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muriel_volestrangler

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64. I tried another bit of Wells, and it got it right again

Wed Nov 25, 2015, 08:34 PM

Nov 2015

So I tried Douglas Adams, and it got that right too. So I tried some Iain M. Banks., and it suggested Cory Doctorow (who I haven't read, but he's a sci-fi writer like Banks). Then I tried 2 passages of John Wyndham; for one it suggested James Joyce, and for the other Dan Brown. Which is the oddest pairing I can think of.

It is doing something less than random (I wondered if, for the hits, it was doing a sneaky Google in the background), but I doubt it's the most sophisticated algorithm possible.

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Check which famous writer you write like with this statistical analysis tool [View all] FLPanhandle Nov 2015 OP

link didn't work for me yuiyoshida Nov 2015 #1

Ian Flemming for me. :D roguevalley Nov 2015 #92

H. P. Lovecraft, too Brother Buzz Nov 2015 #2

Whoa, me, too - but looks like lots of us!1 UTUSN Nov 2015 #83

Now I put in one of my "poems" and got: Stephen KING!1 UTUSN Nov 2015 #87

Tried two different posts and got Vladimir Nabokov and Margaret Mitchell. hobbit709 Nov 2015 #3

Apparently I am a Lovecraftian, too (though I am not convinced). nt tblue37 Nov 2015 #4

Uh-oh, looks like we're in trouble!1 UTUSN Nov 2015 #85

Tool may need some tweaking: I got Chuck Palahniuk. struggle4progress Nov 2015 #5

Tool is brilliant: I got William Shakespeare magical thyme Nov 2015 #63

:) struggle4progress Nov 2015 #66

I pasted four different excerpts... meaculpa2011 Nov 2015 #6

I expected that to happen to me but it didn't. Jim Lane Nov 2015 #98

Mario Puzo, whom I have never read muriel_volestrangler Nov 2015 #7

I can't even imagine... TipTok Nov 2015 #8

David Foster Wallace. hifiguy Nov 2015 #9

I'm perpetually stuck about halfway through infinite jest Warren DeMontague Nov 2015 #31

I often found myself Alittleliberal Nov 2015 #68

Dan Brown JustAnotherGen Nov 2015 #10

I got Bart Simpson. Hoppy Nov 2015 #11

Gertrude Stein TuxedoKat Nov 2015 #12

Do you repeat yourself repeatedly? merrily Nov 2015 #78

Margaret Atwood, for one. Hemingway, for another. Solly Mack Nov 2015 #13

I also got Lovecraft, which I reject TlalocW Nov 2015 #14

Kurt Vonnegut sakabatou Nov 2015 #15

You win. Vonnegut was as good as writing can be. hifiguy Nov 2015 #19

I got Vonnegut too LiberalEsto Nov 2015 #22

He was the master. So it goes. Ed Suspicious Nov 2015 #37

Me too. nt Zorra Nov 2015 #74

Last time I did that, I got Tolstoy KamaAina Nov 2015 #16

J.D. Salinger. Ron Obvious Nov 2015 #17

I write like Robert Louis Stevenson csziggy Nov 2015 #18

I got David Foster Wallace and later Oscar Wilde... CTyankee Nov 2015 #20

Hope you don't end up edhopper Nov 2015 #30

oh great...now, please god... CTyankee Nov 2015 #56

Stephen King frogmarch Nov 2015 #21

I got him, too. Plus Cory Doctorow for a different sample. pnwmom Nov 2015 #24

Raymond Chandler edhopper Nov 2015 #23

i think that is cool... CTyankee Nov 2015 #25

Yeah edhopper Nov 2015 #28

I'd gladly wear that badge with honor Brother Buzz Nov 2015 #38

I only wish edhopper Nov 2015 #39

HP Lovecraft here as well tularetom Nov 2015 #26

I write like Kurt Vonnegut notadmblnd Nov 2015 #27

David Foster Wallace. Warren DeMontague Nov 2015 #29

Dan Brown. Not bad I guess though I was sort of hoping for Steinbeck. bklyncowgirl Nov 2015 #32

Me, too. :) Blue_In_AK Nov 2015 #34

As an aspiring writer a best-selling author ain't bad though. bklyncowgirl Nov 2015 #69

Dan Brown? Blue_In_AK Nov 2015 #33

H G Wells demwing Nov 2015 #35

David Foster Wallace from my longer writing. Stephen King from tweet-length stuff. H.P. Lovecraft Ed Suspicious Nov 2015 #36

Dan Quayle MannyGoldstein Nov 2015 #40

LOL FLPanhandle Nov 2015 #50

Arthur Conan Doyle SadWingsOfDestiny Nov 2015 #41

Love the JP handle vt_native Nov 2015 #93

I'm not saying... panader0 Nov 2015 #42

Aw, come on. I copped to Puzo. merrily Nov 2015 #79

David Foster Wallace (while inebriated) etherealtruth Nov 2015 #43

Vladimir Nabokov... ? Why him? closeupready Nov 2015 #44

I write like Chuck Palahniuk Heddi Nov 2015 #45

I used the "New Age Bullshit Generator" edhopper Nov 2015 #46

Jack London. W_HAMILTON Nov 2015 #47

David Foster Wallace PufPuf23 Nov 2015 #48

I plugged in a poem............. CaliforniaPeggy Nov 2015 #49

J. D. Salinger BlueJazz Nov 2015 #51

I plugged in an Oscar Wilde quote edhopper Nov 2015 #52

Well, I thought we might have a game here muriel_volestrangler Nov 2015 #53

try another quote edhopper Nov 2015 #55

I tried another bit of Wells, and it got it right again muriel_volestrangler Nov 2015 #64

I think word choice edhopper Nov 2015 #75

Another Steven King.... catnhatnh Nov 2015 #54

Since I do not know how to post a sample of my writing I jwirr Nov 2015 #57

George Orwell magical thyme Nov 2015 #58

omg...William Shakespeare!!!!!!! magical thyme Nov 2015 #59

Not gonna bother. OilemFirchen Nov 2015 #60

i got dan brown. drray23 Nov 2015 #61

I got H P Lovecraft, too Punkingal Nov 2015 #62

David Foster Wallace LiberalElite Nov 2015 #65

I also got DFW Alittleliberal Nov 2015 #67

As usual, w0nderer Nov 2015 #70

James Joyce iwillalwayswonderwhy Nov 2015 #71

Me too! Sheldon Cooper Nov 2015 #94

Vladimir Nabokov's Books. hunter Nov 2015 #72

Gertrude Stein treestar Nov 2015 #73

LOLOL! Mario Puzo. I'm going to take that as meaning my writing is gangsta. merrily Nov 2015 #76

I think it's just sifting vocabulary rather than sentence structure or anything really Marr Nov 2015 #77

Cory Doctorow pugetres Nov 2015 #80

Same here, including the Google. hay rick Nov 2015 #88

I put in some of my mathy stuff. rogerashton Nov 2015 #81

Wow! James Fenimore Cooper? Who Knew? tech3149 Nov 2015 #82

I pasted in a DU post from the other day and got King. Codeine Nov 2015 #84

Try putting in a sample of a major author's work and see if it matches to them. Orrex Nov 2015 #86

I just entered the opening paragraph of Gone With the Wind magical thyme Nov 2015 #91

William Gibson. Manifestor_of_Light Nov 2015 #89

Kurt Vonnegut eom mrmpa Nov 2015 #90

Interesting, but odd. StrayKat Nov 2015 #95

Jack Torrance. Scurrilous Nov 2015 #96

e e cummings, but then I don't capitalize on myour phone Scuba Nov 2015 #97