Which author are other people like

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Seems everyone is playing with this today.

Trial texts by Dickens, Lovecraft and Shakespeare were correctly identified but it curiously identified Sonnet 116 "Let me not to the marriage of true minds..." as being like Dickens.

Text: Paragraphs from "How to be Topp" by Nigel Molesworth (aided by Goeffrey Willans) -- James Joyce

Text: House of lords science select committee report on complementary medicine -- H. P. Lovecraft

Text: O2 broadband terms and conditions -- Dan Brown

Text: My writing about computer games and sex -- H. P. Lovecraft

Text: My writing about condoms -- Chuck Palanuik

Text: My writing about multi-tasking -- Stephen King (I should bloody sue)

Text: Gettysburg address -- H. P. Lovecraft

Text: A DIY guide to vacuum cleaner repair -- Stephen King

Text: Potato Junkie by Therapy? (I'm bitter, I'm twisted, James Joyce is fucking my sister) -- George Orwell

Text: Section 47 of the Digital Economy Act -- Issac Asimov (if anything the DEB writer should be offended here)

Text: ZX81 instruction manual -- Stephen King

Text: BBC article about Tiger Woods using new golf club -- Shakespeare

Text: Lyrics to space Oddity -- James Fenimore Cooper

Text: Middle chapter from Moby dick -- H. P. Lovecraft

Text: Lyrics to Wannabe by the Spice Girls -- Issac Asimov (oooh, so nearly right)

Text: Wikipedia entry about Charles Dickens -- Charles Dickens (did have some short quotes by him though)