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Was Shakespeare the best writer in human history?
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Date: October 24th, 2022 8:39 PM Author: bateful sound barrier heaven (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45384404) |
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Date: October 24th, 2022 8:41 PM Author: Flirting Boiling Water Point Not even close, son. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45384411) |
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Date: October 25th, 2022 8:30 AM Author: Smoky Passionate Incel “Dante and Shakespeare divide the world between them. There is no third.” (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45385965) |
Date: October 24th, 2022 8:40 PM Author: Maize disgusting double fault institution (white male clinging vicariously to the accomplishments of the past) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45384408) |
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Date: October 25th, 2022 2:37 AM Author: Translucent Comical Knife Associate When your race has writers that can start to compare to some guy from about 400 years ago you can let us know (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45385615) |
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Date: October 25th, 2022 8:46 AM Author: outnumbered mind-boggling immigrant White male claiming all folks with pale skin as his fellow bretheren (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45385985) |
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Date: October 25th, 2022 8:48 AM Author: Translucent Comical Knife Associate No there are some other races that have high tier writers (Asians, Jews, and Arabs), but ironically they also have to dig in to the past to find them (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45385994) |
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Date: October 25th, 2022 8:44 AM Author: Ocher electric stage (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45385982) |
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Date: October 24th, 2022 8:42 PM Author: learning disabled provocative kitchen milk Yes. And 2nd place is distant. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45384416) |
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Date: October 24th, 2022 8:47 PM Author: bateful sound barrier heaven Who is second place (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45384430) |
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Date: October 24th, 2022 8:49 PM Author: learning disabled provocative kitchen milk Sophocles? Milton? Whoever wrote the Gospel of Mark? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45384436) |
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Date: October 24th, 2022 8:51 PM Author: Bronze location evan39 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45384443) |
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Date: October 25th, 2022 3:34 AM Author: olive den headpube (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45385671) |
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Date: October 25th, 2022 2:22 AM Author: honey-headed church EPAH (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45385596) |
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Date: October 24th, 2022 8:50 PM Author: Maize disgusting double fault institution Homer (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45384438) |
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Date: October 24th, 2022 8:57 PM Author: Dead pit jew Easily tops for Western lit, though one wonders what we'd think if, say, all of the plays of Sophocles survived. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45384473) |
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Date: October 24th, 2022 8:59 PM Author: Flirting Boiling Water Point Not even close, son. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45384483) |
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Date: October 24th, 2022 9:00 PM Author: Pearly Turdskin Home why did he include his mattress in his will but not mention anything about his writings (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45384486) |
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Date: October 24th, 2022 9:00 PM Author: arousing costumed corner coffee pot He's up there. Hard to say though between other titans (vergil, dante, milton, etc.) who is the ABSOLUTE best (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45384489) |
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Date: October 24th, 2022 9:02 PM Author: Dead pit jew Charles Murray crunched the numbers and it is Shakespeare. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45384492) |
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Date: October 25th, 2022 4:42 AM Author: henna mexican what numbers did he crunch (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45385708) |
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Date: October 25th, 2022 8:32 AM Author: Dead pit jew See his book Human Accomplishment. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45385966) |
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Date: October 24th, 2022 9:03 PM Author: Flirting Boiling Water Point You guys are such pretentious posers. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45384499) |
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Date: October 24th, 2022 9:04 PM Author: arousing costumed corner coffee pot ? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45384504) |
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Date: October 24th, 2022 9:06 PM Author: Flirting Boiling Water Point The 20th centuries writers wrote 10000x more in depth and profoundly than any of Shakespeare, Milton, Dante. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45384509) |
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Date: October 24th, 2022 9:07 PM Author: arousing costumed corner coffee pot Eliot was pretty damn good. Telling that he frequently pays homage to vergil and dante, though. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45384515) |
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Date: October 24th, 2022 9:17 PM Author: maniacal center roommate You raise an incredibly important point. Reading good writing is essential to good writing. So the bar is progressively raised for those who come after. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45384552) |
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Date: October 24th, 2022 9:28 PM Author: Flirting Boiling Water Point Everyone pays homage to the OGs. But you can't tell me their shit is as detailed or complex as cunts like Pynchon and Faulkner. It's more of a nostalgia than anything else.
