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4chan's list of top books of all time. How many of these have you read?

https://x.com/andrewchen/status/2005289538189738278 I have r...
indecent swollen useless brakes selfie
  12/29/25
49, if listening to the opera counts as reading Wagner's &qu...
Plum Duck-like Wagecucks Wrinkle
  12/29/25
#22 may surprise you
Glittery new version partner
  12/29/25
ran here - wow
comical chestnut sanctuary
  12/30/25
...
infuriating beady-eyed lodge
  01/01/26
25 I always liked to read and to write *eyes bug ou...
Vigorous heaven
  12/29/25
2026 might be the year of book backlogs. 2025 was film and b...
indecent swollen useless brakes selfie
  12/29/25
...
Irradiated Den
  12/29/25
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flushed liquid oxygen
  12/29/25
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Thriller fishy trust fund
  12/29/25
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indecent swollen useless brakes selfie
  12/29/25
What a faggot, poser list of mostly shit.
180 Fighting Chapel
  12/29/25
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Black weed whacker
  01/01/26
40 The version of this list I remember from when I was a te...
adventurous gunner field
  12/29/25
It was largely manga
indecent swollen useless brakes selfie
  12/29/25
there was a 4chan recommendations wiki that had different pa...
adventurous gunner field
  12/29/25
/lit/ is filled with faggots not even wasting my time rea...
iridescent hot jew
  12/29/25
Storm of Steel is a 180 book though
indecent swollen useless brakes selfie
  12/29/25
There are some decent recs on there actually but they shoeho...
iridescent hot jew
  12/29/25
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Thriller fishy trust fund
  12/29/25
Yeah those are 2 that stood out to me that seem shitty. I do...
indecent swollen useless brakes selfie
  12/29/25
when we were all still in college EVERYONE here sucked off i...
iridescent hot jew
  12/29/25
Recommend some based 180 books
indecent swollen useless brakes selfie
  12/29/25
people are hating to be contrarian but this list is actually...
flushed liquid oxygen
  12/29/25
greatest books of all time clockwork orange the great gats...
iridescent hot jew
  12/29/25
do they say the unedited UK clockwork orange with last chapt...
Thriller fishy trust fund
  12/29/25
wow a handful out of 100 are bad i guess the list sucks
flushed liquid oxygen
  12/29/25
how bad is spring snow? i thought mishima was just famous fo...
Disturbing kitty cat
  12/29/25
on its own it's quite captivating, but it certainly doesn't ...
Narrow-minded peach roommate
  12/30/25
the Spring Snow movie is decent, book is boring imo and yeah...
cowardly school double fault
  12/30/25
correct
comical chestnut sanctuary
  12/30/25
All Along the Western Front should be on there even though i...
Thriller fishy trust fund
  12/29/25
ernst junger's storm of steel has replaced it as the canonic...
angry point dysfunction
  12/29/25
lol at mishima having 3 books on this extremely gay list, co...
Narrow-minded peach roommate
  12/29/25
...
Disturbing kitty cat
  12/29/25
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrHK7FNgnrM
iridescent hot jew
  12/29/25
i assume everyone knows that mishima was a flaming lisping h...
Narrow-minded peach roommate
  12/29/25
24/50 and then i lost interest. way more than expected give...
Vivacious ruddy church building old irish cottage
  12/29/25
30
arousing dragon
  12/29/25
I've read 28, broken down roughly as follows: Middle Scho...
amethyst mood cuckold
  12/29/25
I have read about half these. Some of these picks are pure c...
Light insanely creepy scourge upon the earth parlour
  12/29/25
look if you're not gonna acknowledge kant just gtfo of the t...
flushed liquid oxygen
  12/29/25
I acknowledge Kant bro but I also acknowledge that I don&rsq...
Light insanely creepy scourge upon the earth parlour
  12/29/25
yeah i tried to read it myself and gave up it was too hard f...
flushed liquid oxygen
  12/29/25
Same lmao
Light insanely creepy scourge upon the earth parlour
  12/29/25
I read it in a seminar class where it was the only assigned ...
Frisky contagious meetinghouse feces
  12/30/25
Oh? You haven't read all six volumes of A la recherche du te...
Vigorous heaven
  12/30/25
Si, je les ai lus tous
Light insanely creepy scourge upon the earth parlour
  12/30/25
Lol cr
sienna exciting state deer antler
  01/01/26
16 lol
low-t provocative tattoo
  12/30/25
95. List is OK with some retardation sprinkled in.
Frisky contagious meetinghouse feces
  12/30/25
...
Motley Church
  01/01/26
BEE over Jane austen is certainly edgy and cool of them!
Frisky contagious meetinghouse feces
  12/30/25
>The Summa at 88
Motley Church
  01/01/26
Is infinite jest cr? Always assumed it was a faggot gen x fa...
sienna exciting state deer antler
  01/01/26
yes even though your assumption is true
Disturbing kitty cat
  01/01/26
Ok but for further evidence can you list ur favorite handful...
sienna exciting state deer antler
  01/01/26
DFW is a good writer but man gen x is going down as an irrel...
Frisky contagious meetinghouse feces
  01/01/26
Lol at all the AZN shit and the Andrew Tate type shit
sienna exciting state deer antler
  01/01/26
93
chartreuse bonkers theatre knife
  01/01/26


