Part voyeuristic entertainment, part group therapy, Passive Aggressive Notes offers a fascinating look at the all-too-familiar frustrations of embattled office drones, apartment dwellers, parents, and pet owners everywhere.

This curated collection combines dozens of outrageous, never-before-seen notes as well as favorites from Passiveaggressivenotes.coma 2008 Webby Award Winner and the official "Best Blog" of the South by Southwest Interactive festival.

This curated collection combines dozens of outrageous, never-before-seen notes as well as favorites from Passiveaggressivenotes.com a 2008 Webby Award Winner and the official "Best Blog" of the South by Southwest Interactive festival.

A Note from the Author

It all began with a first date...and not a particularly good date, either. Apparently, things between this guy and his roommate had gotten so bad that they now communicated almost exclusively via Post-it note. Ah, yes, I said, I know those notes well--my current apartment (where I lived with three other roommates) had seen its share, most of them about the presence of unwashed dishes in the sink. They were usually signed with love; they were never addressed directly. I should start collecting them, I joked--put them on the Internet or something. Now that would be passive-aggressive.

Later that night--after it became clear that our relationship wasn't going to progress beyond standard small talk--I decided to do just that. And unlike my roommates' approach to dish-washing, the response to passiveaggressivenotes.com was enthusiastic, immediate, and overwhelming. Within weeks of the site's launch, thousands of notes poured in from shared bathrooms, kitchens, cubicles, and parking lots. (Wrote one reader: "Instead of a single note, can I submit an entire person? Like my mother?") This book represents the funniest and most outrageous of those submissions.

Despite the book's title, some of these notes are really more aggressive in tone, and some of them are more passive--polite, even. What they all share a common sense of frustration that's been channeled into written form rather than a direct confrontation. It's barbed criticism disguised as something else--helpful advice, friendly concern, light-hearted humor. But as Dr. Scott Wetzler, a clinical psychologist and author of Living with the Passive-Aggressive Man, observed: "A joke can be the most skillful passive-aggressive act there is."

--Kerry Miller

A Look Inside Passive Aggressive Notes
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Dear Stalker	Get a Life
You Fail	Conscious Sense of Things

Great book, horrible package!
This is a great, quick-read book for some good laughs at the expense of idiots and whiners everywhere! Very enjoyable. However the binding on the book was horrible and my copy fell apart within days, hence the lower star rating.

Really Funny
This book is totally my kind of humor. The notes are hilarious and even though they are short, you can easily relate to the situation. Good quality images of the notes.

Hold the 'Hilariously'
I wanted to like this book, I really did. I love reading notes that have actual notes passed from one person to another - or, in this case, left for another person. Some of the notes in this book are hilarious and I actually did laugh out loud. Others made me wince, because I could imagine the person receiving the note wasn't going to be too happy.

I honestly was expecting this book to contain a bit more... substance. It was a quick read, there weren't too many notes that made me laugh or wince or feel anything at all. I would recommend it to you, but I'd suggest that you borrow it from a friend before buying it... if you even buy it at all.

More, Please!
These notes made for terrific reading in the throne room of my house. Some of the notes are laugh-out-loud hilarious, while others are cause for alarm. No matter what, though, the notes held my attention. I hope another volume of passive aggressive notes is around the corner!

The language needs cleaned up!
Well, there is no denying that the notes are funny. Well, most of them.
I, for one, am one of those few people who are still aware of nouns, verbs, adverbs, etc.
I don't need to use the F-bomb as their replacements in sentences!

Other than the language (even worse on the actual blog - the editors seriously need to clean
it up and do some deleting!), many are definitely amusing. The majority, however,
are just a showcase for immature, selfish or drunk people leaving or reacting to notes about
their latest rude behavior.

Take it for what it's worth... some fun, some not.
Wish they'd put basic human behavior back in the school systems and make it a daily requirement.
SO tired of not being able to read anything without a visual assault.