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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...
Beady-eyed fiercely-loyal cruise ship
  12/29/25
49, if listening to the opera counts as reading Wagner's &qu...
lake stage hominid
  12/29/25
#22 may surprise you
azure arousing party of the first part rehab
  12/29/25
ran here - wow
odious corn cake
  12/30/25
...
carmine soul-stirring son of senegal twinkling uncleanness
  01/01/26
25 I always liked to read and to write *eyes bug ou...
Onyx shrine
  12/29/25
2026 might be the year of book backlogs. 2025 was film and b...
Beady-eyed fiercely-loyal cruise ship
  12/29/25
...
Chartreuse Persian Multi-billionaire
  12/29/25
...
bronze national telephone
  12/29/25
...
walnut business firm
  12/29/25
...
Beady-eyed fiercely-loyal cruise ship
  12/29/25
What a faggot, poser list of mostly shit.
bipolar heady ticket booth
  12/29/25
...
twisted disturbing macaca
  01/01/26
40 The version of this list I remember from when I was a te...
wonderful feces home
  12/29/25
It was largely manga
Beady-eyed fiercely-loyal cruise ship
  12/29/25
there was a 4chan recommendations wiki that had different pa...
wonderful feces home
  12/29/25
/lit/ is filled with faggots not even wasting my time rea...
hot whorehouse
  12/29/25
Storm of Steel is a 180 book though
Beady-eyed fiercely-loyal cruise ship
  12/29/25
There are some decent recs on there actually but they shoeho...
hot whorehouse
  12/29/25
...
walnut business firm
  12/29/25
Yeah those are 2 that stood out to me that seem shitty. I do...
Beady-eyed fiercely-loyal cruise ship
  12/29/25
when we were all still in college EVERYONE here sucked off i...
hot whorehouse
  12/29/25
Recommend some based 180 books
Beady-eyed fiercely-loyal cruise ship
  12/29/25
people are hating to be contrarian but this list is actually...
bronze national telephone
  12/29/25
greatest books of all time clockwork orange the great gats...
hot whorehouse
  12/29/25
do they say the unedited UK clockwork orange with last chapt...
walnut business firm
  12/29/25
wow a handful out of 100 are bad i guess the list sucks
bronze national telephone
  12/29/25
how bad is spring snow? i thought mishima was just famous fo...
Brindle Galvanic Heaven
  12/29/25
on its own it's quite captivating, but it certainly doesn't ...
contagious deranged yarmulke haunted graveyard
  12/30/25
the Spring Snow movie is decent, book is boring imo and yeah...
Histrionic lilac stag film
  12/30/25
correct
odious corn cake
  12/30/25
All Along the Western Front should be on there even though i...
walnut business firm
  12/29/25
ernst junger's storm of steel has replaced it as the canonic...
very tactful kitchen jewess
  12/29/25
lol at mishima having 3 books on this extremely gay list, co...
contagious deranged yarmulke haunted graveyard
  12/29/25
...
Brindle Galvanic Heaven
  12/29/25
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrHK7FNgnrM
hot whorehouse
  12/29/25
i assume everyone knows that mishima was a flaming lisping h...
contagious deranged yarmulke haunted graveyard
  12/29/25
24/50 and then i lost interest. way more than expected give...
Charismatic Indecent Bbw Potus
  12/29/25
30
tan sex offender chapel
  12/29/25
I've read 28, broken down roughly as follows: Middle Scho...
self-absorbed spot
  12/29/25
I have read about half these. Some of these picks are pure c...
marvelous mediation locus
  12/29/25
look if you're not gonna acknowledge kant just gtfo of the t...
bronze national telephone
  12/29/25
I acknowledge Kant bro but I also acknowledge that I don&rsq...
marvelous mediation locus
  12/29/25
yeah i tried to read it myself and gave up it was too hard f...
bronze national telephone
  12/29/25
Same lmao
marvelous mediation locus
  12/29/25
I read it in a seminar class where it was the only assigned ...
Mind-boggling Light Doctorate Piazza
  12/30/25
Oh? You haven't read all six volumes of A la recherche du te...
Onyx shrine
  12/30/25
Si, je les ai lus tous
marvelous mediation locus
  12/30/25
Lol cr
Mentally impaired travel guidebook wagecucks
  01/01/26
16 lol
cracking cowardly halford
  12/30/25
95. List is OK with some retardation sprinkled in.
Mind-boggling Light Doctorate Piazza
  12/30/25
...
Alcoholic locale
  01/01/26
BEE over Jane austen is certainly edgy and cool of them!
Mind-boggling Light Doctorate Piazza
  12/30/25
>The Summa at 88
Alcoholic locale
  01/01/26
Is infinite jest cr? Always assumed it was a faggot gen x fa...
Mentally impaired travel guidebook wagecucks
  01/01/26
yes even though your assumption is true
Brindle Galvanic Heaven
  01/01/26
Ok but for further evidence can you list ur favorite handful...
Mentally impaired travel guidebook wagecucks
  01/01/26
DFW is a good writer but man gen x is going down as an irrel...
Mind-boggling Light Doctorate Piazza
  01/01/26
Lol at all the AZN shit and the Andrew Tate type shit
Mentally impaired travel guidebook wagecucks
  01/01/26
93
Stimulating topaz famous landscape painting hissy fit
  01/01/26


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Date: December 29th, 2025 2:52 PM
Author: Beady-eyed fiercely-loyal cruise ship

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: lake stage hominid

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: azure arousing party of the first part rehab

#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: odious corn cake

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: carmine soul-stirring son of senegal twinkling uncleanness



(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: Onyx shrine

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: Beady-eyed fiercely-loyal cruise ship

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: Chartreuse Persian Multi-billionaire



(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: bronze national telephone



(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: walnut business firm



(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: Beady-eyed fiercely-loyal cruise ship



(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: bipolar heady ticket booth

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: twisted disturbing macaca



(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: wonderful feces home

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: Beady-eyed fiercely-loyal cruise ship

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: wonderful feces home

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: hot whorehouse

/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: Beady-eyed fiercely-loyal cruise ship

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: hot whorehouse

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: walnut business firm



(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: Beady-eyed fiercely-loyal cruise ship

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: hot whorehouse

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: Beady-eyed fiercely-loyal cruise ship

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: bronze national telephone

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: hot whorehouse

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: walnut business firm

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: bronze national telephone

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: Brindle Galvanic Heaven

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: contagious deranged yarmulke haunted graveyard

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: Histrionic lilac stag film

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: odious corn cake

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: walnut business firm

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: very tactful kitchen jewess

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: contagious deranged yarmulke haunted graveyard

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: Brindle Galvanic Heaven



(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: hot whorehouse

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: contagious deranged yarmulke haunted graveyard

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: Charismatic Indecent Bbw Potus

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: tan sex offender chapel

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: self-absorbed spot

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: marvelous mediation locus

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: bronze national telephone

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: marvelous mediation locus

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: bronze national telephone

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: marvelous mediation locus

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: Mind-boggling Light Doctorate Piazza

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: Onyx shrine

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: marvelous mediation locus

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: Mentally impaired travel guidebook wagecucks

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: cracking cowardly halford

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: Mind-boggling Light Doctorate Piazza

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: Alcoholic locale



(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: Mind-boggling Light Doctorate Piazza

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: Alcoholic locale

>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: Mentally impaired travel guidebook wagecucks

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: Brindle Galvanic Heaven

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: Mentally impaired travel guidebook wagecucks

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: Mind-boggling Light Doctorate Piazza

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: Mentally impaired travel guidebook wagecucks

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: Stimulating topaz famous landscape painting hissy fit

93

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