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[zanzjan]

Not long after submitting my previous post the fire alarm went off in my building so I had to hoof it down ten stories by stairs, by the end of which I decided that I felt extraordinarily crappy (and honestly I'd felt off since I woke up this morning) and was just way too cross to spend time in the company of my fellow humans*, so I called the rest of the day a sick day, came home, and took a several hour nap. I'm feeling much better, though I'm keenly aware I've only delayed, not escaped, the unenviable task that set my head to 'sploding this morning.

Anyhow, now awake and slightly less ogrish, I'm just f'ing around on the intertubes, and I am highly amused to note that apparently Zombie Cabana Boy is reminiscent of James Joyce:

I write like
James Joyce

I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!

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* because I didn't want to be rude to them, or because I expected them to only aggravate me further? You decide!

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[voidmonster.livejournal.com]

I ran a bunch of my stories through it.

It said I wrote like Dan Brown one too many times for me to keep trying (three, tied with Chuck Palahniuk).

I also write like Stephen King, Kurt Vonnegut, James Joyce, Vladimir Nabokov, Isaac Asimov and Robert Louis Stevenson.

[zanzjan.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I got a Dan Brown response when I plugged in a chunk of the flesh-eating bacteria story, and decided to ignore that as an obvious mistake, as I'm fairly sure Dan Brown can't write.

[voidmonster.livejournal.com]

Okay, I decided to try some more... And I can only conclude that the thing is broken.

My gritty weird-western (which most people compare to Cormac McCarthy), came up as Margaret Atwood. My post-humanity anti-DRM, bodiless AI story was Dan Brown. Oh yeah, the quantum physics twincest smut story was also Dan Brown.

And my straight up historical fiction Nero-era Roman assassins preparing a detailed (and historically accurate) feast story -- H.P. Lovecraft.

The more stuff I try, the more hilarious it becomes.

The original Frankenstein, for instance, is written JUST LIKE H.P. Lovecraft!

[zanzjan.livejournal.com]

I'm actually somewhat curious now to know how the program comes up with its results, in a programming "don't do this" sort of way.

[voidmonster.livejournal.com]

Also, no, Dan Brown is not actually a writer.

[stale-hermit.livejournal.com]

Oh, good. I'm not the only one who got a surprise Dan Brown response. Ewwww.

My noirish and cyberpunky stuff rated a Chuck Palahniuk (whom I've never read), except for one which tipped a Stephen King flag (funny, I was pretty much channeling Tim O'Brien when I wrote it)--and I also got an Edgar Allan Poe, which pleased me mightily.

[rolandgsl.livejournal.com]

regarding your *, the obvious answer is "all of the above".

[zanzjan.livejournal.com]

ah, you know me so well (-: