Comments on: I’m like EVERYBODY!

By: Candlejack

Candlejack — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:14:53 +0000

The Nigerian scam e-mail I got today is written in the style of David Foster Wallace. I dunno what that says about you, Mark.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 14:40:24 +0000

The grand majority of my blog posts get David Foster Wallace, which is interesting to me in that no one else in this comment thread seems to have gotten him. I’ve got the occasional James Joyce and a short story I wrote in (what I thought was) the style of Lovecraft got Raymond Chandler. I got Dan Brown on two things I checked, one which was legitimately strange (a liveblog of the Oscars) and the other was a scholarly paper on Hitchcock’s Rear Window (which surprised me).

By: Eli Balin

Eli Balin — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 12:50:56 +0000

It would seem James Joyce wrote Hamlet. It does not surprise me in the least that James Joyce was a time traveller, as Finnegan’s Wake makes perfect sense once you realize that it’s written in 31st-century Shelta.

By: Beacon

Beacon — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 04:25:04 +0000

I just had an idea! Let’s feed it Shakespeare and find out once and for all who really wrote those plays.

What? It doesn’t work that way?

By: Allegretto

Allegretto — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 03:49:29 +0000

Okay so, from a random sample of 12 works i got:

3 Margaret Woods
2 H.P. Lovecraft
2 James Joyce
1 James Fenimore Cooper
1 Douglas Adams
1 Jack London
1 Kurt Vonnegut
1 Edgar Allan Poe

So the consensus seems to be that i write like a girl.

By: Rob Brown

Rob Brown — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 02:25:58 +0000

A terrible thought occurred to me. What if the site can tell you that you write like Ayn Rand?

So I Googled an excerpt from “The Fountainhead” and copied it in there.

Good news: Ayn Rand’s name did not pop up.

Bad news for Chuck Palahniuk: this site says that Ayn Rand wrote like you.

By: solid snake

solid snake — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 01:17:03 +0000

Posted my history paper on World War One propaganda and got Lovercraft. Ummm weird. Just plain weird.

By: RandomChance

RandomChance — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 00:08:49 +0000

I entered some Stephenie Meyer text in for a lark and just got a blank page, regardless of how many times I tried to refresh the page or run it again. I… I think I broke it.

By: Bill Reed

Bill Reed — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:27:37 +0000

And the last good short story I wrote is apparently Palahniuk. I’ll take it. (I thought I was aping Hemingway, though.)

By: Bill Reed

Bill Reed — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:25:05 +0000

My Vonnegut thesis spat back Vonnegut at me. Thank God.

Apparently my blog style is Lovecraftian, which… no.

By: PaulW

PaulW — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 20:07:41 +0000

@DF, you plugged My Immortal into the mix? You crazy bastard, I’m surprised the website survived…

By: CB

CB — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 19:23:55 +0000

Margaret Atwood. Should I be concerned?

By: DF

DF — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 19:12:50 +0000

I think “Dan Brown” is the site’s way of saying “I don’t know”. It kept popping up a lot when I was messing around with it.

Other fun results (these were reported to me, I didn’t get them firsthand):
-Random quotes from Twilight: James Joyce
-The first chapter of My Immortal: James Joyce
-Chapters 2-4 of My Immortal in one block: J.K. Rowling
-The word “butts” over and over again: William Shakespeare

By: Bret

Bret — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 18:17:46 +0000

Shoot.

Got Dan Brown for an article.

On the upside?

My attempt at a PG Wodehouse pastiche got Wodehouse. So, that’s very nice.

By: Craig Oxbrow

Craig Oxbrow — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 18:09:52 +0000

My deliberate H.P. Lovecraft pastiche reads liek Jack London, while my idea for making a fake Lord Of The Rings trailer reads like Lovecraft. Huh.