Little Brown has now pulled the book from the shelves.
Or in reality asked the booksellers to pull the book from the shelves and return it to them.

[Edited on Apr 30, 2006 by LuLuKiTTyFoo]

Tangus

Chicago, IL

November 2005

APR 30, 2006 10:32 AM

noirkiss3 said:

Tangus said:
looks like M. Night Shamalamadingdong's daughter.

both creating crap.

what?beacause they both have the same heritage,gimme a break

[Edited on Apr 27, 2006 by noirkiss3]

I love how you didn't think to read the rest of the thread before you posted that.

Leanimal

Gainesville, FL

February 2005

APR 30, 2006 10:56 AM

cgilbe1 said:
the awesome thing was because my students were being filmed they were like twice as talkative as usual.

Bring a video camera to class from now on - that'll keep them talking.

And related to the thread - you shouldn't copy things and make money off of them - it's not very nice to the person who created it in the first place.

zoton

Kuwait

November 2005

APR 30, 2006 11:12 AM

unless it's audio cds and movies then its ok

oh and if you're dan brown

[Edited on Apr 30, 2006 by zoton]

Cash

USA

OLD SKOOL

APR 30, 2006 12:03 PM

Alyk said:
And Viswanathan writes on page 46 of Opal Mehta: In a truly masochistic gesture, they had decided to buy Diet Cokes from Mrs. Fields...

The real crime here is that she got $500k to write poorly constructed, passive-voice sentences.

I had decided that this girl's writing has been painful to be reading.

Wren

SUICIDEGIRL

Minnesota, USA

APR 30, 2006 12:14 PM

Cash said:

Alyk said:
And Viswanathan writes on page 46 of Opal Mehta: In a truly masochistic gesture, they had decided to buy Diet Cokes from Mrs. Fields...

The real crime here is that she got $500k to write poorly constructed, passive-voice sentences.

I had decided that this girl's writing has been painful to be reading.

BAHAHAHA!

BeckyJane

USA

August 2005

APR 30, 2006 12:33 PM

Subrosa said:

Anton said:
I like that 'googleable' is a word. Seriously.

Your mom is googleable.

Classic.

St_Expedite

New Orleans, LA

January 2004

APR 30, 2006 05:09 PM

Oracle said:

St_Expedite said:
I don't get it. If you're going to plagarize, why would you plagarize utter crap?

because if you plagarize best sellers there is a much better chance of getting caught.

Er, she plagarized two books that, while they may not have made the NY Times best seller list, were both utter crap and popular enough to be easily recognizable. So, no.

Wow, she hit the stupid, dishonest and bad taste trifecta. Go her.

Nado

Essexville, MI

March 2005

APR 30, 2006 05:27 PM

St_Expedite said:

Oracle said:

St_Expedite said:
I don't get it. If you're going to plagarize, why would you plagarize utter crap?

because if you plagarize best sellers there is a much better chance of getting caught.

But, at least she'll have that Harvard education to fall back on.

kwizzle

Cambridge, MA

September 2004

APR 30, 2006 06:08 PM

Nado said:
But, at least she'll have that Harvard education to fall back on.

And god knows that is priceless.

/self-mock

[Edited on Apr 30, 2006 by kwizzle]

PointBlank

New York, NY

November 2004

APR 30, 2006 07:06 PM

St_Expedite said:

Oracle said:

St_Expedite said:
I don't get it. If you're going to plagarize, why would you plagarize utter crap?

because if you plagarize best sellers there is a much better chance of getting caught.

Yes, but she didn't plagiarize either of the books, it turns out. Her packager (who also "packaged" the other book) did.

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