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[rm]

I really must get around to making a post about this ongoing saga:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/02/books/02auth.html

It's gotten deeply under my skin for all sorts of reasons beyond the obvious. Mostly to do with the packaging and marketing of authors, youth and books about nothing in particular, but also to do with the fact that everyone is some degree of thief, some are just graceless.

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[rm.livejournal.com]

I agree, and that's part of what I have to rant about. On one hand, I'm getting a lot of schadenfreud out of this, that I'm not terribly proud of. And I'm glad it's hopefully putting a dent in the packing of books before they are even written (and the really odd lengths teen overachievement has come to -- I'm all for ambition, to a fault, but I dislike it as a shortcut to respectibility -- I have to find a way to make that clearer later.), but seriously. Had I my way, I think far too many of my characters would have such terribly dark eyes. On the other hand, the profusion of small thefts in this is utterly out of control.

[magnetgirl.livejournal.com]

This second round of allegations seem silly-that my little pony sweatshirt to donna karan knock-off comparison? That's ridiculous.

The first round of quotations from sloppy firsts are...well, disturbing. Why, I ask, is everyone so shocked? So some Ivy-League brat isn't all she's cracked up to be. What a shocker. Why is this front page news?