How often are they rewritten?
Hard to say, but one glaring example does come to mind.
Lewis Perdue write THE LINZ TESTAMENT, rewrote his own book
later in THE DA VINCI CONSPIRACY and then wrote DAUGHTER OF
GOD.
http://www.daughter-of-god.com/
The plot was - or so it appears - rewritten by Dan Brown as
THE DA VINCI CODE.
A good article describing the legal battles is from VANITY
FAIR:
http://www.sethmnookin.com/other/davinci.php
Or Perdue's Website, for those who want the real goods:
http://davincicrock.blogspot.com/2006/06/upcoming-vanity-fair-article-raises.html
The problem being, take a hundred monkeys and chain them to a
computer....
----- Original Message -----
From: Victoria Two
To:
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2007 12:59 AM
Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: looking for a book
Both Grafton's character and the original
character are women. Both scenes are at night and Grafton's
woman is nude. I do not recall if the other was nude also but
might have been. Grafton's character leaps from a retaining
wall at a marina and I think the original may have jumped
from a pier behind a building. In both cases the suicide by
sea comes at the end of the book and closes out the
plot.
I have a really strong sense of having read the
same scene with minor changes but can not place it by the
time in my life or anything related to a story, although it
was probably about sailing.
And this powerful sense of deja vu leads to a
question -- how often are books re-written by other authors?
I am not talking about plots in general as there are only so
many, but rather specific details. This is the first book
that has given me the feeling of having read it before with
different names and hair colors. And to be clear, I am NOT
accusing Grafton of plagiarism. I am only asking if others
recognize similarities which I have been too dense to have
picked up previously.
Thanks for the reply,
Victoria
BaxDeal@aol.com wrote:
In a message dated 4/14/07 6:11:12 PM,
msvictoriatwo@yahoo.com writes:
> A woman diving into the ocean to swim to her death
is very similar to
> another mystery by someone other than
Grafton.
>
Roger Wade in The Long Goodbye
John Lau
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