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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...
Opaque vigorous market round eye
  12/29/25
49, if listening to the opera counts as reading Wagner's &qu...
Pontificating black woman corner
  12/29/25
#22 may surprise you
180 indian lodge mediation
  12/29/25
ran here - wow
bright fragrant trailer park
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Startling Point
  01/01/26
25 I always liked to read and to write *eyes bug ou...
Aphrodisiac bonkers meetinghouse rigor
  12/29/25
2026 might be the year of book backlogs. 2025 was film and b...
Opaque vigorous market round eye
  12/29/25
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filthy toilet seat
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Hideous mewling principal's office tank
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Motley Location
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Opaque vigorous market round eye
  12/29/25
What a faggot, poser list of mostly shit.
dark elite main people chapel
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ruddy nowag
  01/01/26
40 The version of this list I remember from when I was a te...
Ocher Talented Sex Offender
  12/29/25
It was largely manga
Opaque vigorous market round eye
  12/29/25
there was a 4chan recommendations wiki that had different pa...
Ocher Talented Sex Offender
  12/29/25
/lit/ is filled with faggots not even wasting my time rea...
Floppy deranged tanning salon striped hyena
  12/29/25
Storm of Steel is a 180 book though
Opaque vigorous market round eye
  12/29/25
There are some decent recs on there actually but they shoeho...
Floppy deranged tanning salon striped hyena
  12/29/25
...
Motley Location
  12/29/25
Yeah those are 2 that stood out to me that seem shitty. I do...
Opaque vigorous market round eye
  12/29/25
when we were all still in college EVERYONE here sucked off i...
Floppy deranged tanning salon striped hyena
  12/29/25
Recommend some based 180 books
Opaque vigorous market round eye
  12/29/25
people are hating to be contrarian but this list is actually...
Hideous mewling principal's office tank
  12/29/25
greatest books of all time clockwork orange the great gats...
Floppy deranged tanning salon striped hyena
  12/29/25
do they say the unedited UK clockwork orange with last chapt...
Motley Location
  12/29/25
wow a handful out of 100 are bad i guess the list sucks
Hideous mewling principal's office tank
  12/29/25
how bad is spring snow? i thought mishima was just famous fo...
trip green private investor
  12/29/25
on its own it's quite captivating, but it certainly doesn't ...
Canary Native Associate
  12/30/25
the Spring Snow movie is decent, book is boring imo and yeah...
twinkling stimulating senate kitty
  12/30/25
correct
bright fragrant trailer park
  12/30/25
All Along the Western Front should be on there even though i...
Motley Location
  12/29/25
ernst junger's storm of steel has replaced it as the canonic...
tantric misunderstood hospital
  12/29/25
lol at mishima having 3 books on this extremely gay list, co...
Canary Native Associate
  12/29/25
...
trip green private investor
  12/29/25
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrHK7FNgnrM
Floppy deranged tanning salon striped hyena
  12/29/25
i assume everyone knows that mishima was a flaming lisping h...
Canary Native Associate
  12/29/25
24/50 and then i lost interest. way more than expected give...
frisky sapphire national security agency
  12/29/25
30
thriller stage mental disorder
  12/29/25
I've read 28, broken down roughly as follows: Middle Scho...
insanely creepy hell
  12/29/25
I have read about half these. Some of these picks are pure c...
racy wrinkle friendly grandma
  12/29/25
look if you're not gonna acknowledge kant just gtfo of the t...
Hideous mewling principal's office tank
  12/29/25
I acknowledge Kant bro but I also acknowledge that I don&rsq...
racy wrinkle friendly grandma
  12/29/25
yeah i tried to read it myself and gave up it was too hard f...
Hideous mewling principal's office tank
  12/29/25
Same lmao
racy wrinkle friendly grandma
  12/29/25
I read it in a seminar class where it was the only assigned ...
Anal cruise ship scourge upon the earth
  12/30/25
Oh? You haven't read all six volumes of A la recherche du te...
Aphrodisiac bonkers meetinghouse rigor
  12/30/25
Si, je les ai lus tous
racy wrinkle friendly grandma
  12/30/25
Lol cr
high-end indirect expression gay wizard
  01/01/26
16 lol
shaky piazza electric furnace
  12/30/25
95. List is OK with some retardation sprinkled in.
Anal cruise ship scourge upon the earth
  12/30/25
...
drab heaven
  01/01/26
BEE over Jane austen is certainly edgy and cool of them!
Anal cruise ship scourge upon the earth
  12/30/25
>The Summa at 88
drab heaven
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Is infinite jest cr? Always assumed it was a faggot gen x fa...
high-end indirect expression gay wizard
  01/01/26
yes even though your assumption is true
trip green private investor
  01/01/26
Ok but for further evidence can you list ur favorite handful...
high-end indirect expression gay wizard
  01/01/26
DFW is a good writer but man gen x is going down as an irrel...
Anal cruise ship scourge upon the earth
  01/01/26
Lol at all the AZN shit and the Andrew Tate type shit
high-end indirect expression gay wizard
  01/01/26
93
slate nursing home really tough guy
  01/01/26


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Date: December 29th, 2025 2:52 PM
Author: Opaque vigorous market round eye

