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4chan's list of top books of all time. How many of these have you read?

https://x.com/andrewchen/status/2005289538189738278 I have r...
grizzly embarrassed to the bone degenerate
  12/29/25
49, if listening to the opera counts as reading Wagner's &qu...
sepia resort tank
  12/29/25
#22 may surprise you
Gaped Balding Trailer Park
  12/29/25
ran here - wow
carmine shrine son of senegal
  12/30/25
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jet-lagged public bath black woman
  01/01/26
25 I always liked to read and to write *eyes bug ou...
emerald field genital piercing
  12/29/25
2026 might be the year of book backlogs. 2025 was film and b...
grizzly embarrassed to the bone degenerate
  12/29/25
...
180 locus fortuitous meteor
  12/29/25
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Cordovan pungent heaven alpha
  12/29/25
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flickering home round eye
  12/29/25
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grizzly embarrassed to the bone degenerate
  12/29/25
What a faggot, poser list of mostly shit.
dark forum new version
  12/29/25
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boyish therapy parlor
  01/01/26
40 The version of this list I remember from when I was a te...
Slate Place Of Business
  12/29/25
It was largely manga
grizzly embarrassed to the bone degenerate
  12/29/25
there was a 4chan recommendations wiki that had different pa...
Slate Place Of Business
  12/29/25
/lit/ is filled with faggots not even wasting my time rea...
Judgmental bespoke lay
  12/29/25
Storm of Steel is a 180 book though
grizzly embarrassed to the bone degenerate
  12/29/25
There are some decent recs on there actually but they shoeho...
Judgmental bespoke lay
  12/29/25
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flickering home round eye
  12/29/25
Yeah those are 2 that stood out to me that seem shitty. I do...
grizzly embarrassed to the bone degenerate
  12/29/25
when we were all still in college EVERYONE here sucked off i...
Judgmental bespoke lay
  12/29/25
Recommend some based 180 books
grizzly embarrassed to the bone degenerate
  12/29/25
people are hating to be contrarian but this list is actually...
Cordovan pungent heaven alpha
  12/29/25
greatest books of all time clockwork orange the great gats...
Judgmental bespoke lay
  12/29/25
do they say the unedited UK clockwork orange with last chapt...
flickering home round eye
  12/29/25
wow a handful out of 100 are bad i guess the list sucks
Cordovan pungent heaven alpha
  12/29/25
how bad is spring snow? i thought mishima was just famous fo...
alcoholic magical stead
  12/29/25
on its own it's quite captivating, but it certainly doesn't ...
Lavender fear-inspiring point international law enforcement agency
  12/30/25
the Spring Snow movie is decent, book is boring imo and yeah...
chartreuse legend water buffalo
  12/30/25
correct
carmine shrine son of senegal
  12/30/25
All Along the Western Front should be on there even though i...
flickering home round eye
  12/29/25
ernst junger's storm of steel has replaced it as the canonic...
big-titted hunting ground casino
  12/29/25
lol at mishima having 3 books on this extremely gay list, co...
Lavender fear-inspiring point international law enforcement agency
  12/29/25
...
alcoholic magical stead
  12/29/25
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrHK7FNgnrM
Judgmental bespoke lay
  12/29/25
i assume everyone knows that mishima was a flaming lisping h...
Lavender fear-inspiring point international law enforcement agency
  12/29/25
24/50 and then i lost interest. way more than expected give...
Rusted Legal Warrant Idea He Suggested
  12/29/25
30
Galvanic station boiling water
  12/29/25
I've read 28, broken down roughly as follows: Middle Scho...
nubile trip temple double fault
  12/29/25
I have read about half these. Some of these picks are pure c...
Geriatric corn cake macaca
  12/29/25
look if you're not gonna acknowledge kant just gtfo of the t...
Cordovan pungent heaven alpha
  12/29/25
I acknowledge Kant bro but I also acknowledge that I don&rsq...
Geriatric corn cake macaca
  12/29/25
yeah i tried to read it myself and gave up it was too hard f...
Cordovan pungent heaven alpha
  12/29/25
Same lmao
Geriatric corn cake macaca
  12/29/25
I read it in a seminar class where it was the only assigned ...
Appetizing bonkers national security agency pocket flask
  12/30/25
Oh? You haven't read all six volumes of A la recherche du te...
emerald field genital piercing
  12/30/25
Si, je les ai lus tous
Geriatric corn cake macaca
  12/30/25
Lol cr
ivory very tactful chapel rigor
  01/01/26
16 lol
Self-absorbed Fluffy Main People
  12/30/25
95. List is OK with some retardation sprinkled in.
Appetizing bonkers national security agency pocket flask
  12/30/25
...
walnut internal respiration ceo
  01/01/26
BEE over Jane austen is certainly edgy and cool of them!
Appetizing bonkers national security agency pocket flask
  12/30/25
>The Summa at 88
walnut internal respiration ceo
  01/01/26
Is infinite jest cr? Always assumed it was a faggot gen x fa...
ivory very tactful chapel rigor
  01/01/26
yes even though your assumption is true
alcoholic magical stead
  01/01/26
Ok but for further evidence can you list ur favorite handful...
ivory very tactful chapel rigor
  01/01/26
DFW is a good writer but man gen x is going down as an irrel...
Appetizing bonkers national security agency pocket flask
  01/01/26
Lol at all the AZN shit and the Andrew Tate type shit
ivory very tactful chapel rigor
  01/01/26
93
Bossy business firm milk
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Date: December 29th, 2025 2:52 PM
Author: grizzly embarrassed to the bone degenerate

