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GQ declares 21 novels you dont need ro read. Spoiler alert: all by white males

https://www.gq.com/story/21-books-you-dont-have-to-read
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XO declares 1 magazine you don't have to read. Spoiler: all ...
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We burned 21 books you won't believe number 12
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startling bronze native
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balding queen of the night menage
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fluffy library
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disgusting parlor
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Motley lay french chef
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Nighttime cracking dilemma
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"Hemingway's novels—with their masculine bluster and cl...
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The guy who wrote that blurb is an IRL XO meme: Two Dads,...
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https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/932435409132384256/2mTB...
White Boltzmann
  11/03/18
JFC. What's this gay turd's moniker?
White Boltzmann
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lol just lol at 2 hemmingway novels (too masculine) and the ...
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Cordovan erotic ladyboy
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21 Books You Don’t Have to Read Books 21 Books You Don’t...
Vengeful mint sound barrier site
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Lol at the suggested next article: "21 Mixed-Race Histo...
Vengeful mint sound barrier site
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I was legit laughing out loud the whole time reading this
Exciting Corner
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I would kill a dude for dissing A Farewell to Arms in my pre...
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crawly circlehead hairy legs
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this list is outrageous
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"While Jim, the affable slave friend of Huck Finn, excl...
excitant hot field
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lmao
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While Jim, the affable slave friend of Huck Finn, exclaims t...
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"I'm convinced that the cowboy mythos, with its rigid m...
chartreuse diverse crackhouse
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almost threw my computer across the room when i read this
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fluffy library
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razzle-dazzle milky base
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Sooty Marvelous Hall Death Wish
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"I never could get into Joseph Heller's Catch-22. It fa...
Stirring Jet Stage
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why is some cunt writing for fucking GQ anyway? Like WTF are...
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The odds are zero - I haven't met a single person who's atte...
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I don't like fishing. Therefore, you should not read a book ...
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All the books on this list that I've read have been great. T...
Cordovan erotic ladyboy
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cr
Stirring Jet Stage
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(rancid Franzen trolling)
White Boltzmann
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im surprised we're not seeing more mass shootings
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Thriller Startled Legend
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heady effete cuckold
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now imagine they knew about kipling
Stirring Jet Stage
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Lol
rebellious pit faggotry
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Only one I'll agree with is the Alchemist. Catcher in the Ry...
Talented Jap
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Yea its for adolescent angst and does that well
Vengeful mint sound barrier site
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It seems to be a caricature of that though. Anyone the guy b...
Talented Jap
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overrated? ljl
crawly circlehead hairy legs
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Instead of Catcher in the Rye, you would rather read "O...
Exciting Corner
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lol jfc of course
histrionic resort quadroon
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yes, a lesbian coming of age novel must be better than the f...
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I have never been able to fathom why The Catcher in the Rye ...
Exhilarant puppy
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#metoo rape fantasies
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"it is without any literary merit whatsoever" L...
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MAYBE ANDRE ACIMAN IT'S BECAUSE YOU'RE A FUCKING FOREIGNER
Honey-headed Sexy Spot Antidepressant Drug
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"the story of a British teenage girl who is sent to a b...
Cruel-hearted medicated affirmative action nibblets
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fucking mad as hell right now that shitlibs even exist
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azure drunken windowlicker
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Crystalline cumskin stage
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hay, don't read the bible, which is, for better or worse, on...
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lol
excitant hot field
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Like chick fila, it reeks of Christian traditionalism. Both ...
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cr, kids might get weird ideas, like that human virtue is mo...
Stirring Jet Stage
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MY SEX JUNK IS SO OH OH OH MUCH MORE THAN EITHER OR OR OR
excitant hot field
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god help this republic
crawly circlehead hairy legs
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the only credited book on their alternative list is oddly Th...
crawly circlehead hairy legs
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Even more oddly, young readers that took this piece of advic...
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lmfao
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The Worst Journey in the World is 180 as well.
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"Also, William Shakespeare. I mean, really, is he even...
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Lmao
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you laugh, but give it 10 more years. 10 years ago, could a...
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http://www.xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955093&mc=7...
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*Harold Bloom in New Haven hospital screaming for the nurse ...
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Pearl point
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Harold Bloom really saw this coming from a mile away decades...
Cruel-hearted medicated affirmative action nibblets
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Yes he was sounding the alarm like 20 years ago. It was a tr...
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Bloom is probably a lib too - that just cares deeply about h...
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The winner for most audacious, retarded shitlibbery goes to:...
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I am shaking with rage right now and fully triggered. In a c...
Greedy Bawdyhouse
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not meant as a shot at op, but what kind of absolute cuck re...
Lascivious Roommate
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I got it from online twitter rage
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i figured. you are a good dood. just a general question
Lascivious Roommate
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Its a valid one. I have no clue what the target audience is ...
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(((GOOD QUESTION)))
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histrionic resort quadroon
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damn this list is like catnip to xo. it's so fine-tuned you ...
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There's always a link nowadays
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"hey, i'm a 24yo swathmore grad & 'journalist'. let...
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Sooty Marvelous Hall Death Wish
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Blood Meridian was written in the style of the Bible and Fau...
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lol TYFT
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heady effete cuckold
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"I never could get into Joseph Heller's Catch-22. It fa...
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Devastating
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well, he admitted he didn't read it
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Exciting Corner
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histrionic resort quadroon
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reading this actually elicited real anger
Flickering low-t address
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Total insanity
supple home sex offender
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CR. the only valid criticism of Catch-22 is that it spawned...
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Stimulating stubborn nursing home mexican
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"Mark Twain was a racist. Just read Adventures of Huckl...
Galvanic Gay Theater Stage
  04/20/18
this was an actual quote from this "article"? jfc
crawly circlehead hairy legs
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i had to double check. seemed too implausible but i guess i'...
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libs need to be beaten to death w baseball bats on national ...
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histrionic resort quadroon
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this is quite literally the shitlib position on virtually ev...
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http://www.xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=2570981&mc=5...
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  04/20/18
12. The Bible Instead: The Notebook Lmao
rebellious pit faggotry
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Comical sadistic stain
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just... what the fuck? a men's magazine makes a list of boo...
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THE FUTURE IS FEMALE
Cordovan erotic ladyboy
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from what I can surmise, their readership has got to be almo...
excitant hot field
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Gays LOVE toxic masculinity
Dashing Forum Party Of The First Part
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Thriller Startled Legend
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GQ is a GAY men's magazine
Exciting Corner
  04/21/18
libs, you have no idea how harshly history is going to judge...
Stimulating stubborn nursing home mexican
  04/20/18
will it though? what will cause the correction back to sanit...
crawly circlehead hairy legs
  04/20/18
history has these periods of fanatics who engage in censurin...
Stimulating stubborn nursing home mexican
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obviously this is mostly nonsense but some of the takes are ...
Concupiscible Parlour Milk
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RFTR is excellant
crawly circlehead hairy legs
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yeah i've heard it's good, but most of the other recommendat...
Concupiscible Parlour Milk
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McCarthy may be overrated - but in particular Blood Meridian...
Cruel-hearted medicated affirmative action nibblets
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utterly reprehensible kikery guy should be quite literally ...
vivacious clown preventive strike
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pretty funny to realize that the shitlib delicate feelings m...
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beady-eyed lilac telephone meetinghouse
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also: Franzen REDPILLED
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Exciting Corner
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12. The Bible Instead: The Notebook by Agota Kristof T...
Ruddy laughsome pisswyrm
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White Men Are Mad That This ‘GQ’ List Dismisses Books By W...
Stimulating stubborn nursing home mexican
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*GQ editors getting ironically redpilled when they realize Y...
excitant hot field
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you can never be lib enough.
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azure drunken windowlicker
  04/21/18
You guys do realize that the intent of articles like this is...
multi-colored senate partner
  04/20/18
eventually clickbait is going to become so tiresome that the...
Stimulating stubborn nursing home mexican
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not while XO still exists
plum appetizing area
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Just participate in the community geekbeard
dark ticket booth corn cake
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hey hey ho ho western civ has got to go! [100 years late...
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Trump said pussy - or maybe you were unaware of that genocid...
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Trip flirting church volcanic crater
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I actually love Lonesome Dove, but I'm convinced that the co...
Cruel-hearted medicated affirmative action nibblets
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MORE STORIES LIKE THIS ONE Not Every Gay Man Is DTF
Cruel-hearted medicated affirmative action nibblets
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Hey Islam, just come on in... we need it
Honey-headed Sexy Spot Antidepressant Drug
  04/21/18
down with christian bible, down with manhood, down with whit...
vivacious clown preventive strike
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updated GQ's wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GQ#Contro...
Crusty Carmine Dog Poop
  04/21/18
180
Greedy Bawdyhouse
  04/21/18
date reference is wrong
Cordovan erotic ladyboy
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12. The Bible Instead: The Notebook by Agota Kristof T...
Cocky impressive potus
  04/21/18
imagine the outcry if they had 12. The Qu'ran Instead: 50...
Cordovan erotic ladyboy
  04/21/18
Credit where it's due, Muslims don't put up with people tras...
Cocky impressive potus
  04/21/18
This just became my reading list.
Fishy arrogant location
  04/21/18
Going to strangle the next lib I see after this
Thriller Startled Legend
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Has anyone, anywhere, ever suggested that Keith Richards aut...
Crystalline cumskin stage
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Fishy arrogant location
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prob some boomers
Cordovan erotic ladyboy
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self-centered degenerate whorehouse
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How is this not just a list of Dave Eggers novels
carnelian glittery philosopher-king institution
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everyone already knows it so there's not point in writing an...
Sooty Marvelous Hall Death Wish
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carnelian glittery philosopher-king institution
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The worst crime committed by Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ...
Hairless Magenta Gay Wizard Tanning Salon
  04/21/18
As opposed to reading something that is considered an Americ...
Cocky impressive potus
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“Abolitionist propaganda” lmao tell me more about the south ...
supple home sex offender
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yeah Frederick Douglas is "abolitionist propaganda"...
Well-lubricated indian lodge
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carnelian glittery philosopher-king institution
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smoky old irish cottage brunch
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The shitlib desperately hoping for the fish in Old Man and t...
Dashing Forum Party Of The First Part
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" (When my grandpa pushed me to catch a trout at a fish...
boyish genital piercing
  04/21/18
Clipped sentences!
Greedy Bawdyhouse
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LJL: The worst crime committed by Adventures of Huckleber...
bearded market
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By" Caity Weaver, GQ writer and editor" whose top ...
Exciting Corner
  04/21/18
as usual, xo is angry only because something white and male ...
Well-lubricated indian lodge
  04/21/18
it has nothing to do with the white male thing, its the lack...
Cordovan erotic ladyboy
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Xo is going to reflexibively dislike anything that suggests ...
Well-lubricated indian lodge
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of course there wouldnt because there arent 21 books of 'wom...
Cordovan erotic ladyboy
  04/21/18
This. JFC, this is not a list of 20 random books by white ma...
Lascivious Roommate
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Comical sadistic stain
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loving traditional literature means you're a literal nazi in...
Stirring Jet Stage
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Exactly
free-loading rose round eye hospital
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Libs position is that they do have the same cultural merit a...
angry fragrant candlestick maker
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(Doesn't understand lib position)
Well-lubricated indian lodge
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enlighten us: why are the novels from the last 20 years list...
Stirring Jet Stage
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...
razzle-dazzle milky base
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Pls respond
Greedy Bawdyhouse
  04/21/18
Devastating query
angry fragrant candlestick maker
  04/21/18
setting aside whether it would be possible to write those co...
Galvanic Gay Theater Stage
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racy chad
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histrionic resort quadroon
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Lascivious Roommate
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angry fragrant candlestick maker
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Exciting Corner
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Vengeful mint sound barrier site
  04/21/18
You know what you're right, the next time a mainstream publi...
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razzle-dazzle milky base
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Did you think this would somehow influence my opinion of my ...
Well-lubricated indian lodge
  04/21/18
Why would you think the purpose of that poast was to change ...
soul-stirring church building
  04/21/18
so what was the point of his posting that? my point was tha...
Well-lubricated indian lodge
  04/21/18
You picked a poor thread to try to make this point. By any s...
Greedy Bawdyhouse
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histrionic resort quadroon
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angry fragrant candlestick maker
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shut the fuck up retard
Comical sadistic stain
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no u!
Well-lubricated indian lodge
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tbf it's a "men's magazine" also most good book...
Sooty Marvelous Hall Death Wish
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your second sentence is what everyone ITT believes and it's ...
Well-lubricated indian lodge
  04/21/18
fine but how is this an unreasonable belief in any way, shap...
Sooty Marvelous Hall Death Wish
  04/21/18
xo would be just as annoyed if they were suggesting that we ...
free-loading rose round eye hospital
  04/21/18
lmao they would not up thread someone dismisses Frederick...
Well-lubricated indian lodge
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It was
angry fragrant candlestick maker
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...
razzle-dazzle milky base
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nice flame
Well-lubricated indian lodge
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Your phone is working! Response? http://autoadmit.com/...
angry fragrant candlestick maker
  04/21/18
flame
Titillating hyperventilating dysfunction
  04/21/18
Ur running retarded flame as usual, danqa. Get a fucking rea...
Orchid juggernaut
  04/21/18
I think at least a couple of these are facetious, especially...
Dashing Forum Party Of The First Part
  04/21/18
with libs it's hard to tell nowadays
Comical sadistic stain
  04/21/18
Catch 22 is 180, but some of those books really do suck
razzle weed whacker
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No idea how anyone makes it "halfway" through Infi...
histrionic resort quadroon
  04/21/18
Including this in the canon, when you factor in the mention ...
Thriller Startled Legend
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I've read a couple of the Earthsea books, while OK they defi...
Titillating hyperventilating dysfunction
  04/21/18
It is ridiculous. Tolkien invented the fantasy genre.
Lascivious Roommate
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angry fragrant candlestick maker
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Le guin is one of the replacement authors I’ve read. She’s p...
Greedy Bawdyhouse
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It's ok more like young adult fantasy imo and not on the lev...
Titillating hyperventilating dysfunction
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jesus christ this was somehow even pozzier than i thought it...
Flickering low-t address
  04/21/18
Cr. I didnt think it was possible. Guy is flaming. Has to...
anal turdskin
  04/30/18
They say you should replace the Bible with The Notebook LMFA...
razzle weed whacker
  04/21/18
https://www.amazon.com/Notebook-English-French-Agota-Kristof...
Cerebral aquamarine double fault
  04/21/18
tbh, I thought Catcher in the Rye kind of sucked
maroon azn
  04/21/18
It was 180 when I was 15. Pretty shit when I was 30, but sti...
histrionic resort quadroon
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Catcher in the Rye and The Alchemist are both crap, and Hemi...
hilarious house
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What Hemingway have you read? I couldn't get into The Sun Al...
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And 21 you should read instead (technically 20 books—Adventures of Huckleberry Finn did not fare well).

