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What famous author do you write like?

  • 16-07-2010 1:26pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 355 ✭✭


    Check this site. I got Steven King. Try some of your posts and see what pops up. Good craic.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,134 ✭✭✭Lux23


    James Joyce. I must make no sense.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,255 ✭✭✭✭The_Minister


    Someone in another forum plugged in Lovecraft and got Dan Brown AFAIK.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,556 ✭✭✭✭AckwelFoley


    like Christy Brown on acid using his right foot


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,595 ✭✭✭bonerm




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,949 ✭✭✭✭IvyTheTerrible


    I got James Joyce with one post and Dan Brown with another.

    I'm not sure I'm happy with either of those...


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,911 ✭✭✭Zombienosh


    I write like
    Leo Tolstoy?

    never heard of him.

    he looks cool though.
    http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/e4/c0/bea84e5492e20ad8986c3a.L._V211003995_SL290_.jpg


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,100 ✭✭✭eightyfish


    I write like
    David Foster Wallace
    also
    apparently


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 29,130 ✭✭✭✭Karl Hungus


    David Foster Wallace.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,370 ✭✭✭GAAman


    I got william shake a spear









    Had to go back to check how to spell shakespeare :o


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 355 ✭✭Princess Zelda


    AlcoholicA wrote: »
    I write like
    Leo Tolstoy?

    never heard of him.

    Do you have a nice beard and write really long posts? He wrote War and Peace


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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,360 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    David Foster Wallace

    Seems to be a popular one...

    (copied alot of my recently thanked posts...)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,576 ✭✭✭Improbable


    Edgar Allan Poe


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,100 ✭✭✭eightyfish


    I just copied an article from the Irish Times by Sarah Carey into it. She also writes like David Foster Wallace.

    Methinks this is bunkum.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,556 ✭✭✭✭AckwelFoley


    Edger Allan Poe :eek:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,911 ✭✭✭Zombienosh


    Do you have a nice beard and write really long posts? He wrote War and Peace

    I have a small beard and talk a lot of $hite?!

    thats close right?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,976 ✭✭✭Brendog


    I write like Oscar wilde


    which I why I have a bestseller and am super rich.......









    oh and by the way I was being sarcastic


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 355 ✭✭Princess Zelda


    To be fair he (David Foster Wallace) is known (according to Wikipedia) for his irony in his writing, and that seems to be 99% of what After Hours is about


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,305 ✭✭✭Chuchoter


    David Foster Wallace...do we all write like him?
    Second time I put a different passage in and got HG Wells


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,360 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    eightyfish wrote: »
    I just copied an article from the Irish Times by Sarah Carey into it. She also writes like David Foster Wallace.

    Methinks this is bunkum.

    The same for Alison O'Riordan...

    Dam...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,554 ✭✭✭✭alwaysadub


    David Foster Wallace.

    Never heard of him before


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,570 ✭✭✭Ulysses Gaze


    H.P. Lovecraft

    Even though I plugged in a few paragraphs I had written that had little to do with Nameless Horrors!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,160 ✭✭✭De Hipster


    Arthur C. Clarke - Cooool!


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,100 ✭✭✭eightyfish


    The same for Alison O'Riordan...

    I put the Sarah Carey piece through bablefish and translated it from Engish to French and back again. So now it reads like this:
    Let us be us happy to divert budgets d' helps to help to create this qu' does a poor country need the majority - a middle-class? RECENT the G20 top finished with usual vague engagements of the rich nations to reach targets d' helps in the world in the process of development. This time maugrément about the value d' such a help was a little more manifest. You see, if you speak with n' import which sensitive expert, within five minute when they will admit that l' helps belongs to the problem. The stationary flow of l' helps in the poor countries saves the short-term lives, but creates long-term problems. Paul Collar, professor of the economic scenes with l' University d' Oxford, informs qu' there is d' so much; governmental organizations (O.N.G.s) in Haiti qu' they represent a threat for the long-term development of the country by marginalizing the civil government.

    etc.
    And apparently she still writes like David Foster Wallace.


  • Registered Users Posts: 189 ✭✭leg


    Ross O Carrol Kelly?????


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,100 ✭✭✭eightyfish


    I just entered this:
    fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish

    I write like
    Margaret Atwood.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 355 ✭✭Princess Zelda


    eightyfish wrote: »
    I just entered this:



    I write like
    Margaret Atwood.

    From Wikipedia
    Margaret Atwood has repeatedly made observations about our relationships to animals in her works.
    :D

    Sure tis only a bit of craic. I never said it was scientifically accurate


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,992 ✭✭✭✭partyatmygaff


    Bram Stoker
    H.G. Wells
    H.P. Lovecraft

    All horror/sci-fi authors. The weird thing is that I don't even like Horror or Sci-Fi =/


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,100 ✭✭✭eightyfish


    If you copy and paste the whole thread into it we collectively write like:
    James Joyce.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,360 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    eightyfish wrote: »
    I just entered this:



    I write like
    Margaret Atwood.

    Surely that should of been that poet... can't remember her first name, but her surname was Bishop... she had a thing for characterising herself as a fish...


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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,100 ✭✭✭eightyfish


    Surely that should of been that poet... can't remember her first name, but her surname was Bishop... she had a thing for characterising herself as a fish...

    Google points me to this (Elizabeth Bishop) and this (a Bishop Fish)


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