https://x.com/andrewchen/status/2005289538189738278 I have read 11 of these. Should I add the rest to my backlog? I feel like I don't ever wanna read Joyce or any german novelist again or any "philosopher"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2)#49547555)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 2:59 PM
Author: sepia resort tank

49, if listening to the opera counts as reading Wagner's "Ring of the Nibelung"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2)#49547568)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 2:59 PM
Author: Gaped Balding Trailer Park

#22 may surprise you

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2)#49547569)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 10:43 AM
Author: carmine shrine son of senegal

ran here - wow

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2)#49549594)



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Date: January 1st, 2026 7:02 PM
Author: jet-lagged public bath black woman



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2)#49555041)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 3:01 PM
Author: emerald field genital piercing

25

I always liked

to read and to write

*eyes bug out of head, anus prolapses*

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2)#49547574)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 3:36 PM
Author: grizzly embarrassed to the bone degenerate

2026 might be the year of book backlogs. 2025 was film and before that, gaming, before doodikoff made it passé

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2)#49547656)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:07 PM
Author: 180 locus fortuitous meteor



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2)#49548142)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:10 PM
Author: Cordovan pungent heaven alpha



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2)#49548150)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:21 PM
Author: flickering home round eye



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2)#49548191)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:47 PM
Author: grizzly embarrassed to the bone degenerate



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2)#49548248)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 3:04 PM
Author: dark forum new version

What a faggot, poser list of mostly shit.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2)#49547577)



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Date: January 1st, 2026 6:22 PM
Author: boyish therapy parlor



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2)#49554932)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 3:34 PM
Author: Slate Place Of Business

40

The version of this list I remember from when I was a teen on 4chan (so ~2012) was better

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2)#49547646)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:03 PM
Author: grizzly embarrassed to the bone degenerate

It was largely manga

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2)#49548134)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:18 PM
Author: Slate Place Of Business

there was a 4chan recommendations wiki that had different pages for novels, manga, digital/visual novels etc

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2)#49548179)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:11 PM
Author: Judgmental bespoke lay

/lit/ is filled with faggots

not even wasting my time reading this

its like asking /tv/ for tv show recs

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2)#49548155)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:13 PM
Author: grizzly embarrassed to the bone degenerate