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Date: December 29th, 2025 2:52 PM
Author: indecent swollen useless brakes selfie

https://x.com/andrewchen/status/2005289538189738278 I have read 11 of these. Should I add the rest to my backlog? I feel like I don't ever wanna read Joyce or any german novelist again or any "philosopher"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2#49547555)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 2:59 PM
Author: Plum Duck-like Wagecucks Wrinkle

49, if listening to the opera counts as reading Wagner's "Ring of the Nibelung"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2#49547568)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 2:59 PM
Author: Glittery new version partner

#22 may surprise you

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



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Date: December 30th, 2025 10:43 AM
Author: comical chestnut sanctuary

ran here - wow

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



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Date: January 1st, 2026 7:02 PM
Author: infuriating beady-eyed lodge



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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 3:01 PM
Author: Vigorous heaven

25

I always liked

to read and to write

*eyes bug out of head, anus prolapses*

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2#49547574)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 3:36 PM
Author: indecent swollen useless brakes selfie

2026 might be the year of book backlogs. 2025 was film and before that, gaming, before doodikoff made it passé

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2#49547656)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:07 PM
Author: Irradiated Den



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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:10 PM
Author: flushed liquid oxygen



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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:21 PM
Author: Thriller fishy trust fund



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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:47 PM
Author: indecent swollen useless brakes selfie



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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 3:04 PM
Author: 180 Fighting Chapel

What a faggot, poser list of mostly shit.

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



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Date: January 1st, 2026 6:22 PM
Author: Black weed whacker



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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 3:34 PM
Author: adventurous gunner field

40

The version of this list I remember from when I was a teen on 4chan (so ~2012) was better

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2#49547646)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:03 PM
Author: indecent swollen useless brakes selfie

It was largely manga

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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:18 PM
Author: adventurous gunner field

there was a 4chan recommendations wiki that had different pages for novels, manga, digital/visual novels etc

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2#49548179)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:11 PM
Author: iridescent hot jew

/lit/ is filled with faggots

not even wasting my time reading this

its like asking /tv/ for tv show recs

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2#49548155)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:13 PM
Author: indecent swollen useless brakes selfie

Storm of Steel is a 180 book though

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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:15 PM
Author: iridescent hot jew

There are some decent recs on there actually but they shoehorn dumb shit like infinite jest and a thousand years of solitude and jew trash

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2#49548165)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:22 PM
Author: Thriller fishy trust fund



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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:26 PM
Author: indecent swollen useless brakes selfie

Yeah those are 2 that stood out to me that seem shitty. I don't want to ever read anything a south american wrote. "magical realism" is the worst genre or beaner slop imo. And infinite jest just feels reddity but I've never read any of it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2#49548203)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:28 PM
Author: iridescent hot jew

when we were all still in college EVERYONE here sucked off infinite jest non stop, multiple 300+ poast threads about it

bunch of poser fags here

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2#49548208)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:47 PM
Author: indecent swollen useless brakes selfie

Recommend some based 180 books

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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:18 PM
Author: flushed liquid oxygen

people are hating to be contrarian but this list is actually pretty good imo

yeah it's not perfect but it's better than almost any other "best books" list you will ever see

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2#49548177)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:19 PM
Author: iridescent hot jew

greatest books of all time

clockwork orange

the great gatsby

spring snow

etc etc

give me a break

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2#49548184)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:23 PM
Author: Thriller fishy trust fund

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

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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:26 PM
Author: flushed liquid oxygen

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

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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:33 PM
Author: Disturbing kitty cat

how bad is spring snow? i thought mishima was just famous for his failed coup+killing self and being a weird homo, no idea people thought so highly of any of his writing

list is fairly credited though. lol'd at all the dostoevsky books so high even though i like them. tells you the type of doods making this list

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2#49548215)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 2:33 AM
Author: Narrow-minded peach roommate

on its own it's quite captivating, but it certainly doesn't belong anywhere near the top 1000 books of all time, let alone 100, and reading the rest of the sea of fertility tetralogy reveals it to be a degenerate game played by a mentally ill homosexual.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2#49549208)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 4:21 PM
Author: cowardly school double fault

the Spring Snow movie is decent, book is boring imo and yeah he's a huge fag

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2#49550529)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 2:03 PM
Author: comical chestnut sanctuary

correct

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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:26 PM
Author: Thriller fishy trust fund

