What if my hero falls for a chorus girl?

[rajasen]

"Sabrina was the brainy Angel. Yet another example of how every girl had to be one or the other: Pretty or smart."

"Moneypenny was the brainy female character. Yet another example of how every girl had to be one or the other: smart or pretty."

Okay, so it took an expose by her native student body publication, and Kaavya Viswanathan admits she

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[redobsession]

i own the bloody book. not a total waste of money, but yeah, i wish i'd bought a pratchet instead. i can so see this being turned into a chick-flick with Lohan as the hot DJ chick, head of the "Hot Bitches" loL!

Teen prodigy my eye. RICH teen, is more like it. i'd marry her, prenup or not!

and... why on earth do you have advertisements on your blog? making money on the side? ;P

[rajasen]

Dreamworks did buy the rights, yes, so she has made her millions. Lawsuits remain to be seen.

money? I wish.

[redobsession]

oh and i just read the links and the passages ARE weirdly similar.
LIFTER!
chee.

[ggollerkeri]

Hmpfh. What a phony.

[rajasen]

isn't that Phony Montana himself?
neat icon, do'hman.

[anupma]

This is not inspiration! This is plagiarism. No two ways about it. One does not internalize suuch descriptions, one internalizes style, may be.

[rajasen]

exactamundo.

[jayasankarvs]

And this came one day after I read an interview with her in 'The Hindu.' I feel like internalizing Ogden Nash.

[rajasen]

hehe. perhaps we should internalise Art Buchwald and start calling her nasty names while sounding smart.

[manfrommumbai]

Had read about her a year back when she had just been offered her publishing deal in a story on "prodigious" Indian-Americans.Hahaha. I guess she'll have a new buzzword to her credit; if not anything else.Internalize. I can so see the likes of Sanjay Gupta and Anu Malik using that in their interviews.....

[manfrommumbai]

Had to comment again as this has really sunk in. This is a crying shame.There's tons of writers/poets who die trying to be original. Think Jim. Nietschze.And here is a cheat who made millions by 'internalizing' her way through. I do hope she has plans on finishing her degree, as I see her literary career is definitely over. The moral of the story for me as an advertising pupil is-- The Quest for Originality should always be the Beginning, the Middle and the End.

[rajasen]

the worst part is that this is not pop music or popcorn cinema. it's a bloody book, for god's sake! you can't cut-and-paste a work of fiction! unthinkable.