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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
Greedy area
  04/20/18
XO declares 1 magazine you don't have to read. Spoiler: all ...
Khaki Appetizing Mental Disorder
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Greedy area
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flesh violent corn cake
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Vivacious Mint Hominid
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spruce lodge trust fund
  04/21/18
We burned 21 books you won't believe number 12
Galvanic Amber Laser Beams
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Khaki Appetizing Mental Disorder
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concupiscible coldplay fan yarmulke
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exhilarant temple wrinkle
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titillating friendly grandma base
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at-the-ready casino
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flesh violent corn cake
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Supple Crawly Idea He Suggested Point
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puce volcanic crater
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Heady resort antidepressant drug
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obsidian comical shrine legend
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wine twisted stage
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Lascivious church
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free-loading potus business firm
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contagious effete pistol water buffalo
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Sooty stag film
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red irradiated corner associate
  05/03/18
"Hemingway's novels—with their masculine bluster and cl...
Internet-worthy garrison mediation
  04/20/18
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Khaki Appetizing Mental Disorder
  04/20/18
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Violet locale mad cow disease
  04/21/18
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Vivacious Mint Hominid
  04/21/18
The guy who wrote that blurb is an IRL XO meme: Two Dads,...
histrionic twinkling uncleanness piazza
  04/21/18
https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/932435409132384256/2mTB...
Haunting Range Rigor
  11/03/18
JFC. What's this gay turd's moniker?
Haunting Range Rigor
  11/03/18
lol just lol at 2 hemmingway novels (too masculine) and the ...
Demanding church building juggernaut
  04/20/18
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Buff filthpig
  04/20/18
21 Books You Don’t Have to Read Books 21 Books You Don’t...
Greedy area
  04/20/18
Lol at the suggested next article: "21 Mixed-Race Histo...
Greedy area
  04/20/18
I was legit laughing out loud the whole time reading this
histrionic twinkling uncleanness piazza
  04/21/18
I would kill a dude for dissing A Farewell to Arms in my pre...
hairraiser balding spot haunted graveyard
  04/20/18
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Hot fantasy-prone tanning salon
  04/20/18
this list is outrageous
Anal Arousing Hall
  04/20/18
"While Jim, the affable slave friend of Huck Finn, excl...
Internet-worthy garrison mediation
  04/20/18
lmao
Khaki Appetizing Mental Disorder
  04/20/18
While Jim, the affable slave friend of Huck Finn, exclaims t...
bonkers deranged internal respiration
  04/21/18
"I'm convinced that the cowboy mythos, with its rigid m...
concupiscible coldplay fan yarmulke
  04/20/18
almost threw my computer across the room when i read this
Anal Arousing Hall
  04/20/18
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puce volcanic crater
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curious marketing idea dingle berry
  04/20/18
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Vivacious Mint Hominid
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Wonderful Dragon Electric Furnace
  04/21/18
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big flirting faggotry forum
  04/21/18
"I never could get into Joseph Heller's Catch-22. It fa...
Demanding church building juggernaut
  04/20/18
why is some cunt writing for fucking GQ anyway? Like WTF are...
grizzly impertinent personal credit line
  04/21/18
The odds are zero - I haven't met a single person who's atte...
bonkers deranged internal respiration
  04/21/18
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Disrespectful twinkling site
  04/21/18
I don't like fishing. Therefore, you should not read a book ...
Galvanic Amber Laser Beams
  04/20/18
All the books on this list that I've read have been great. T...
Buff filthpig
  04/20/18
cr
Demanding church building juggernaut
  04/20/18
(rancid Franzen trolling)
Haunting Range Rigor
  04/20/18
im surprised we're not seeing more mass shootings
exhilarant temple wrinkle
  04/20/18
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Khaki Appetizing Mental Disorder
