I Write Like
Analyze your syntax, baby. I write like Stephen King and P.G. Wodehouse, according to this flattering website.
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
David Foster Wallace?
yeah i got david foster wallace too. he published a few novels and several short stories. he also wrote a lot of non-fiction, which i’ve never read. he killed himself a few years ago.
Douglas Adams! Yay!
Rereading this article makes me think that John’s next summer should consist of traveling around different parts of the country, sampling the weirdness of prideful regional food festivals.
Wow, I remember this article. I think it was actually posted here year ago when it was published.
pfaaahhh I am about 40% through DFW’s Infinite Jest right now and extremely torn between spending time reading it and spending time playing the Harry Potter Lego game. SIGH LIFE.
i think i’m gonna start dfw’s novels after i’m finished the house of earth series. i’ve been meaning to read infinite jest (which would be second) for a while now and since this came up, it’s meant to be.
I’ll start Infinite Jest as soon as I’m finished Ulysses.
So far, I haven’t made it past “Stately, plump, Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl.”
I’m probably just going to read it here: http://www.ulyssesseen.com/
I have attempted Ulysses several times. I even have the annotated. I got through the first chapter. Basically, I read it, not understanding most of it. Read the notes on it in Annotated. Then read it again. It was fun and I enjoyed it, but it felt like too much work to go through the whole book that way. That’s what college is for. Making you do shit you wouldnt’ ordinarily do on your own time.
Infinite Jest is long and involved, but I don’t find it particularly convoluted. There’s like 96 pages of endnotes. The hardest part is that it’s difficult to read the paperback in bed with a book light.
I’ve never read Ulysses so I can’t make any comment there.
I analyzed the first page of Moby Dick with that website and it told me I write like Mark Twain.
Then I analyzed the first three pages of Moby Dick and it told me I write like Robert Louis Stevenson.
Then I analyzed a couple of paragraphs of a paper I wrote in college about Plato’s Timaeus and it told me I write like Dan Brown.
This website sucks.
Margaret Atwood!
This website is fantastic!
Stephen King. Considering what I submitted was meant to be in the style of one of his short stories, i think it’s pretty accurate.
Really, all this site does is make me wonder how it works. If it’s not just randomly pulling an author’s name then what happened with the Moby Dick entries?
Sonofacock. Dan Brown. (Ask me again and I’ll knock you down.)