It's like saying Ellington and Louis Armstrong are better than cunts on bebop. |
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Date: October 24th, 2022 9:35 PM Author: arousing costumed corner coffee pot There are more things in literature, Whokebeo, Than are dreamt of in your novels (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45384653) |
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Date: October 24th, 2022 9:36 PM Author: Flirting Boiling Water Point Who are your favourite essayists? Is Aldous one of the GOATs? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45384656) |
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Date: October 24th, 2022 9:41 PM Author: arousing costumed corner coffee pot in terms of style? nietzsche. you're probably looking for an answer like DFW, whose essays are actually enjoyed (unlike his novel). (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45384674) |
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Date: October 24th, 2022 9:44 PM Author: Flirting Boiling Water Point I think Aldous' essays are fucking 180 man. Do you like James Baldwin and shit? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45384681) |
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Date: October 24th, 2022 10:33 PM Author: Exhilarant haunting depressive principal's office Theodore Dalrymple (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45384858) |
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Date: October 24th, 2022 11:12 PM Author: Flirting Boiling Water Point What should I read of his? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45385051) |
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Date: October 25th, 2022 12:24 AM Author: Exhilarant haunting depressive principal's office This one’s pretty good https://www.city-journal.org/html/frivolity-evil-12835.html |
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Date: October 25th, 2022 3:44 AM Author: Flirting Boiling Water Point TY (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45385686) |
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Date: October 24th, 2022 9:31 PM Author: Maize disgusting double fault institution Like who? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45384641) |
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Date: October 24th, 2022 9:34 PM Author: Flirting Boiling Water Point You can't tell me Shakespeare's shit is anywhere as complex or intricate as Faulkner's works. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45384652) |
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Date: October 24th, 2022 9:03 PM Author: slate skinny woman station My guess is Jesus was a pretty good writer. I mean, he’s God. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45384498) |
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Date: October 25th, 2022 4:39 AM Author: zippy selfie This thread is about historical figures only (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45385706) |
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Date: October 25th, 2022 4:43 AM Author: henna mexican Virtually all scholars of antiquity accept that Jesus was a historical figure,[note 1][note 2][4][5][6][7] although interpretations of a number of the events mentioned in the gospels (most notably his miracles and resurrection) vary and are a subject of debate. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45385709) |
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Date: October 26th, 2022 3:41 AM Author: zippy selfie Most of the quotations provided in those citations claiming that "no serious scholar doubts that Jesus existed" are from many years (or decades) ago and are now clearly obsolete, given that more than two dozen historians and biblical scholars have publicly commented on the matter in recent years to state either that they believe Jesus never existed, or that they personally believe he did exist but nevertheless grant that the position that he didn't exist is a respectable theory that deserves to be seriously debated by scholars and not dismissed as some implausible crackpot theory:
https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/21420 |
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Date: October 24th, 2022 9:07 PM Author: naked nofapping native (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45384517) |
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Date: October 24th, 2022 11:25 PM Author: Jade Alcoholic Property (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45385118) |
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Date: October 24th, 2022 9:08 PM Author: garnet plaza Him, Hitler, Evelyn Waugh, then Glenn Greenwald is the order (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45384522) |
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Date: October 25th, 2022 2:41 AM Author: Translucent Comical Knife Associate Hitler's fantastic at diagnosing problems, but his writing skills aren't top-tier.
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Date: October 24th, 2022 9:14 PM Author: Cheese-eating Public Bath Weed Whacker he bought and borrowed from everyone... really not even his own work (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45384539) |
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Date: October 24th, 2022 9:14 PM Author: Ebony Market Klauss Schwab (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45384541) |
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Date: October 24th, 2022 9:33 PM Author: Flirting Boiling Water Point He said greatest writer not greatest speaker (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45384650) |
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Date: October 24th, 2022 9:26 PM Author: cruel-hearted umber theater probably some GORGEOUS japanese writer that has never been translated for white trash (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45384608) |
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Date: October 24th, 2022 9:31 PM Author: Ebony Market (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45384643) |
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Date: October 26th, 2022 4:00 AM Author: Glittery pistol giraffe white trash is not the preferred nomenclature. birdshit, please (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45390457) |
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Date: October 24th, 2022 9:29 PM Author: Sick up-to-no-good parlor He understood the minds of human beings best (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45384634) |
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Date: October 24th, 2022 9:37 PM Author: blue trailer park Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45384662) |
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Date: October 24th, 2022 10:30 PM Author: Useless ruby abode dingle berry Rule of three.