  04/20/18
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Hot fantasy-prone tanning salon
  04/20/18
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Jet-lagged kitty cat
  04/20/18
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Wonderful Dragon Electric Furnace
  04/21/18
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Blue rebellious gay wizard
  04/22/18
now imagine they knew about kipling
Demanding church building juggernaut
  04/20/18
Lol
Passionate Sadistic Ticket Booth New Version
  04/20/18
Only one I'll agree with is the Alchemist. Catcher in the Ry...
razzle clear rehab
  04/20/18
Yea its for adolescent angst and does that well
Greedy area
  04/20/18
It seems to be a caricature of that though. Anyone the guy b...
razzle clear rehab
  04/20/18
overrated? ljl
Hot fantasy-prone tanning salon
  04/20/18
Instead of Catcher in the Rye, you would rather read "O...
histrionic twinkling uncleanness piazza
  04/21/18
lol jfc of course
Bateful Chapel Kitty
  04/21/18
yes, a lesbian coming of age novel must be better than the f...
nighttime embarrassed to the bone wagecucks
  04/21/18
I have never been able to fathom why The Catcher in the Rye ...
Duck-like well-lubricated patrolman
  04/20/18
#metoo rape fantasies
vigorous green dilemma
  04/20/18
"it is without any literary merit whatsoever" L...
Galvanic Amber Laser Beams
  04/20/18
MAYBE ANDRE ACIMAN IT'S BECAUSE YOU'RE A FUCKING FOREIGNER
grizzly impertinent personal credit line
  04/21/18
"the story of a British teenage girl who is sent to a b...
bonkers deranged internal respiration
  04/21/18
fucking mad as hell right now that shitlibs even exist
Khaki Appetizing Mental Disorder
  04/20/18
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exhilarant temple wrinkle
  04/20/18
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cyan abode
  04/21/18
hay, don't read the bible, which is, for better or worse, on...
vigorous green dilemma
  04/20/18
lol
Internet-worthy garrison mediation
  04/20/18
Like chick fila, it reeks of Christian traditionalism. Both ...
Greedy area
  04/20/18
cr, kids might get weird ideas, like that human virtue is mo...
Demanding church building juggernaut
  04/20/18
MY SEX JUNK IS SO OH OH OH MUCH MORE THAN EITHER OR OR OR
Internet-worthy garrison mediation
  04/20/18
god help this republic
Hot fantasy-prone tanning salon
  04/20/18
the only credited book on their alternative list is oddly Th...
Hot fantasy-prone tanning salon
  04/20/18
Even more oddly, young readers that took this piece of advic...
Greedy area
  04/20/18
lmfao
Khaki Appetizing Mental Disorder
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lavender whorehouse
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Supple Crawly Idea He Suggested Point
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Lascivious church
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grizzly impertinent personal credit line
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Bateful Chapel Kitty
  04/21/18
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big flirting faggotry forum
  04/21/18
The Worst Journey in the World is 180 as well.
aromatic offensive location pocket flask
  04/21/18
"Also, William Shakespeare. I mean, really, is he even...
Duck-like well-lubricated patrolman
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Khaki Appetizing Mental Disorder
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Demanding church building juggernaut
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curious marketing idea dingle berry
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Exciting coral regret
  04/21/18
Lmao
flesh violent corn cake
  04/20/18
you laugh, but give it 10 more years. 10 years ago, could a...
Soul-stirring goal in life
  04/21/18
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Vivacious Mint Hominid
  04/21/18
http://www.xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955093&mc=7...
plum trailer park
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Metal adventurous fat ankles box office
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cracking charcoal office useless brakes
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bonkers deranged internal respiration
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Electric vermilion stage rigpig
  04/21/18
*Harold Bloom in New Haven hospital screaming for the nurse ...
Greedy area
  04/20/18
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Poppy knife newt
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Khaki Appetizing Mental Disorder
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Lascivious church
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Dead abnormal skinny woman halford
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Violet locale mad cow disease
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bonkers deranged internal respiration
  04/21/18
Harold Bloom really saw this coming from a mile away decades...
bonkers deranged internal respiration
  04/21/18
Yes he was sounding the alarm like 20 years ago. It was a tr...
