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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...
vigorous office
  12/29/25
49, if listening to the opera counts as reading Wagner's &qu...
Stimulating feces bbw
  12/29/25
#22 may surprise you
medicated very tactful nursing home mental disorder
  12/29/25
ran here - wow
adventurous house
  12/30/25
...
Topaz Underhanded Prole Step-uncle's House
  01/01/26
25 I always liked to read and to write *eyes bug ou...
red passionate ceo brethren
  12/29/25
2026 might be the year of book backlogs. 2025 was film and b...
vigorous office
  12/29/25
...
exhilarant duck-like principal's office community account
  12/29/25
...
massive halford
  12/29/25
...
Charcoal range
  12/29/25
...
vigorous office
  12/29/25
What a faggot, poser list of mostly shit.
vermilion demanding wagecucks locale
  12/29/25
...
zombie-like roast beef
  01/01/26
40 The version of this list I remember from when I was a te...
heady pearly crackhouse cuckold
  12/29/25
It was largely manga
vigorous office
  12/29/25
there was a 4chan recommendations wiki that had different pa...
heady pearly crackhouse cuckold
  12/29/25
/lit/ is filled with faggots not even wasting my time rea...
charismatic brindle psychic police squad
  12/29/25
Storm of Steel is a 180 book though
vigorous office
  12/29/25
There are some decent recs on there actually but they shoeho...
charismatic brindle psychic police squad
  12/29/25
...
Charcoal range
  12/29/25
Yeah those are 2 that stood out to me that seem shitty. I do...
vigorous office
  12/29/25
when we were all still in college EVERYONE here sucked off i...
charismatic brindle psychic police squad
  12/29/25
Recommend some based 180 books
vigorous office
  12/29/25
people are hating to be contrarian but this list is actually...
massive halford
  12/29/25
greatest books of all time clockwork orange the great gats...
charismatic brindle psychic police squad
  12/29/25
do they say the unedited UK clockwork orange with last chapt...
Charcoal range
  12/29/25
wow a handful out of 100 are bad i guess the list sucks
massive halford
  12/29/25
how bad is spring snow? i thought mishima was just famous fo...
odious house-broken whorehouse
  12/29/25
on its own it's quite captivating, but it certainly doesn't ...
vibrant mewling bawdyhouse pisswyrm
  12/30/25
the Spring Snow movie is decent, book is boring imo and yeah...
Confused violent toaster orchestra pit
  12/30/25
correct
adventurous house
  12/30/25
All Along the Western Front should be on there even though i...
Charcoal range
  12/29/25
ernst junger's storm of steel has replaced it as the canonic...
Chartreuse dilemma cuck
  12/29/25
lol at mishima having 3 books on this extremely gay list, co...
vibrant mewling bawdyhouse pisswyrm
  12/29/25
...
odious house-broken whorehouse
  12/29/25
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrHK7FNgnrM
charismatic brindle psychic police squad
  12/29/25
i assume everyone knows that mishima was a flaming lisping h...
vibrant mewling bawdyhouse pisswyrm
  12/29/25
24/50 and then i lost interest. way more than expected give...
obsidian insecure hairy legs
  12/29/25
30
Concupiscible Milky Center
  12/29/25
I've read 28, broken down roughly as follows: Middle Scho...
floppy tanning salon pervert
  12/29/25
I have read about half these. Some of these picks are pure c...
infuriating international law enforcement agency fortuitous meteor
  12/29/25
look if you're not gonna acknowledge kant just gtfo of the t...
massive halford
  12/29/25
I acknowledge Kant bro but I also acknowledge that I don&rsq...
infuriating international law enforcement agency fortuitous meteor
  12/29/25
yeah i tried to read it myself and gave up it was too hard f...
massive halford
  12/29/25
Same lmao
infuriating international law enforcement agency fortuitous meteor
  12/29/25
I read it in a seminar class where it was the only assigned ...
razzle messiness background story
  12/30/25
Oh? You haven't read all six volumes of A la recherche du te...
red passionate ceo brethren
  12/30/25
Si, je les ai lus tous
infuriating international law enforcement agency fortuitous meteor
  12/30/25
Lol cr
Glittery cowardly piazza death wish
  01/01/26
16 lol
Smoky Curious Site Antidepressant Drug
  12/30/25
95. List is OK with some retardation sprinkled in.
razzle messiness background story
  12/30/25
...
Laughsome turdskin dopamine
  01/01/26
BEE over Jane austen is certainly edgy and cool of them!
razzle messiness background story
  12/30/25
>The Summa at 88
Laughsome turdskin dopamine
  01/01/26
Is infinite jest cr? Always assumed it was a faggot gen x fa...
Glittery cowardly piazza death wish
  01/01/26
yes even though your assumption is true
odious house-broken whorehouse
  01/01/26
Ok but for further evidence can you list ur favorite handful...
Glittery cowardly piazza death wish
  01/01/26
DFW is a good writer but man gen x is going down as an irrel...
razzle messiness background story
  01/01/26
Lol at all the AZN shit and the Andrew Tate type shit
Glittery cowardly piazza death wish
  01/01/26
93
Irate mind-boggling corner yarmulke
  01/01/26


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Date: December 29th, 2025 2:52 PM
Author: vigorous office

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: Stimulating feces 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: medicated very tactful nursing home mental disorder

#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: adventurous house

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: Topaz Underhanded Prole Step-uncle's House



(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: red passionate ceo brethren

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: vigorous office

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: exhilarant duck-like principal's office community account



(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: massive halford



(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: Charcoal range



(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: vigorous office



(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: vermilion demanding wagecucks locale

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: zombie-like roast beef



(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: heady pearly crackhouse cuckold

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: vigorous office

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: heady pearly crackhouse cuckold

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: charismatic brindle psychic police squad

/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: vigorous office

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: charismatic brindle psychic police squad

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: Charcoal range



(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: vigorous office

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: charismatic brindle psychic police squad

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: vigorous office

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: massive halford

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: charismatic brindle psychic police squad

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: Charcoal range

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: massive halford

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: odious house-broken whorehouse

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: vibrant mewling bawdyhouse pisswyrm

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: Confused violent toaster orchestra pit

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: adventurous house

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: Charcoal range

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: Chartreuse dilemma cuck

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: vibrant mewling bawdyhouse pisswyrm

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: odious house-broken whorehouse



(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: charismatic brindle psychic police squad

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: vibrant mewling bawdyhouse pisswyrm

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: obsidian insecure hairy legs

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: Concupiscible Milky Center

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: floppy tanning salon pervert

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: infuriating international law enforcement agency fortuitous meteor

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: massive halford

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: infuriating international law enforcement agency fortuitous meteor

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: massive halford

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: infuriating international law enforcement agency fortuitous meteor

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: razzle messiness background story

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: red passionate ceo brethren

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: infuriating international law enforcement agency fortuitous meteor

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: Glittery cowardly piazza death wish

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: Smoky Curious Site Antidepressant Drug

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: razzle messiness background story

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: Laughsome turdskin dopamine



(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: razzle messiness background story

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: Laughsome turdskin dopamine

>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: Glittery cowardly piazza death wish

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: odious house-broken whorehouse

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: Glittery cowardly piazza death wish

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: razzle messiness background story

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: Glittery cowardly piazza death wish

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: Irate mind-boggling corner yarmulke

93

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