We've been told all our lives that we can only call ourselves well-read once we've read the Great Books. We tried. We got halfway through Infinite Jest and halfway through the SparkNotes on Finnegans Wake. But a few pages into Bleak House, we realized that not all the Great Books have aged well. Some are racist and some are sexist, but most are just really, really boring. So we—and a group of un-boring writers—give you permission to strike these books from the canon. Here's what you should read instead.

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1. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

Instead: The Mountain Lion by Jean Stafford

I actually love Lonesome Dove, but I'm convinced that the cowboy mythos, with its rigid masculine emotional landscape, glorification of guns and destruction, and misogynistic gender roles, is a major factor in the degradation of America. Rather than perpetuate this myth, I'd love for everyone, but particularly American men, to read The Mountain Lion by Jean Stafford. It's a wicked, brilliant, dark book set largely on a ranch in Colorado, but it acts in many ways as a strong rebuttal to all the old toxic western stereotypes we all need to explode. —Lauren Groff, 'Florida'

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2. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

Instead: Olivia: A Novel by Dorothy Strachey

I have never been able to fathom why The Catcher in the Rye is such a canonical novel. I read it because everyone else in school was reading it but thought it was totally silly. Now, looking back, I find that it is without any literary merit whatsoever. Why waste adolescents' time? Alternatively, I'd suggest Olivia, the story of a British teenage girl who is sent to a boarding school in France. It is short and written in a kind of levelheaded and deceptively straightforward style. Olivia eventually falls in love with her teacher Mademoiselle Julie T, who in turn, and without reciprocating that love out loud, is equally in love with Olivia. Julie never takes a wrong step, but there are signs for those who know how to read them. I read Olivia many, many times, bought it for many of my friends, and consider it the inspiration for Call Me by Your Name. —André Aciman, 'Call Me by Your Name'

3. Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves

Instead: Dispatches by Michael Herr

Goodbye to All That, the autobiographical account of Graves's time in the trenches during World War I, is entertaining and enlightening. It's also incredibly racist. Graves includes samples of near unintelligible essays produced by three of his students (“Mahmoud Mohammed Mahmoud,” “Mohammed Mahmoud Mohammed,” and “Mahmoud Mahmoud Mohammed”) from his postwar stint as an English instructor in Cairo. The joke is twofold—all these silly natives have similar-sounding names, and they lack the basic intellectual capacity to grapple with the literature. A better option is Dispatches by Michael Herr. It concerns a different time, country, and war, but this is still, in my mind, the most indispensable personal account of the cruelty and violence of modern warfare. —Omar El Akkad, 'American War'

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4. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

