Subscribe to Read | $0.00
Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!
Quick and Easy Sign Up!
It takes less then 1 minute to sign up, then you can enjoy Unlimited eBooks.
Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!
Quick and Easy Sign Up!
It takes less then 1 minute to sign up, then you can enjoy Unlimited eBooks.
Read Anywhere and on Any Device!
Rate this book!
Write a review?
Who Is the Bad Art Friend? - New York Times. I highly recommend reading this article if you're interested in this story.
I read this because I felt badly for the author- see "Bad Art Friend" for context-- but it was impossible to approach this text without being constantly distracted by thoughts of the mad Dawn. I'm on Sonya's side, but it was perhaps a little foolish to use the exact letter of a woman who was obsessed with her. I hope she's able to use this incident in her future writing and maybe also take a lesson from this whole debacle. I think Sonya Larson is an excellent writer. The pacing and descriptions
An awful story written by an awful human being. Aside from lacking any integrity or even shame author also lacks the ability to research her story. No, organ donation doesn't work this way; no, people of lower class can't afford to take eveything from Target shelves without looking at prices; no, you can't steal someone else's letter to add to your own work. All in all, you just look pathetic.
Yes, I know. Both women are bad art friends. But judging the work on its own merits alone, this is pretty good. I liked it, although the ending disappointed me. I was somehow expecting a more dramatic finish, but that's just me. Other readers might like it as is. I should mention I'm referring to the written version, not the audio book. ¯\_(ﭢ)_/¯
I felt it was unfinished. Rose especially needs more characterization. Why were we spending time at Target when we could've seen more from Chuntao and Rose, instead.That being said, what the author did is plagiarism and also I'm not sure about the ethics of using someone else's story if everyone that knows you two will be able to tell that the character of Rose is based on Dawn. It's unethical regardless of your personal feelings towards her.
This story is really poorly written. The author made no effort to put herself in the place of someone who has lived through this and in a blind donation like this one usually would not meet the donor this way. She should have used another example but clearly this story was written out of petty unprofessional mean girl hatred and she was helped by celeste ng to get published. But for a long time Sonya's prose has been lacking in the depth of the subjects she wants to portray. She is doing a disse...
We can all agree plagiarism is bad right like I just feel like that’s something we should all agree on here
Dawn donated a kidney—regardless of whether it’s a narcissistic act or not—and by so doing saved a life. Meanwhile, what did Sonya do? Talking behind someone’s back and plagiarizing? Not cool.
If you're going to write a scathing satire about another person, be brave enough to write that story as a scathing satire and tell the world you have.That's what Sonya Larson's intent clearly was; a malicious send up of what she perceives as another person's "white saviour" complex. Instead of being open about satirising this behaviour, Larson used her privileged position as a published and established author to write a story she claims was merely 'inspired' by someone else's blind organ donatio...
I have to say, after listening to that "Who is the Bad Art Friend" piece on The Daily, reading a book like this makes me feel slightly sick. Who knows how much of it is plagiarized but the behavior of the author toward Dorland is really shady.
Why the one star, you may ask. Well, I'm not young enough or hip enough to know about controversies. For me, this story felt disengaged. What I mean is that this was the story of an observer, not a participant. It read like a peeping-tom gloating from a safe distance about the behaviors of others. Casting the first stone came to mind. There was no real contact point with the characters. I was never in their shoes. Everything was told rather than shown. I felt detached, and because of that I had
