Reviews - PostSecret: Extraordinary Confessions From Ordinary Lives

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PostSecret: Extraordinary Confessions From Ordinary Lives

Shocking, funny, and touching. I can only imagine the release and relief one feels when you finally set your own secret loose into the wild.

Also, you must check out Frank's blog at www.postsecret.com, which has new secrets added every Sunday.

peyton_'s review against another edition

4.0

It feels good to know that I am not alone.

isabelh27's review

4.5

some of the post secrets were really hard to read because they were spread across the book and the text was in the spine...but overall very good. reminds me of found.

papi's review against another edition

3.0

Fascinating idea...in 2004, Frank Warren printed 3,000 blank postcards with his name and address and an invitation to decorate them and share a secret with him anonymously. He left them on park benches, in art galleries, at libraries, and elsewhere. And then the whole thing went viral, as they say in the virtual world. I understand that, to date, he has received over 400,000 postcards from people wanting or needing to share their secrets anonymously. This book is his first, and includes reproductions of about 275 of the postcards he has received. Others followed.

Some of the secrets are funny, many are heartbreaking, a few are scary or crude, and others are thought-provoking. Most are evidence that often what people fear most is that others will know us for who we really are, and life as we know it will end. So, we keep secrets, and it is often painful to bear their burden. I suppose that Warren hit a more or less universal need of people to get out from under the weight of the secrets they don't share. This book is the result.

tlwinslow's review against another edition

4.0

The beginning of the book was fascinating and humorous. The rest of the was sad and upsetting.

I do recommend to read this book but not cover to cover in one sitting. It is eye opening about what secrets people keep to themselves.

markat323's review against another edition

5.0

I heard about this at a workshop and read it in 30 minutes. Easy to do as it contains postcards people have sent writing a secret they have. Some are very funny, some are a little scary, and many are heartbreaking. The postcards themselves are as interesting and unique as the person sending them.