15 Responses to I Suppose This is a Good Thing…

1. Blowhard, Esq. says:

   March 21, 2014 at 4:55 pm

   You use a lot of footnotes, dude?

   I got H.P. Lovecraft. He’s noted for his mythology and imagination more than his prose, right? Isn’t his prose kind of unreadable? Is this algorithm trying to tell me something?

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2. Atypical Neurotic says:

   March 21, 2014 at 5:13 pm

   And parentheticals. Bad habits both, I know, but it’s part of my charm.

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3. Fenster says:

   March 21, 2014 at 5:14 pm

   I put in several and got David Foster Wallace once and HP Lovecraft once. Not sure what that means. However, I got Cory Doctorow several times in a row, which is interesting since I did one of these analysis thingies a few years ago and got Cory Doctorow then, too. Never read him.

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   • Eddie Pensier says:

     March 22, 2014 at 1:39 am

     Hey, at least you didn’t get Dan Brown.

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     • Fenster says:

       March 22, 2014 at 10:01 am

       yes but if i could write like dan brown i could at least be rich

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4. Faze says:

   March 21, 2014 at 6:55 pm

   Probably not a good thing. DFW’s prose radiated “bad crazy” from every syllable. What you want is to write like Booth Tarkington, Sinclair Lewis, Dorothy Thompson or one of the other rock-solid prosodists of the early 20th century. Nothing showy about their style. But it was sharp, flexible and mature. Oh yes, and underrated in our own time — a lot like the painters and illustrators Eddie Pensier is always bringing to our attention.

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5. Fabrizio del Wrongo says:

   March 22, 2014 at 1:06 am

   I got P.G. Wodehouse.

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6. Paleo Retiree says:

   March 22, 2014 at 1:53 am

   I felt mischievous and plugged in some paragraphs I once wrote about David Foster Wallace … and apparently I write like H.P. Lovecraft too.

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7. Eddie Pensier says:

   March 22, 2014 at 1:56 am

   I got Margaret Atwood?!? Please say it ain’t so.

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   • Atypical Neurotic says:

     March 22, 2014 at 1:59 am

     You could do a lot worse. Her collection of essays on debt published as Payback is actually really good.

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     • Eddie Pensier says:

       March 22, 2014 at 4:06 am

       I’ve only read her fiction, so I’ll take your word for it.

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8. Tex says:

   March 22, 2014 at 3:43 am

   I got Cory Doctorow, about whom I know nothing, but I doubt he’s as awesome as me.

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9. Bryan says:

   March 22, 2014 at 9:16 am

   I got H. P. Lovecraft once and Arthur Clarke once. Both quite absurd. I don’t know what they mean by “analysis” but as the process takes less than a second, it is obviously some extremely simplistic and shallow one.

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10. Fabrizio del Wrongo says:

    March 22, 2014 at 1:21 pm

    This has to be some kind of joke. No one writes like Lovecraft.

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11. Callowman says:

    March 22, 2014 at 2:22 pm

    DFW. Sigh. He’s so wordy. Me, too, apparently.

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