Slog - Comments on My New Book Will Be Called Bindler's List http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/my_new_book_will_be_called_bindlers_list 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!... Copyright 2008 Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:00:00 -0800 Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:56:17 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by muckfetro 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?

]]> muckfetro http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/my_new_book_will_be_called_bindlers_list#c1132155 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/my_new_book_will_be_called_bindlers_list#c1132155 Books Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:27:34 -0800 Comment by Lee Gibson I read that blurb four times and it didn't get any less confusing.

Survivor? Denier? Which? Both? Huh?

]]> Lee Gibson http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/my_new_book_will_be_called_bindlers_list#c1132171 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/my_new_book_will_be_called_bindlers_list#c1132171 Books Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:44:20 -0800 Comment by You_Gotta_Be_Kidding_Me A survivor in a deep state of denial? Call Freud!

]]> You_Gotta_Be_Kidding_Me http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/my_new_book_will_be_called_bindlers_list#c1132173 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/my_new_book_will_be_called_bindlers_list#c1132173 Books Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:46:17 -0800 Comment by michael strangeways 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.

]]> michael strangeways http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/my_new_book_will_be_called_bindlers_list#c1132176 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/my_new_book_will_be_called_bindlers_list#c1132176 Books Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:49:53 -0800 Comment by N @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."

]]> N http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/my_new_book_will_be_called_bindlers_list#c1132182 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/my_new_book_will_be_called_bindlers_list#c1132182 Books Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:52:53 -0800 Comment by max solomon the photographer is supposed to say - please go to the bathroom & FIX YOUR CLUMPING MASCARA.

jesus fucking christ.

]]> max solomon http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/my_new_book_will_be_called_bindlers_list#c1132206 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/my_new_book_will_be_called_bindlers_list#c1132206 Books Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:16:24 -0800 Comment by MyDogBen 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.

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