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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...
Trip senate
  12/29/25
49, if listening to the opera counts as reading Wagner's &qu...
aphrodisiac brass native kitty cat
  12/29/25
#22 may surprise you
Lime adulterous stock car
  12/29/25
ran here - wow
Diverse Angry Depressive Newt
  12/30/25
...
Fear-inspiring trump supporter cumskin
  01/01/26
25 I always liked to read and to write *eyes bug ou...
ruby home gaping
  12/29/25
2026 might be the year of book backlogs. 2025 was film and b...
Trip senate
  12/29/25
...
Irate brunch
  12/29/25
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Dead Flushed Psychic Old Irish Cottage
  12/29/25
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Cobalt Toilet Seat
  12/29/25
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Trip senate
  12/29/25
What a faggot, poser list of mostly shit.
charismatic locus goal in life
  12/29/25
...
Heady field dingle berry
  01/01/26
40 The version of this list I remember from when I was a te...
pearl very tactful preventive strike marketing idea
  12/29/25
It was largely manga
Trip senate
  12/29/25
there was a 4chan recommendations wiki that had different pa...
pearl very tactful preventive strike marketing idea
  12/29/25
/lit/ is filled with faggots not even wasting my time rea...
flatulent disrespectful karate doctorate
  12/29/25
Storm of Steel is a 180 book though
Trip senate
  12/29/25
There are some decent recs on there actually but they shoeho...
flatulent disrespectful karate doctorate
  12/29/25
...
Cobalt Toilet Seat
  12/29/25
Yeah those are 2 that stood out to me that seem shitty. I do...
Trip senate
  12/29/25
when we were all still in college EVERYONE here sucked off i...
flatulent disrespectful karate doctorate
  12/29/25
Recommend some based 180 books
Trip senate
  12/29/25
people are hating to be contrarian but this list is actually...
Dead Flushed Psychic Old Irish Cottage
  12/29/25
greatest books of all time clockwork orange the great gats...
flatulent disrespectful karate doctorate
  12/29/25
do they say the unedited UK clockwork orange with last chapt...
Cobalt Toilet Seat
  12/29/25
wow a handful out of 100 are bad i guess the list sucks
Dead Flushed Psychic Old Irish Cottage
  12/29/25
how bad is spring snow? i thought mishima was just famous fo...
Beady-eyed slimy roommate locale
  12/29/25
on its own it's quite captivating, but it certainly doesn't ...
titillating submissive base community account
  12/30/25
the Spring Snow movie is decent, book is boring imo and yeah...
Overrated mahogany national jew
  12/30/25
correct
Diverse Angry Depressive Newt
  12/30/25
All Along the Western Front should be on there even though i...
Cobalt Toilet Seat
  12/29/25
ernst junger's storm of steel has replaced it as the canonic...
Wonderful striped hyena house
  12/29/25
lol at mishima having 3 books on this extremely gay list, co...
titillating submissive base community account
  12/29/25
...
Beady-eyed slimy roommate locale
  12/29/25
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrHK7FNgnrM
flatulent disrespectful karate doctorate
  12/29/25
i assume everyone knows that mishima was a flaming lisping h...
titillating submissive base community account
  12/29/25
24/50 and then i lost interest. way more than expected give...
histrionic bawdyhouse turdskin
  12/29/25
30
Supple Useless Garrison Hairy Legs
  12/29/25
I've read 28, broken down roughly as follows: Middle Scho...
clear church building coffee pot
  12/29/25
I have read about half these. Some of these picks are pure c...
abusive excitant lodge
  12/29/25
look if you're not gonna acknowledge kant just gtfo of the t...
Dead Flushed Psychic Old Irish Cottage
  12/29/25
I acknowledge Kant bro but I also acknowledge that I don&rsq...
abusive excitant lodge
  12/29/25
yeah i tried to read it myself and gave up it was too hard f...
Dead Flushed Psychic Old Irish Cottage
  12/29/25
Same lmao
abusive excitant lodge
  12/29/25
I read it in a seminar class where it was the only assigned ...
Black cracking mad-dog skullcap dog poop
  12/30/25
Oh? You haven't read all six volumes of A la recherche du te...
ruby home gaping
  12/30/25
Si, je les ai lus tous
abusive excitant lodge
  12/30/25
Lol cr
Know-it-all metal dilemma useless brakes
  01/01/26
16 lol
White Therapy
  12/30/25
95. List is OK with some retardation sprinkled in.
Black cracking mad-dog skullcap dog poop
  12/30/25
...
odious space weed whacker
  01/01/26
BEE over Jane austen is certainly edgy and cool of them!
Black cracking mad-dog skullcap dog poop
  12/30/25
>The Summa at 88
odious space weed whacker
  01/01/26
Is infinite jest cr? Always assumed it was a faggot gen x fa...
Know-it-all metal dilemma useless brakes
  01/01/26
yes even though your assumption is true
Beady-eyed slimy roommate locale
  01/01/26
Ok but for further evidence can you list ur favorite handful...
Know-it-all metal dilemma useless brakes
  01/01/26
DFW is a good writer but man gen x is going down as an irrel...
Black cracking mad-dog skullcap dog poop
  01/01/26
Lol at all the AZN shit and the Andrew Tate type shit
Know-it-all metal dilemma useless brakes
  01/01/26
93
Cheese-eating galvanic kitchen antidepressant drug
  01/01/26


