Schadenfreude

I'm sure it says something really bad about my character that I'm sort of enjoying the spectacle surrounding the allegations of plagiarism against Kaavya Viswanathan. But I totally am. I'm sorry, but first time novelists who are still in high school should not get $500,000 book advances. They especially should not get $500,000 advances to write chick lit; and especially when the book they come up with is largely "borrowed" -- unconsciously, of course -- from other books.