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Book Review of Permanent Obscurity: Or a Cautionary Tale of Two Girls and Their Misadventures with Drugs, Pornography and Death

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Took me a while to get into, but once I did I couldn't stop reading this wild book. The story is a real blast, about two outcasts, Dolores and Serena, who want no real part of the American dream. Drug abuse seems to cloud their brains, and they enter fetish photography, the find themselves as "filmmakers" trying to make a movie, which leads from one disaster to another. The climax and "aftermath" is wonderful, and I ended up liking the main character, Dolores, even though I hated her in the beginning. Great story.