Greedy area
  04/21/18
Bloom is probably a lib too - that just cares deeply about h...
bonkers deranged internal respiration
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Wonderful Dragon Electric Furnace
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cracking charcoal office useless brakes
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Submissive International Law Enforcement Agency
  04/30/18
The winner for most audacious, retarded shitlibbery goes to:...
lavender whorehouse
  04/20/18
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cordovan odious hospital fortuitous meteor
  04/21/18
I am shaking with rage right now and fully triggered. In a c...
Poppy knife newt
  04/20/18
not meant as a shot at op, but what kind of absolute cuck re...
spectacular coiffed doctorate
  04/20/18
I got it from online twitter rage
Greedy area
  04/20/18
i figured. you are a good dood. just a general question
spectacular coiffed doctorate
  04/20/18
Its a valid one. I have no clue what the target audience is ...
Greedy area
  04/20/18
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curious marketing idea dingle berry
  04/20/18
(((GOOD QUESTION)))
Violet locale mad cow disease
  04/21/18
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cyan abode
  04/21/18
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Bateful Chapel Kitty
  04/21/18
damn this list is like catnip to xo. it's so fine-tuned you ...
Anal Arousing Hall
  04/20/18
There's always a link nowadays
flesh violent corn cake
  04/20/18
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Bateful Chapel Kitty
  04/21/18
"hey, i'm a 24yo swathmore grad & 'journalist'. let...
titillating friendly grandma base
  04/20/18
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Jet-lagged kitty cat
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Heady resort antidepressant drug
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bonkers deranged internal respiration
  04/21/18
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big flirting faggotry forum
  04/21/18
Blood Meridian was written in the style of the Bible and Fau...
lavender whorehouse
  04/20/18
lol TYFT
turquoise pisswyrm
  04/21/18
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Blue rebellious gay wizard
  04/22/18
"I never could get into Joseph Heller's Catch-22. It fa...
orchid home
  04/20/18
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Anal Arousing Hall
  04/20/18
Devastating
Talking school crotch
  04/21/18
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bonkers deranged internal respiration
  04/21/18
well, he admitted he didn't read it
Violet locale mad cow disease
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Confused Harsh Athletic Conference
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histrionic twinkling uncleanness piazza
  04/21/18
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Bateful Chapel Kitty
  04/21/18
reading this actually elicited real anger
Sooty stag film
  04/21/18
Total insanity
Exciting coral regret
  04/21/18
CR. the only valid criticism of Catch-22 is that it spawned...
nighttime embarrassed to the bone wagecucks
  04/21/18
...
Heady resort antidepressant drug
  04/30/18
"Mark Twain was a racist. Just read Adventures of Huckl...
bearded coffee pot
  04/20/18
this was an actual quote from this "article"? jfc
Hot fantasy-prone tanning salon
  04/20/18
i had to double check. seemed too implausible but i guess i'...
Khaki Appetizing Mental Disorder
  04/20/18
libs need to be beaten to death w baseball bats on national ...
Khaki Appetizing Mental Disorder
  04/20/18
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flesh violent corn cake
  04/20/18
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Metal adventurous fat ankles box office
  04/21/18
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Bateful Chapel Kitty
  04/21/18
this is quite literally the shitlib position on virtually ev...
Internet-worthy garrison mediation
  04/20/18
http://www.xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=2570981&mc=5...
vengeful charismatic striped hyena
  04/20/18
12. The Bible Instead: The Notebook Lmao
Passionate Sadistic Ticket Booth New Version
  04/20/18
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Khaki Appetizing Mental Disorder
  04/20/18
just... what the fuck? a men's magazine makes a list of boo...
Soul-stirring goal in life
  04/20/18
THE FUTURE IS FEMALE
Buff filthpig
  04/20/18
from what I can surmise, their readership has got to be almo...
Internet-worthy garrison mediation
  04/20/18
Gays LOVE toxic masculinity
frum set partner
  04/21/18
...
Wonderful Dragon Electric Furnace
  04/22/18
GQ is a GAY men's magazine
histrionic twinkling uncleanness piazza
  04/21/18
libs, you have no idea how harshly history is going to judge...
Heady resort antidepressant drug
  04/20/18
will it though? what will cause the correction back to sanit...
Hot fantasy-prone tanning salon
  04/20/18
history has these periods of fanatics who engage in censurin...
Heady resort antidepressant drug
