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[Gerontophile]

... not actually sure to whom, but its a wee website, where you type or copy in some text and it gives you an author for comparison purposes.

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I am Stephenie Meyer (Twilight series, and cant spell her own first name) and I claim my slice of royalties! (Not having read her stuff, I suspect this isn't necessarily a good comparison - for her.)

I just copied the above passage into said website, and the author I then got is Cory Doctorow. (This could run and run)

[Guest]

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According to the website, my last 'summer transfers' thread long post is reminiscent of James Joyce. Praise indeed.

[wingco]

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I submitted two pieces. According to one response, I write like HP Lovecraft, the other, a semi-lightedhearted blog about Bob Dylan they compared to the prose stylings of Stephen King. I suspect this site may be a random generator.

[Andy C]

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Lewis Carroll for me.

[Hot Orange]

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First attempt - Chuck Palahniuk (who?)

Second attempt - Douglas Adams

Now, I went to the same school as Douglas Adams, so maybe it's something in the grammar text books they use.

[Andy C]

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Maybe, but it means that you also went to the same school as Noel Edmonds.

[Hot Orange]

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Yes, that explains my flowery shirts and tight jeans.

[The Exploding Vole]

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I apparently write like wingco.

[Guest]

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Oh dear. Bram Stoker. Then Kipling, then Lovecraft. I think it has to just be random.

[Stumpy Pepys]

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I pasted paragraph one of a bit of writing I'm working on at the moment and to my horror, it said I wrote like Dan Brown.

However, paragraph two was Edgar Allan Poe.

[Guest]

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And now I got David Foster Wallace. I've never read any David Foster Wallace.

[G-Man]

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Blog post on Live Aid: David Foster Wallace (I'll take that)
Newspaper editorial: Arthur C. Clarke (!)
OTF post (on the Germany ethnic & queers thread): Dan Brown (!!!)
Latest two Facebook status updates: James Joyce (of course)

[Etienne]

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I don't think it's entirely random, I pasted a chunk of HP Lovecraft in and it came up with him. Though I then put in a different chunk and it said Henry Harrison.

[Uosdwis R Dewoh]

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I did this on my blog a few days ago and got Kurt Vonnegut. Though lots of my friends came away as the new David Foster Wallace. I think he's the default result if you put in too much text.

[Hot Orange]

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I typed in some Poe. He writes like H G Wells.

I copied in some H G Wells. He writes like H G Wells.

[Anton Gramscescu]

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Hot Orange wrote:

First attempt - Chuck Palahniuk (who?)

Palahniuk wrote Fight Club.

I entered text from my blog and got David Foster Wallace, too.

A friend of mine entered some text in French (Gabrielle Roy, actually) and came out with "Nabokov".

[Diable Rouge]

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Two pieces that read like Dan Brown - the shame.

[Bored Of Education]

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I was impressed to be James Joyce especially as the passage contained the word "cunty". I am definitely going to read some of his stuff now.

My bit on Spain, however, made me the new Isaac Asimov.

[Bored Of Education]

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Jackie Collins will be surprised to find that she writes like David Foster Wallace, I'll wager.

Having said that, I pasted "Hollywood Wives - The New Generation" rather than the classic "Hollywood Wives". As I haven't read the former maybe her writing style has changed somewhat in the meantime

[Uosdwis R Dewoh]

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Toto Gramsciddu wrote:

Hot Orange wrote:

First attempt - Chuck Palahniuk (who?)

I entered text from my blog and got David Foster Wallace, too.

Your last blog was in 2009.

Do a lot of OTFers blog? The patrons of this board seem a literate lot.

[Nocturnal Submission]

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Blimey, Arthur Conan Doyle apparently!

Stilted Victorian, in other words.

[G-Man]

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Random German article from Der Spiegel: Edgar Allan Poe

[G-Man]

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And here's some James Joyce (or somebody who writes just like James Joyce):

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[Anton Gramscescu]

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Away Goals wrote:

Your last blog was in 2009.

Yeah, not that one. I have another one which I do for a newspaper which is considerably wordier.

I think a fair number here blog. Goldstone, who isn't around here nearly enough, is by some distance the most prolific.

[Moonlight Shadow]

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David Foster Wallace...Put two of my Facebook "Notes", twice the same result.

No idea who he is, let's check...