red ([info]ribbonbelt) wrote,
@ 2006-04-24 08:06:00
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on opal mehta

is it so wrong that i'm having a little party in my head now that i've found out the harvard freshman who wrote "how opal mehta got kissed, got wild, and got a life" mostly plagiarized one of my favorite young adult novels, "sloppy firsts"?

i totally resented that girl because she was so ahead of me in life, and i was pissed off that it sounded like she mostly changed the pronouns of her autobiography to make it a novel.  that she did that and stole entire paragraphs from sloppy firsts while doing it....take that, bitch.

ok that last part was wrong.


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[info]ailie
2006-04-24 01:16 pm UTC (link)
So typical. I emailed that story to my mom; she's going to have a field day.

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HA
[info]elsalmagundi
2006-04-24 01:27 pm UTC (link)
that makes me so happy. i read that article in the nytimes about her a couple weeks ago and sunk into a pit of insecurity and hatred.

okay, back to thesis...

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2006-04-24 05:38 pm UTC (link)
I'm a bad person, too, because everything I heard about this girl prior to her expose just increased my loathing and self-hatred as a writer whose queries sometimes get a response but never an acceptance. I was positive she'd plagiarized and overjoyed when the Harvard Crimson proved me right. I couldn't help thinking that if I had rich parents to "coach" me and help me get an agent, plus was ten years younger, had an Ivy League degree and had an "exotic" ethnic background, I too could get half a million dollars for my pablum. I doubt if she was from Cow Pie Community College and plain old homely Jane Brown, they wouldn't have given her book the time of day.

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