Sturgeonesque, honoring the late Theodore Sturgeon, yields 453 Google hits BUT gets extra points because one of those hits (on the first page, no less) is in French
“sturgeonlike” and “sturgeon-like” yield only stuff about fish
I took a piersanthonian dump this morning. It just wouldn’t stop coming out, and each plop stunk worse than the one before.
Randy.
Brontesque and Bronte-esque, combined, had fewer thant 2K hits, somewhat to my surprise.
Brontean.
Hijack-ish:
What about the trend of putting authors’ last initials before their first names, a la Pterry?
Swill for Shakespeare has a nice ring to it. 
Psylvia, Clewis, Darthur…
Is that a trend? I’ve only ever seen it with Pterry and, I think, Gneil.
The unfortunate “Dickish” has been gaining ground over the last ten years. (As in Philip K.)
I’ve heard Vogtian.
Gogolesque.
Leacockian.
It’s the same with Foucaultian.
And don’t forget Petrarchan Sonnets.
I once read an interview with Kingsley Amis where he said he wanted his adjective to be “Amish.” OTOH, he was probably drunk at the time.
If anyone wants to refer to me, I’d prefer “twicky.”
TIA.
BWAH HA HA HA!
Seussian for sure. 63,800 hits.
Hammetesque? 145 hits on Google.
Chandleresque? 19,300 hits.
And if I could claim McKnittingtonian, that’d be lovely. Thanks. Or maybe a word that doesn’t really exist in Modern English, but feels like it should: knitten.
More:
Woolfian – a la Virginia Woolf. Also used as a noun for those who study her work.
Sontagian/Sontag-esque – from Susan Sontag; used as a derogative by conservatives to dismiss something as leftist and reactionary. In these cases, it may refer more to her political activism than her writing.
Sapphic – from Sappho; used to describe love poetry by a woman addressed to another woman. (Does this count or is it more like platonic and Freudian? It’s used more and more frequently to refer to anything that involves two women romantically or lesbians.)
I would submit Adamsesque, refering to Douglas Adams. Only a couple hundred google hits, but I’ve certainly heard and used that or similar.
Machiavellian.
Sadistic – 2.4 million Google hits
Excluded under the “no philosophies or lifestyles” clause above. As is Machiavellian. Heh. There’s a joke there somewhere.
I dunno, twicksy. Niccolo Machiavelli is singularly best known as the author of The Prince. We may have to make an exception for the exclusion. He didn’t philosophize or practice the lifestyle of the advice he gave the Medicis. He was a statesmen whose singular work is still read and relevant – the only freshman year humanities assignment I actually enjoyed.
There’s no evidence that the Marquis de Sade was a practicing sadist, either. But in the wake of his feverish banned writings his name was lent to to his particular brand of forbidden, taboo, lustiful, feverishly sexual and evil (his own words, I believe) imaginings (is it hot in here?)
I’d argue Machiavellian and Sadistic ought to stay. They certainly sum up their writers, no? Arguably de Sade’s body of work moreso Machiavelli’s.
Under that argument, I’d add Sun-Tzusian as a descriptor regarding military writings/tactics. It’s almost a neologism, one that manages to sneak in the author’s first name
And which is better…
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Cecilian
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Cecilish
of my preference,
- Cecilesque
or dammit not of. :smack:
OK, a serious one: Runyonesque.