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

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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:31 PM
Author: angry point dysfunction

ernst junger's storm of steel has replaced it as the canonical WWI account.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2#49548213)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:50 PM
Author: Narrow-minded peach roommate

lol at mishima having 3 books on this extremely gay list, compiled by homos on 4chan, of gay books written by gay authors for their gay audience

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2#49548259)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:50 PM
Author: Disturbing kitty cat



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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:53 PM
Author: iridescent hot jew

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

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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:58 PM
Author: Narrow-minded peach roommate

i assume everyone knows that mishima was a flaming lisping homo who larped as a samurai. less known is the fact that when he competed in kendo, he also fought, befitting a homo, in the least manly way possible -- the complete opposite of what he describes in runaway horses.

ps. it looks like there are 2 books by him, not 3. that's still 2 too many.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2#49548283)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:55 PM
Author: Vivacious ruddy church building old irish cottage

24/50 and then i lost interest. way more than expected given my utter lack of interest in classical literature. I would happily replace 1/2 of these with isaac asimov. Including a lot of the russians. Anna Karenina is trash.

Ok 20/50 for the bottom 50. Still no asimov. I only came back to check. I mean dune ffs but not asimov?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2#49548276)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:56 PM
Author: arousing dragon

30

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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 8:18 PM
Author: amethyst mood cuckold

I've read 28, broken down roughly as follows:

Middle School: ~4

High School: ~10

College: ~4

The remaining ~10 were when I was in my early 30s or so and for a while chose what to read by simply going down a list of the best 100 novels of all time (which looked very similar to this list) and read whichever ones were under 300 pages.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2#49548372)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 10:33 PM
Author: Light insanely creepy scourge upon the earth parlour

I have read about half these. Some of these picks are pure crap. Also, the idea that people are sitting around reading a critique of pure reason, the world as will and representation, phenomenology of spirit etc is preposterous. Those books were just added because the people who out the list together are poseurs. You can probably identify the true nature of the faggots who out the list together by isolating the bad picks on the list and assuming they have not read the good picks on the list.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2#49548914)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 10:47 PM
Author: flushed liquid oxygen

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

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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 10:59 PM
Author: Light insanely creepy scourge upon the earth parlour

I acknowledge Kant bro but I also acknowledge that I don’t have the time or inclination to read critique of pure reason and am smart enough to know how much intelligence and effort would be required to appreciate the book. These people haven’t read Kant, never will, certainly will never put in the time to understand it, but that’s not going to stop them from putting him on the list along with Hegel and Schopenhauer (they haven’t read them either)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2#49548984)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 11:00 PM
Author: flushed liquid oxygen

yeah i tried to read it myself and gave up it was too hard for me lmao

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2#49548987)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 11:01 PM
Author: Light insanely creepy scourge upon the earth parlour

Same lmao

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



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Date: December 30th, 2025 2:54 AM
Author: Frisky contagious meetinghouse feces

I read it in a seminar class where it was the only assigned text.

Read the prolegomena instead if you just want to read some kantian metaphysics for fun

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2#49549210)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 2:55 AM
Author: Vigorous heaven

Oh? You haven't read all six volumes of A la recherche du temps perdu?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2#49549211)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 4:20 PM
Author: Light insanely creepy scourge upon the earth parlour

Si, je les ai lus tous

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



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Date: January 1st, 2026 6:31 PM
Author: sienna exciting state deer antler

Lol cr

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



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Date: December 30th, 2025 2:45 AM
Author: low-t provocative tattoo

16 lol

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



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Date: December 30th, 2025 2:59 AM
Author: Frisky contagious meetinghouse feces

95.

List is OK with some retardation sprinkled in.

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



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Date: January 1st, 2026 5:45 PM
Author: Motley Church



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



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Date: December 30th, 2025 3:08 AM
Author: Frisky contagious meetinghouse feces

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

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



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Date: January 1st, 2026 5:48 PM
Author: Motley Church

>The Summa at 88

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



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Date: January 1st, 2026 6:14 PM
Author: sienna exciting state deer antler

Is infinite jest cr? Always assumed it was a faggot gen x fart smelling fest

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2#49554916)



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Date: January 1st, 2026 6:49 PM
Author: Disturbing kitty cat

yes even though your assumption is true

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



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Date: January 1st, 2026 7:01 PM
Author: sienna exciting state deer antler

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

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



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Date: January 1st, 2026 6:51 PM
Author: Frisky contagious meetinghouse feces

DFW is a good writer but man gen x is going down as an irrelevant generation and culture

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2#49555021)



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Date: January 1st, 2026 7:07 PM
Author: sienna exciting state deer antler

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

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



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Date: January 1st, 2026 7:08 PM
Author: chartreuse bonkers theatre knife

93

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