TRP: Whipping Boy of the Pre-Modernists

jd wescac at gmail.com
Thu Jun 29 21:50:46 CDT 2006


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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