I guess if you’re going to plagiarize, you might as well plagiarize from more than one book.
The Harvard Crimson is now reporting it’s found passages from Kaavya Viswanathan’s novel “How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life” that were lifted from Meg Cabot’s “The Princess Diaries” and Salman Rushdi’s “Haroun and the Sea of Stories“(!!!).
And The New York Times (registration required) has published a piece reporting similarities between passages in Viswanathan’s book and passages in “Can You Keep a Secret?” by Sophie Kinsella.
This wasn’t a novel. It was a fricking medley.
(I previously blogged about this here.)
ok she is officially retarded now. at least she could have tried to construe the “inspiration” she got from the novels she read for ideas into something a little more unique instead of copying it almost verbatim. what an idiot. no wonder her parents had to pay 20 grand just to get her into Harvard.
LOL
Actually, w/ a bit of luck, by now she’s recovering from her bout of idiocy . . .
LOL. Medley!
Well, look on the bright side…at least she was smart enough to crib from books in the right genres…chick lit and YA…not sure where the Salman Rushdie fits in, though I did love that book…but I’ll ignore it.
The Rushdie is hilarious. It’s like a hip hop artist sampling John Cage or something.