Instead: The Summer Book by Tove Jansson

My father loved The Old Man and the Sea, so I tried to love it. It left me unmoved. Mostly, I kept hoping the fish would get away without too much damage. (When my grandpa pushed me to catch a trout at a fish farm, I threw the rod into the pond.) I'd rather read Tove Jansson's The Summer Book. This series of vignettes about a grandmother and granddaughter living on a remote Finnish island is not just heartwarming: In its views of both Nature and human nature, it teaches us what it is to be in sync with the world. All of Jansson's adult fiction is deeply humane and beautiful. —Jeff VanderMeer, 'Annihilation'

5. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Instead: Near to the Wild Heart by Clarice Lispector

Somehow, even at 208 pages, The Alchemist is 207 pages too long. A dude wanders the desert, trying to uncover his Personal Legend (capitalized as such throughout the book) while meeting people who speak in the inane aphorisms of a throw pillow: “Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.” If you're after a book of existential meandering by a Brazilian author, pick up the similarly slim Near to the Wild Heart by Clarice Lispector. Unlike the entitled desert wandering of The Alchemist, Wild Heart's contemplations are inward and complex. For Lispector, there aren't easy answers—and her universe sure as hell is not interested in your hopes and dreams. —Kevin Nguyen, GQ senior editor

6. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

Instead: The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard

Hemingway's novels—with their masculine bluster and clipped sentences—sometimes feel almost parodic to me. If you want to read about the intersection of love and war, Hemingway's subjects in A Farewell to Arms, consider Shirley Hazzard's The Great Fire, about the fallout of the Second World War. Though it was published in 2003, the book feels both contemporaneous with that period and wholly contemporary. Hazzard just writes so damn well, every sentence a gem.

—Rumaan Alam, 'That Kind of Mother'

7. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy

Instead: The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt

I'm a great admirer of Cormac McCarthy's sparer masterpieces, but I'm ambivalent about Blood Meridian, the historical epic often cited as his greatest work. Set in the Old West and written in an impenetrable style that combines Faulkner and the King James Bible, Blood Meridian is a big, forbidding book that earns the reader bragging rights but provides scant pleasure. If you're looking for a more human-scaled, emotionally engaging novel set in the same time period, I'd recommend The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt. It's a dark, funny, brutal Western about a pair of hired killers, at least one of whom has a conscience. It covers some of the same ground as Blood Meridian and has a lot more fun along the way. —Tom Perrotta, 'Mrs. Fletcher'

8. John Adams by David McCullough

Instead: Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard

David McCullough is one of our foremost historians, and his books are written with great care and impressive attention to detail. They also happen to be the driest, boringest tomes you'll ever sludge through. One time I read his book about the history of the Panama Canal, and it required about as much sweat and labor as it took to build the actual canal. For some kick-ass history, read Destiny of the Republic, about the assassination of President Garfield, the doctors who tried to save him but actually ended up killing him, and the frantic attempt by a deranged Alexander Graham Bell to invent a machine to find the bullet located in the president's body. All in a relatively tidy 339 pages. At no point will you feel like there's a test at the end. —Drew Magary, GQ contributor

9 & 10. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Instead: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Fredrick Douglass

The worst crime committed by Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is that it makes first-time Twain readers think Twain wrote tedious, meandering stories. He did, as is evidenced by this, his book of tedious, meandering stories—but he also wrote a lot of richly entertaining meandering stories that are not constrained by the ham-fisted narration of a fictional backcountry child or suffused with his sweaty imitation of a slave talking. Alternatively, read Frederick Douglass's firsthand account of slavery, which is equal parts shocking and heartbreaking. It's also an invigorating revenge story: Douglass identifies slave owners by name and hometown, detailing their crimes with such specificity that their descendants will be embarrassed forever. While Jim, the affable slave friend of Huck Finn, exclaims things like “Lawsy, I's mighty glad…,” Frederick Douglass makes observations like “I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ: I therefore hate the corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of this land.” You were saying, Mr. Twain? —Caity Weaver, GQ writer and editor

Instead: The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll by Alvaro Mutis

Mark Twain was a racist. Just read Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. He was a man of his time, so let's leave him there. We don't need him. If you want adventure, or misadventure, read The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll, by Alvaro Mutis. It's one of my favorite books: sad, poetic, philosophical, and funny, with some of the best writing I've read. —Tommy Orange, 'There There'

11. The Ambassadors by Henry James

Instead: The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer

Several people described The Ambassadors by Henry James in such a way as to make me impatient to read it, but between those descriptions and my experience of the book lay a chasm of such yawningness that it will never be crossed. Alternatively, I recommend The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer. I suspect that contemporary readers feel no great urge to pick it up because—in a way that doesn't happen with fiction—it has been rendered somewhat obsolete by more recent books on the subject. It's actually still as gripping as any literary classic. —Geoff Dyer, 'White Sands'

12. The Bible

Instead: The Notebook by Agota Kristof

The Holy Bible is rated very highly by all the people who supposedly live by it but who in actuality have not read it. Those who have read it know there are some good parts, but overall it is certainly not the finest thing that man has ever produced. It is repetitive, self-contradictory, sententious, foolish, and even at times ill-intentioned. If the thing you heard was good about the Bible was the nasty bits, then I propose Agota Kristof's The Notebook, a marvelous tale of two brothers who have to get along when things get rough. The subtlety and cruelty of this story is like that famous sword stroke (from below the boat) that plunged upward through the bowels, the lungs, and the throat and into the brain of the rower. —Jesse Ball, 'Census'

13. Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger

Instead: Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather

I loved all of Salinger's books when I was young, but now I feel that they're shallow. It's not that Salinger isn't a very accomplished writer, but there's a sort of slick, brittle, midcentury veneer to his work. It's very polished and not very profound. With Franny and Zooey, there's some Buddhist-y stuff in there, and there's stuff about being disenchanted and the real world around you seeming fake, but is that really profound? Instead I'd recommend a hidden gem, Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop. Cather is a beautiful writer. She's very unfashionable, and I love that about her. Death Comes for the Archbishop is about a priest in what I'm pretty sure is Santa Fe. And it's incredibly calm and contemplative and open. It's the opposite of the kind of glossy, slick New York narrative. When you read it, it's like having a spiritual experience. It's not too long, and it's not effortful. —Claire Messud, 'The Burning Girl'

14. The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien

Instead: Earthsea Series by Ursula K. Le Guin

I liked The Hobbit. A lot. But while Tolkien's Lord of the Rings books are influential as exercises in world building, as novels they are barely readable. It never seemed to me that Tolkien cared about his story as much as he cared about rendering, in minute detail, the world he built. Why not instead read Ursula K. Le Guin's magnificent (and as beautifully rendered) stories and novels surrounding Earthsea? Le Guin captures the world of Earthsea through a powerful, dark, gorgeous kind of storytelling that is irresistible. Perhaps Le Guin's work—along with an entire universe of fantasy fiction—wouldn't have been possible without Tolkien's influence behind it, but in its time, Le Guin's books are more influential and make for better reading. —Manuel Gonzales, 'The Regional Office Is Under Attack!'

15. Dracula by Bram Stoker

Instead: Angels by Denis Johnson

Gothic-horror classics like Dracula and Frankenstein always leave me cold. If you want to read a truly terrifying literary gem, try Johnson's Angels. It unspools as a sort of nightmare that begins on a Greyhound bus. Poor Jamie grew up in West Virginia and leaves her abusive husband back in their trailer when she runs off with her two small children. On that fateful Greyhound bus she meets Bill Houston, who's done everything bad except kill someone, although by the end of the book he will have done it all. —Matthew Klam, 'Who Is Rich?'

16. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Instead: The American Granddaughter by Inaam Kachachi

I never could get into Joseph Heller's Catch-22. It fails to capture the absurdities and impossible conflicts of war. However, one of the most arresting novels I've read about war is Kachachi's The American Granddaughter. Set at the beginning of the Iraq war, this book tells the story of Zeina, an Iraqi-American who signs up to be an interpreter for the U.S. Army and finds herself stationed in her hometown of Baghdad, where she must hide her work from her formidable grandmother. What follows is a thoughtful, nuanced, and often uproariously funny meditation on war in the 21st century. —Emily Robbins, 'A Word for Love'

17. Life by Keith Richards

Instead: The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard

I've nodded along—or maybe plain lied in agreement—when people extol Keith Richards's memoir, Life. Richards's cockiness and conceit about the wrong things jars; it's a book that somehow makes me sympathize with Mick Jagger. I'd rather read The Worst Journey in the World, a memoir in which the author spends no time at all trying to convince the reader of his own greatness. Quite the opposite. In 1910, a 24-year-old Cherry-Garrard joined a British expedition to the South Pole. As the title of his book hints, it didn't go well. Their leader, Captain Scott, was beaten to the Pole by a Norwegian explorer, and those who reached the Pole died on their return. Keith Richards suddenly looks very petty. —Chris Heath, GQ correspondent

