Naked Pictures Of My Ex-Girlfriends

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Summary: Flip through this one at the bookstore
Review: I'd read a review of this book when it first came out, but there was no mention of it being fictitious. When I saw it in a bookstore, I browsed through it and was totally taken in, although a very distant voice in my head made me wonder how the author got permission from a couple of those women for his written comments about them. However I decided to see if I could get a cheaper copy online, and that's when I read that the pictures were recent and the stories fictional. If the book is indeed a hoax, then there is really no point in buying it if you're on any kind of book-budget at all. The pictures aren't particularly good because they are designed to mimic snapshots. And the stories, if fictional, are irrelevant.

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Summary: An even better book!
Review: So the book is the "Blair Witch" of the publishing world, who cares! I bought the book and find it so much more GENIUS after learning that the photos were staged to appear as though they were snapshots from the seventies. The recreations are so realistic that they convinced THE NEW YORKER, TIME MAGAZINE, PLAYBOY, DETAILS, MAXIM, etc., of the authenticity of the photos. To have captured the aura, the look, the experiences, of the decade of free love in book form is an outstanding achievement. Mark Helfrich is a true artist, one who took a vision based on personal reminiscence and created a "valentine to a bygone, carefree sexual era." Art is meant to convey ideas, capture beauty, evoke emotional responses. "Naked Pictures of My Ex-Girlfriends" does it all. I'm glad he went for the hype. That's how we all heard about the book.