Experiment Farm: I Write Like

There's a website that will supposedly analyze a piece of text you've written and tell you whom you write like.

This blog post apparently reads like Stephen King.

Whereas this one reads like Kurt Vonnegut.

One section of my novel came back as Vladimir Nabokov and another as Arthur C. Clark, either of whose company I'd be honored to share.

I decided to test the system and put in excerpts from Stephen King, Kurt Vonnegut, Vladimir Nabokov, and Arthur C. Clarke and see what it came back with. It actually matched them all up correctly, except for Arthur C. Clarke, who it said wrote like Dan Brown.

Neil Gaiman came back as Neil Gaiman.
Amy Tan came back as Dan Brown.

J.R.R. Tolkien came back as J.R.R. Tolkien.
Naomi Novik came back as H.P. Lovecraft.
H.P. Lovecraft came back as Dan Brown.

Stephenie Meyer came back as Stephenie Meyer.
Chuck Palahniuk came back as Chuck Palahniuk.
Barack Obama came back as Dan Brown.

If you're keeping score, and follow the transitive property, Amy Tan and Barack Obama both write like H.P. Lovecraft, and Dan Brown is incredibly versatile.