18. Freedom by Jonathan Franzen

Instead: Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal

Freedom is intolerably boring. The risks of frustration and asphyxiation while reading in bed are equally high with this huge, much vaunted American über-tome. But freedom is at the heart of this tiny Czech novel, Too Loud a Solitude. In around a hundred pages, it tells the story of Hanta, who has found wisdom in his job, compressing paper and books in a totalitarian state. The jokes are funny, and the stories lead us to ever richer revelations. The book is over almost before it has begun. —Richard Flanagan, 'The Narrow Road to the Deep North'

19. Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

Instead: Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon

When young Thomas Pynchon was writing Gravity's Rainbow, he was fixated on the Big Things (punishingly boring and confusing things) of a Big World War II Novel that would announce him as a Big American Writer in 1973. Fortunately for us, nearly four decades later he brought us his recollections of everything else that was swirling around him back then. The world Pynchon conjures in Inherent Vice (published in 2009) is the world he himself was living in while writing Gravity's Rainbow, when he was shacked up in a small apartment in the real-life Gordita Beach. Inherent Vice is where you should start if you want to dine on a small plate of Pynchon's stuff instead of a potluck platter. —Daniel Riley, GQ features editor

20. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

Instead: Veronica by Mary Gaitskill

When men on dating apps list a book, they invariably list Slaughterhouse-Five. I'd rather not get a drink with a person who's taking his cues from Vonnegut: The few women in Slaughterhouse-Five die early, are porn stars, or are “bitchy flibbertigibbets.” Instead, read Gaitskill's Veronica, in which emotions are so present and sensory they almost hold a physical weight. Gaitskill understands how you can sense a loved one's mood radiating from the next room as clearly as rain out the window. This empathy drives her characters closer to cruelty than to kindness. —Nadja Spiegelman, 'I'm Supposed to Protect You from All This'

21. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift

Instead: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

Why Swift's dreary satire is routinely inflicted on high school English classes is a mystery to me. Tristram Shandy at least has the virtue of occasionally being funny. It's also deeply weird: postmodern 200 years before postmodernism, with a deeply unreliable narrator, typographic trickery (a death early in the book is followed by a solid-black page), and a list of character names that would make Pynchon jealous (Dr. Slop, Billy Le Fever, and a certain Hafen Slawkenbergius). It is an important achievement in the history of the novel, a reminder that literature is an ongoing experiment—which means you should treat it like Don Quixote and read the first half before calling it a day. One can admire the pyramids without feeling the need to scale them. —Christopher Cox, GQ executive editor

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Lol at the suggested next article: "21 Mixed-Race Historical Figures You Thought Were White". Not a big "conspiracy theory" guy but odd case.

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I was legit laughing out loud the whole time reading this

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Date: April 20th, 2018 10:42 PM
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I would kill a dude for dissing A Farewell to Arms in my presence. Like legit murder.

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Date: April 20th, 2018 10:44 PM
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"While Jim, the affable slave friend of Huck Finn, exclaims things like “Lawsy, I's mighty glad…,” Frederick Douglass makes observations like..."

You trying to tell me a lot of slaves DIDN'T actually talk EXACTLY like that? Okay, bro

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While Jim, the affable slave friend of Huck Finn, exclaims things like “Lawsy, I's mighty glad…,” Frederick Douglass makes observations like “I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ: I therefore hate the corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of this land.” You were saying, Mr. Twain?

Ohhhhhhh! She got Twain good! These people are literally delusional - she's implying that just because the book didn't focus on the horrors of slavery that Twain is denying those horrors existed.....

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"I'm convinced that the cowboy mythos, with its rigid masculine emotional landscape, glorification of guns and destruction, and misogynistic gender roles, is a major factor in the degradation of America."

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Date: April 20th, 2018 11:09 PM
Author: razzle-dazzle milky base



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886175)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 8:00 AM
Author: bat-shit-crazy plaza



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35887280)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 8:53 AM
Author: Thriller Startled Legend



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35887390)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 1:36 PM
Author: Sooty Marvelous Hall Death Wish



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35888771)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 10:44 PM
Author: Stirring Jet Stage

"I never could get into Joseph Heller's Catch-22. It fails to capture the absurdities and impossible conflicts of war. However, one of the most arresting novels I've read about war is Kachachi's The American Granddaughter. Set at the beginning of the Iraq war, this book tells the story of Zeina, an Iraqi-American who signs up to be an interpreter for the U.S. Army and finds herself stationed in her hometown of Baghdad, where she must hide her work from her formidable grandmother. What follows is a thoughtful, nuanced, and often uproariously funny meditation on war in the 21st century."

she didn't 'get' catch 22. it is an over the top novel that beats you over the head with absurdism, how the fuck do you fail to understand it? also what are the odds the shitlib book she recommends is even a quarter as "funny" as catch 22?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886029)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 1:55 AM
Author: Honey-headed Sexy Spot Antidepressant Drug

why is some cunt writing for fucking GQ anyway? Like WTF are they even thinking???

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886799)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 2:21 AM
Author: Cruel-hearted medicated affirmative action nibblets

The odds are zero - I haven't met a single person who's attempted Catch 22 who didn't find it belly-laugh inducing hilarious.

But I'm sure the "story of Zeina, an Iraqi-American who signs up to be an interpreter for the U.S. Army and finds herself stationed in her hometown of Baghdad, where she must hide her work from her formidable grandmother" is a riot.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886865)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 12:49 PM
Author: Purple Deranged Hell Deer Antler



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35888479)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 10:45 PM
Author: dark ticket booth corn cake

I don't like fishing. Therefore, you should not read a book that using fishing as a metaphor.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886038)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 10:46 PM
Author: Cordovan erotic ladyboy

All the books on this list that I've read have been great. Think I'll read the rest. Ty

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886043)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 10:48 PM
Author: Stirring Jet Stage

cr

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886050)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 11:33 PM
Author: White Boltzmann

(rancid Franzen trolling)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886299)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 10:47 PM
Author: azure drunken windowlicker

im surprised we're not seeing more mass shootings

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886049)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 10:49 PM
Author: Comical sadistic stain



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886056)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 10:50 PM
Author: crawly circlehead hairy legs



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886064)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 11:16 PM
Author: beady-eyed lilac telephone meetinghouse



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886216)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 8:53 AM
Author: Thriller Startled Legend



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35887389)



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Date: April 22nd, 2018 12:46 AM
Author: heady effete cuckold



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35892106)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 10:48 PM
Author: Stirring Jet Stage

now imagine they knew about kipling

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886053)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 11:24 PM
Author: rebellious pit faggotry

Lol

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886266)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 10:48 PM
Author: Talented Jap

Only one I'll agree with is the Alchemist. Catcher in the Rye is overrated a fuck but hardly classifies as a book you *shouldn't* read.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886055)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 10:49 PM
Author: Vengeful mint sound barrier site

Yea its for adolescent angst and does that well

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886057)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 11:06 PM
Author: Talented Jap

It seems to be a caricature of that though. Anyone the guy below me loves it so clearly there is plenty of merit for it not to be on the list.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886163)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 10:52 PM
Author: crawly circlehead hairy legs

overrated? ljl

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886074)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 10:19 AM
Author: Exciting Corner

Instead of Catcher in the Rye, you would rather read "Olivia, the story of a British teenage girl who is sent to a boarding school in France. . . and eventually falls in love with her teacher Mademoiselle Julie T, who in turn, and without reciprocating that love out loud, is equally in love with Olivia."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35887679)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 11:23 AM
Author: histrionic resort quadroon

lol jfc of course

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35887984)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 4:15 PM
Author: hilarious house

yes, a lesbian coming of age novel must be better than the faggy adolescent incel blather of catcher in the rye.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35889650)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 10:49 PM
Author: Exhilarant puppy

I have never been able to fathom why The Catcher in the Rye is such a canonical novel. I read it because everyone else in school was reading it but thought it was totally silly. Now, looking back, I find that it is without any literary merit whatsoever. Why waste adolescents' time? Alternatively, I'd suggest Olivia, the story of a British teenage girl who is sent to a boarding school in France. It is short and written in a kind of levelheaded and deceptively straightforward style. Olivia eventually falls in love with her teacher Mademoiselle Julie T, who in turn, and without reciprocating that love out loud, is equally in love with Olivia. Julie never takes a wrong step, but there are signs for those who know how to read them. I read Olivia many, many times, bought it for many of my friends, and consider it the inspiration for Call Me by Your Name. —André Aciman, 'Call Me by Your Name'

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damn, that's like my 2nd fav book. salinger is 180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886058)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 10:54 PM
Author: Coiffed mildly autistic fortuitous meteor stag film

#metoo rape fantasies

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886091)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 10:57 PM
Author: dark ticket booth corn cake

"it is without any literary merit whatsoever"

Lol oh what a critic. Wad this written in an airplane lounge on a 20 minute deadline?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886111)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 1:56 AM
Author: Honey-headed Sexy Spot Antidepressant Drug

MAYBE ANDRE ACIMAN IT'S BECAUSE YOU'RE A FUCKING FOREIGNER

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886802)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 2:25 AM
Author: Cruel-hearted medicated affirmative action nibblets

"the story of a British teenage girl who is sent to a boarding school in France"

Andre - you're gay we get it. His parents owned a knitting factory and I'm sure he knitted while reading Olivia, the story of a British teenage girl who is sent to boarding school in France, multiple times over. While knitting and fantasizing about being a British teenage girl.

