Frank Warren
Hardcover | Pages: 278 pages Rating: 3.97 | 70753 Users | 1190 Reviews
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| Title | : | PostSecret: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives (PostSecret) |
| Author | : | Frank Warren |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 278 pages |
| Published | : | November 29th 2005 by HC |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Art. Humor. Autobiography. Memoir. Psychology. Adult. Biography |
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New York Times Bestseller The project that captured a nation's imagination. 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 began handing out postcards to strangers and leaving them in public places -- asking people to write down a secret they had never told anyone and mail it to him, anonymously. The response was overwhelming. The secrets were both provocative and profound, and the cards themselves were works of art -- carefully and creatively constructed by hand. Addictively compelling, the cards reveal our deepest fears, desires, regrets, and obsessions. Frank calls them "graphic haiku," beautiful, elegant, and small in structure but powerfully emotional. As Frank began posting the cards on his website, PostSecret took on a life of its own, becoming much more than a simple art project. It has grown into a global phenomenon, exposing our individual aspirations, fantasies, and frailties -- our common humanity. Every day dozens of postcards still make their way to Frank, with postmarks from around the world, touching on every aspect of human experience. This extraordinary collection brings together the most powerful, personal, and beautifully intimate secrets Frank Warren has received -- and brilliantly illuminates that human emotions can be unique and universal at the same time.Particularize Books As PostSecret: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives (PostSecret)
| Original Title: | PostSecret: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives |
| ISBN: | 0060899190 (ISBN13: 9780060899196) |
| Series: | PostSecret |
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Ratings: 3.97 From 70753 Users | 1190 ReviewsWrite Up Of Books PostSecret: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives (PostSecret)
There was a postcard written in my handwriting... It wasn't me, but it made me think that I had sent one and had forgotten about it. :/there are two kind of secrets: those we keep from others and those we hide from ourselves....are you willing to share yours???this book was so liberating, as it was comforting.I dont think i can describe with words the emotions, thoughts, insight it gave to me. How much pain, frustration, shattered dreams, fears, hopes.. can all be condensed into a simple sentence. these simple revelations had so much substance. I laughed, cried, gasped.. and of course; empathize,because many of this quiet
This books is oddly inspiring and terrifying at the same time. People from all over the country sent postcards to this guy with their deepests secrets and fears and some will scare the hell out of you and some will make you cry and the worst part is some will make you nod your head and agree! The postcards touch on every human experience we have and let you know you are not alone. The author still receives postcards from all over the world and has made a sequel as well, there is also a website
I have leafed through this in bookstores in the past but never from cover to cover. Since I have learned the wonders of the public library system I was finally able to pore over it, giving it the attention it deserved. I love this book. I love the concept. I love the art. I love the individual expressions (and confessions)of things that can be unifying and liberating to the masses. There are many secrets that i could do without, usually of a sexual nature, but you can't really censor people's
Here's a quote from one of the postcard that wiped the smile from my face while *reading* this amazing book :Income from teaching creative writing ... $ 32,654.00Income from writing creatively ... $ 0.00I admire how Frank Warren got his idea for this collected postcards book, and reading the anonymous-es confessions somehow made me realize that I'm not the only person on this planet that have deepest darkest secret(s) that I'm dying to share but so afraid that anyone I know or know me find it
I'm just as appalled as you are that this is listed on my "read" shelf. GR needs a "looked at every single page" shelf in order to better classify books such as this.Taken at face value, this collection of confessional postcards is poignant, disturbing, and beautiful in equal parts. However, the same cynicism that causes me to assume that everyone on the Internet (who is not on my GR friends list) is in actuality a hairy, swaybacked, middle-aged man by the name of Lou also pulls me in the
Is it just me or do people always think they are unique to the extent that nobody thinks the way they do? Can the truth be that we are all self conscious, hopeful, hold the occasional grudge, the shame of a certain pettiness over a trifle we know is absurd but can't entirely release, etc.?We are all just people. How else do the marketing algorithms so accurately predict us? Baa...baa...Don't be surprised then when you open up this clever compendium. A call goes out for people to write down their
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