  04/20/18
obviously this is mostly nonsense but some of the takes are ...
salmon senate
  04/20/18
RFTR is excellant
Hot fantasy-prone tanning salon
  04/20/18
yeah i've heard it's good, but most of the other recommendat...
salmon senate
  04/21/18
McCarthy may be overrated - but in particular Blood Meridian...
bonkers deranged internal respiration
  04/21/18
utterly reprehensible kikery guy should be quite literally ...
Soul-stirring goal in life
  04/20/18
pretty funny to realize that the shitlib delicate feelings m...
Heady resort antidepressant drug
  04/20/18
...
Jet-lagged kitty cat
  04/21/18
also: Franzen REDPILLED
Heady resort antidepressant drug
  04/20/18
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histrionic twinkling uncleanness piazza
  04/21/18
12. The Bible Instead: The Notebook by Agota Kristof T...
painfully honest space lettuce
  04/20/18
White Men Are Mad That This ‘GQ’ List Dismisses Books By W...
Heady resort antidepressant drug
  04/20/18
*GQ editors getting ironically redpilled when they realize Y...
Internet-worthy garrison mediation
  04/20/18
you can never be lib enough.
Jet-lagged kitty cat
  04/20/18
...
exhilarant temple wrinkle
  04/21/18
You guys do realize that the intent of articles like this is...
motley cobalt hell codepig
  04/20/18
eventually clickbait is going to become so tiresome that the...
Heady resort antidepressant drug
  04/20/18
not while XO still exists
Violet locale mad cow disease
  04/21/18
Just participate in the community geekbeard
Galvanic Amber Laser Beams
  04/20/18
hey hey ho ho western civ has got to go! [100 years late...
Bipolar glittery foreskin
  04/21/18
Trump said pussy - or maybe you were unaware of that genocid...
bonkers deranged internal respiration
  04/21/18
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infuriating brilliant boiling water stead
  04/21/18
I actually love Lonesome Dove, but I'm convinced that the co...
bonkers deranged internal respiration
  04/21/18
MORE STORIES LIKE THIS ONE Not Every Gay Man Is DTF
bonkers deranged internal respiration
  04/21/18
Hey Islam, just come on in... we need it
grizzly impertinent personal credit line
  04/21/18
down with christian bible, down with manhood, down with whit...
Soul-stirring goal in life
  04/21/18
updated GQ's wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GQ#Contro...
Swashbuckling Property
  04/21/18
180
Poppy knife newt
  04/21/18
date reference is wrong
Buff filthpig
  04/21/18
12. The Bible Instead: The Notebook by Agota Kristof T...
Sexy frisky native
  04/21/18
imagine the outcry if they had 12. The Qu'ran Instead: 50...
Buff filthpig
  04/21/18
Credit where it's due, Muslims don't put up with people tras...
Sexy frisky native
  04/21/18
This just became my reading list.
tan 180 scourge upon the earth mother
  04/21/18
Going to strangle the next lib I see after this
Wonderful Dragon Electric Furnace
  04/21/18
Has anyone, anywhere, ever suggested that Keith Richards aut...
cyan abode
  04/21/18
...
tan 180 scourge upon the earth mother
  04/21/18
prob some boomers
Buff filthpig
  04/21/18
...
Tantric flatulent ape
  04/21/18
How is this not just a list of Dave Eggers novels
Lascivious church
  04/21/18
everyone already knows it so there's not point in writing an...
big flirting faggotry forum
  04/21/18
...
Lascivious church
  04/21/18
The worst crime committed by Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ...
Cerebral national security agency
  04/21/18
As opposed to reading something that is considered an Americ...
Sexy frisky native
  04/21/18
“Abolitionist propaganda” lmao tell me more about the south ...
Exciting coral regret
  04/21/18
yeah Frederick Douglas is "abolitionist propaganda"...
apoplectic laughsome orchestra pit
  04/21/18
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Lascivious church
  04/21/18
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Avocado vibrant university
  04/21/18
The shitlib desperately hoping for the fish in Old Man and t...
frum set partner
  04/21/18
" (When my grandpa pushed me to catch a trout at a fish...
Sepia Fanboi Heaven
  04/21/18
Clipped sentences!
Poppy knife newt
  04/21/18
LJL: The worst crime committed by Adventures of Huckleber...
french address old irish cottage
  04/21/18
By" Caity Weaver, GQ writer and editor" whose top ...
histrionic twinkling uncleanness piazza
  04/21/18
as usual, xo is angry only because something white and male ...
apoplectic laughsome orchestra pit
  04/21/18
it has nothing to do with the white male thing, its the lack...
Buff filthpig
  04/21/18
Xo is going to reflexibively dislike anything that suggests ...
apoplectic laughsome orchestra pit
  04/21/18
of course there wouldnt because there arent 21 books of 'wom...
Buff filthpig
  04/21/18
This. JFC, this is not a list of 20 random books by white ma...
spectacular coiffed doctorate
  04/21/18
...
Khaki Appetizing Mental Disorder
  04/21/18
loving traditional literature means you're a literal nazi in...
Demanding church building juggernaut
  04/21/18
Exactly
fear-inspiring milk sex offender
  04/21/18
