Wow. I am proud of that, a fine writer. So how about something else, a bit of academic writing:
Never read anything by him so I wouldn't know. So let's try another piece:
Shit! Quick, delete it this instant. The shame, the shame. Slap another passage in to take the taste away.
I write like
David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace
I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!
Who? Well what about trying something else.
There, that is more respectable, even if some of his politics were a bit dodgy.
Consistently male I suppose, but then I did a bit of cheating and found that Emily Bronte writes like James Fenimore Cooper, George Eliot writes like Charles Dickens as does Thomas Hardy, Thackeray and, I suspect, most 19th Century English novelists. Let's go earlier. Mary Shelly writes like Mary Shelly, but Laurence Sterne writes like Robert Louis Stevenson. Daniel Defoe has the style of Jane Austen. A little more populist perhaps, Agatha Christie writes like Arthur Conan Doyle. Oh well, so it goes ...
Thanks to Shuggy for helping me waste an odd half hour.
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i wish there was a forum on the internet where i could parlay my thoughts.
fyacebyook.
Oscar Lomax said,
August 31, 2010 at 10:50 pm
I bid 20 Parseks for your eyeball Dunbar.
Take it or leave it.
Your move.
sorry -- am banned from commenting at other blopg -- so did it here
And I don't blame them. Clearly this Lomax fellow is someone of low repute and an obvious ne'er-do-well.
I am on my third book by David Wallace. Cannot say it's an easy going, but I will be so bold as to recommend his Brief Interviews with Hideous Men. Without fear of retribution, that is.
I did a bit of cheating to. I filled the I WRITE LIKE analysis box with random words, poor spelling and gobbledy-gook and it gave me an 'I write like James Joyce' badge!
Great! I write too like Kurt Vonnegut (don't know) and Dan Brown (don't like). I wanted to post my "I write like" post as well some time ago but I awlays postponed it 'til I forgot it :)
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