"Aciman was born in Alexandria, Egypt, the son of Regine and Henri N. Aciman, who owned a knitting factory.[12][13][14] His mother was deaf.[15] Aciman was raised in a French-speaking home where family members also spoke Italian, Greek, Ladino, and Arabic.[7]

His parents were Sephardic Jews, of Turkish and Italian origin, from families that had settled in Alexandria in 1905" - odd case

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886876)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 10:52 PM
Author: Comical sadistic stain

fucking mad as hell right now that shitlibs even exist

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886075)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 10:55 PM
Author: azure drunken windowlicker



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886101)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 8:19 AM
Author: Crystalline cumskin stage



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35887308)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 10:53 PM
Author: Coiffed mildly autistic fortuitous meteor stag film

hay, don't read the bible, which is, for better or worse, one of the key texts of all of western civilization

ignore all of that shit and focus on a marvelous tale of two brothers who have to get along when things get rough

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886077)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 10:54 PM
Author: excitant hot field

lol

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886086)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 10:55 PM
Author: Vengeful mint sound barrier site

Like chick fila, it reeks of Christian traditionalism. Both are too be avoided.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886093)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 10:56 PM
Author: Stirring Jet Stage

cr, kids might get weird ideas, like that human virtue is more important than your gender identification

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886103)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 10:56 PM
Author: excitant hot field

MY SEX JUNK IS SO OH OH OH

MUCH MORE THAN EITHER OR OR OR

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886107)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 10:53 PM
Author: crawly circlehead hairy legs

god help this republic

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886081)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 10:56 PM
Author: crawly circlehead hairy legs

the only credited book on their alternative list is oddly The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886105)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 10:57 PM
Author: Vengeful mint sound barrier site

Even more oddly, young readers that took this piece of advice might begin to see this whole list with new eyes

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886110)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 10:59 PM
Author: Comical sadistic stain

lmfao

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886117)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 11:04 PM
Author: Swashbuckling step-uncle's house half-breed



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886145)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 11:12 PM
Author: balding queen of the night menage



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886195)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 11:17 PM
Author: carnelian glittery philosopher-king institution



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886227)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 1:56 AM
Author: Honey-headed Sexy Spot Antidepressant Drug



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886803)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 11:24 AM
Author: histrionic resort quadroon



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35887993)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 1:36 PM
Author: Sooty Marvelous Hall Death Wish



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35888777)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 1:38 AM
Author: Electric Deep Center

The Worst Journey in the World is 180 as well.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886773)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 11:00 PM
Author: Exhilarant puppy

"Also, William Shakespeare. I mean, really, is he even that good? Zoya Jackson's play, 'the african whore,' follows in similar line to 'the merchant of venice,' and, quite frankly, is superior in its characters, plot, and dialogue. I remember reading Shakespeare in school and thinking 'wow, i'd rather be smoking weed,' but with Zoya's recent rendition, I find myself thinking, 'wow, i'd like to see this play in the theatre, and i'd like Zoya's autograph as well because she's amazing!"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886121)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 11:01 PM
Author: Comical sadistic stain



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886123)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 11:17 PM
Author: Stirring Jet Stage



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886221)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 11:17 PM
Author: razzle-dazzle milky base



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886223)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 12:46 PM
Author: supple home sex offender



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35888460)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 11:22 PM
Author: bat shit crazy hideous set haunted graveyard

Lmao

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886249)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 12:40 AM
Author: vivacious clown preventive strike

you laugh, but give it 10 more years.

10 years ago, could anyone imagine the ABOVE list? or that libs would SERIOUSLY be calling for the razing of George Washington statues?

this is the propaganda game they play. it's a jewish plot to *keep the pressure on*, incrementally, relentlessly moving us further afield into looney land, never letting you re-establish your bearings.

see: Cass Sunstein's 'Nudge' concept.

ABN = Alway Be Nudging.

this is how (((they))) operate. NUDGE, NUDGE, NUDGE.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886575)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 8:04 AM
Author: bat-shit-crazy plaza



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35887290)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 8:43 PM
Author: Underhanded spectacular famous landscape painting

http://www.xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955093&mc=7&forum_id=2

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35890913)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 1:05 AM
Author: Costumed Tan Shrine Dingle Berry



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886659)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 1:58 AM
Author: slimy hominid theatre



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886807)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 2:26 AM
Author: Cruel-hearted medicated affirmative action nibblets



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886881)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 12:52 PM
Author: Titillating hyperventilating dysfunction



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35888491)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 11:02 PM
Author: Vengeful mint sound barrier site

*Harold Bloom in New Haven hospital screaming for the nurse to pull the plug*

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886135)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 11:06 PM
Author: Greedy Bawdyhouse



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886157)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 11:06 PM
Author: Comical sadistic stain



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886160)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 11:18 PM
Author: carnelian glittery philosopher-king institution



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886229)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 11:26 PM
Author: Pearl point



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886274)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 2:16 AM
Author: plum appetizing area



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886852)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 2:26 AM
Author: Cruel-hearted medicated affirmative action nibblets



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886882)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 2:27 AM
Author: Cruel-hearted medicated affirmative action nibblets

Harold Bloom really saw this coming from a mile away decades earlier didn't he?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886886)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 2:30 AM
Author: Vengeful mint sound barrier site

Yes he was sounding the alarm like 20 years ago. It was a truly a top down movement

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886893)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 4:02 AM
Author: Cruel-hearted medicated affirmative action nibblets

Bloom is probably a lib too - that just cares deeply about his field and the incredible canonical literature that's getting shat on by the postmodern marxist feminists taking over these departments.

He saw it coming 20 years ago - and this lit battle is a microcosm for the shitlib culture wars (although the lit battle has serious cultural consequences).

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35887021)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 8:18 AM
Author: Thriller Startled Legend



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35887306)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 8:34 AM
Author: slimy hominid theatre



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35887348)



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Date: April 30th, 2018 4:12 AM
Author: bossy aggressive ape



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35948427)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 11:03 PM
Author: Swashbuckling step-uncle's house half-breed

The winner for most audacious, retarded shitlibbery goes to:

If the thing you heard was good about the Bible was the nasty bits, then I propose Agota Kristof's The Notebook, a marvelous tale of two brothers who have to get along when things get rough.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886139)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 10:38 AM
Author: Big embarrassed to the bone casino boiling water



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35887758)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 11:03 PM
Author: Greedy Bawdyhouse

I am shaking with rage right now and fully triggered. In a civilized society someone who recommended that you not read those books would be beaten and shunned by all decent people.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886140)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 11:04 PM
Author: Lascivious Roommate

not meant as a shot at op, but what kind of absolute cuck reads GQ?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886144)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 11:05 PM
Author: Vengeful mint sound barrier site

I got it from online twitter rage

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886151)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 11:06 PM
Author: Lascivious Roommate

i figured. you are a good dood. just a general question

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886159)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 11:09 PM
Author: Vengeful mint sound barrier site

Its a valid one. I have no clue what the target audience is here. It certainly seems whatever it is, every magazine and media is after it exclusively

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886174)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 11:19 PM
Author: razzle-dazzle milky base



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886239)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 8:20 AM
Author: plum appetizing area

(((GOOD QUESTION)))

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35887310)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 8:29 AM
Author: Crystalline cumskin stage



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35887335)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 11:25 AM
Author: histrionic resort quadroon



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35887998)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 11:04 PM
Author: Cerebral aquamarine double fault

damn this list is like catnip to xo. it's so fine-tuned you almost have to wonder if it's a troll. then you realize it's not.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886150)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 11:11 PM
Author: bat shit crazy hideous set haunted graveyard

There's always a link nowadays

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886191)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 11:26 AM
Author: histrionic resort quadroon



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35888000)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 11:06 PM
Author: Kink-friendly depressive

"hey, i'm a 24yo swathmore grad & 'journalist'. let me give the real scoop on the western canon."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886156)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 11:17 PM
Author: beady-eyed lilac telephone meetinghouse



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886226)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 11:32 PM
Author: Stimulating stubborn nursing home mexican



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886296)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 4:08 AM
Author: Cruel-hearted medicated affirmative action nibblets



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35887034)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 11:38 AM
Author: Sooty Marvelous Hall Death Wish



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35888078)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 11:06 PM
Author: Swashbuckling step-uncle's house half-breed

Blood Meridian was written in the style of the Bible and Faulkner. SKIP IT

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886162)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 7:51 AM
Author: floppy kitchen mood

lol TYFT

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35887263)



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Date: April 22nd, 2018 12:46 AM
Author: heady effete cuckold



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35892103)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 11:15 PM
Author: disturbing really tough guy generalized bond

"I never could get into Joseph Heller's Catch-22. It fails to capture the absurdities and impossible conflicts of war."

