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01 Aug 2010, 10:53 pm

I just took two random pieces of prose I wrote and it came up with David Foster Wallace for one and George Orwell for the other. Haven't really read either, to be honest. I've intended to read 1984, of course but I find myself feeling guilty if I go to fiction and recreational reading. I've heard of Infinite Jest before and have been recommended it but haven't read it, either. Nonfiction takes up too much time from an already fractured supply.

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02 Aug 2010, 6:02 am

Jonathan Swift...

Well I am going to re-type it into a different format. =/

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02 Aug 2010, 7:37 am

Isaac Asimov apparently.

Who's that?????????????

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02 Aug 2010, 8:42 am

I am just simply happy that I haven't gotten stephanie meyer at all XD

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02 Aug 2010, 6:35 pm

Edgar Allen Poe, Ursula K. LeGuin and H.P. Lovecraft (WOO.)

I feel really cool now.

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02 Aug 2010, 6:47 pm

Running this excerpt from an old story of mine through the program, I got Rudyard Kipling. At least it's better than Stephanie Meyer.

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02 Aug 2010, 11:29 pm

I write like David Foster Wallace and that Cory Doctorow guy. Never heard of them in my life.

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02 Aug 2010, 11:34 pm

Dogenegra wrote:

Isaac Asimov apparently.

Who's that?????????????

Sci-Fi writer. He wrote I, Robot and came up with the laws of robotics. It's thanks to him that you won't ever get mauled by a robot.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics

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03 Aug 2010, 2:10 am

Most of my stuff gets me James Joyce. What exactly is his writing style? And funnily, I put in a Lovecraft short story with his distinct style(little characterization, overemphasis on description and explanation except for when talking about creatures, and I got someone else.

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03 Aug 2010, 3:17 am

skafather84 wrote:

Dogenegra wrote:

Isaac Asimov apparently.

Who's that?????????????

Sci-Fi writer. He wrote I, Robot and came up with the laws of robotics. It's thanks to him that you won't ever get mauled by a robot.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics

Ah, well. How delightful

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16 Aug 2010, 2:34 pm

I got Issac Asimov, J.K. Rowling and David Foster Wallace for various sections of my intro.

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16 Aug 2010, 5:02 pm

I got HP Lovecraft for three essays I wrote in English. Afterwards I tried a Lovecraft story, which it properly identified.

EDIT: Now 5, same result.

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17 Aug 2010, 7:25 pm

I tried this 3 times with different samples of my writing and each time I got Cory Doctorow. I don't even know who he is.

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17 Aug 2010, 7:47 pm

Cory Doctorow, J. D. Salinger, Stephen King and Margaret Atwood. This makes me happy since they have all had varying levels of success. ^_^

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29 Mar 2011, 7:55 am

i am a bit of a late starter, i know - lol, bumping a thread from 2010, but i only found the website now and just for typing in what happended around me and what i heard i got James Joyce - stream of consciousness - seems to be the style, .

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29 Mar 2011, 11:11 pm

P.G. Wodehouse? Riiiight...

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