Sidney Sheldon’s Bloodline

22^nd of July 2007

Today I didn’t slept because I was reading Sidney Sheldon’s bloodline. It comprises of two books I & II but I got them as one. It was my first novel from Sidney’s collection. No body recommended but a classmate of mine chose him to as to spend vacations with his novels. She mentioned me several times but I wasn’t interested to get one of his. But day before yesterday I decided to read one that she had started recently.

First impression is the lat impression proved wrong here. As I opened the book I got a glimpse of this.

The physician will carefully prepare a mixture of crocodiles’ dung, lizard flesh, bat’s blodd and camels’ spit…

………from a papyrus listing 811, prescription used by Egyptian 1550BC.

Egypt and his ancient civilization has always impressed me, so as this book will certainly have something for me and at the end of 3^rd chapter I found myself in realm of suspense Mr. Sheldon was popular for. Story progressed, characters profiled in detail; their sexual lives were extraordinarily scribbled by the writer that may think a reader as he is watching a movie instead of reading a novel. Suspense and feelings of love and lust for money was quite rich in middle and late middle part of story but as soon as this get over these all vanished to end up as ending was done by an amateur. However, I don’t know about his other written pieces but he is a writer to be read by the people who want to change their tactics either with the colleagues or people with fake faces.

PLAGI (plagiarism) - A new disease

Plagiarism
is recently observed to be a most dangerous and wide spread disease to
affect the talented people because it masks the creativity and weakens
the ability to reckon one’s hidden creativity. It also stimulates the
guilt by providing the shortcut ideas towards achieving the tasks in
much less time and hardly any serious mind usage and input in fact the
completed work seems original even one may face a tough time to guess
about its originality.

Plagiarism is still far enough to be detected but necessity is the
mother of invention so as and here internet comes to the rescue but to
some extent as there are some tools and websites available online which
may detect copying in small scale.

Round the globe this disease has not only been noticed but even the
special bodies are working against it to find out the affected people
as well as their works being recognized as original by implementing
certain measures. Those young writers who are affected by it and wants
to get rid of this then they are all strictly avoided to think over its
merits instead concentrate on your reading habits and to notice the
composition as well try to guess about the feelings and consequences
writer felt and implemented on his written piece of work by using
selective words but i can bet on it that still there would be someone
who wont be able to write good so it is better to opt for another field
as every one is not a writer.

When one fetch information about plagiarism through search engines
most of the results will be forwarding towards plagiarism done by the
students of colleges and universities and ways to detect it but
regarding Pakistan, plagiarism is thought to be a new term as being a
student of Sindh university i personally observes the positive reaction
by the teachers who prefer printed net-copied(plagiarized) material
over the text submitted by researching and consulting half a dozen
books.

I still remember my first introduction to this disease when i used
to read Urdu monthly magazines. once in a popular child magazine i saw
an apology note for a poem plagiarized by the writer nipped by the
daughter of original writer by referring cuttings of the original book
and seminar pamphlet resulting in black listing the culprit for two
years.

Writer thinks for every aspect while writing a piece in such
scenario i got stuck on a point that what would be the translation of
plagiarism in Urdu then my friend who is an amateur writer, told me.
“Plagiarism can be translated as “Adab Ki Chouri” which is quite fine
to make a concept in those minds who are totally unaware of it.”