When Oprah tore James Frey down to a billion little pieces on television for adding a lot of fiction to his memoir,I thought it was an exception and bestselling authors are usually not copy cats or plagiarists.While there is still a lot of fire left in the 'A Million little pieces ' controversy another sophomore controversy has hit the literary circles....Our country cousin Kavya Vishwanathan has boldly gone where no newbie author has gone before.The teen author's claim to fame was her half a million dollar advance for two novels.
Her very first novel 'How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got In' was smart and funny before anyone realised that it had several passages copied from novels by Megan F. McCafferty.
But there was one Indian who really got deep into it and tried to find reasons for this incident.Here is the link to give you an Indian's perspective on this teen Indian guffaw.
Her very first novel 'How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got In' was smart and funny before anyone realised that it had several passages copied from novels by Megan F. McCafferty.
But there was one Indian who really got deep into it and tried to find reasons for this incident.Here is the link to give you an Indian's perspective on this teen Indian guffaw.
1 comment:
Ab to logon ne aisi research karni shuru kar di hai bechari ki kitaab par ki har panna hi copy kiya lagne laga hai!
Khair ab to kitaab hi wapas le li gayi hai market se. Have u read it?
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