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PostSecret: Extraordinary Confessions From Ordinary Lives [Hardcover]

Frank Warren
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18 Sep 2008

The instructions were simple, but the results were extraordinary.

'You are invited to anonymously contribute a secret to a group art project. Your secret can be a regret, fear, betrayal, desire, confession or childhood humiliation. Reveal anything - as long as it is true and you have never shared it with anyone before. Be brief. Be legible. Be creative.'

It all began with an idea Frank Warren had for a community art project. He handed out postcards, asking people to write down a secret and post it to him, anonymously. The response was overwhelming. In under a year, Frank had over 10,000 cards which he posted on the website.

The confessions were thought-provoking, funny and weird, touching on every aspect of human experience and revealing much about the state of modern life, and catapulting PostSecret to the status of global phenomenon.

Superbly illustrated throughout, this book is a great conversation piece, fascinating to flick through, and almost unputdownable once you have.


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  • Hardcover: 336 pages
  • Publisher: Orion (18 Sep 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0752883062
  • ISBN-13: 978-0752883069
  • Product Dimensions: 18.9 x 3.1 x 13 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (39 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 20,513 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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moving, intriguing and rather beautiful... many of [the postcards] burst with desire, pain or loneliness but some are quirkily amusing: all human experience in brief (SUNDAY TELEGRAPH )

Very artistic (DAILY TELEGRAPH )

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A compelling book of the confessions and secrets from the PostSecret website - the project that captured a nation's imagination

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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Really heartwarming 12 April 2007
Format:Hardcover
Absolute beautiful, Postsecret is everything that is great about the internet. What started in 2004 with a few postcards inviting people to contribute a personal secret to a community art project soon grew into an internationally popular website with more than 3 million hits a week. This book is a reproduction of some of those postcards which have made the website such a joy.

Each of them is a work of art and a glimpse into the mind of a stranger. The scope of the secrets range from childhood confession to criminal guilt, and in each of them one can discern a considerable cathartic experience. Open the book at any point and you will find something to make you laugh or think about or even cry. One reads, "I envy the willpower of anorexics." Another, "Sometimes I put coins in people's parking meters." Another, "For the first time since I was a baby I am finally happy. I am 28"

Here is everything it means to be human combined into hundreds of brief, artistic portraits of long held secrets. A very special book indeed. A coffee-table book which will have everyone who opens it engrossed. If you don't believe me, visit www.postsecret.blogspot.com and see for yourself.
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35 of 36 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A window into the lives of others.......... 29 Nov 2005
By kiniki
Format:Hardcover
You don't need to read the book to know that this is a worthwhile purchase.

Visit the website. If you like what you see there, you will like the book its that simple. I discovered postsecret accidently whilst surfing one day, now not a week goes past that don't visit.

There is something oddly comforting about reading other people's secrets, regardless of how horrific they are.

Everyone has a secret or two.

Reading this book, will make you realise that whatever your secret is, you are not alone.

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26 of 27 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Postsecret book 29 Oct 2006
Format:Hardcover
I had this book sent to me from amazon.com when it first came out in America. As soon as i found out there was to be a book i had to buy a copy of it. If you have ever seen the website at www.postsecret.com (it links you to the blogspot) then you'll know what this book is going to be all about. When i see these postcards that people have sent in to Frank, i really start to relate to some of the cards. To be honest, when you are struggling with a problem and you see the exact thing that you are thinking about as a postsecret you realize that you are not alone in dealing with problems. I recieved the book and it is excellent. Well worth the money. After reading through it and lending it to a friend, who has now shared it with her friends i decided that i should get a couple more copies for other friends. This led to me buying two more copies of this book as well as pre ordering copies of the next two books. It's the kind of book that you can bring out when your with a group if friends and just all sit in silence, totally absorbed by the book untl someone relates to one of the cards and then you all share your feelings. It is an excellent book and i would advise you all to buy at least one copy for yourselves if not buy others for your friends.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Secret reader
Big fan of the post secret website and was overjoyed when I found out they did books compiled with many many post secrets. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Miss Nicola Whitcher
4.0 out of 5 stars A real insight to those around you
Some of the confessions in this book are funny others moving and some reassuring. It's a real pick me up to see your not the only one with 'that' secret
Published 9 months ago by cheryl dobson
5.0 out of 5 stars Honest and heart-wrenching
Postsecret is one of those rare non-fiction books that manages to be even more captivating and imaginative than an actual fiction book, and i found myself totally absorbed in the... Read more
Published 10 months ago by Leanne Bell
5.0 out of 5 stars PostSecret: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives
The only issue I have is that this book is extremely difficult to put down! A fantastic read and worth the money.
Published 12 months ago by Keith Grout
5.0 out of 5 stars Personal - funny - poignant
If you have enjoyed ready these on the web, you will like this. It's so interesting, also so personal, sometimes funny, sometimes poignant.
Published 18 months ago by L
5.0 out of 5 stars One of my favourites
I have been following the postsecrets site for quite some time, and when I realized there were books
based on the postcards, I just had to get them. Read more
Published 19 months ago by Stinemilla
4.0 out of 5 stars Post Secret in its beginning
This is a great book, it is a heavy enough hardcover book to prove durable and reproduces the postcards from the post secret website horizontally, the book itself is just slightly... Read more
Published 21 months ago by Lark
5.0 out of 5 stars A looker on the shelves
After being introducted to POSTSECRET.COM I soon became fascinated by other peoples secrets, and this book gives into that craving. Read more
Published 22 months ago by Carys
5.0 out of 5 stars Very Arty
This book, (which really isn't a book) is a load of pictures of some of the best post secrets and also some quotes and written stuff from people. Read more
Published 24 months ago by Ben Booth
5.0 out of 5 stars Coffee Table Spectacular!
If I was going to define what a "Coffee Table" book was it would be Post Secret. I brought this book years back and I still love giving it to people or leaving it about in my house... Read more
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