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Monday, September 8, 2008

My New Book Will Be Called Bindler’s List

posted by on September 8 at 15:00 PM

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British mystery author Lynda LaPlante (shown at left) has been accused of plagiarizing part of one of her mysteries “from a 1947 book called Five Chimneys, by a Holocaust survivor, Olga Lengyel.”

In the face of these allegations that she stole part of a Holocaust denier’s book, LaPlante is taking the classy route: she’s blaming the error on a research assistant. Which doesn’t make much sense, as it would mean that LaPlante’s research assistant wrote huge passages of her own book. But whatever. Damned assistants!

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So she stole from a survivor and a denier? Or is the person from whom she pilfered one of those rare people that experienced the holocaust first hand and still denies it? Or are you just really crappy at editing before posting?

Posted by muckfetro | September 8, 2008 3:27 PM
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I read that blurb four times and it didn't get any less confusing.

Survivor? Denier? Which? Both? Huh?

Posted by Lee Gibson | September 8, 2008 3:44 PM
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A survivor in a deep state of denial? Call Freud!

Posted by You_Gotta_Be_Kidding_Me | September 8, 2008 3:46 PM
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She used someone's memoir as a source for a novel?

Shocking

uh, most novelists do a lot of research when writing historical fiction...unless she copied stuff verbatim, I don't that this is the crime of the century...maybe a misdemeanor, and only because she didn't list her sources.

If it IS verbatim, then she must be killed.

Posted by michael strangeways | September 8, 2008 3:49 PM
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@4

FTA: "La Plante's passages were so close to the original, it was clear she had done more than draw on the heart-rending memoir for background, instead lifting whole sections of text and putting them into Entwined with the lightest of massaging."

Posted by N | September 8, 2008 3:52 PM
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the photographer is supposed to say - please go to the bathroom & FIX YOUR CLUMPING MASCARA.

jesus fucking christ.

Posted by max solomon | September 8, 2008 4:16 PM
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Didn't she do something good before she turned to a life of crime? "Prime Suspect'? Who knows. I'm too lazy to google it.

Posted by MyDogBen | September 8, 2008 4:56 PM

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