Storm of Steel is a 180 book though

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2)#49548161)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:15 PM
Author: Judgmental bespoke lay

There are some decent recs on there actually but they shoehorn dumb shit like infinite jest and a thousand years of solitude and jew trash

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2)#49548165)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:22 PM
Author: flickering home round eye



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2)#49548195)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:26 PM
Author: grizzly embarrassed to the bone degenerate

Yeah those are 2 that stood out to me that seem shitty. I don't want to ever read anything a south american wrote. "magical realism" is the worst genre or beaner slop imo. And infinite jest just feels reddity but I've never read any of it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2)#49548203)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:28 PM
Author: Judgmental bespoke lay

when we were all still in college EVERYONE here sucked off infinite jest non stop, multiple 300+ poast threads about it

bunch of poser fags here

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2)#49548208)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:47 PM
Author: grizzly embarrassed to the bone degenerate

Recommend some based 180 books

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2)#49548249)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:18 PM
Author: Cordovan pungent heaven alpha

people are hating to be contrarian but this list is actually pretty good imo

yeah it's not perfect but it's better than almost any other "best books" list you will ever see

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2)#49548177)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:19 PM
Author: Judgmental bespoke lay

greatest books of all time

clockwork orange

the great gatsby

spring snow

etc etc

give me a break

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2)#49548184)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:23 PM
Author: flickering home round eye

do they say the unedited UK clockwork orange with last chapter at least

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2)#49548196)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:26 PM
Author: Cordovan pungent heaven alpha

wow a handful out of 100 are bad i guess the list sucks

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2)#49548205)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:33 PM
Author: alcoholic magical stead

how bad is spring snow? i thought mishima was just famous for his failed coup+killing self and being a weird homo, no idea people thought so highly of any of his writing

list is fairly credited though. lol'd at all the dostoevsky books so high even though i like them. tells you the type of doods making this list

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2)#49548215)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 2:33 AM
Author: Lavender fear-inspiring point international law enforcement agency

on its own it's quite captivating, but it certainly doesn't belong anywhere near the top 1000 books of all time, let alone 100, and reading the rest of the sea of fertility tetralogy reveals it to be a degenerate game played by a mentally ill homosexual.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2)#49549208)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 4:21 PM
Author: chartreuse legend water buffalo

the Spring Snow movie is decent, book is boring imo and yeah he's a huge fag

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2)#49550529)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 2:03 PM
Author: carmine shrine son of senegal

correct

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2)#49550101)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:26 PM
Author: flickering home round eye

All Along the Western Front should be on there even though its flame

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2)#49548202)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:31 PM
Author: big-titted hunting ground casino

ernst junger's storm of steel has replaced it as the canonical WWI account.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2)#49548213)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:50 PM
Author: Lavender fear-inspiring point international law enforcement agency

lol at mishima having 3 books on this extremely gay list, compiled by homos on 4chan, of gay books written by gay authors for their gay audience

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2)#49548259)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:50 PM
Author: alcoholic magical stead



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2)#49548262)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:53 PM
Author: Judgmental bespoke lay

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrHK7FNgnrM

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2)#49548272)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:58 PM
Author: Lavender fear-inspiring point international law enforcement agency

i assume everyone knows that mishima was a flaming lisping homo who larped as a samurai. less known is the fact that when he competed in kendo, he also fought, befitting a homo, in the least manly way possible -- the complete opposite of what he describes in runaway horses.

ps. it looks like there are 2 books by him, not 3. that's still 2 too many.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2)#49548283)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:55 PM
Author: Rusted Legal Warrant Idea He Suggested

24/50 and then i lost interest. way more than expected given my utter lack of interest in classical literature. I would happily replace 1/2 of these with isaac asimov. Including a lot of the russians. Anna Karenina is trash.