Libs position is that they do have the same cultural merit a...
wine twisted stage
  04/21/18
(Doesn't understand lib position)
apoplectic laughsome orchestra pit
  04/21/18
enlighten us: why are the novels from the last 20 years list...
Demanding church building juggernaut
  04/21/18
...
curious marketing idea dingle berry
  04/21/18
Pls respond
Poppy knife newt
  04/21/18
Devastating query
wine twisted stage
  04/21/18
setting aside whether it would be possible to write those co...
bearded coffee pot
  04/21/18
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Confused Harsh Athletic Conference
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Bateful Chapel Kitty
  04/21/18
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spectacular coiffed doctorate
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wine twisted stage
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histrionic twinkling uncleanness piazza
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Greedy area
  04/21/18
You know what you're right, the next time a mainstream publi...
Bateful Chapel Kitty
  04/21/18
...
curious marketing idea dingle berry
  04/21/18
Did you think this would somehow influence my opinion of my ...
apoplectic laughsome orchestra pit
  04/21/18
Why would you think the purpose of that poast was to change ...
Diverse station voyeur
  04/21/18
so what was the point of his posting that? my point was tha...
apoplectic laughsome orchestra pit
  04/21/18
You picked a poor thread to try to make this point. By any s...
Poppy knife newt
  04/21/18
...
Bateful Chapel Kitty
  04/21/18
...
wine twisted stage
  04/21/18
shut the fuck up retard
Khaki Appetizing Mental Disorder
  04/21/18
no u!
apoplectic laughsome orchestra pit
  04/21/18
tbf it's a "men's magazine" also most good book...
big flirting faggotry forum
  04/21/18
your second sentence is what everyone ITT believes and it's ...
apoplectic laughsome orchestra pit
  04/21/18
fine but how is this an unreasonable belief in any way, shap...
big flirting faggotry forum
  04/21/18
xo would be just as annoyed if they were suggesting that we ...
fear-inspiring milk sex offender
  04/21/18
lmao they would not up thread someone dismisses Frederick...
apoplectic laughsome orchestra pit
  04/21/18
It was
wine twisted stage
  04/21/18
...
curious marketing idea dingle berry
  04/21/18
nice flame
apoplectic laughsome orchestra pit
  04/21/18
Your phone is working! Response? http://autoadmit.com/...
wine twisted stage
  04/21/18
flame
Electric vermilion stage rigpig
  04/21/18
Ur running retarded flame as usual, danqa. Get a fucking rea...
aphrodisiac son of senegal
  04/21/18
I think at least a couple of these are facetious, especially...
frum set partner
  04/21/18
with libs it's hard to tell nowadays
Khaki Appetizing Mental Disorder
  04/21/18
Catch 22 is 180, but some of those books really do suck
floppy kink-friendly party of the first part travel guidebook
  04/21/18
No idea how anyone makes it "halfway" through Infi...
Bateful Chapel Kitty
  04/21/18
Including this in the canon, when you factor in the mention ...
Wonderful Dragon Electric Furnace
  04/22/18
I've read a couple of the Earthsea books, while OK they defi...
Electric vermilion stage rigpig
  04/21/18
It is ridiculous. Tolkien invented the fantasy genre.
spectacular coiffed doctorate
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...
wine twisted stage
  04/21/18
Le guin is one of the replacement authors I’ve read. She’s p...
Poppy knife newt
  04/21/18
It's ok more like young adult fantasy imo and not on the lev...
Electric vermilion stage rigpig
  04/21/18
jesus christ this was somehow even pozzier than i thought it...
Sooty stag film
  04/21/18
Cr. I didnt think it was possible. Guy is flaming. Has to...
Crimson jew
  04/30/18
They say you should replace the Bible with The Notebook LMFA...
floppy kink-friendly party of the first part travel guidebook
  04/21/18
https://www.amazon.com/Notebook-English-French-Agota-Kristof...
Anal Arousing Hall
  04/21/18
tbh, I thought Catcher in the Rye kind of sucked
lime razzmatazz bawdyhouse
  04/21/18
It was 180 when I was 15. Pretty shit when I was 30, but sti...
Bateful Chapel Kitty
  04/21/18
Catcher in the Rye and The Alchemist are both crap, and Hemi...
nighttime embarrassed to the bone wagecucks
  04/21/18
What Hemingway have you read? I couldn't get into The Sun Al...
Bateful Chapel Kitty
  04/22/18
article reads like a roadmap to an enslaved mind
plum trailer park
  04/21/18
I’m an atheist and i’ll sat that suggesting you shouldn’t re...
cocky indian lodge hissy fit
  04/21/18
...
Heady resort antidepressant drug
  04/27/18
Jesus Christ Superstar.
costumed provocative institution police squad
  04/27/18
19 is lol and 21 seems credited
Pink Step-uncle's House
  04/27/18
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Date: April 20th, 2018 10:39 PM
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Date: April 20th, 2018 10:41 PM
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XO declares 1 magazine you don't have to read. Spoiler: all by Jews

