I spotted something and I've never seen it before and I'm wondering if it's actually allowed... I'll explain.
I have a really good memory which is great but is a bit of a pain because I can't read books again (unless I really love them) because I remember every word! I tend to get through about a book every two days, so wondering around Waterstones looking for my next fix and I saw a new release by an irish author I've never read before.
So I took the book and read it that night, thing is while reading I kept having the feeling I'd read it before then after reading one page that I knew I'd seen before, it clicked and I realised this book had taken paragraphs, jokes and whole conversations from someone else. I checked it and it is the same word for word, not all the way through but huge chunks of it.
The first author wrote this stuff about 10 years ago and she is American and this new author is irish. It's strange because she has taken things word for word, for example the girls in her story are irish, so they see people, they go out with people and they knock about with people. because the original author is american her characters 'date' (as in a verb) for most of the book you don't see the word 'date' until you come to the copied bit where suddenly the characters are talking about dating!
It really bugged me because like i said I remember everything and it was not an enjoyable read, I'm just wondering if this is acceptable practice, she hasn't copied everything and her story line is different is this something that is just done and I've never come across it before?
I have a really good memory which is great but is a bit of a pain because I can't read books again (unless I really love them) because I remember every word! I tend to get through about a book every two days, so wondering around Waterstones looking for my next fix and I saw a new release by an irish author I've never read before.
So I took the book and read it that night, thing is while reading I kept having the feeling I'd read it before then after reading one page that I knew I'd seen before, it clicked and I realised this book had taken paragraphs, jokes and whole conversations from someone else. I checked it and it is the same word for word, not all the way through but huge chunks of it.
The first author wrote this stuff about 10 years ago and she is American and this new author is irish. It's strange because she has taken things word for word, for example the girls in her story are irish, so they see people, they go out with people and they knock about with people. because the original author is american her characters 'date' (as in a verb) for most of the book you don't see the word 'date' until you come to the copied bit where suddenly the characters are talking about dating!
It really bugged me because like i said I remember everything and it was not an enjoyable read, I'm just wondering if this is acceptable practice, she hasn't copied everything and her story line is different is this something that is just done and I've never come across it before?
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I wish I had one like that. See if the first book is out of copywrite or not, then see whom to contact based on that... that is, if you wanted to anything about it in the first place. But if your question is about whether copying is allowed or not, I guess the answer is obvious: no, it's not allowed 
