h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

What a hoot. What a parser.

It keeps saying I write like HP Lovecraft. I never even mentioned the nameless dread that is Cthulhu (but look out, now I will...)

Then it claimed my 'Finnegans Wake' pastiche looked like Robert Louis Stevenson.

Fun with code. I wonder what it's counting.

I put in 3 entries
Derry was in the style of James Joice
And
Hadrians wall and Roman were in the style of provinces Dan Brown

Interesting

Anyone knows who Chuck Palahniuk is?

He wrote 'Fight Club'.

I got that result when analysing my 'Attack of the Killer Fork.

Dan Brown, Stephenie Meyer and James Fenimore Cooper.

I'd best not write ever again.

I quite liked Lederstrumpf (Leatherstocking) when I was a child. We had the stories on LP records, and we were allowed to watch the (German/French coproduction) TV series.

I put my own effort in:

Chapter 1 David Foster Wallace (Who?)
Chapter 2 H P Lovecraft
Chapter 3 Douglas Adams
Chapter 4 Mary Shelley

then I got bored... Hey, perhaps that's why I keep changing the style!

There is a site called "Authonomy" run by Harper Collins. You put your effort up and then everyone comes along and says "Wow, you are a genius. This is great. Guaranteed best-seller" After a few weeks, when your head has ceased swelling, you realise that you have to reply. "You are surely the greater genius. This is Booker material. Fame and riches beckon" and give them your vote. After many many months of total unadulterated praise you reach the top (I am afraid I withdrew too quickly and never reached those giddy heights) where a real live editor from Harper Collins comes along, reads the first few paragraphs and says "This is rubbish. tripe. garbage. Don't give up the day job".

Writing people are odd.

I write like:

Arthur C. Clarke (Rick Rescorla)
David Foster Wallace (Queen's Speech Bingo)
James Joyce (Schiphol Airport's Urinal Flies)
Dan Brown (Malaysian Teapot Worship)
H. P. Lovecraft (Ging Gang Goolie)

There's some kind of universal truth in here, isn't there?

>>Writing people are odd<<

That should be quote of the week.

So, how many different authors have we collected now?

James Joyce.

Honestly?

B

I love that Harper Collins approach, Pheroneous.

It's sort of, well, didactic...

But the idea that Bel writes like 'Fight Club' is just hilarious.

Since I never read it (and can't remember what it is about), I take your word for it, Dmitri.

I've read Choke by him. He doesn't really write to make you feel comfortable. Or for you to read aloud to your parents... or children.

By the sound of it, they may not be too far of the mark in this case then:

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Tales of Benshasha is - apparantly - like The Da Vinci Code!

>> Ah-ha, their own introduction text was written in the style of David Foster Wallace. <<

And yet, Take On Me is written in the style of Gorge Orwell.

RF

It seems like DNA writes like Arthur C Clarke when not in a book.

Tried on the first posting in F32234?thread=47432

Bel, it was the Killer Fork bit.

I've checked, and Palahniuk's work has so far caused 73 people to faint at public readings, so you've nailed the source of the problem.

Chalk up one correct assessment by this parser.

And 'Tales of Benshasha' ARE like the Da Vinci Code. Mysterious, full of hidden meanings...

But how in the world do I write like HP Lovecraft?