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May 02, 2006
More, More, More (Stop, please)
As if McCafferty and Kinsella were not enough, according to The Harvard Crimson, KV's now said to have pilfered bits from Meg Cabot and, gasp, even Salman Rushdie.
Some samples given by The Harvard Crimson:
Page 12 of Meg Cabot’s 2000 novel “The Princess Diaries” reads: “There isn’t a single inch of me that hasn’t been pinched, cut, filed, painted, sloughed, blown dry, or moisturized. [...] Page 59 of Viswanathan’s novel reads: “Every inch of me had been cut, filed, steamed, exfoliated, polished, painted, or moisturized."
Page 35 of Rushdie’s Haroun and the Sea of Stories: “If from speed you get your thrill / take precaution—make your will.” On page 118 of Viswanathan’s novel: “If from drink you get your thrill, take precaution—write your will.”
It's time to give up on this chase and to start on another. How about DesiLit readers look for sentences in Opal Mehta that have *not* been copied? It's almost enough to make one buy the book.
STOP: The latest is that DreamWorks has halted work on the film.
Posted by Ahmad Saidullah at May 2, 2006 10:46 AM
Comments
And true to prediction, no revised-version of Opal and no book 2 of the two-book deal either.
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at May 2, 2006 05:18 PM
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