Saturday, April 29, 2006

Too much too soon

How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild and Got a Life and Kaavya Viswanathan

It was too good to last - a book by a very young author making headlines all over the world , her fantastic (by any standards) advance for books yet to be thought of, let alone written, immediate world wide recognition - could all have been straight out of a book (Maybe written by herself?).
Was it active plagiarisation, or a subconscious retention of passages read and transcribed?
A pity that a budding career had to be so swiftly nipped.
Will anyone publish her again?
See http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1509860.cms

3 comments:

Revathi R said...

We all have something to say and this space gives us the pleasure of wonderful sharing of thoughts.
Go ahead and blog!

But Kaaya accepts that she is a huge fan of Megan McCafferty. And so the unavoidable similarity! http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/25/books/25book.html

heckler said...

budding career ... as what?? an assistant at the neighborhood photocopy shop in mylapore??

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