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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...
vivacious center pervert
  12/29/25
49, if listening to the opera counts as reading Wagner's &qu...
appetizing digit ratio bbw
  12/29/25
#22 may surprise you
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  12/29/25
ran here - wow
shaky swashbuckling university incel
  12/30/25
...
Insanely Creepy Talented Doctorate
  01/01/26
25 I always liked to read and to write *eyes bug ou...
cracking hunting ground foreskin
  12/29/25
2026 might be the year of book backlogs. 2025 was film and b...
vivacious center pervert
  12/29/25
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Erotic sadistic pisswyrm
  12/29/25
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Submissive electric furnace
  12/29/25
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saffron travel guidebook
  12/29/25
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vivacious center pervert
  12/29/25
What a faggot, poser list of mostly shit.
Aromatic know-it-all people who are hurt party of the first part
  12/29/25
...
Bistre Excitant Corner Dingle Berry
  01/01/26
40 The version of this list I remember from when I was a te...
Aquamarine bawdyhouse
  12/29/25
It was largely manga
vivacious center pervert
  12/29/25
there was a 4chan recommendations wiki that had different pa...
Aquamarine bawdyhouse
  12/29/25
/lit/ is filled with faggots not even wasting my time rea...
Cerebral Fluffy Institution
  12/29/25
Storm of Steel is a 180 book though
vivacious center pervert
  12/29/25
There are some decent recs on there actually but they shoeho...
Cerebral Fluffy Institution
  12/29/25
...
saffron travel guidebook
  12/29/25
Yeah those are 2 that stood out to me that seem shitty. I do...
vivacious center pervert
  12/29/25
when we were all still in college EVERYONE here sucked off i...
Cerebral Fluffy Institution
  12/29/25
Recommend some based 180 books
vivacious center pervert
  12/29/25
people are hating to be contrarian but this list is actually...
Submissive electric furnace
  12/29/25
greatest books of all time clockwork orange the great gats...
Cerebral Fluffy Institution
  12/29/25
do they say the unedited UK clockwork orange with last chapt...
saffron travel guidebook
  12/29/25
wow a handful out of 100 are bad i guess the list sucks
Submissive electric furnace
  12/29/25
how bad is spring snow? i thought mishima was just famous fo...
Motley primrose spot
  12/29/25
on its own it's quite captivating, but it certainly doesn't ...
Racy generalized bond den
  12/30/25
the Spring Snow movie is decent, book is boring imo and yeah...
soul-stirring casino dysfunction
  12/30/25
correct
shaky swashbuckling university incel
  12/30/25
All Along the Western Front should be on there even though i...
saffron travel guidebook
  12/29/25
ernst junger's storm of steel has replaced it as the canonic...
Razzmatazz philosopher-king
  12/29/25
lol at mishima having 3 books on this extremely gay list, co...
Racy generalized bond den
  12/29/25
...
Motley primrose spot
  12/29/25
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrHK7FNgnrM
Cerebral Fluffy Institution
  12/29/25
i assume everyone knows that mishima was a flaming lisping h...
Racy generalized bond den
  12/29/25
24/50 and then i lost interest. way more than expected give...
apoplectic point telephone
  12/29/25
30
amber geriatric dragon nursing home
  12/29/25
I've read 28, broken down roughly as follows: Middle Scho...
Hot Vibrant Fortuitous Meteor Space
  12/29/25
I have read about half these. Some of these picks are pure c...
Azure misunderstood national twinkling uncleanness
  12/29/25
look if you're not gonna acknowledge kant just gtfo of the t...
Submissive electric furnace
  12/29/25
I acknowledge Kant bro but I also acknowledge that I don&rsq...
Azure misunderstood national twinkling uncleanness
  12/29/25
yeah i tried to read it myself and gave up it was too hard f...
Submissive electric furnace
  12/29/25
Same lmao
Azure misunderstood national twinkling uncleanness
  12/29/25
I read it in a seminar class where it was the only assigned ...
flesh judgmental cruise ship
  12/30/25
Oh? You haven't read all six volumes of A la recherche du te...
cracking hunting ground foreskin
  12/30/25
Si, je les ai lus tous
Azure misunderstood national twinkling uncleanness
  12/30/25
Lol cr
Magenta bonkers quadroon
  01/01/26
16 lol
garnet multi-billionaire french chef
  12/30/25
95. List is OK with some retardation sprinkled in.
flesh judgmental cruise ship
  12/30/25
...
Bateful Property Alpha
  01/01/26
BEE over Jane austen is certainly edgy and cool of them!
flesh judgmental cruise ship
  12/30/25
>The Summa at 88
Bateful Property Alpha
  01/01/26
Is infinite jest cr? Always assumed it was a faggot gen x fa...
Magenta bonkers quadroon
  01/01/26
yes even though your assumption is true
Motley primrose spot
  01/01/26
Ok but for further evidence can you list ur favorite handful...
Magenta bonkers quadroon
  01/01/26
DFW is a good writer but man gen x is going down as an irrel...
flesh judgmental cruise ship
  01/01/26
Lol at all the AZN shit and the Andrew Tate type shit
Magenta bonkers quadroon
  01/01/26
93
stubborn windowlicker location
  01/01/26


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Date: December 29th, 2025 2:52 PM
Author: vivacious center pervert

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: appetizing digit ratio bbw

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: khaki range factory reset button

#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: shaky swashbuckling university incel

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: Insanely Creepy Talented Doctorate



(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: cracking hunting ground foreskin

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: vivacious center pervert

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: Erotic sadistic pisswyrm



(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: Submissive electric furnace



(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: saffron travel guidebook



(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: vivacious center pervert



(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: Aromatic know-it-all people who are hurt party of the first part

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: Bistre Excitant Corner Dingle Berry



(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: Aquamarine bawdyhouse

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: vivacious center pervert

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: Aquamarine bawdyhouse

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: Cerebral Fluffy Institution

/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: vivacious center pervert

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: Cerebral Fluffy Institution

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: saffron travel guidebook



(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: vivacious center pervert

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: Cerebral Fluffy Institution

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: vivacious center pervert

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: Submissive electric furnace

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: Cerebral Fluffy Institution

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: saffron travel guidebook

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: Submissive electric furnace

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: Motley primrose spot

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: Racy generalized bond den

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: soul-stirring casino dysfunction

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: shaky swashbuckling university incel

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: saffron travel guidebook

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: Razzmatazz philosopher-king

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: Racy generalized bond den

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: Motley primrose spot



(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: Cerebral Fluffy Institution

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: Racy generalized bond den

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: apoplectic point telephone

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: amber geriatric dragon nursing home

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: Hot Vibrant Fortuitous Meteor Space

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: Azure misunderstood national twinkling uncleanness

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: Submissive electric furnace

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: Azure misunderstood national twinkling uncleanness

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: Submissive electric furnace

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: Azure misunderstood national twinkling uncleanness

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: flesh judgmental cruise ship

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: cracking hunting ground foreskin

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: Azure misunderstood national twinkling uncleanness

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: Magenta bonkers quadroon

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: garnet multi-billionaire french chef

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: flesh judgmental cruise ship

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: Bateful Property Alpha



(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: flesh judgmental cruise ship

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: Bateful Property Alpha

>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: Magenta bonkers quadroon

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: Motley primrose spot

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: Magenta bonkers quadroon

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: flesh judgmental cruise ship

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: Magenta bonkers quadroon

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: stubborn windowlicker location

93

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