"How Opal Mehta Got" copied story - Kaavya Viswanathan

[staceass]

she needs to stop copying chick lit authors, especially if she's trying to "write" chick lit herself.

i don't know that i would consider salman rushdie to be a chick lit author...

(from CBC.CA article: "For instance, in Rushdie's children's novel Haroun, the title character encounters posters bearing slogans such as "If from speed you get your thrill / take precaution – make your will."

In Viswanathan's book, her character Opal Mehta helps another student put up posters bearing slogans like "If from drink you get your thrill / take precaution – write your will." ")

 

[venusunfolding]

i don't know that i would consider salman rushdie to be a chick lit author...

(from CBC.CA article: "For instance, in Rushdie's children's novel Haroun, the title character encounters posters bearing slogans such as "If from speed you get your thrill / take precaution – make your will."

In Viswanathan's book, her character Opal Mehta helps another student put up posters bearing slogans like "If from drink you get your thrill / take precaution – write your will." ")

so that makes 3 then. I was talking about her ripping of Sophie Kinsella.

 

[harishankar]

This is the kind of stuff I wouldn't care for - original or copied.

 

[staceass]

just got this from my kirkus newsletter...

While the Gettin's Good: $495 Will Get You a Used Copy of Kaavya Viswanathan's 'Opal Mehta'
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Log into your PayPal account now at Amazon, you can get a used copy of the now-recalled How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild and Got a Life, the debut novel from former wunderkind Kaavya Viswanathan, for $495.

Lucky early buyers of the book are quickly exploiting the latest literary scandal, in which the Harvard sophomore has been charged with plagiarizing from a growing number of books.

 

[novella]

And in the nonfiction category, the Plagiarism Award of the Day goes to the chief executive of Raytheon! For lifting central portions of his best-selling management book from a well-known classic :

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/03/business/03cnd-raytheon.html?ei=5094&en=ae48263f27267571&hp=&ex=1146715200&adxnnl=1&partner=homepage&adxnnlx=1146697242-JzBjYsbSQIE5oX8hzlM/Dw

 

[ValkyrieRaven88]

And in the nonfiction category, the Plagiarism Award of the Day goes to the chief executive of Raytheon! For lifting central portions of his best-selling management book from a well-known classic :

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/03/business/03cnd-raytheon.html?ei=5094&en=ae48263f27267571&hp=&ex=1146715200&adxnnl=1&partner=homepage&adxnnlx=1146697242-JzBjYsbSQIE5oX8hzlM/Dw

There is no respect for the written word anymore. What are people thinking?

 

[venusunfolding]

just got this from my kirkus newsletter...

While the Gettin's Good: $495 Will Get You a Used Copy of Kaavya Viswanathan's 'Opal Mehta'
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Log into your PayPal account now at Amazon, you can get a used copy of the now-recalled How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild and Got a Life, the debut novel from former wunderkind Kaavya Viswanathan, for $495.

Lucky early buyers of the book are quickly exploiting the latest literary scandal, in which the Harvard sophomore has been charged with plagiarizing from a growing number of books.

damn, i should have grabbed them before we returned them!