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Date: April 20th, 2018 10:41 PM
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"Hemingway's novels—with their masculine bluster and clipped sentences—sometimes feel almost parodic to me."

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Date: April 21st, 2018 10:21 AM
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The guy who wrote that blurb is an IRL XO meme:

Two Dads, Two Kids, One Experiment in Family

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Date: November 3rd, 2018 9:51 PM
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Date: April 20th, 2018 10:42 PM
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lol just lol at 2 hemmingway novels (too masculine) and the bible (too traditional and complicated)

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21 Books You Don’t Have to Read

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21 Books You Don’t Have to Read

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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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Date: April 20th, 2018 10:45 PM
Author: Greedy area

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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Date: April 21st, 2018 10:17 AM
Author: histrionic twinkling uncleanness piazza

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 10:43 PM
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Date: April 20th, 2018 10:44 PM
Author: Internet-worthy garrison mediation

"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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Date: April 20th, 2018 10:45 PM
Author: Khaki Appetizing Mental Disorder

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Date: April 21st, 2018 2:19 AM
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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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Date: April 20th, 2018 10:44 PM
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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 10:44 PM
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Date: April 21st, 2018 1:36 PM
Author: big flirting faggotry forum



(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: Demanding church building juggernaut

"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: grizzly impertinent personal credit line

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: bonkers deranged internal respiration

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: Disrespectful twinkling site



(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: Galvanic Amber Laser Beams

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: Buff filthpig

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: Demanding church building juggernaut

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: Haunting Range Rigor

(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: exhilarant temple wrinkle

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: Khaki Appetizing Mental Disorder



(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: Hot fantasy-prone tanning salon



(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: Jet-lagged kitty cat



(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: Wonderful Dragon Electric Furnace



(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: Blue rebellious gay wizard



(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: Demanding church building juggernaut

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: Passionate Sadistic Ticket Booth New Version

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: razzle clear rehab

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: Greedy area

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: razzle clear rehab

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: Hot fantasy-prone tanning salon

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: histrionic twinkling uncleanness piazza

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: Bateful Chapel Kitty

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: nighttime embarrassed to the bone wagecucks