Ok 20/50 for the bottom 50. Still no asimov. I only came back to check. I mean dune ffs but not asimov?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2)#49548276)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:56 PM
Author: Galvanic station boiling water

30

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2)#49548278)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 8:18 PM
Author: nubile trip temple double fault

I've read 28, broken down roughly as follows:

Middle School: ~4

High School: ~10

College: ~4

The remaining ~10 were when I was in my early 30s or so and for a while chose what to read by simply going down a list of the best 100 novels of all time (which looked very similar to this list) and read whichever ones were under 300 pages.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2)#49548372)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 10:33 PM
Author: Geriatric corn cake macaca

I have read about half these. Some of these picks are pure crap. Also, the idea that people are sitting around reading a critique of pure reason, the world as will and representation, phenomenology of spirit etc is preposterous. Those books were just added because the people who out the list together are poseurs. You can probably identify the true nature of the faggots who out the list together by isolating the bad picks on the list and assuming they have not read the good picks on the list.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2)#49548914)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 10:47 PM
Author: Cordovan pungent heaven alpha

look if you're not gonna acknowledge kant just gtfo of the thread

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2)#49548953)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 10:59 PM
Author: Geriatric corn cake macaca

I acknowledge Kant bro but I also acknowledge that I don’t have the time or inclination to read critique of pure reason and am smart enough to know how much intelligence and effort would be required to appreciate the book. These people haven’t read Kant, never will, certainly will never put in the time to understand it, but that’s not going to stop them from putting him on the list along with Hegel and Schopenhauer (they haven’t read them either)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2)#49548984)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 11:00 PM
Author: Cordovan pungent heaven alpha

yeah i tried to read it myself and gave up it was too hard for me lmao

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2)#49548987)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 11:01 PM
Author: Geriatric corn cake macaca

Same lmao

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2)#49548989)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 2:54 AM
Author: Appetizing bonkers national security agency pocket flask

I read it in a seminar class where it was the only assigned text.

Read the prolegomena instead if you just want to read some kantian metaphysics for fun

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2)#49549210)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 2:55 AM
Author: emerald field genital piercing

Oh? You haven't read all six volumes of A la recherche du temps perdu?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2)#49549211)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 4:20 PM
Author: Geriatric corn cake macaca

Si, je les ai lus tous

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2)#49550526)



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Date: January 1st, 2026 6:31 PM
Author: ivory very tactful chapel rigor

Lol cr

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2)#49554957)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 2:45 AM
Author: Self-absorbed Fluffy Main People

16 lol

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2)#49549209)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 2:59 AM
Author: Appetizing bonkers national security agency pocket flask

95.

List is OK with some retardation sprinkled in.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2)#49549213)



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Date: January 1st, 2026 5:45 PM
Author: walnut internal respiration ceo



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2)#49554864)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 3:08 AM
Author: Appetizing bonkers national security agency pocket flask

BEE over Jane austen is certainly edgy and cool of them!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2)#49549214)



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Date: January 1st, 2026 5:48 PM
Author: walnut internal respiration ceo

>The Summa at 88

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2)#49554869)



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Date: January 1st, 2026 6:14 PM
Author: ivory very tactful chapel rigor

Is infinite jest cr? Always assumed it was a faggot gen x fart smelling fest

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2)#49554916)



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Date: January 1st, 2026 6:49 PM
Author: alcoholic magical stead

yes even though your assumption is true

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2)#49555018)



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Date: January 1st, 2026 7:01 PM
Author: ivory very tactful chapel rigor

Ok but for further evidence can you list ur favorite handful of books

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2)#49555035)



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Date: January 1st, 2026 6:51 PM
Author: Appetizing bonkers national security agency pocket flask

DFW is a good writer but man gen x is going down as an irrelevant generation and culture

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2)#49555021)



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Date: January 1st, 2026 7:07 PM
Author: ivory very tactful chapel rigor

Lol at all the AZN shit and the Andrew Tate type shit

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2)#49555046)



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Date: January 1st, 2026 7:08 PM
Author: Bossy business firm milk

93

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2)#49555049)