Heidi
2006-05-02 23:33:37 UTC
The plagiarism just doesn't stop - now she's accused of ripping off a third
book - canceled her book deal too, hope she hasn't spent the money yet.....
she certainly worked very hard doing all that copying.
http://www.forbes.com/infoimaging/feeds/ap/2006/05/02/ap2715372.html
The Harvard Crimson, alerted by reader e-mails, reported Tuesday on its Web
site that "Opal Mehta" contained passages similar to Meg Cabot's 2000 novel,
"The Princess Diaries." The New York Times also reported comparable material
in Viswanathan's novel and Sophie Kinsella's "Can You Keep a Secret?"
In Cabot's "The Princess Diaries," published by HarperCollins, the following
passage appears on page 12: "There isn't a single inch of me that hasn't
been pinched, cut, filed, painted, sloughed, blown dry, or moisturized. ...
Because I don't look a thing like Mia Thermopolis. Mia Thermopolis never had
fingernails. Mia Thermopolis never had blond highlights."
In Viswanathan's book, page 59 reads: "Every inch of me had been cut, filed,
steamed, exfoliated, polished, painted, or moisturized. I didn't look a
thing like Opal Mehta. Opal Mehta didn't own five pairs of shoes so
expensive they could have been traded in for a small sailboat."
book - canceled her book deal too, hope she hasn't spent the money yet.....
she certainly worked very hard doing all that copying.
http://www.forbes.com/infoimaging/feeds/ap/2006/05/02/ap2715372.html
The Harvard Crimson, alerted by reader e-mails, reported Tuesday on its Web
site that "Opal Mehta" contained passages similar to Meg Cabot's 2000 novel,
"The Princess Diaries." The New York Times also reported comparable material
in Viswanathan's novel and Sophie Kinsella's "Can You Keep a Secret?"
In Cabot's "The Princess Diaries," published by HarperCollins, the following
passage appears on page 12: "There isn't a single inch of me that hasn't
been pinched, cut, filed, painted, sloughed, blown dry, or moisturized. ...
Because I don't look a thing like Mia Thermopolis. Mia Thermopolis never had
fingernails. Mia Thermopolis never had blond highlights."
In Viswanathan's book, page 59 reads: "Every inch of me had been cut, filed,
steamed, exfoliated, polished, painted, or moisturized. I didn't look a
thing like Opal Mehta. Opal Mehta didn't own five pairs of shoes so
expensive they could have been traded in for a small sailboat."