Hey…this gives me an idea.
Okay, I just fed it the first three pages of “Home Delievery” by Stephen King. Apparently *he *writes like Chuck Palahniuk. Hmmm
David Foster Wallace for most of my blog,* and even when I put in the text of my infamous letter to the gym. I think it’s the site’s default setting or something. Also got it for my naturally-worded posts here.
For my poison ivy play, I got James Fenimore Cooper.
*With two Dan Browns, a Stephenie Meyer, and a James Joyce - how does that happen?
[The text of this post got a Stephenie Meyer]
I got J.K Rowling, then Stephanie Meyer (ugh), and also William Shakespeare (?!). One of these things is not like the other.
Random words from a list of words will get James Joyce.
Trying this from facebook earlier and entering the first, second, and third parts of the same story it told me I wrote like
1st- Chuck Palahniuk
2nd- Stephen King
3rd- Ray Bradbury
I went to the Gutenberg project, copied out the whole text of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (Marley’s ghost, Tiny Tim, Scrooge et al.) and pasted that in.
The website told me that Charles Dickens writes like …
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[SIZE=“3”]Stephen King!!![/SIZE]
Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. And sometimes dead is bettah!
I plugged in one of my Christmas letters. It said I wrote like Harry Harrison.
Using my posts from the Straight Dope Horror Movie Game II: The Return thread, it said I wrote like David Foster Wallace, Raymond Chandler, William Gibson, and finally like Stephan King.
What’s with all these people who have never heard of David Foster Wallace?
I got some David Foster Wallace.
My academic papers apparently sound like James Joyce. I am not altogether certain this is a compliment. 
The first chapter of my modern somewhat gothic fantasy reads like Neil Gaiman. Good, that’s what I was going for!
The high-ish fantasy short story I wrote is, apparently, reminiscent of Leguin. It definitely seems to catch on to what genre I’m writing.
And when I’m writing horror, I write like Stephen King or Dan Brown depending on the page I paste in.
First entry, OP of the whole “Not Coming To A Theater Near You” sillyfest, I’m Neil Gaimen. I feel flattered.
Second OP, about cooking lasagna… Stephanie Meyers. Stephanie Freakin’ Sparklepire Meyers! That’s it, I Write Like, I’m not your friend anymore!
I pasted in my responses from the “The really REALLY bad advice thread”: Chuck Palahniuk
My response from “What odd things did you grow up with that you thought were perfectly normal?” thread: James Joyce
A short story I wrote: David Foster Wallace
Imho, this is just some sort of scam to get you to use their service.
The longest and most legitimately me-ish chunk of writing I submitted returned with the claim that I write like James Joyce. Another was judged to be in the vein of Arthur C. Clarke. Another, Dan Brown (Pfui!). Two others, David Foster Wallace.
No. I don’t think so.
First (the story I’m currently working on) – James Joyce
Second (the story that got a mention in Year’s Best SF) – H.P. Lovecraft
Third (my most recent sale) – David Foster Wallace
Fourth (a sale to Realms of Fantasy) – Chuck Palahniuk
I got James Joyce, Ian Fleming, Arthur C. Clarke, George Orwell, JK Rowling, and David Foster Wallace.
I think the site is most likely crap.
Of course it is. It’s a load of nonsense intended to entice you to sign up for their newletter, and possibly to buy junk. That’s why it’s fun to abuse it so.
Having not yet hit the apparently inevitable “David Foster Wallace”, I put in the origin stories of some of my MMO superhero characters.
The magic twins sharing a body and the agoraphobic psychic bubble baby were labeled LeGuin. The guy with the knives, whose background is all dialog, got Vonnegutted. The extradimensional knight from a world where the sun never set on the British Empire was associated with Joyce.
And finally, on my gross, lightning-struck, urban-legend supervillain, I got David Foster Wallace. Can I join the club now? 
Just to be meta, I put in my OP. Apparently, it reads like Stephen King. WTF? And for the final recursion, I pasted the site’s own instructions into the blank. Guess who the site’s author writes like?
You got it. David Foster Wallace. 
I got James Joyce with a fairly philosophical personal email, and William Gibson with a newsier travelogue meant for more general consumption. My most recent lengthy post got me the inevitable David Foster Wallace.
I wonder if there’s any method to the assignments at all, or it it’s an arbitrary algorithm that’s only use is to flog their “Get Published” book.
If it’s arbitrary, it at least remembers what it said to you earlier, because giving it the same samples now gave me the same answers as an hour ago.
I put in a few paragraphs in a sort-of hardboiled style and got Stephen King. I would have preferred Raymond Chandler, but OK.