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Friday, April 28, 2006


How Kaavya Got Exposed, Got Ridiculed, and Got Pulled Off The Shelves
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What do you do when money can't buy you the depth of personality necessary to be accepted to Harvard University? Write a book of course! So what if you're a talentless hack. Just plagerize. Authors do it all the time, right? It's not like anyone will notice.

WRONG.

Poor poor Kaavya Viswanathan. She had it all. Almost. Too bad she doesn't have the creativity to . . . oh, I don't know, come up with orginal material? More similarities here.

Actually, I do feel a little bad for her. Something tells me that her parents have been riding her all the way to town and back on this one. First off, someone who isn't enough of a self-starter to get into Harvard on the first round is NOT going to have the gumption to put together a memoir. Second, just listen to her apology: "While the central stories of my book and hers are completely different, I wasn't aware of how much I may have internalized Ms. McCafferty's words. I am a huge fan of her work and can honestly say that any phrasing similarities between her works and mine were completely unintentional and unconscious." God, that just reeks of damage control. I betcha Daddy and Mummy have a panel of consultants on this one. Whooo!


In other news, a vegan diet just doesn't satisfy my misplaced control issues the way it used to. I'm thinking about doing Atkins. Seriously. I'm not kidding. If I'm lucky, ketosis will make me popular and successful. Huh? Right, right? Thoughts?

SHAZAM!


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