What famous author do you write like?

Princess Zelda

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

Lux23

James Joyce. I must make no sense.

The_Minister

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

AckwelFoley

like Christy Brown on acid using his right foot

bonerm

David Foster Wallace

IvyTheTerrible

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

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

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

eightyfish

I write like
David Foster Wallace
also
apparently

Karl Hungus

David Foster Wallace.

GAAman

I got william shake a spear









Had to go back to check how to spell shakespeare

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

Dravokivich

David Foster Wallace

Seems to be a popular one...

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

Improbable

Edgar Allan Poe

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.

AckwelFoley

Edger Allan Poe :eek:

Zombienosh

Princess Zelda wrote: »

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?

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

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

Chuchoter

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

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...

alwaysadub

David Foster Wallace.

Never heard of him before

Ulysses Gaze

H.P. Lovecraft

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

De Hipster

Arthur C. Clarke - Cooool!

eightyfish

Dravokivich wrote: »

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.

leg

Ross O Carrol Kelly?????

eightyfish

I just entered this:

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I write like
Margaret Atwood.

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.

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

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 =/

eightyfish

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

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...

eightyfish

Dravokivich wrote: »

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)

Frank Spencer

Eamon Dunphy!

eightyfish

Frank Spencer wrote: »

Eamon Dunphy!

So you don't write your own stuff then? :rolleyes:

Dravokivich

eightyfish wrote: »

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

T'is the first one i was referring too...

Kasabian

St. Peter

Bucklesman

Apparently Elizabeth Bishop writes like Arthur Conan Doyle. Now that I didn't see coming.

ESSO--SO--SO--SO , Watson.

eightyfish

Bucklesman wrote: »

Apparently Elizabeth Bishop writes like Arthur Conan Doyle. Now that I didn't see coming.

Hitler writes like Mary Shelly, the site says.
She wrote Frankenstein - a story about a man who was dead inside, or a dead man who was alive.
That kind of makes sense.

SugarHigh

I think it's fair to say this is a load of bollox just like the look a like finder. I pasted in a few posts I made in the big brother thread and got Leo Tolstoy.:D

eightyfish

SugarHigh wrote: »

I pasted in a few posts I made in the big brother thread and got Leo Tolstoy.:D

Shouldn't that have been George Orwell?

Denerick

Apparantly I write like H.P. Lovecraft.

Who?

WindSock

James Fenimore Cooper. (Googled, he wrote Last of the Mohicans)

Then cropped it and got Mario Puzo - (Godfather)

Cropped it again and got Dan Brown :pac:

bonerm

eightyfish wrote: »

So you don't write your own stuff then? :rolleyes:

I've read Dunphy's book and I'm am extremely confident that it is his own material i.e. it is complete waffle and full of incorrect opinions that are without any grounding.

AnonoBoy

Raymond Chandler bitches!

I'm hard-boiled.

Saibh

First post I tried got Bram Stoker. Tried another post - Chuck Palahniuk.

Knifey Spoony

I got David Foster Wallace. This guy seems to be very popular amongst us boardies. Maybe he gets inspiration for his style from reading our posts.

Princess Zelda

Knifey Spoony wrote: »

I got David Foster Wallace. This guy seems to be very popular amongst us boardies. Maybe he gets inspiration for his style from reading our posts.

He hung himself a few years back.

I got H.G. Wells

RolandIRL

Chuck Palahniuk, apparently.

KnifeWRENCH

Copied a post from my blog and got Arthur C. Clarke. Tried a few boards posts and got Stephen King, James Joyce, Harry Harrison (who?) and Dan Brown *shudders*

This really seems to be a pile of bollocks. Mildly fun bollocks though.

Superbus

With

"trololololololololololololoolololololololololololo...'

I got Neil Gaiman, which if it's pronounced as I think it might be, is a pretty unfortunate name.

TheIrishGrover

Bobby Sands


Me mam was well pissed with me sh1t covered wall I tell ya though