight, provoke and amuse and editorial features of incredible breadth and depth. Established in 1828, The Spectator is the oldest continuously published magazine in the English language. Its taste for controversy, however, remains undiminished. There is no party line to which its writers are bound – originality of thought and elegance of expression are the sole editorial constraints. The result, week after week, is that Britain’s best columnists, critics and cartoonists turn out their finest work for the magazine and give you their views unfiltered and at cask strength.

The Kindle Edition of The Spectator contains most articles found in the print edition, but will not include images or cartoons. For your convenience, issues are auto-delivered wirelessly to your Kindle at the same time the print edition hits the newsstand.

Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• Publisher: The Spectator
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• ASIN: B002CVUQ2M
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,648 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
• Your name, billing address and order information will be shared with the publisher.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

71 of 74 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very readable version of an excellent magazine, November 8, 2009

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DAVID "bigbasspa" (Lancaster, PA, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Spectator (Kindle Edition)

I have seen reviews of Kindle magazines which reflect a general disappointment with the formatting for the Kindle. The Kindle version of The Spectator is unlikely to disappoint, except perhaps for the lack of graphics, photos and cartoons. All the main articles appear to be present with none (that I could see) of the problems some other Kindle publications have with things like apostrophes, quotes characters etc. As for the magazine content, it's a joy to be able to read political, social and other types of commentary written so well and often with much wit, and with none of the sensationilsm or cheap point scoring that make such articles in some other publications so tiresome. In short, it's bleedin' ace, mate.

40 of 41 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What a delight, February 10, 2010

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Stephanie Patterson (Collingswood, NJ) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Spectator (Kindle Edition)

The Spectator is a delightful publication The articles--about books, the arts, politics and daily life in Great Britain--are very well written. I feel as if I get a good overview of British life and it reads well on the Kindle.
The tone is light and satirical and no one suggests that if one doesn't agree with a particular point of view civilization as we know it is over
I'm enjoying my (reasonably priced) subscription very much

1.0 out of 5 stars Just Cancelled My Subscription, January 6, 2012

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Schizopolis - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Spectator (Kindle Edition)

I've been reading the Spectator for about 8 years now, and enjoyed the Kindle format for about a year. Usually, I skim through writers I dislike (Liddle, for instance) or just skip them altogether, but today I made the mistake of reading jailbird, cokehead and self-described anti-semite Taki's latest puddle of 'Jews run the media'-flavoured puke. Perhaps if I had read Taki's previous columns I would have cancelled my subscription earlier, but there's no way I can support this publication any longer.