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Date: December 29th, 2025 2:52 PM
Author: Trip senate

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: aphrodisiac brass native kitty cat

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: Lime adulterous stock car

#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: Diverse Angry Depressive Newt

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: Fear-inspiring trump supporter cumskin



(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: ruby home gaping

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: Trip senate

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: Irate brunch



(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: Dead Flushed Psychic Old Irish Cottage



(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: Cobalt Toilet Seat



(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: Trip senate



(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: charismatic locus goal in life

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: Heady field 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: pearl very tactful preventive strike marketing idea

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: Trip senate

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: pearl very tactful preventive strike marketing idea

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: flatulent disrespectful karate doctorate

/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: Trip senate

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: flatulent disrespectful karate doctorate

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: Cobalt Toilet Seat



(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: Trip senate

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: flatulent disrespectful karate doctorate

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: Trip senate

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: Dead Flushed Psychic Old Irish Cottage

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: flatulent disrespectful karate doctorate

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: Cobalt Toilet Seat

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: Dead Flushed Psychic Old Irish Cottage

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: Beady-eyed slimy roommate locale

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: titillating submissive base community account

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: Overrated mahogany national jew

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: Diverse Angry Depressive Newt

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: Cobalt Toilet Seat

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: Wonderful striped hyena house

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: titillating submissive base community account

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: Beady-eyed slimy roommate locale



(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: flatulent disrespectful karate doctorate

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: titillating submissive base community account

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: histrionic bawdyhouse turdskin

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: Supple Useless Garrison Hairy Legs

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: clear church building coffee pot

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: abusive excitant lodge

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: Dead Flushed Psychic Old Irish Cottage

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: abusive excitant lodge

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: Dead Flushed Psychic Old Irish Cottage

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: abusive excitant lodge

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: Black cracking mad-dog skullcap dog poop

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: ruby home gaping

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: abusive excitant lodge

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: Know-it-all metal dilemma useless brakes

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: White Therapy

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: Black cracking mad-dog skullcap dog poop

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: odious space weed whacker



(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: Black cracking mad-dog skullcap dog poop

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: odious space weed whacker

>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: Know-it-all metal dilemma useless brakes

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: Beady-eyed slimy roommate locale

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: Know-it-all metal dilemma useless brakes

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: Black cracking mad-dog skullcap dog poop

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: Know-it-all metal dilemma useless brakes

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: Cheese-eating galvanic kitchen antidepressant drug

93

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