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=2Elisa#49547555)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 2:59 PM
Author: Pontificating black woman corner

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=2Elisa#49547568)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 2:59 PM
Author: 180 indian lodge mediation

#22 may surprise you

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



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Date: December 30th, 2025 10:43 AM
Author: bright fragrant trailer park

ran here - wow

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



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Date: January 1st, 2026 7:02 PM
Author: Startling Point



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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 3:01 PM
Author: Aphrodisiac bonkers meetinghouse rigor

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=2Elisa#49547574)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 3:36 PM
Author: Opaque vigorous market round eye

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=2Elisa#49547656)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:07 PM
Author: filthy toilet seat



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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:10 PM
Author: Hideous mewling principal's office tank



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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:21 PM
Author: Motley Location



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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:47 PM
Author: Opaque vigorous market round eye



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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 3:04 PM
Author: dark elite main people chapel

What a faggot, poser list of mostly shit.

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



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Date: January 1st, 2026 6:22 PM
Author: ruddy nowag



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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 3:34 PM
Author: Ocher Talented Sex Offender

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=2Elisa#49547646)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:03 PM
Author: Opaque vigorous market round eye

It was largely manga

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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:18 PM
Author: Ocher Talented Sex Offender

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=2Elisa#49548179)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:11 PM
Author: Floppy deranged tanning salon striped hyena

/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=2Elisa#49548155)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:13 PM
Author: Opaque vigorous market round eye

Storm of Steel is a 180 book though

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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:15 PM
Author: Floppy deranged tanning salon striped hyena

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=2Elisa#49548165)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:22 PM
Author: Motley Location



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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:26 PM
Author: Opaque vigorous market round eye

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=2Elisa#49548203)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:28 PM
Author: Floppy deranged tanning salon striped hyena

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=2Elisa#49548208)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:47 PM
Author: Opaque vigorous market round eye

Recommend some based 180 books

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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:18 PM
Author: Hideous mewling principal's office tank

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=2Elisa#49548177)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:19 PM
Author: Floppy deranged tanning salon striped hyena

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=2Elisa#49548184)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:23 PM
Author: Motley Location

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

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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:26 PM
Author: Hideous mewling principal's office tank

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

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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:33 PM
Author: trip green private investor

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=2Elisa#49548215)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 2:33 AM
Author: Canary Native Associate

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=2Elisa#49549208)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 4:21 PM
Author: twinkling stimulating senate kitty

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=2Elisa#49550529)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 2:03 PM
Author: bright fragrant trailer park

correct

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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:26 PM
Author: Motley Location

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

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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:31 PM
Author: tantric misunderstood hospital

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=2Elisa#49548213)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:50 PM
Author: Canary Native Associate

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=2Elisa#49548259)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:50 PM
Author: trip green private investor



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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:53 PM
Author: Floppy deranged tanning salon striped hyena

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

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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:58 PM
Author: Canary Native Associate

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=2Elisa#49548283)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:55 PM
Author: frisky sapphire national security agency

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=2Elisa#49548276)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:56 PM
Author: thriller stage mental disorder

30

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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 8:18 PM
Author: insanely creepy hell

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=2Elisa#49548372)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 10:33 PM
Author: racy wrinkle friendly grandma

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=2Elisa#49548914)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 10:47 PM
Author: Hideous mewling principal's office tank

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

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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 10:59 PM
Author: racy wrinkle friendly grandma

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=2Elisa#49548984)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 11:00 PM
Author: Hideous mewling principal's office tank

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=2Elisa#49548987)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 11:01 PM
Author: racy wrinkle friendly grandma

Same lmao

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



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Date: December 30th, 2025 2:54 AM
Author: Anal cruise ship scourge upon the earth

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=2Elisa#49549210)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 2:55 AM
Author: Aphrodisiac bonkers meetinghouse rigor

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=2Elisa#49549211)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 4:20 PM
Author: racy wrinkle friendly grandma

Si, je les ai lus tous

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



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Date: January 1st, 2026 6:31 PM
Author: high-end indirect expression gay wizard

Lol cr

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



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Date: December 30th, 2025 2:45 AM
Author: shaky piazza electric furnace

16 lol

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



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Date: December 30th, 2025 2:59 AM
Author: Anal cruise ship scourge upon the earth

95.

List is OK with some retardation sprinkled in.

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



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Date: January 1st, 2026 5:45 PM
Author: drab heaven



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



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Date: December 30th, 2025 3:08 AM
Author: Anal cruise ship scourge upon the earth

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

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



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Date: January 1st, 2026 5:48 PM
Author: drab heaven

>The Summa at 88

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



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Date: January 1st, 2026 6:14 PM
Author: high-end indirect expression gay wizard

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=2Elisa#49554916)



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Date: January 1st, 2026 6:49 PM
Author: trip green private investor

yes even though your assumption is true

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



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Date: January 1st, 2026 7:01 PM
Author: high-end indirect expression gay wizard

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

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



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Date: January 1st, 2026 6:51 PM
Author: Anal cruise ship scourge upon the earth

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=2Elisa#49555021)



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Date: January 1st, 2026 7:07 PM
Author: high-end indirect expression gay wizard

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

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



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Date: January 1st, 2026 7:08 PM
Author: slate nursing home really tough guy

93

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