What book is the most like yours?

[HourglassMemory]

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]

Harry Potter, of course!

:roll:


No, really. I have no idea!

[maddythemad]

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]

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]

Shutter IslandmeetsThe Dresden Files

[reenkam]

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]

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

[MerryDay]

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]

A combination of White Oleander and 1984.

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

[Glenda]

"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.

[ClaudiaGray]

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]

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

[DeadlyAccurate]

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]

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]

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]

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

[Esopha]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

Ooh... that sounds quite intriguing. :)

[Esopha]

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]

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]

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.

[beezle]

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

[Lisamer]

The Good Life by James McInerny

[Danger Jane]

Sirena by Donna Jo Napoli

[Maprilynne]

Hmmmm, Twilight minus the vampires meets the legends of Camelot meets . . . um, Botany 101?

[farfromfearless]

If I had to compare, I would probably say that "Chronicles of Narnia" is closest in terms of theme

[ZannaPerry]

Great topic!

I would compare my book to "A Breath Away" by Rita Herron. And the darker side of "Carolina Moon" by Nora Roberts.

[Danger Jane]

I don't believe there are any. :)

was waiting for someone to say that.

I based my comparison on the setting (ancient Greece) and that both my WIP and that book draw heavily from both mythology and actual history.

[Shady Lane]

Um, I'd say Kevin Brooks's Being (robots with body issues) combined with Francine Prose's After (sinister parents and a society of mind control) and a HEAVY dose of Fight Club (mysterious best friends and all male secret societies.)

I guess it's basically Fight Club with angsty teenage superheros.

[dclary]

The Bible, by God.

[Niteowl]

An utterly atrocious version of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, with more guns, and written as if Adams wasn't as talented, as smart, or funny, and had a tin ear for dialogue.

[RRK]

1984 meets The Road, with about a fourth of the writing quality of either.

[EriRae]

Mine's The Castle in the Forest meets Cruel Intentions

[My-Immortal]

Vaguely like a dark fantasy Sin City meets Payback while rubbing up against Femme Fatale...

Yeah, I know...movie titles instead of books...but Sin City is a graphic novel, Payback is based on the book The Hunter by Richard Stark...and Femme Fatale...well, the character type fits...

[mscelina]

for me? The Iliad morphed with Le Morte D'Arthur.

*grin*

figure that one out.

[Dave.C.Robinson]

I tend not so much to say my books are like another, so much as to say they're aimed at people who liked certain books.

My fantasy novel is somewhat reminiscent of Lieber's Fafhrd and Mouser lite.

My space opera is aimed at people who liked David Weber's Dahak series.

My urban fantasy is looking like "what if Kolchak was a superhero?"

[Just Me 2021]

My book is most like "House of Sand and Fog" by Andre Dubus. It's about culture clash, and it's told from multiple points of view so different sides of the story can be expressed.

[Enraptured]

1984 meets The Road, with about a fourth of the writing quality of either.

I'd read that combination. It sounds nicely dystopian.

[Spiny Norman]

Breakfast of Champions meets Catcher in the Rye meets The Big Lebowski.

[Harper K]

The Sound and the Fury (Faulkner) meets Forever (Judy Blume).

[Shady Lane]

The Sound and the Fury (Faulkner) meets Forever (Judy Blume).

Sweeeeet.

[KTC]

I've been told, by probably upwards of 15-20 people, that my latest finished novel (not counting the novel marathon novel!) is a lot like STAND BY ME...

But I don't see it?

[KTC]

Breakfast of Champions meets Catcher in the Rye meets The Big Lebowski.

I SOOOOOOOOOOO want to read that book!

[Stew21]

I've been told, by probably upwards of 15-20 people, that my latest finished novel (not counting the novel marathon novel!) is a lot like STAND BY ME...

But I don't see it?


Oh, Kevin. I don't see it either. Summer on Fire is not like stand by me, it is just the example I (and I'm sure others) used to explain yours as a novel with young characters that is still very much an adult story. Its the story with young stars but isn't YA.

[Stew21]

Breakfast of Champions meets Catcher in the Rye meets The Big Lebowski.


I want to read this too. You just named two all-time favorite books and a favorite movie in that book soup.

[maestrowork]

Indiana Jones meets the Da Vinci Code meets Children of Men.

:)

Or maybe not.

[Spiny Norman]

Hopefully the agents agree when I start querying in two weeks! :)

[celeber]

I would like to humbly say that my WIP is fairly unique. There are pieces of folklore and literature that appear but I have never found anything quite like the weird MC and story she has told me.
It is a blend of sci fi, urban fantasy and romance.

[Gary]

The Bridges of Madison County

[KTC]

lol, Trish. I've heard that before too. "Well, it's not really like it, but it's like it." I want it to be adult lit...but I still feel like it's on the fence between that and YA???

[Will Lavender]

6 Frames is a cross between William Gibson's Pattern Recognition and the French film Cache

The one I'm writing now, tentatively called Defect, is a cross between "The Most Dangerous Game" and the Saw movies.

Hope it works out. *nervous*

[Begbie]

Atlanta Nights. Just kidding... I hope.

[Azraelsbane]

Okay, I'm weeks behind on this, but I FINALLY figured out how to explain my fantasy series, so I thought I'd dig through old threads to find this. And don't shoot me, as I'm using a movie/book mesh.

Highlander meets the Bhagavad Gita meets the Boondock Saints

And it only took me about 2 weeks to think of that. :roll:

[raydad]

A cross between To Kill a Mockingbird and the film Sergeant York.

[TurkeyLurkey]

Star Wars of the Harry Ring

[Azraelsbane]

Star Wars of the Harry Ring

I take it this is erotica? ;)

[TurkeyLurkey]

LOL

Nope... it goes something like this...
"A Jedi, Hobbit and Wizard walk into a bar...."

[Southern_girl29]

I would say an updated Nancy Drew mixed with the television show Medium.

[Stuart Clark]

Aliens meets Jurassic Park

[jordijoy]

I have a book in mind but feel it would be forward of me to dare to compare my work with it.

[lfraser]

Good Lord, I would hope that no reputable publishing house had ever actually printed anything that could even remotely be said to resemble my novel...story...thing. :)