What book is the most like yours?

HourglassMemory · Aug 9, 2007

I've noticed that people like to know what your story is about.
Here's a way to do it fast and in a way that everybody will understand. And it's a fast way to know the trends around this site.

Just pick the book you think is the most like yours.

Mine, Jules Verne's "Journey to the Centre of the Earth" and "Around the World in 80 Days".

Miss Java · Aug 9, 2007

Harry Potter, of course!

:roll:

No, really. I have no idea!

maddythemad · Aug 9, 2007

It's not that I'm modest (because I'm definitely not), but I don't really feel that I can compare my work with published stuff. I just... don't know how good it is. And if it is good, in which way it's good, you know?

But cool idea for a thread. I hope others have better luck.

Azraelsbane · Aug 9, 2007

Hmm, to tell you the truth I really can't place any. I've taken about 5 religions and smashed them together to create a life/afterlife system, added some creativity and made it into a battle between good and evil that ended up somehow more driven by the characters than the good vs. evil plot.

::shrug:: I guess it could be compared with any other good vs. evil fantasy book, but it's a pretty different deal. I'll try to remember to ask my beta readers for what book they think is most like mine.

JohnDavidPaxton · Aug 9, 2007

Shutter IslandmeetsThe Dresden Files

reenkam · Aug 9, 2007

I tried and came up with nothing. I feel like we all get Fs in the comparison column of our AW report cards.

*sigh*

scarletpeaches · Aug 9, 2007

My book's like...Harry Potter and the Lord of the Da Vinci Rings.

MerryDay · Aug 9, 2007

A Great & Terrible Beauty...but contemporary. and with more romance. and legends. and in 3rd person.

so...you know, they've just got a girl in England at a boarding school in common, but I tried.

Enraptured · Aug 9, 2007

A combination of White Oleander and 1984.

Yes, it really does work, however unlikely it may sound.

Glenda · Aug 9, 2007

"Shanna" by Kathleen E Woodiwiss is the closest my books come to. Now if I could just fine tune them as good as she did hers.

Claudia Gray · Aug 9, 2007

It really isn't that much like Twilight -- we have really different takes on the vampire world -- but I think (hope!) that readers of Twilight would enjoy Evernight.

Sage · Aug 9, 2007

Dead Like Me (a television show) meets The Dresden Files

DeadlyAccurate · Aug 9, 2007

I guess the closest would be What If Stephanie Plum Kicked Ass? which I'm sure is going to be the name of the 14th book in the series.

sanssouci · Aug 9, 2007

Enraptured said:
A combination of White Oleander and 1984.

Yes, it really does work, however unlikely it may sound.

Sounds like an interesting mix to me.

Mine is like Brideshead Revisited meets Lolita.

Oberon · Aug 9, 2007

I'm a little embare-assed, but here goes. When I was in a funk, going through divorce, in a new city, depressed, I picked up a paperback to read while I ate at a cheap cafe. It was The Stars Are Ours by Andre Norton. She took me away from it all, and I loved her for it. I then proceeded, over the years, to buy every book she ever wrote, good or bad, regardless of the fact they were in the Juvenile section of the library or store. I liked her adventures. I was having a hard time finding the kind of story I liked to read, so I decided to write my own. I think I had Norton sitting back there in the closet of my mind guiding my hand. No particular book. I also copy from Clifford Simak. But now I'm out of SF without guidance.

Will Lavender · Aug 9, 2007

Mine is...

Donna Tartt's novel The Secret History meets David Fincher's film The Game.

Esopha · Aug 9, 2007

I don't know.

Probably because I would never read anything like my current WIPs, under the impression that they would be too juvenille and silly.

Funny how life does that.

Azraelsbane · Aug 9, 2007

Esopha said:
I don't know.

Probably because I would never read anything like my current WIPs, under the impression that they would be too juvenille and silly.

Funny how life does that.

Nothing wrong with juvenile and silly. It'll balance out all the horrifying gory tales of woe. Everyone has to laugh.

Esopha · Aug 9, 2007

I should clarify. I meant I never used to, but then I discovered Terry Pratchett, and with him, a plethora of humorous writers I never knew existed.

I also never used to read fantasy. (HA! HAHA! Oh, the humorous tales of youth!)

Now I read all sorts of stuff, but I haven't read enough of the light and humorous stuff to find anything to adequately prepare my WIP to.

Azraelsbane · Aug 9, 2007

Esopha said:
I should clarify. I meant I never used to, but then I discovered Terry Pratchett, and with him, a plethora of humorous writers I never knew existed.

I also never used to read fantasy. (HA! HAHA! Oh, the humorous tales of youth!)

Now I read all sorts of stuff, but I haven't read enough of the light and humorous stuff to find anything to adequately prepare my WIP to.

Oooh, you read fantasy. ::jots down Esopha's name in long list of targeted readers::

You should read Rosencrantz & Gildenstern are Dead and The Book of Bunny Suicides. If that last one doesn't have you rolling on the ground, then you, my dear, have no sense of humor!

Enraptured · Aug 9, 2007

Sage said:
Dead Like Me (a television show) meets The Dresden Files

Ooh... that sounds quite intriguing.

Esopha · Aug 9, 2007

Hee. I've already added you to a list of potential readers. I did when you said you didn't mind juvenile and silly.

I'll add those to my reading list!

triceretops · Aug 9, 2007

Oh, gee. Les see. Word Wars is pretty close to Bradbury's 451.

Planet Janitor is Starship Troopers meets Robinson Crusoe.

Once Upon a Goddess--the only thing that might even come close would be Bedazzed. In fact it's very close to that.

The Omega Wars has got a War of the Worlds feel and desperation to it.

Gate-Walker. Nothing like it that I can think of. A young girl time-travels to solve her own murder.

The Wolving or The Lupus Strain (can't decide) is a runner up for The Island of Doctor Moreau.

Guess that's it for now.

Tri

BardSkye · Aug 9, 2007

Sage said:
Dead Like Me (a television show) meets The Dresden Files

I was lucky enough to read this one as part of the beta challenge. Now I'm waiting impatiently for it to be published so I can buy two copies, one for me and one for my best friend.

Vincent · Aug 9, 2007

My current WIP is a lot like the last book I never finished writing.

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