Which famous author do you write like?

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**SagesStone**

Try it again with no mention of Cory Doctorow and the answer is still Cory Doctorow.

**Chibi Bodge-Battle**

has anyone tried a composite of the various authors' work in the OP's list?

ok life is too short but was just musing what might happen.

**Vargtass**

Apparently Harlan Ellison's I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream is written in the style of Cory Doctorow...

**rubiksnoob**

I put in Gailbraithe's 'Blamethevictimblamethevictim' post and got James Joyce. . . hmm.

**Chibi Bodge-Battle**

Well if you wordsmithy lackspaces stringulating sense from the stance then Joyce is yer man for a draught of porter.

**rubiksnoob**

Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:Well if you wordsmithy lackspaces stringulating sense from the stance then Joyce is yer man for a draught of porter.

Gailbraithe wrote:YOU HAVE NO MORALS, NO DECENY, NO0 ETHICS. YOU ARE ALL CRAVEN, USELESS COWARDS, AND YOU -- YES YOU!!! - ARE THE REASON EVIL WINS EVERYTIME.

BECAUSE ALL EVILM NEEDS IS FOR GOOD PEOPLE TO REMAIN SILENT, OR TO DO WHAT YOU WORTHLESS DOGS DO EVERY fething TIME,

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**Golden Eyed Scout**

I write like Stephen King.

YAY!

**Chibi Bodge-Battle**

Nope
AFAIK Joyce never wrote anything like that!
The machine hasn't a scooby and is not to be trusted!

**Vargtass**

I typed in "derp herp" two hundred times and got William Shakespeare...

Sounds right to me!

**Arctik_Firangi**

I put in a Shakespeare excerpt and got James Cooper. Fair enough. I put in an entire passage and it was still James Cooper.

It kept happening until I realised that by chance I was only putting in lines from female characters, with the exception of Gonerill, who actually came up 'William Shakespeare'.

To test the point, I quoted Lear and... oh, Lovecraft. Nevermind.

**rubiksnoob**

I typed in "dakka dakka is the best forum ever" and got Dan Brown

**Chrysaor686**

I put a passage from Joseph Heller's Catch 22 into the program, and it gave me James Patterson.

This is a shockingly awful analogy.

**WarOne**

Just put in:
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and got Kurt Vonnegut.

I added this in:
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and got Stephen King.

**MeanGreenStompa**

I got a cuddly toy, hair dryer, fondue set and tickets to see Scorpion in concert at Hamburg!

Oh and I write like JRRTolkien according to the magical machine... I put in 3 pieces of old fan fiction I'd written for EQ2.

**Agrinja**

I write like Hemmingway. Alone. In the rain.

Meh, anyway, I got "Annie Rice." I thought her name was Anne? Or did crazy vampire lady try to get more friendly?

**Cannerus_The_Unbearable**

I got David Foster Wallace for this wonderful piece of off the cuff literature:

Cats frustrate me to no end. Their hair ends up all over the floor without much effort at all; how do the little buggers keep from going bald? They demand attention in the most annoying of ways; an ill-timed "mew," a paw to the leg when sleeping or an aerial assault from the top of the couch are hardly unheard of. What is it that they contribute?
It's not entirely horrible to live with cats. They can be of amusement with a dose of cat nip or periodically perform something "cute." One of my favorite feline activities is putting a spot of hot sauce on one's coat; with licking being the primary method cleaning, the results are usually quite entertaining. All cats should die nonetheless.

**Morathi's Darkest Sin**

All I have on this piece or trash at work is a set up background for something I'm working on over at Warp Watchers and it says thats written in the style of Jonathan Swift.

No idea who that is.

edit - just remembered I have a short 40K story over at Warp Watchers, hmm Douglas Adams eh? I wonder why it made that connection, so If I post a short story with Elves in it, I'll be Tolklien... lawl.

**Locclo**

Jonathan Swift wrote Gulliver's Travels and a couple of other books I've never read (go go wikipedia

)

I threw in three different chapters of the novel I'm working on and it came up Douglas Adams. Which, thinking back on it, actually makes a lot of sense.

**assultmarine**

LOL
i just through in a couple of chapters from the bible(NIV) an it said it was......dan brown

**Ketara**

Who on earth is Harry Harrison?

**Monster Rain**

I got C.S. Goto!

I typed Multilasers 1000 times.

**Mike Noble**

I got Stephen king, and Mario Puzo. I don't know who that guy is. but this thing is interesting.

I got C.S. Goto!

I typed Multilasers 1000 times.

I Copy/pasted Multilasers over and over just to see what would happen.

I got William Shakespeare.

No seriously.

**FITZZ**

Mike Noble wrote:I got Stephen king, and Mario Puzo. I don't know who that guy is. but this thing is interesting.

I got C.S. Goto!

I typed Multilasers 1000 times.

I Copy/pasted Multilasers over and over just to see what would happen.

I got William Shakespeare.

No seriously.

Mario Puzo wrote the novel "The Godfather"...well,he wrote other books,but I believe that is his best known work.

**Mike Noble**

FITZZ wrote:

Mario Puzo wrote the novel "The Godfather"...well,he wrote other books,but I believe that is his best known work.

Oh now I remember, thanks. I do know who he is then.

**FITZZ**

Mike Noble wrote:
FITZZ wrote:

Mario Puzo wrote the novel "The Godfather"...well,he wrote other books,but I believe that is his best known work.

Oh now I remember, thanks. I do know who he is then.

Happy to be of assistance.

I'm slightly concerned about taking this "test"... I have a feeling I'll get Dr. Seuss.

**Albatross**

Yep, Lovecraft.

**FITZZ**

Kurt Vonnegut...I can live with that.

**Monster Rain**

I posted an action plan, food requisition and equipment list for Puree of Split Pea Soup from my Foundations in Classical Techniques class and got William Shakespeare.

**azrael8**

I took the test and got 100% Stephen King. Oddly enough, it wasn't horror that I put in...

**rubiksnoob**

I put in the OP and got David Foster Wallace.

This thing is fun!