The book literally introduced a phrase to the modern lexicon that captures absurd, impossible conflicts.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886215)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 11:19 PM
Author: Cerebral aquamarine double fault



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886237)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 1:47 AM
Author: Violent federal den pozpig

Devastating

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886783)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 4:08 AM
Author: Cruel-hearted medicated affirmative action nibblets



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35887035)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 8:02 AM
Author: plum appetizing area

well, he admitted he didn't read it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35887283)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 9:28 AM
Author: racy chad



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35887494)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 10:26 AM
Author: Exciting Corner



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35887706)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 11:26 AM
Author: histrionic resort quadroon



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35888004)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 12:32 PM
Author: Flickering low-t address

reading this actually elicited real anger

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35888387)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 1:25 PM
Author: supple home sex offender

Total insanity

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35888666)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 4:16 PM
Author: hilarious house

CR. the only valid criticism of Catch-22 is that it spawned a sequel that sucked in comparison.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35889658)



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Date: April 30th, 2018 1:02 AM
Author: Stimulating stubborn nursing home mexican



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35948153)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 11:19 PM
Author: Galvanic Gay Theater Stage

"Mark Twain was a racist. Just read Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. He was a man of his time, so let's leave him there. We don't need him."

LMFAO

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886236)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 11:21 PM
Author: crawly circlehead hairy legs

this was an actual quote from this "article"? jfc

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886243)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 11:22 PM
Author: Comical sadistic stain

i had to double check. seemed too implausible but i guess i'm just too optimistic

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886246)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 11:21 PM
Author: Comical sadistic stain

libs need to be beaten to death w baseball bats on national tv

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886244)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 11:23 PM
Author: bat shit crazy hideous set haunted graveyard



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886258)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 1:08 AM
Author: Costumed Tan Shrine Dingle Berry



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886669)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 11:26 AM
Author: histrionic resort quadroon



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35888007)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 11:23 PM
Author: excitant hot field

this is quite literally the shitlib position on virtually every single white male historical figure prior to the middle of the 20th century. Even if they themselves never displayed any actual racist/misogynist/homophobic/whatthefuckever sentiments, they were "men of their time", and since women and blacks couldn't vote, gays couldn't get married, etc. etc. ad nauseam, they are not worth revering.

They seriously want kids to have zero white male historical role models

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886254)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 11:50 PM
Author: mustard bateful box office

http://www.xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=2570981&mc=52&forum_id=2

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886386)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 11:25 PM
Author: rebellious pit faggotry

12. The Bible

Instead: The Notebook

Lmao

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886267)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 11:27 PM
Author: Comical sadistic stain



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886275)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 11:30 PM
Author: vivacious clown preventive strike

just... what the fuck?

a men's magazine makes a list of books that are 'bad' because they are too 'masculine'?

i'm just... at a loss at this point. where are we going here? we are now committed to the premise that men should be *less* male? and women are all BADASSES?

has anyone stopped to note the reasoning behind any of this?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886287)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 11:34 PM
Author: Cordovan erotic ladyboy

THE FUTURE IS FEMALE

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886304)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 11:35 PM
Author: excitant hot field

from what I can surmise, their readership has got to be almost exclusively flamboyant gays, so they probably love the "toxic masculinity" flame

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886317)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 10:10 AM
Author: Dashing Forum Party Of The First Part

Gays LOVE toxic masculinity

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35887635)



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Date: April 22nd, 2018 12:35 AM
Author: Thriller Startled Legend



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35892031)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 10:27 AM
Author: Exciting Corner

GQ is a GAY men's magazine

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35887710)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 11:30 PM
Author: Stimulating stubborn nursing home mexican

libs, you have no idea how harshly history is going to judge you as race-obsessed moral-panic-having puritans.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886289)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 11:46 PM
Author: crawly circlehead hairy legs

will it though? what will cause the correction back to sanity? if it stays on course, won't future historians just be shitlibs who approve of this behavior?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886371)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 11:51 PM
Author: Stimulating stubborn nursing home mexican

history has these periods of fanatics who engage in censuring art and trying to bend reality to their ideology, but they always end up losing.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886388)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 11:33 PM
Author: Concupiscible Parlour Milk

obviously this is mostly nonsense but some of the takes are correct; The Alchemist sucks, 'Freedom' sucks, 'Inherent Vice' is better than 'Gravity's Rainbow' and Blood Meridian is massively overrated (and so is McCarthy in general).

I am a little confused as to why Geoff Dyer thinks "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" is at all a substitute for "The Ambassadors". Is he a Boomer old? "Literary fiction is boring, let's read this Rommel biography!"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886298)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 11:48 PM
Author: crawly circlehead hairy legs

RFTR is excellant

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886381)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 12:24 AM
Author: Concupiscible Parlour Milk

yeah i've heard it's good, but most of the other recommendations are supposedly substitutes for what they're replacing. RFTR and the ambassadors are not really even the same medium. It'd be like recommending an errol doc in a conversation about HBO serials.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886531)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 4:07 AM
Author: Cruel-hearted medicated affirmative action nibblets

McCarthy may be overrated - but in particular Blood Meridian is a masterpiece so large that it eclipses its writer entirely - IMHO it deserves every bit of praise it receives.

We all know the alchemist sucks, Freedom I thought was okay. Rise and Fall of the Third Reich is a great book and not a Rommel biography.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35887032)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 11:33 PM
Author: vivacious clown preventive strike

utterly reprehensible kikery

guy should be quite literally garroted

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886300)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 11:40 PM
Author: Stimulating stubborn nursing home mexican

pretty funny to realize that the shitlib delicate feelings moral panic virus has infected things like one half of the Man Show, Star Wars, and GQ. never would have thought of these things as feminist postmodern touchstones.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886348)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 12:19 PM
Author: beady-eyed lilac telephone meetinghouse



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35888327)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 11:40 PM
Author: Stimulating stubborn nursing home mexican

also: Franzen REDPILLED

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886351)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 10:25 AM
Author: Exciting Corner



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35887704)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 11:42 PM
Author: Ruddy laughsome pisswyrm

12. The Bible

Instead: The Notebook by Agota Kristof

The Holy Bible is rated very highly by all the people who supposedly live by it but who in actuality have not read it. Those who have read it know there are some good parts, but overall it is certainly not the finest thing that man has ever produced. It is repetitive, self-contradictory, sententious, foolish, and even at times ill-intentioned. If the thing you heard was good about the Bible was the nasty bits, then I propose Agota Kristof's The Notebook, a marvelous tale of two brothers who have to get along when things get rough. The subtlety and cruelty of this story is like that famous sword stroke (from below the boat) that plunged upward through the bowels, the lungs, and the throat and into the brain of the rower. —Jesse Ball, 'Census'

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886357)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 11:47 PM
Author: Stimulating stubborn nursing home mexican

White Men Are Mad That This ‘GQ’ List Dismisses Books By White Men

BY TAYLOR BRYANT · APRIL 20, 2018

White Men Are Mad That This ‘GQ’ List Dismisses Books By White Men

Yesterday, GQ published an article titled “21 Books You Don’t Have To Read.” In it, the editors, along with many acclaimed authors, compiled a list of works they think are overrated and should be, if not struck from the canon, at least passed over in favor of other often overlooked, but excellent works.

Now, because some of the books GQ insists "you don't have to read" include Catcher in the Rye, The Alchemist, A Farewell to Arms, The Lord of the Rings, and Catch-22, and those books are very near and dear to many, some controversy was bound to ensue. But because all 21 of those books were written by men, and overwhelmingly white men at that, the controversy was particularly whiny, because, well: white men. They like to whine.

Not going to link to this GQ piece about 21 classic books you can skip (here's a suggestion: READ THEM), but I am going to gently suggest that the person who wrote this sentence not write about books again. Ever, please. pic.twitter.com/7zZJE0Wzn0

— Mark Harris (@MarkHarrisNYC) April 20, 2018

The whole point of GQ magazine was supposed to be to help guys become more like Hemingway, not to replace him with the latest chick lit. WTF is wrong with you people?

— Ricky Velasquez (@QueenMengerKarl) April 20, 2018

Ironically, the books that are replacing those that "you don't have to read" are also overwhelmingly by... white men. While there are more women authors included, those women are also mostly white. In fact, Frederick Douglass is the only black person listed and there is not one black woman or Asian author in the mix.

