TRP: Whipping Boy of the Pre-Modernists

[Joe Allonby]

I'd like to be associated with the words of the previous poster.

On 6/29/06, jd <wescac at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Kelly LeVan is a god damned idiot.  I've never read anything by her
> before and never heard of her before but I'd say that column is good
> enough evidence for me.  Though, I have always felt that Palahniuk is
> the Vonnegut of the new era (though vastly less witty or intelligent),
> and frankly I'm not as keen on COL49 as I am on V or GR (though, it's
> still a good book, just not as
> holy-crap-I-think-I-just-pooped-a-little amazing as the others - I
> admit, however, it's gotten less "air time" than the others in my
> personal reading).  It's certainly not the horror that she makes it
> out to be, that's for damn sure (he said to the choir).
>
> On the subject of really, really bad authors, and cheap girly
> lit-gossip, someone put up a mirror of Kaavya Viswanathan's blog
> (which she took down when people found it after the scandal):
> http://kahini12.livejournal.com/
>
> For those who don't know, before she came to college at Harvard she
> was given a $500,000 advance to write two books and she ended up
> plagiarising badly through the first one.  There had been a movie deal
> in the works and everything.  Basically her parents, it seems, used
> their money to get her a contract (they are not, it would seem,
> exactly poor).  The she also was influenced heavily by whatever
> company it was in regards to plot line.  It was kind of a big stink in
> Boston and frankly, god fucking damn, does anyone want to give me
> $500,000 and then tell me what to write?  I would feel like a whore...
> until I cashed all of that dough in for pennies and swam in it a la
> Scrooge McDuck.  And I wouldn't even plagiarize.  I promise.
>
> Anyways in regards to the above article...  maybe she just, you know,
> doesn't have any taste.  Because that stuff that she gets for her
> inner snob sounds pretty damn interesting to me.
>
> On 6/29/06, Henry <hmusikar at speakeasy.net> wrote:
> >
> > http://www.lamonitor.com/articles/2006/06/29/features/features01.txt
> >
> >
> > A-and how about an award for that there Stephen King.  No, wait... his
> books
> > are too long.  COL49 a long, inpenetrable book?  OMG....
> >
> > HenryMu
>
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