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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.

Comments

[melebeth]

Is it just me, or do most of the similarities in this article seem to be pushing it? A scar on his hand - not uncommon. "Eyes so dark they're almost black" I've read more times than I can count. Yes, clearly she's been a bad girl, but some of this just seems like her critics trying way too hard.

[poodah.livejournal.com]

I have to admit, the part that bums me out the most is that a great opportunity to write about being Asian-Indian in America was completely blown. It's not like there are that many books about the culture wars of being a teen and being Indian, and this chic blew it. I suppose I could be disappointed by so many other aspects of this situation, but that's the one that screams at me the most. Silly, huh?