So while those whining white dudes should definitely try picking up some James Baldwin or Toni Morrison or Audre Lorde or Amy Tan, so should the writers who GQ's editors polled—as well as the editors themselves. They might learn something in the process.

https://nylon.com/articles/gq-books-dont-have-to-read-white-men?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nylon

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886376)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 11:49 PM
Author: excitant hot field

*GQ editors getting ironically redpilled when they realize YOU CAN NEVER WIN WITH LIBS*

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886383)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 11:55 PM
Author: beady-eyed lilac telephone meetinghouse

you can never be lib enough.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886403)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 1:06 AM
Author: azure drunken windowlicker



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886662)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 11:51 PM
Author: multi-colored senate partner

You guys do realize that the intent of articles like this is to get a reaction? I’m not saying the author shouldn’t be brutally murdered but the outrage here is exactly what the goal is.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886389)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 11:55 PM
Author: Stimulating stubborn nursing home mexican

eventually clickbait is going to become so tiresome that these sites will crash and burn with no ad revenue generated from them. what are they going to do then?

these professional bloggers are only shooting themselves in foot with this. why don't they try, oh I don't know, actually writing interesting pieces full of research and digging? oh, it's hard? I see.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886402)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 8:05 AM
Author: plum appetizing area

not while XO still exists

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35887291)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 11:56 PM
Author: dark ticket booth corn cake

Just participate in the community geekbeard

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886404)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 12:23 AM
Author: razzmatazz voyeur

hey hey ho ho

western civ has got to go!

[100 years later]

fuck why did we piss away 2500 of wisdom?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886519)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 2:16 AM
Author: Cruel-hearted medicated affirmative action nibblets

Trump said pussy - or maybe you were unaware of that genocidal phrase?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886854)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 1:12 AM
Author: Trip flirting church volcanic crater



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886688)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 2:05 AM
Author: Cruel-hearted medicated affirmative action nibblets

I actually love Lonesome Dove, but I'm convinced that the cowboy mythos, with its rigid masculine emotional landscape, glorification of guns and destruction, and misogynistic gender roles, is a major factor in the degradation of America. Rather than perpetuate this myth, I'd love for everyone, but particularly American men, to read The Mountain Lion by Jean Stafford. It's a wicked, brilliant, dark book set largely on a ranch in Colorado, but it acts in many ways as a strong rebuttal to all the old toxic western stereotypes we all need to explode.

-------

Is this satire? If not these people are a scourge on the earth - but seriously look what this paragraph implies. "I actually love Lonesome Dove" but.....

Translation: I'm smart enough to appreciate this great book but the common person, whom I stick up for politically, is not and will be negatively influenced by these stereotypes.

There are some great books on that list - authors should kill themselves if not satire.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886822)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 2:15 AM
Author: Cruel-hearted medicated affirmative action nibblets

MORE STORIES LIKE THIS ONE

Not Every Gay Man Is DTF



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886849)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 2:18 AM
Author: Honey-headed Sexy Spot Antidepressant Drug

Hey Islam, just come on in... we need it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886859)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 2:18 AM
Author: vivacious clown preventive strike

down with christian bible, down with manhood, down with white/european culture!

up with homosex!

kill these ppl

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886860)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 2:38 AM
Author: Crusty Carmine Dog Poop

updated GQ's wiki

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GQ#Controversies

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35886914)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 10:06 AM
Author: Greedy Bawdyhouse

180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35887625)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 10:09 AM
Author: Cordovan erotic ladyboy

date reference is wrong

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35887632)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 8:03 AM
Author: Cocky impressive potus

12. The Bible

Instead: The Notebook by Agota Kristof

This is Onion level stuff.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35887289)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 8:23 AM
Author: Cordovan erotic ladyboy

imagine the outcry if they had 12. The Qu'ran

Instead: 50 Shades of Gray

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35887320)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 8:26 AM
Author: Cocky impressive potus

Credit where it's due, Muslims don't put up with people trashing their religion, and doing this would have put the GQ editors on some sort of jihad pressure-cooker bomb falalallala list.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35887324)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 8:05 AM
Author: Fishy arrogant location

This just became my reading list.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35887292)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 8:19 AM
Author: Thriller Startled Legend

Going to strangle the next lib I see after this

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35887309)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 8:32 AM
Author: Crystalline cumskin stage

Has anyone, anywhere, ever suggested that Keith Richards autobiography is part of the western canon? What a weird inclusion

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35887344)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 8:38 AM
Author: Fishy arrogant location



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35887353)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 8:38 AM
Author: Cordovan erotic ladyboy

prob some boomers

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35887355)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 9:02 AM
Author: self-centered degenerate whorehouse



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35887417)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 8:33 AM
Author: carnelian glittery philosopher-king institution

How is this not just a list of Dave Eggers novels



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35887347)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 11:41 AM
Author: Sooty Marvelous Hall Death Wish

everyone already knows it so there's not point in writing an article about it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35888103)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 2:48 PM
Author: carnelian glittery philosopher-king institution



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35889251)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 8:38 AM
Author: Hairless Magenta Gay Wizard Tanning Salon

The worst crime committed by Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is that it makes first-time Twain readers think Twain wrote tedious, meandering stories. He did, as is evidenced by this, his book of tedious, meandering stories—but he also wrote a lot of richly entertaining meandering stories that are not constrained by the ham-fisted narration of a fictional backcountry child or suffused with his sweaty imitation of a slave talking. Alternatively, read Frederick Douglass's firsthand account of slavery, which is equal parts shocking and heartbreaking. It's also an invigorating revenge story: Douglass identifies slave owners by name and hometown, detailing their crimes with such specificity that their descendants will be embarrassed forever. While Jim, the affable slave friend of Huck Finn, exclaims things like “Lawsy, I's mighty glad…,” Frederick Douglass makes observations like “I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ: I therefore hate the corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of this land.” You were saying, Mr. Twain?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35887360)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 8:43 AM
Author: Cocky impressive potus

As opposed to reading something that is considered an American classic and has been beloved for generations, instead here's some abolitionist propaganda from the 1860's to help really develop your white guilt.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35887369)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 1:20 PM
Author: supple home sex offender

“Abolitionist propaganda” lmao tell me more about the south rising again, bro.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35888633)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 1:23 PM
Author: Well-lubricated indian lodge

yeah Frederick Douglas is "abolitionist propaganda"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35888651)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 2:47 PM
Author: carnelian glittery philosopher-king institution



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35889249)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 10:11 PM
Author: smoky old irish cottage brunch



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35891406)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 10:02 AM
Author: Dashing Forum Party Of The First Part

The shitlib desperately hoping for the fish in Old Man and the Sea to escape is 180 allegory.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35887607)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 10:07 AM
Author: boyish genital piercing

" (When my grandpa pushed me to catch a trout at a fish farm, I threw the rod into the pond.) "

*Grandpa sheds a single tear*

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35887626)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 10:11 AM
Author: Greedy Bawdyhouse

Clipped sentences!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35887641)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 10:14 AM
Author: bearded market

LJL:

The worst crime committed by Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is that it makes first-time Twain readers think Twain wrote tedious, meandering stories. He did, as is evidenced by this, his book of tedious, meandering stories—but he also wrote a lot of richly entertaining meandering stories that are not constrained by the ham-fisted narration of a fictional backcountry child or suffused with his sweaty imitation of a slave talking. Alternatively, read Frederick Douglass's firsthand account of slavery, which is equal parts shocking and heartbreaking. It's also an invigorating revenge story: Douglass identifies slave owners by name and hometown, detailing their crimes with such specificity that their descendants will be embarrassed forever. While Jim, the affable slave friend of Huck Finn, exclaims things like “Lawsy, I's mighty glad…,” Frederick Douglass makes observations like “I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ: I therefore hate the corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of this land.” You were saying, Mr. Twain? —Caity Weaver, GQ writer and editor

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35887650)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 10:29 AM
Author: Exciting Corner

By" Caity Weaver, GQ writer and editor" whose top credit to date is apparently a feature article on Kim Kardashian

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35887716)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 10:39 AM
Author: Well-lubricated indian lodge

as usual, xo is angry only because something white and male is being criticized

if this were a list of 20 books by female authors, for example, xo wouldn't give a shit. Or if the list were mixed. How predictable; I knew what the entire thread was going to be before I opened it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35887760)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 10:42 AM
Author: Cordovan erotic ladyboy

it has nothing to do with the white male thing, its the lack of merit in the criticism and the laughable alternatives.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35887774)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 10:46 AM
Author: Well-lubricated indian lodge

Xo is going to reflexibively dislike anything that suggests revered white males shouldn't be as revered as they are.

if the list were in exactly the same tone, and of the same merit, but about women's or af am or Chicano lit or something, there's no way there would be this much outcry.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35887798)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 10:50 AM
Author: Cordovan erotic ladyboy

of course there wouldnt because there arent 21 books of 'women's or af am or Chicano lit' that have had the same impact as the books on gq's list. you cant just replace the bible with like water for chocolate and act like its the same thing.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35887814)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 11:29 AM
Author: Lascivious Roommate

This. JFC, this is not a list of 20 random books by white males.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35888022)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 11:39 AM
Author: Comical sadistic stain



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35888090)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 11:54 AM
Author: Stirring Jet Stage

loving traditional literature means you're a literal nazi in BS's mind

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35888179)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 12:15 PM
Author: free-loading rose round eye hospital

