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I Write Like...Vladimir Nabokov
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Ha! Bram Stoker! 
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Raymond Chandler
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Not sure what to think. I put in some writing from a post here and got:
David Foster Wallace.
I then put in some original writing I had done and got: H. P. Lovecraft.
Since both were fiction writers, I guess I'm in good company either way...*L*
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I put my post from this thread, and I got David Foster Wallace. I knew nothing about him until then.
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James Joyce. Maybe I'll start reading him.
The opposite of hatred is love; the opposite of tyranny is love; the opposite of censorship is love; the opposite of evil is love; the opposite of politics is love; the opposite of war is love; the opposite of god is love.–– Salman Rushdie
Broadly speaking, it is held that getting money is good and spending money is bad. Seeing that they are two sides of one transaction, this is absurd; one might as well maintain that keys are good, but keyholes are bad. Whatever merit there may be in the production of goods must be entirely derivative from the advantage to be obtained by consuming them. –Bertrand Russell
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Kurt Vonnegut. Goodness gracious!
Learning is its own reward, and it's fun too!
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I got H.P. Lovecraft for an original text and Jonathan Swift for a TFD post. How interesting! 
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Just done this, first attempt Isaac Asimov, second James Fenimore Cooper
great fun
must dash, got to shoot off into the future with the last of the mohicans
bye !!!
I live in my own little world, but it's OK - they know me here...
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Pasting couple of posts from here I got James Joyce and Dan Brown. Analysing half a page from Joyce's Dubliners gave Ray Bradbury. 
I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
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Cromagnon man. 
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David Foster Wallace and James Joyce, from two posts on same thread Seems the analysis is based on what thread/topic you are pasting from. I just pasted from a different section and got Isaac Asimov who wrote; The Robots of Dawn Second Foundation Foundation The Gods Themselves The End of Eternity ( bit worried about this one,  )
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How can I get Philip K. Dick ?
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Ray Bradbury . . .
So then practice and rehearse
To find heart-soul’s universe,
Knowing that by moving/seeing
Proves for all time: Doing’s being!
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try posting a paragraph from Sex on the Beach - by Sandy Shortz
I live in my own little world, but it's OK - they know me here...
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Pádraic Ó Conaire, ar ndóigh.
Off to Singapore for a spell!
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This application must be based on the same guessing algorithm with Microsoft Word's automatic language recognition.
I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
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David Foster Wallace. I wish!
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Funny. A TFD entry brought me Lovecraft, a few GERMAN paragraphs gave me E.A.Poe!!!???
"Before I speak, I have something important to say."Groucho Marx
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Because Poe loved Schiller, Goethe, Ludwig Tieck, Novalis,... I think. IMcRout wrote:Funny. A TFD entry brought me Lovecraft, a few GERMAN paragraphs gave me E.A.Poe!!!???
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I write like
H. P. Lovecraft
James Ozmun
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Alas I turn out to be William Gibson whom I had never heard of. It pleases me even less when I discover that he is/was ' the noir prophet of the cyberpunk subgenre' although I might save that as a reply to bureaucrats. However, I later read of his avoidance of the Vietnam war; 'At his draft hearing, he honestly informed interviewers that his intention in life was to sample every mind-altering substance in existence' which reminds me somewhat of my misspent youth. Interesting site!
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So very fictional and funny -what a frenzy!
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I write like Stephen King. Really?
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You can take my word for it, my lad. There is the gifted and the non-gifted. Keep up the good work...
Wish you well,
Raymond
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PS. Try posting some other -e.g. a paragraph by Mr King, and you will get the proof you are after... We must admit it is real fun, though.
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i write like JRR Tolkien. i put in several different paragraphs of my own writing and each time that's what it told me. i'm flattered. i wasn't even writing about orcs or elves or rings either!
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I got James Joyce the first time.
Then got Vladimir Nabokov and Margaret Atwood the third and fourth time (same message)
It's totally random! 
Ako ay ako, ikaw ay ikaw.
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I got Stephen King the first time and Cory Doctorow the second.
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Anne Rice, apparently.
An infinite number of monkeys was my initial response to the question.
Mind you, it thinks Leonard Cohen writes like Agatha Christie so...
Fun, though !
Sanity is not statistical
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I like to try my hand at short stories and have received a second place and an honorable mention. So, today I selected a few paragraphs from one of the stories and the answer came back Margaret Attwood . She is one of our most famous Canadian writers. Maybe I should write more stories. I'll have to think about that
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Gabo (Gabriel Garcia Marquez) in first, second and third place.
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William Shakespeare. Eateth out thy hearts.
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I write like Margaret Mitchell. That was fun...I love writing!
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I pasted all of Rudyard Kipling's "If" and I got Gertrude Stein.  I then pasted it again and got H. P. Lovecraft,  If it cannot recognize "If" then the analysis has to be 'iffy'.
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That analyzer is just for fun, it seems. It has some algorithm which picks words from your text and matches with its database and displays a result. I entered some random words in English, then in my native language, then some random clicking on my keybord -- I got some names. :) If I write like Ernest Hemingway (as it says in one of the attempts), I am sorry for his readers. No hard feelings fans!
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. ~ Swami Vivekanand
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