And count the accents of that line. |
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Date: October 24th, 2022 9:50 PM Author: mahogany bat shit crazy background story I think Evan39 actually has a wider range and better technical skill but loses points for being full blown homo while Shakespeare was on the DL with his urges (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45384704) |
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Date: October 24th, 2022 9:54 PM Author: Flirting Boiling Water Point (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45384716) |
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Date: October 24th, 2022 10:27 PM Author: Useless ruby abode dingle berry Yes. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45384839) |
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Date: October 24th, 2022 10:36 PM Author: Trip parlour new version He's no Shelby Foote (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45384872) |
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Date: October 24th, 2022 11:20 PM Author: Jade Alcoholic Property honestly, uncle ted is a better writer despite being a significantly less skilled wordsmith.
i tend to weight powerful ideas being clearly expressed above verbal artistry |
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Date: October 24th, 2022 11:20 PM Author: Diverse arrogant codepig resort *fart* (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45385096) |
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Date: October 24th, 2022 11:25 PM Author: Jade Alcoholic Property (shitlib) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45385126) |
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Date: October 25th, 2022 2:30 AM Author: Dark vigorous locus digit ratio This thread is a good reminder of (or intro for newer poasters to) what a fucking retard whokebe is (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45385602) |
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Date: October 25th, 2022 8:46 AM Author: Razzmatazz Queen Of The Night Chad this is basically whok https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfG2PkB4NBE |
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Date: October 25th, 2022 2:35 AM Author: cordovan irate library He's shit and fraud and lies. Many famous Indian writers way better
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Date: October 25th, 2022 2:42 AM Author: Translucent Comical Knife Associate Like who? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45385621) |
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Date: October 25th, 2022 8:53 AM Author: house-broken curious crackhouse Go to any slightly off-brand porntube site and scroll down to the comments. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45386013) |
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Date: October 25th, 2022 3:34 AM Author: Cheese-eating Public Bath Weed Whacker this new theory proposes that some guy named Thomas North wrote most of it... https://lithub.com/whats-in-a-name-tracing-an-obsession-with-the-shakespeare-authorship-question/ |
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Date: October 25th, 2022 8:38 AM Author: bateful sound barrier heaven Bought Julius Caesar and Henry IV (pt 1 and 2) and Henry V Folger Editions off of Amazon. Any other recs? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45385972) |
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Date: October 25th, 2022 8:46 AM Author: Ocher electric stage many lawyers are paid $800 an hour or more for the quality of their writing. Was Shakespeare ever paid $800 an hour to write? case closed. |
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Date: October 25th, 2022 8:48 AM Author: Translucent Comical Knife Associate (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45385996) |
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Date: October 25th, 2022 8:59 AM Author: Effete Walnut Theater Stage He never got his picture on a bubble gum card. Have you ever seen his picture on a bubble gum card? Hmmm? How can you say someone is great who's never had his picture on a bubble gum card (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45386034) |
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Date: October 25th, 2022 9:03 AM Author: Effete Walnut Theater Stage With some qualifiers for translation and transcription for ancient writers; yes. And it's really a tier of his own with a few others fighting for a distant second. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45386045) |
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Date: May 9th, 2024 9:09 PM Author: Pearly Turdskin Home What exactly makes it THAT good that everyone else is so far behind? People make this claim all the time but why (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#47649483) |
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Date: May 9th, 2024 9:11 PM Author: Fluffy temple no but he was entertaining and creative (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#47649487) |
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Date: May 9th, 2024 9:11 PM Author: Pearly Turdskin Home Who is better (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#47649489) |
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Date: May 9th, 2024 9:12 PM Author: Fluffy temple Kurt Vonnegut, Isaac Asimov (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#47649491) |
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Date: May 9th, 2024 9:13 PM Author: Pearly Turdskin Home Ok I'll read (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#47649492) |