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: Duck-like well-lubricated patrolman

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: vigorous green dilemma

#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: Galvanic Amber Laser Beams

"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: grizzly impertinent personal credit line

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: bonkers deranged internal respiration

"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: Khaki Appetizing Mental Disorder

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: exhilarant temple wrinkle



(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: cyan abode



(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: vigorous green dilemma

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: Internet-worthy garrison mediation

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: Greedy area

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: Demanding church building juggernaut

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: Internet-worthy garrison mediation

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: Hot fantasy-prone tanning salon

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: Hot fantasy-prone tanning salon

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: Greedy area

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: Khaki Appetizing Mental Disorder

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: lavender whorehouse



(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: Supple Crawly Idea He Suggested Point



(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: Lascivious church



(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: grizzly impertinent personal credit line



(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: Bateful Chapel Kitty



(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: big flirting faggotry forum



(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: aromatic offensive location pocket flask

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: Duck-like well-lubricated patrolman

"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: Khaki Appetizing Mental Disorder



(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: Demanding church building juggernaut



(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: curious marketing idea dingle berry



(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: Exciting coral regret



(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: flesh violent corn cake

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: Soul-stirring goal in life

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: Vivacious Mint Hominid



(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: plum trailer park

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: Metal adventurous fat ankles box office



(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: cracking charcoal office useless brakes



(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: bonkers deranged internal respiration



(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: Electric vermilion stage rigpig



(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: Greedy area

*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: Poppy knife newt



(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: Khaki Appetizing Mental Disorder



(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: Lascivious church



(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: Dead abnormal skinny woman halford



(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: Violet locale mad cow disease



(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: bonkers deranged internal respiration



(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: bonkers deranged internal respiration

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: Greedy area

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: bonkers deranged internal respiration

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: Wonderful Dragon Electric Furnace



(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: cracking charcoal office useless brakes



(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: Submissive International Law Enforcement Agency



(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: lavender whorehouse

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: cordovan odious hospital fortuitous meteor



(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: Poppy knife newt

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: spectacular coiffed doctorate

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: Greedy area

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: spectacular coiffed doctorate

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: Greedy area

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: curious marketing idea dingle berry



(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: Violet locale mad cow disease

(((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: cyan abode



(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: Bateful Chapel Kitty



(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: Anal Arousing Hall

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: flesh violent corn cake

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: Bateful Chapel Kitty



(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: titillating friendly grandma base

"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: Jet-lagged kitty cat



(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: Heady resort antidepressant drug



(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: bonkers deranged internal respiration



(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: big flirting faggotry forum



(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: lavender whorehouse

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: turquoise pisswyrm

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: Blue rebellious gay wizard



(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: orchid home

"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: Anal Arousing Hall



(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: Talking school crotch

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: bonkers deranged internal respiration



(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: Violet locale mad cow disease

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: Confused Harsh Athletic Conference



(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: histrionic twinkling uncleanness piazza



(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: Bateful Chapel Kitty



(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: Sooty stag film

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: Exciting coral regret

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: nighttime embarrassed to the bone wagecucks

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: Heady resort antidepressant drug



(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: bearded coffee pot

"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: Hot fantasy-prone tanning salon

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: Khaki Appetizing Mental Disorder

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: Khaki Appetizing Mental Disorder

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: flesh violent corn cake



(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: Metal adventurous fat ankles box office



(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: Bateful Chapel Kitty



(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: Internet-worthy garrison mediation

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: vengeful charismatic striped hyena

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: Passionate Sadistic Ticket Booth New Version

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: Khaki Appetizing Mental Disorder



(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: Soul-stirring goal in life

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: Buff filthpig

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: Internet-worthy garrison mediation

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: frum set partner

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: Wonderful Dragon Electric Furnace



(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: histrionic twinkling uncleanness piazza

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: Heady resort antidepressant drug

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: Hot fantasy-prone tanning salon

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: Heady resort antidepressant drug

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: salmon senate

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: Hot fantasy-prone tanning salon

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: salmon senate

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: bonkers deranged internal respiration

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: Soul-stirring goal in life

