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Title: PostSecret: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives
ISBN: 0060899190
Author:
Frank Warren
Publicate Date: 2005-12-01
Publish: 2005-12-01
List Price: $28.99
Average Customer Rating: 4.5
Format: Hardcover
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1: Thought provoking
I loved reading other people's secrets and was amazed by how many emotions the random statements evoked.
The secrets made me feel sadness, humour, pity, despair, disbelief and revulsion (the wife that puts boogers in her husband's soup when she is pissed off with him); as well as making me recognize myself and ponder my own untold secrets and the freedom of letting them go anonymously.
I love the idea of gaining control over something by making it concrete and putting it outside of yourself.
I think it is an absolutely wonderful and insightful project.
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2: Book Review by V Sanderson
I absolutely adored this book! I laughed, I cried, it became a part of me. I recommend this and other Frank Warren books to anyone that needs a small dose of humility.
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3: Glad I ordered it.
This was the first used book I had ordered from amazon and I was a little nervous. But I was extremely happy with the quality of the product as well as how quick I got it.
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4: A Great "Read" for Pretentious People Who Like to Waste Trees
If you're looking for a few entertaining, albeit clich??d anecdotes to read off to cornered house guests and family members, then this is the book for you. Post Secret is intentionally provocative in the worst kind of way. If a high school creative writing class was asked to do an anonymous project on Twitter, this would be the result. But even that hypothetical situation would probably produce more original, thoughtful commentary. While the presentation of the postcards and the overall design of the book are attractive, the content is transparent, predictable, and egocentric.
The premise of the book is interesting. I love the idea of using anonymous confessions as a healing tool, but there is something fundamentally wrong with the execution of this book. Perhaps its the fact that when creator, Frank Warren encourages people to "Reveal anything," he actually means write something shocking. The majority of postcards published in this book contemplate regret, self-loathing, jealousy, lust, abuse, narcissism, hypocrisy, etc. The project allows participants to relieve themselves of guilt, even get a little attention for their ventures into the "taboo", but ultimately these words do not translate into real change. Readers and writers get to alleviate their guilt with the reassurance that everyone else is just as self-centered and insecure as themselves. No uncomfortable confrontations, no consequences, no responsibility towards anyone else. Any chance that the participants in this book are also Facebook addicts? This book can be considered very successful, if the goal is to feed our self-indulgent emotions or popularize suicide and abuse. No wonder postal workers are depressed. While I do see value in collaborative, forward-thinking writing projects that bring people together, I cannot help but feel that Post Secret represents a rather narrow socio-economic group. Did anyone notice that a lot of the handwriting looks the same?
Kudos to those who got what they needed out of this project, but it makes me sick to think of the number of trees and paper wasted. They should have printed the Suicide Hotline number on every page. Instead, they placed it just above the publication information. Because readers always pay special attention to that page, right? This book makes me want to stick my head in the oven just so that I can forget that someone at Harper Collins actually published this.
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5: Amazing Read
Any absolutely amazing collection of people's inner thoughts and secrets, each submitted to the author on a post card. A great idea, and a great read. This book really makes you stop and think about the secrets in your own life, as well as wonder what inner secrets those around you have and never share.
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