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steer

Which author are other people like

Jul 13, 2010 16:28

Seems everyone is playing with this today ( Read more... )

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valkyriekaren July 13 2010, 15:38:02 UTC

Apparently I was like James Joyce, which confused me slightly. I mean, I like Joyce, but I don't think I write in his choppy, impressionistic, stream-of consciousness style.

steer July 13 2010, 15:39:16 UTC

Hmm... I'm not too sure we should be so confident of the abilities of an analysis engine which thinks that sonnet was by Dickens.

morbidfrog July 13 2010, 15:41:01 UTC

you couldn't just enter your own text :) i tried twice got brown and joyce but you took it that step further

those 2 are great results
Text: O2 broadband terms and conditions -- Dan Brown

Text: My writing about computer games and sex -- H. P. Lovecraft :)))

steer July 13 2010, 15:42:55 UTC

I hope I don't actually have sex like an H.P. Lovecraft novel. That would be worrying.

morbidfrog July 13 2010, 15:46:26 UTC

that would be indeed :) but would make great discussion subject at our lunches:)

steer July 13 2010, 16:01:59 UTC

I don't think a discussion of HP Lovecraft and sex would be 100% ideal for lunch.

ms_siobhan July 13 2010, 15:41:05 UTC

Apparently I write like Nabokov :-(

steer July 13 2010, 15:42:14 UTC

So I saw (on someone else's journal I think). I bet I could tell your writing from his if I had a few paragraphs to look at.

ms_siobhan July 13 2010, 15:50:24 UTC

I'd like to think so - I mean he never wrote about Daniel O'Donnell salt and pepper sets and Steven Seagal and Lady Diane.

the_meanest_cat July 13 2010, 15:54:17 UTC

Lolita would have been much more fun if he did

the_meanest_cat July 13 2010, 15:53:34 UTC

I'm beginning to suspect it's just randomised and is proving to be the hit of the day for no other reason than blatant flattery... (telling endless yawnsome bloggers that they write like Tolstoy or James Joyce is a guaranteed way to up your hit rate)

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the_meanest_cat July 13 2010, 15:57:12 UTC

Actually that's probably not far off... all gung-ho and jolly English.
(hmmm, I still suspect it's a bit random though)

steer July 13 2010, 16:00:09 UTC

And now best beloved, the story of how the smuggler of pirates cove got his long jail sentence.

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nisaba July 13 2010, 16:10:59 UTC

I keep getting Dan Brown. I feel soiled.

steer July 13 2010, 16:24:48 UTC

Maybe you really write like the O2 Broadband terms and conditions but Dan Brown is the nearest it could find?

nisaba July 13 2010, 16:38:01 UTC

I think I hate you.

steer July 13 2010, 18:21:34 UTC

Could solve your problem with further analysis of your writing here.

http://www.richardclegg.org/write/