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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...
Very Tactful Domesticated Travel Guidebook Box Office
  12/29/25
49, if listening to the opera counts as reading Wagner's &qu...
Grizzly Self-absorbed Spot
  12/29/25
#22 may surprise you
opaque patrolman
  12/29/25
ran here - wow
Hyperventilating sweet tailpipe
  12/30/25
...
gaped razzle-dazzle school cafeteria
  01/01/26
25 I always liked to read and to write *eyes bug ou...
wonderful seedy fortuitous meteor
  12/29/25
2026 might be the year of book backlogs. 2025 was film and b...
Very Tactful Domesticated Travel Guidebook Box Office
  12/29/25
...
Mischievous Immigrant Sound Barrier
  12/29/25
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Thriller regret church
  12/29/25
...
Dark fighting coffee pot
  12/29/25
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Very Tactful Domesticated Travel Guidebook Box Office
  12/29/25
What a faggot, poser list of mostly shit.
blathering parlour mexican
  12/29/25
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Nighttime cream forum potus
  01/01/26
40 The version of this list I remember from when I was a te...
Embarrassed To The Bone Field
  12/29/25
It was largely manga
Very Tactful Domesticated Travel Guidebook Box Office
  12/29/25
there was a 4chan recommendations wiki that had different pa...
Embarrassed To The Bone Field
  12/29/25
/lit/ is filled with faggots not even wasting my time rea...
bateful drab wagecucks
  12/29/25
Storm of Steel is a 180 book though
Very Tactful Domesticated Travel Guidebook Box Office
  12/29/25
There are some decent recs on there actually but they shoeho...
bateful drab wagecucks
  12/29/25
...
Dark fighting coffee pot
  12/29/25
Yeah those are 2 that stood out to me that seem shitty. I do...
Very Tactful Domesticated Travel Guidebook Box Office
  12/29/25
when we were all still in college EVERYONE here sucked off i...
bateful drab wagecucks
  12/29/25
Recommend some based 180 books
Very Tactful Domesticated Travel Guidebook Box Office
  12/29/25
people are hating to be contrarian but this list is actually...
Thriller regret church
  12/29/25
greatest books of all time clockwork orange the great gats...
bateful drab wagecucks
  12/29/25
do they say the unedited UK clockwork orange with last chapt...
Dark fighting coffee pot
  12/29/25
wow a handful out of 100 are bad i guess the list sucks
Thriller regret church
  12/29/25
how bad is spring snow? i thought mishima was just famous fo...
clear kitty national
  12/29/25
on its own it's quite captivating, but it certainly doesn't ...
chest-beating dilemma
  12/30/25
the Spring Snow movie is decent, book is boring imo and yeah...
Rose karate
  12/30/25
correct
Hyperventilating sweet tailpipe
  12/30/25
All Along the Western Front should be on there even though i...
Dark fighting coffee pot
  12/29/25
ernst junger's storm of steel has replaced it as the canonic...
up-to-no-good stimulating rigor menage
  12/29/25
lol at mishima having 3 books on this extremely gay list, co...
chest-beating dilemma
  12/29/25
...
clear kitty national
  12/29/25
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrHK7FNgnrM
bateful drab wagecucks
  12/29/25
i assume everyone knows that mishima was a flaming lisping h...
chest-beating dilemma
  12/29/25
24/50 and then i lost interest. way more than expected give...
Lavender Titillating Internal Respiration Idiot
  12/29/25
30
Trip Aqua People Who Are Hurt
  12/29/25
I've read 28, broken down roughly as follows: Middle Scho...
Red overrated feces gunner
  12/29/25
I have read about half these. Some of these picks are pure c...
aquamarine heady cumskin weed whacker
  12/29/25
look if you're not gonna acknowledge kant just gtfo of the t...
Thriller regret church
  12/29/25
I acknowledge Kant bro but I also acknowledge that I don&rsq...
aquamarine heady cumskin weed whacker
  12/29/25
yeah i tried to read it myself and gave up it was too hard f...
Thriller regret church
  12/29/25
Same lmao
aquamarine heady cumskin weed whacker
  12/29/25
I read it in a seminar class where it was the only assigned ...
boyish home
  12/30/25
Oh? You haven't read all six volumes of A la recherche du te...
wonderful seedy fortuitous meteor
  12/30/25
Si, je les ai lus tous
aquamarine heady cumskin weed whacker
  12/30/25
Lol cr
aphrodisiac silver locale famous landscape painting
  01/01/26
16 lol
adventurous cobalt gaping
  12/30/25
95. List is OK with some retardation sprinkled in.
boyish home
  12/30/25
...
Know-it-all talented lodge
  01/01/26
BEE over Jane austen is certainly edgy and cool of them!
boyish home
  12/30/25
>The Summa at 88
Know-it-all talented lodge
  01/01/26
Is infinite jest cr? Always assumed it was a faggot gen x fa...
aphrodisiac silver locale famous landscape painting
  01/01/26
yes even though your assumption is true
clear kitty national
  01/01/26
Ok but for further evidence can you list ur favorite handful...
aphrodisiac silver locale famous landscape painting
  01/01/26
DFW is a good writer but man gen x is going down as an irrel...
boyish home
  01/01/26
Lol at all the AZN shit and the Andrew Tate type shit
aphrodisiac silver locale famous landscape painting
  01/01/26
93
arrogant spruce range mediation
  01/01/26