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: Heady resort antidepressant drug

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: Jet-lagged kitty cat



(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: Heady resort antidepressant drug

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: histrionic twinkling uncleanness piazza



(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: painfully honest space lettuce

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: Heady resort antidepressant drug

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: Internet-worthy garrison mediation

*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: Jet-lagged kitty cat

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: exhilarant temple wrinkle



(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: motley cobalt hell codepig

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: Heady resort antidepressant drug

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: Violet locale mad cow disease

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: Galvanic Amber Laser Beams

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: Bipolar glittery foreskin

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: bonkers deranged internal respiration

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: infuriating brilliant boiling water stead



(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: bonkers deranged internal respiration

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: bonkers deranged internal respiration

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: grizzly impertinent personal credit line

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: Soul-stirring goal in life

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: Swashbuckling Property

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: Poppy knife newt

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: Buff filthpig

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: Sexy frisky native

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: Buff filthpig

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: Sexy frisky native

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: tan 180 scourge upon the earth mother

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: Wonderful Dragon Electric Furnace

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: cyan abode

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: tan 180 scourge upon the earth mother



(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: Buff filthpig

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: Tantric flatulent ape



(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: Lascivious church

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: big flirting faggotry forum

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: Lascivious church



(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: Cerebral national security agency

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: Sexy frisky native

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: Exciting coral regret

“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: apoplectic laughsome orchestra pit

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: Lascivious church



(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: Avocado vibrant university



(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: frum set partner

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: Sepia Fanboi Heaven

" (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: Poppy knife newt

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: french address old irish cottage

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: histrionic twinkling uncleanness piazza

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: apoplectic laughsome orchestra pit

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: Buff filthpig

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: apoplectic laughsome orchestra pit

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: Buff filthpig

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: spectacular coiffed doctorate

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: Khaki Appetizing Mental Disorder



(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: Demanding church building juggernaut

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: fear-inspiring milk sex offender

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: wine twisted stage

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: apoplectic laughsome orchestra pit

(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: Demanding church building juggernaut

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: curious marketing idea dingle berry



(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: Poppy knife newt

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: wine twisted stage

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: bearded coffee pot

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: Confused Harsh Athletic Conference



(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: Bateful Chapel Kitty



(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: spectacular coiffed doctorate



(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: wine twisted stage



(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: histrionic twinkling uncleanness piazza



(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: Greedy area



(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: Bateful Chapel Kitty

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: curious marketing idea dingle berry



(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: apoplectic laughsome orchestra pit

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: Diverse station voyeur

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: apoplectic laughsome orchestra pit

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: Poppy knife newt

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: Bateful Chapel Kitty



(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: wine twisted stage



(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: Khaki Appetizing Mental Disorder

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: apoplectic laughsome orchestra pit

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: big flirting faggotry forum

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: apoplectic laughsome orchestra pit

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: big flirting faggotry forum

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: fear-inspiring milk sex offender

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: apoplectic laughsome orchestra pit

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: wine twisted stage

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: curious marketing idea dingle berry



(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: apoplectic laughsome orchestra pit

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: wine twisted stage

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: Electric vermilion stage rigpig

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: aphrodisiac son of senegal

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: frum set partner

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: Khaki Appetizing Mental Disorder

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: floppy kink-friendly party of the first part travel guidebook

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: Bateful Chapel Kitty

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: Wonderful Dragon Electric Furnace

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: Electric vermilion stage rigpig

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: spectacular coiffed doctorate

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: wine twisted stage



(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: Poppy knife newt

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: Electric vermilion stage rigpig

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: Sooty stag film

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: Crimson jew

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: floppy kink-friendly party of the first part travel guidebook

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: Anal Arousing Hall

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: lime razzmatazz bawdyhouse

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: Bateful Chapel Kitty

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: nighttime embarrassed to the bone wagecucks

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: Bateful Chapel Kitty

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: plum trailer park

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: cocky indian lodge hissy fit

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: Heady resort antidepressant drug



(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: costumed provocative institution police squad

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: Pink Step-uncle's House

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: Poppy knife newt

This is the future libs want for you.

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