A reader called into the New York Times yesterday to alert them to new similarities between Harvard sophomore Kaavya Viswananthan's teen book "How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life" (which was pulled from shelves after the first plagiarism accusation came out last week)and another book written by a British author. Much like the first story published last week, the passages are strikingly similar. May be if one passage (may be even to) had some similarities, we could call it just a coincidence and leave it at that. But, for this young woman who is already under the microscope, three similar passages will most likely end her writing career at the age of 19. The spokesperson for Alloy Entertainment, the book packager that helped Kaavya develop the book (or may be even wrote it for that matter, that is the rumor) declined to comment...gee, I wonder why?
Hi,there is nothing in Kaavya's issue.She has not copied the concept or idea,rite???,that might be unintentional.what is wrong in that???that was just a similiarities of phrases,thats common,there was nothing so worse to make a that big issue.Actually,everyone must encourage her,for writing novels at this very young age,which youth does this??!!instead of filing a case on her,just a warning should have been given........
Posted by: Prabhu | August 29, 2006 at 09:04 AM