This is a cool site that takes your prose and analyzes it. It then spits out what author your prose most sounds like.
I tried with several different ones and got lots of Dan Brown and Kurt Vonnegut. Whenever I submitted school essays, I got HP Lovecraft. I submitted the first paragraph of 1984 and got George Orwell, so at least it's not doing it randomly.
PS. This post reads like Cory Doctorow.
PPS. This post reads like Cory Doctorow even with the postscript.
10-16-10 02:59 AM
Reliability
Essay: H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allen Poe
Poetry: James Joyce, Bram Stoker
Blog Entry: Annie Rice, Leo Tolstoy, Stephen King, Dan Brown, Cory Doctorow
Essentially because I had so many blog entries, I just kept going until I got one that doubled. Go Cory Doctorow.
But I think it was because of the topic of each thing, so the words would influence the choice it makes.
10-16-10 12:50 PM
ImmunityBow
Yeah, I had lots of variation too, so I didn't count singles.
10-16-10 04:36 PM
Reliability
I plugged in a few more things (mostly posts from here) and got a couple more Cory Doctorow and a lot of David Foster Wallace. I got one repeat of Dan Brown.
10-16-10 08:51 PM
Silver
i write like ian fleming the author of casino royale!
10-16-10 11:03 PM
SilentSentinel
I apparently write like Kurt Vonnegut for my English essays, and H.P. Lovecraft for my history ones.
10-17-10 01:49 AM
ImmunityBow
I'd say that this proves my assertion that school doctors all students to write essays alike (I'm honestly getting sick of the "thoughtful student essay voice")
10-17-10 03:39 AM
SilentSentinel
Yeah, the essay I put in was one of my serious ones. I write much better with satire, or when I'm defending a contreversial point.
10-17-10 03:55 PM
NyteFyre
hmmm....I write like Rudyard Kipling, whoever that is, on this piece of poetry i wrote.
10-17-10 04:09 PM
Reliability
Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book (a novel) and The White Man's Burden (a pretty racist poem). He wrote other stuff, but I only remember those two off the top of my head.
10-17-10 04:26 PM
NyteFyre
alll right then...so my poetry resembles a racist jungle man?
10-17-10 05:06 PM
Reliability
You used Latin and used a lot of "wolf." That definitely didn't help.
I took out the title and replaced all of your "wolf" with "religion," and got Dan Brown. I'm now 90% sure that the nouns are the key factor.
10-17-10 05:47 PM
ImmunityBow
I put in
The wolf said wolf but was really a wolf so I thought "Wolf!" I really like wolf so wolf is wolf when it isn't wolf. I wonder if wolf is really wolf when wolf wolfs down wolves. It's probably wolf but wolf can be so wolf when wolf comes down to wolf.
And got Rudyard Kipling. You're on to something.
10-17-10 05:58 PM
NyteFyre
-blinks- ok then
10-18-10 07:17 PM
Cyndadile
The prologue of my book is Douglas Adams (I am very pleased, I in fact saw a slight resemblence myself).
The begining of the first chapter (which I am redoing) is Dan Brown.
My essay on courage in The Crucible, and my other writing on The Crucible, is Charles Dickens (so THATS why my English teachers always seem infatuated with my writing).
I put in this (from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy):
A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitch hiker can have. Partly it has great practical value — you can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble‐sanded beaches of Santraginus Ⅴ, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a mini raft down the slow heavy river Moth; wet it for use in hand‐to‐hand‐combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or to avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mindboggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you — daft as a bush, but very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.
And got Douglas Adams.
This (from Great Expectations):
Now, I ain't alone, as you may think I am. There's a young man hid with me, in comparison with which young man I am a angel. That young man hears the words I speak. That young man has a secret way pecooliar to himself of getting at a boy, and at his heart, and at his liver. It is in wain for a boy to attempt to hide himself from that young man. A boy may lock his door, may be warm in bed, may tuck himself up, may draw the clothes over his head, may think himself comfortable and safe, but that young man will softly creep and creep his way to him and tear him open.
Charles Dickens.
Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence is written like Jonathan Swift.
