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

>> the Da Vinci Code. Mysterious, full of hidden meanings... <<

Surely The Da Vinci Code is full of obvious, overt meanings (to everyone except its dumbass protagonist, that is)?

RF

I didn't enter the title, just the text, but it contains the words 'Attack', war and wounds, or so.

Point well taken about 'The Da Vinci Code'.

The original research was much more exciting:

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

(Nigel knows it all by heart, of course. )

I put in

My journal post whinging about previous OU assignment:
David Foster Wallace - apparently some sort of airport fodder writer?

the conclusion section of my last psychology assignment:
Ursula K. Le Guin - is she a very technical (as in themes, not as in style) writer?

My crossbow article
Arthur C. Clarke
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Other journal entry
David Foster Wallace

indeed, he seems to crop up most often.

Oh, and this post is apparently most like Ursula K. Le Guin.
So probably a mix 3parts DFW, 2 parts UKLG

btw "Harry Harrison (nNever heard of him)"

You've never read The Stainless Steel Rat? or sequels?

Oh my, youn haven't lived.
Or, just perhaps, you were never a teenage male geek

Absolutely classic SciFi.

p.s. don't you think danny foster wotsit looks like the hard guy from Leverage? ... um ... Christian Kane, this chap:
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm632717824/nm0437283

oops, David Foster Wallace, huys a good deal more successful than no matter what his writing, I could at least remember his name...

Oh, I love scifi. I just googled for him, and lo and behold, I've read his 'To the Stars' trilogy (albeit only about ten years ago).

I've been through the rest of my Guide Entries and got these:

Robert Louis Stevenson (Coastal Projections)
David Foster Wallace (Four Colour Theorem)
Johathan Swift (Men-an-Tol)
Margaret Atwood (Re-using Baby Equipment)
Isaac Asimov (Friendly Numbers)
Chuck Palahniuk (Screwfix Catalogue)
Douglas Adams (Blue Hoardings)
Stephenie Meyer (Gates in Constant Use)
George Orwell (Chimps' Tea Party)
Jane Austen (Whitwell - Twinned with Paris)
Edgar Allan Poe (Two - the Dichotomous Number)
J. K. Rowling (Millennium Stadium Jinx)
Harry Harrison (HP Sauce)
P. G. Wodehouse (When the Balloon Goes Up)
H. G. Wells (The Woking Martian)
Kurt Vonnegut (The Industrial Estate)
Jack London (Futtocks)
Charles Dickens (Nim)
Arthur Conan Doyle (Hampshire)
Stephen King (Broadmoor Siren)

I'm pretty sure it works on vocabulary more than writing style.

Yes, it's why I said I think it works similar to the gender genie.
I don't really think that all the factual entries would work otherwise.

Ah yes, I didn't catch up on the backlog.

Oh, I have an interesting fact about the Da Vinci Code - apparently, Dan Brown used h2g2 for some of his research (more in a forthcoming Post article...)

Where are the royalties


Bel did you have a link that told you if anyone has looked at an entry on H2G2 please

I had the same reaction to the Christian Kane-lookalike.

What fun! I got Neil Gaiman for Quagmire earlier. I'll try it on a few other pieces now.

TRiG.

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GIGGADY!!!

Internationalised Domain Names (dry and technical): Dan Brown
Writing Signs (less dry, but still a bit technical): Kurt Vonnegut
Atmospheric Pollution from the Internal Combustion Engine in the Urban Environment (recycled college assignment, and definitely technical): David Foster Wallace

And that's it from me. Must write more.

TRiG.

Yeah, I was quite pleased with the Neil Gaiman. Actually, I'll try a few of my blog posts on it and see what it comes up with.

TRiG.

All right, you guys got me to go back and try it some more, and the darn thing has really tipped its hand...

I plugged in a article I wrote on Civil War re-enactors. It was called 'Turn on the Camcorders, We Surrender'. And this electronic literary critic informed me...

...that I write like MARGARET MITCHELL.

It might have been the mention of crinolines...

Definitely write more, TRiG. Preferably for .

David Foster Wallace definitely seems to be the most-compared, I've run a few of my articles through and got mostly him (results in my journal)

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