Exactly

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35888304)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 12:48 PM
Author: angry fragrant candlestick maker

Libs position is that they do have the same cultural merit as the bible for the sole reason that they were written by POC.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35888476)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 1:06 PM
Author: Well-lubricated indian lodge

(Doesn't understand lib position)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35888547)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 1:13 PM
Author: Stirring Jet Stage

enlighten us: why are the novels from the last 20 years listed in the articles on par with literary classics that have merited engagement from different societies for decades or even centuries?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35888582)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 1:35 PM
Author: razzle-dazzle milky base



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35888757)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 1:38 PM
Author: Greedy Bawdyhouse

Pls respond

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35888795)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 2:31 PM
Author: angry fragrant candlestick maker

Devastating query

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35889159)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 11:37 AM
Author: Galvanic Gay Theater Stage

setting aside whether it would be possible to write those comparable lists, in the real world none of those groups are the targets of a public "THEY MUST GO!" campaign. lol @ bringing up xo's hypothetical lack of anger to an article tearing down Chicano lit (that you had to imagine because it obviously doesn't exist) as a point in your favor lmao.

anyway, do you agree with the spirit of the piece? essentially "they were men of their time, fuck them, we have nothing to learn from them". it kinda seems like insane and unhealthy fanaticism to me no matter who the targets are.

and lol how you have nothing to say about the article and immediately go after the identities of the other responders - so bored and tired of this standard evil shitlib tactic which seems drilled in your heads to the point of instinct now. every time: insane article gets written, staying quiet gets taken for acquiescence and something even more insane comes down the line next month. if any white men rise to the bait and say "this seems insane" nobody has to engage on substance and can just jeer at them for their "predictable" whiny white male tears. poor guys can't even bitch anonymously in a web 0.5 safe space without someone popping up to play this game!!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35888073)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 11:39 AM
Author: racy chad



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35888089)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 11:40 AM
Author: histrionic resort quadroon



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35888093)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 11:55 AM
Author: Lascivious Roommate



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35888185)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 12:50 PM
Author: angry fragrant candlestick maker



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35888482)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 2:21 PM
Author: Exciting Corner



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35889080)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 8:33 PM
Author: Vengeful mint sound barrier site



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35890844)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 11:38 AM
Author: histrionic resort quadroon

You know what you're right, the next time a mainstream publication comes out with a list of 21 African-American lit books I don't need to read I will make sure to rage over that too

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35888086)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 10:43 AM
Author: razzle-dazzle milky base



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35887778)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 10:45 AM
Author: Well-lubricated indian lodge

Did you think this would somehow influence my opinion of my intelligence, or did your fingers just need a workout?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35887787)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 3:56 PM
Author: soul-stirring church building

Why would you think the purpose of that poast was to change your opinion of your own intelligence? Way to prove his point.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35889576)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 4:04 PM
Author: Well-lubricated indian lodge

so what was the point of his posting that? my point was that I couldn't give a shit what he thinks about my intelligence. jfc

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35889610)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 11:19 AM
Author: Greedy Bawdyhouse

You picked a poor thread to try to make this point. By any sane measure, most or all of the books on the pay no mind list have earned their place among the must reads of our civilization. Argue in favor of the alternatives if you like, but discounting the Bible and Twain and Hemingway? LJL fuck off.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35887965)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 11:34 AM
Author: histrionic resort quadroon



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35888052)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 12:51 PM
Author: angry fragrant candlestick maker



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35888484)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 11:30 AM
Author: Comical sadistic stain

shut the fuck up retard

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35888029)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 12:31 PM
Author: Well-lubricated indian lodge

no u!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35888378)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 11:37 AM
Author: Sooty Marvelous Hall Death Wish

tbf it's a "men's magazine"

also most good books are written by men--like two of them are written by women lol

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35888072)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 12:51 PM
Author: Well-lubricated indian lodge

your second sentence is what everyone ITT believes and it's the mindset I am arguing against

at least you had the balls to come out and say it though

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35888488)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 1:37 PM
Author: Sooty Marvelous Hall Death Wish

fine but how is this an unreasonable belief in any way, shape, or form

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35888789)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 12:14 PM
Author: free-loading rose round eye hospital

xo would be just as annoyed if they were suggesting that we not read anything by Laura Ingalls Wilder or Pearl Buck or Alexander Dumas or TKAM by Harper Lee.

Your trite response was just as predictable, if not moreso.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35888300)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 12:32 PM
Author: Well-lubricated indian lodge

lmao they would not

up thread someone dismisses Frederick Douglass as 1860's abolitionist propaganda or something

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35888383)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 12:52 PM
Author: angry fragrant candlestick maker

It was

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35888494)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 1:37 PM
Author: razzle-dazzle milky base



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35888790)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 2:31 PM
Author: Well-lubricated indian lodge

nice flame

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35889166)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 3:17 PM
Author: angry fragrant candlestick maker

Your phone is working!

Response?

http://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&mc=263&forum_id=2#35888582



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35889391)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 12:15 PM
Author: Titillating hyperventilating dysfunction

flame



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35888302)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 10:11 PM
Author: Orchid juggernaut

Ur running retarded flame as usual, danqa. Get a fucking real job/life already

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35891405)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 11:14 AM
Author: Dashing Forum Party Of The First Part

I think at least a couple of these are facetious, especially the Catch-22 entry.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35887932)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 11:31 AM
Author: Comical sadistic stain

with libs it's hard to tell nowadays

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35888038)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 12:45 PM
Author: razzle weed whacker

Catch 22 is 180, but some of those books really do suck

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35888457)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 11:36 AM
Author: histrionic resort quadroon

No idea how anyone makes it "halfway" through Infinite Jest. You either give up <200 pages in or it consumes you entirely.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35888064)



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Date: April 22nd, 2018 12:39 AM
Author: Thriller Startled Legend

Including this in the canon, when you factor in the mention of finnegan's wake in the intro, makes me very suspicious that the editor is functionally illiterate.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35892060)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 12:20 PM
Author: Titillating hyperventilating dysfunction

I've read a couple of the Earthsea books, while OK they definitely aren't in the same league as LOTR

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35888333)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 12:32 PM
Author: Lascivious Roommate

It is ridiculous. Tolkien invented the fantasy genre.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35888384)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 12:53 PM
Author: angry fragrant candlestick maker



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35888499)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 1:35 PM
Author: Greedy Bawdyhouse

Le guin is one of the replacement authors I’ve read. She’s pretty good. But suggesting a reader just skip Tolkien is flat out stupid.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35888761)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 8:56 PM
Author: Titillating hyperventilating dysfunction

It's ok more like young adult fantasy imo and not on the level of Tolkien

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35890994)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 12:33 PM
Author: Flickering low-t address

jesus christ this was somehow even pozzier than i thought it would be

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35888389)



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Date: April 30th, 2018 8:51 AM
Author: anal turdskin

Cr. I didnt think it was possible. Guy is flaming. Has to be elaborate clickbait flame.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35948812)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 12:39 PM
Author: razzle weed whacker

They say you should replace the Bible with The Notebook LMFAO

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35888429)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 2:19 PM
Author: Cerebral aquamarine double fault

https://www.amazon.com/Notebook-English-French-Agota-Kristof/dp/080211024X

it's different from the Nicholas Sparks book/movie but still probably SPS

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35889067)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 12:40 PM
Author: maroon azn

tbh, I thought Catcher in the Rye kind of sucked

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35888434)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 12:53 PM
Author: histrionic resort quadroon

It was 180 when I was 15. Pretty shit when I was 30, but still has its value.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35888496)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 4:19 PM
Author: hilarious house

Catcher in the Rye and The Alchemist are both crap, and Hemingway bores the shit out of me, but I'd take those books in a heartbeat over the shitlib kulturkampf suggested as replacements.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35889667)



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Date: April 22nd, 2018 4:29 PM
Author: histrionic resort quadroon

What Hemingway have you read? I couldn't get into The Sun Also Rises but I loved The Old Man and the Sea and I consider For Whom the Bell Tolls GOAT-caliber

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35895122)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 8:37 PM
Author: Underhanded spectacular famous landscape painting

article reads like a roadmap to an enslaved mind

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35890867)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 8:52 PM
Author: onyx vibrant piazza

I’m an atheist and i’ll sat that suggesting you shouldn’t read the Bible is fucking ridiculous.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35890971)



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Date: April 27th, 2018 9:04 PM
Author: Stimulating stubborn nursing home mexican



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35935376)



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Date: April 27th, 2018 9:05 PM
Author: bipolar gas station friendly grandma

Jesus Christ Superstar.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35935386)



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Date: April 27th, 2018 10:53 PM
Author: elite cerise reading party trust fund

19 is lol and 21 seems credited

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#35935878)



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Date: November 3rd, 2018 9:49 PM
Author: Greedy Bawdyhouse

This is the future libs want for you.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955424&forum_id=2#37153453)