For what it's worth, I like Stephen King. James Joyce I read for high school, and I didn't particularly like it. i do remember him writing about women though (I think, if he's the one who wrote Portrait of a Lady).
I don't see how you write like either of them though.
Honestly, I think the code is highly flawed. I got Dan Brown for an original bit I wrote: In spite of all of the honor Yun had been able to achieve for her name - enough, her grandfather told her, so that she had more than restored the honor that had been lost when her father married a woman from U-Ly - she still felt awkward in her own body
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I doubt its stylistic comparisons would stand up to any kind of scrutiny whatseover, partially because the code kind of seems to think run-on sentences automatically = James Joyce. It's a fun little quiz, though, and the lolwhut results are even funnier than the eerily accurate ones.
They're not all from the US -- Tolstoy and Shakespeare and Dickens and Joyce are all options. And Margaret Atwood and JK Rowling and I think Jane Austen are both in the database; not so sure about PoC authors. It's unfortunate, but that's the nature of ~the vaunted literary canon~ for you, really.
I'm just amused that all my sex scenes read like Chuck Palahnuik. Probably because lots of them have facepunching in.
I think it focuses on syntax. Which, can be good for distinct styles, but a lot of others just kinda.. blend together. It recognizes post-modernism pretty well at least, Vonnegut pasted into it gets Vonnegut, and so does Pynchon and Foster Wallace.
Vonnegut's famous for Slaughterhouse-Five, Pynchon for Gravity's Rainbow, and Foster Wallace for Infinite Jest/Consider the Lobster. Vonnegut's probs the most prominent in contemporary lit, through Pynchon's got the heavier skillz (like a metatextual James Joyce).
Also lolll I wonder if it was like "HMMM, HARRY POTTER FIC, WELL I GUESS THAT'S JUST JKR AUTOMATICALLY". I should try like an excerpt from Ulysses with character names substituted for HP ones.
Also lolll I wonder if it was like "HMMM, HARRY POTTER FIC, WELL I GUESS THAT'S JUST JKR AUTOMATICALLY". I should try like an excerpt from Ulysses with character names substituted for HP ones. DO IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT
I'm not really surprised at the underrepresentation of anybody non-white and non-male on this prompt, insomuch that a lot of great non-white and non-male authors have been forgotten or pushed out of relevancy. The national heritage of everyone is that of the white male, with few exceptions. To drop a quote from Howard Zinn:
It is possible, reading standard histories, to forget half the population of the country. The explorers were men, the landholders and merchants men, the political leaders men, the military figures men. The very invisibility of women, the overlooking of women, is a sign of their submerged status.
I started reading one of his books but didn't have enough time to finish it. That's a lovely quote of his. I can speak as a little girl in how I grew less interested in history as I saw more and more it wasn't about or for me. It had to have been even worse, at least in some aspects, for people of color.
I was reading a book recently 'Thank You, Martin Luther King Jr.' and one of the most stand out part of the book for me was when the main character struggles to enjoy learning about black people because she can only see humiliation. But in her church, while learning about King, she gets a sense of pride and dignity in it and finds herself liking it.
And, of course, in Why Do All The Black Kids Sit Together, she the author goes into how the erasing of Native American history hurts Native American children.
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I don't see how you write like either of them though.
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In spite of all of the honor Yun had been able to achieve for her name - enough, her grandfather told her, so that she had more than restored the honor that had been lost when her father married a woman from U-Ly - she still felt awkward in her own body ( ... )
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They're not all from the US -- Tolstoy and Shakespeare and Dickens and Joyce are all options. And Margaret Atwood and JK Rowling and I think Jane Austen are both in the database; not so sure about PoC authors. It's unfortunate, but that's the nature of ~the vaunted literary canon~ for you, really.
I'm just amused that all my sex scenes read like Chuck Palahnuik. Probably because lots of them have facepunching in.
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And all my Harry Potter fic is JKR loloool
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Also lolll I wonder if it was like "HMMM, HARRY POTTER FIC, WELL I GUESS THAT'S JUST JKR AUTOMATICALLY". I should try like an excerpt from Ulysses with character names substituted for HP ones.
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I've gotten one Russian author and one French author myself.
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:33 Good.
Any luck so far with more women/POC?
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It is possible, reading standard histories, to forget half the population of the country. The explorers were men, the landholders and merchants men, the political leaders men, the military figures men. The very invisibility of women, the overlooking of women, is a sign of their submerged status.
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I was reading a book recently 'Thank You, Martin Luther King Jr.' and one of the most stand out part of the book for me was when the main character struggles to enjoy learning about black people because she can only see humiliation. But in her church, while learning about King, she gets a sense of pride and dignity in it and finds herself liking it.
And, of course, in Why Do All The Black Kids Sit Together, she the author goes into how the erasing of Native American history hurts Native American children.
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