- Hardcover: 176 pages
- Publisher: Collins (6 Oct 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0007284659
- ISBN-13: 978-0007284658
- Product Dimensions: 18.2 x 14.2 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 211,942 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"We dare you not to laugh at loud at these funny, snarky notes."
--Redbook magazine, November, 2008
--Redbook magazine, November, 2008
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passive-aggressive Definition: of or relating to a personality that harbours aggressive emotions while behaving in a calm or detached manner.
Have you ever felt angry about something a colleague, flatmate or even a total stranger has done?
Has your pent up anger ever unleashed itself as a written note?
Have you ever been the recipient of a nagging reminder to do the dishes or turn down the music, imbued with a faux friendliness and stuck on a Post-It for all to see? Welcome to the hilarious and compelling world of the passive-aggressive.
Part voyeuristic entertainment, part group therapy passiveaggressivenotes.com provides an amusing glimpse into the private lives of strangers as well as a revealing insight into our collective neuroses.
Your Mother Doesn’t Work Here collects all of the most popular notes that have been submitted to the website – some passive and almost polite in tone, many overtly aggressive – but all sharing a common sense of frustration channelled into a ‘helpful’ note.
Notes from the disgruntled and dissatisfied, Post-Its for food thieves, warnings to the irresponsible and untidy, notices from neighbours and landlords and messages from fed up flatmates who have reached the end of their tether all feature in this compendium of textual passive-aggression.
Entries include the shaming, 'Your mum does not work here (& would be embarrassed by your behaviour if she did)' to the irritable, 'We wish people who are turning off the hall lights would get a life.'
Laugh at the ridiculous, delight in the bizarre and nod your head in recognition at those notes that strike a chord - after all, there's a little bit of passive-aggressive in all of us.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
I saw excerpts of this in a magazine and the tears were tripping me but when I got the book I kinda discovered that those were the funnies ones in the book, it was ok but not as good as I thought it would be.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
The book is pretty much as other reviewers have summed it up: extremely funny in places, less so in others and certainly worth a read if you want a quick giggle.
However, anyone looking at the 'buy all three...' suggestion above should probably be aware that one of the suggested books in that trio: "Passive Aggressive Notes: Painfully Polite and Hilariously Hostile Writings." is not, as this tacitly implies, another similar book - it's the same book, just with its American title and cover.
It may be worth buying but probably not twice!
However, anyone looking at the 'buy all three...' suggestion above should probably be aware that one of the suggested books in that trio: "Passive Aggressive Notes: Painfully Polite and Hilariously Hostile Writings." is not, as this tacitly implies, another similar book - it's the same book, just with its American title and cover.
It may be worth buying but probably not twice!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Being a fan of the PAN blog this great little book offers more of the same amusing (and sometimes slightly terrifying) notes; it's a fun coffee table book and has had many of my friends in stitches.
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