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Date: December 29th, 2025 2:52 PM
Author: Very Tactful Domesticated Travel Guidebook Box Office

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: Grizzly Self-absorbed Spot

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: opaque patrolman

#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: Hyperventilating sweet tailpipe

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: gaped razzle-dazzle school cafeteria



(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: wonderful seedy fortuitous meteor

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: Very Tactful Domesticated Travel Guidebook Box Office

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: Mischievous Immigrant Sound Barrier



(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: Thriller regret church



(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: Dark fighting coffee pot



(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: Very Tactful Domesticated Travel Guidebook Box Office



(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: blathering parlour mexican

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: Nighttime cream forum potus



(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: Embarrassed To The Bone 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: Very Tactful Domesticated Travel Guidebook Box Office

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: Embarrassed To The Bone 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: bateful drab wagecucks

/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: Very Tactful Domesticated Travel Guidebook Box Office

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: bateful drab wagecucks

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: Dark fighting coffee pot



(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: Very Tactful Domesticated Travel Guidebook Box Office

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: bateful drab wagecucks

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: Very Tactful Domesticated Travel Guidebook Box Office

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: Thriller regret church

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: bateful drab wagecucks

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: Dark fighting coffee pot

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: Thriller regret church

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: clear kitty national

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: chest-beating dilemma

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: Rose karate

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: Hyperventilating sweet tailpipe

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: Dark fighting coffee pot

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: up-to-no-good stimulating rigor menage

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: chest-beating dilemma

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: clear kitty national



(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: bateful drab wagecucks

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: chest-beating dilemma

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: Lavender Titillating Internal Respiration Idiot

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: Trip Aqua People Who Are Hurt

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: Red overrated feces gunner

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: aquamarine heady cumskin weed whacker

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: Thriller regret church

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: aquamarine heady cumskin weed whacker

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: Thriller regret church

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: aquamarine heady cumskin weed whacker

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: boyish home

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: wonderful seedy fortuitous meteor

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: aquamarine heady cumskin weed whacker

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: aphrodisiac silver locale famous landscape painting

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: adventurous cobalt gaping

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: boyish home

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: Know-it-all talented lodge



(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: boyish home

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: Know-it-all talented lodge

>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: aphrodisiac silver locale famous landscape painting

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: clear kitty national

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: aphrodisiac silver locale famous landscape painting

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: boyish home

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: aphrodisiac silver locale famous landscape painting

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: arrogant spruce range mediation

93

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