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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...
Translucent startling useless brakes
  12/29/25
49, if listening to the opera counts as reading Wagner's &qu...
Boyish fuchsia patrolman
  12/29/25
#22 may surprise you
Avocado State Selfie
  12/29/25
ran here - wow
180 violent mood
  12/30/25
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confused smoky really tough guy hissy fit
  01/01/26
25 I always liked to read and to write *eyes bug ou...
topaz passionate circlehead theatre
  12/29/25
2026 might be the year of book backlogs. 2025 was film and b...
Translucent startling useless brakes
  12/29/25
...
Galvanic white mental disorder liquid oxygen
  12/29/25
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Provocative Associate Sneaky Criminal
  12/29/25
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scarlet fragrant elastic band
  12/29/25
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Translucent startling useless brakes
  12/29/25
What a faggot, poser list of mostly shit.
Effete Emerald Psychic Stock Car
  12/29/25
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ebony cumskin
  01/01/26
40 The version of this list I remember from when I was a te...
Diverse umber area laser beams
  12/29/25
It was largely manga
Translucent startling useless brakes
  12/29/25
there was a 4chan recommendations wiki that had different pa...
Diverse umber area laser beams
  12/29/25
/lit/ is filled with faggots not even wasting my time rea...
Cerebral center
  12/29/25
Storm of Steel is a 180 book though
Translucent startling useless brakes
  12/29/25
There are some decent recs on there actually but they shoeho...
Cerebral center
  12/29/25
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scarlet fragrant elastic band
  12/29/25
Yeah those are 2 that stood out to me that seem shitty. I do...
Translucent startling useless brakes
  12/29/25
when we were all still in college EVERYONE here sucked off i...
Cerebral center
  12/29/25
Recommend some based 180 books
Translucent startling useless brakes
  12/29/25
people are hating to be contrarian but this list is actually...
Provocative Associate Sneaky Criminal
  12/29/25
greatest books of all time clockwork orange the great gats...
Cerebral center
  12/29/25
do they say the unedited UK clockwork orange with last chapt...
scarlet fragrant elastic band
  12/29/25
wow a handful out of 100 are bad i guess the list sucks
Provocative Associate Sneaky Criminal
  12/29/25
how bad is spring snow? i thought mishima was just famous fo...
Misanthropic Range Place Of Business
  12/29/25
...
Drab parlor legal warrant
  12/30/25
the Spring Snow movie is decent, book is boring imo and yeah...
Geriatric milky dopamine
  12/30/25
correct
180 violent mood
  12/30/25
All Along the Western Front should be on there even though i...
scarlet fragrant elastic band
  12/29/25
ernst junger's storm of steel has replaced it as the canonic...
Talented Plaza Puppy
  12/29/25
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Drab parlor legal warrant
  12/29/25
...
Misanthropic Range Place Of Business
  12/29/25
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrHK7FNgnrM
Cerebral center
  12/29/25
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Drab parlor legal warrant
  12/29/25
24/50 and then i lost interest. way more than expected give...
Light gunner
  12/29/25
30
arousing fanboi spot
  12/29/25
I've read 28, broken down roughly as follows: Middle Scho...
iridescent beta fortuitous meteor
  12/29/25
I have read about half these. Some of these picks are pure c...
razzle tan kitchen son of senegal
  12/29/25
look if you're not gonna acknowledge kant just gtfo of the t...
Provocative Associate Sneaky Criminal
  12/29/25
I acknowledge Kant bro but I also acknowledge that I don&rsq...
razzle tan kitchen son of senegal
  12/29/25
yeah i tried to read it myself and gave up it was too hard f...
Provocative Associate Sneaky Criminal
  12/29/25
Same lmao
razzle tan kitchen son of senegal
  12/29/25
I read it in a seminar class where it was the only assigned ...
marvelous box office background story
  12/30/25
Oh? You haven't read all six volumes of A la recherche du te...
topaz passionate circlehead theatre
  12/30/25
Si, je les ai lus tous
razzle tan kitchen son of senegal
  12/30/25
Lol cr
Charismatic masturbator boistinker
  01/01/26
16 lol
hideous beady-eyed abode prole
  12/30/25
95. List is OK with some retardation sprinkled in.
marvelous box office background story
  12/30/25
...
crystalline aphrodisiac goal in life market
  01/01/26
BEE over Jane austen is certainly edgy and cool of them!
marvelous box office background story
  12/30/25
>The Summa at 88
crystalline aphrodisiac goal in life market
  01/01/26
Is infinite jest cr? Always assumed it was a faggot gen x fa...
Charismatic masturbator boistinker
  01/01/26
yes even though your assumption is true
Misanthropic Range Place Of Business
  01/01/26
Ok but for further evidence can you list ur favorite handful...
Charismatic masturbator boistinker
  01/01/26
DFW is a good writer but man gen x is going down as an irrel...
marvelous box office background story
  01/01/26
Lol at all the AZN shit and the Andrew Tate type shit
Charismatic masturbator boistinker
  01/01/26
93
maroon location affirmative action
  01/01/26


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Date: December 29th, 2025 2:52 PM
Author: Translucent startling useless brakes

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: Boyish fuchsia patrolman

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: Avocado State Selfie

#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: 180 violent mood

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: confused smoky really tough guy hissy fit



(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: topaz passionate circlehead theatre

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: Translucent startling useless brakes

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: Galvanic white mental disorder liquid oxygen



(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: Provocative Associate Sneaky Criminal



(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: scarlet fragrant elastic band



(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: Translucent startling useless brakes



(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: Effete Emerald Psychic Stock Car

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: ebony cumskin



(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: Diverse umber area laser beams

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: Translucent startling useless brakes

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: Diverse umber area laser beams

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: Cerebral center

/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: Translucent startling useless brakes

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: Cerebral center

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: scarlet fragrant elastic band



(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: Translucent startling useless brakes

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: Cerebral center

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: Translucent startling useless brakes

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: Provocative Associate Sneaky Criminal

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: Cerebral center

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: scarlet fragrant elastic band

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: Provocative Associate Sneaky Criminal

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: Misanthropic Range Place Of Business

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: Drab parlor legal warrant



(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: Geriatric milky dopamine

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: 180 violent mood

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: scarlet fragrant elastic band

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: Talented Plaza Puppy

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: Drab parlor legal warrant



(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: Misanthropic Range Place Of Business



(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: Cerebral center

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: Drab parlor legal warrant



(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: Light gunner

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 fanboi spot

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: iridescent beta fortuitous meteor

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: razzle tan kitchen son of senegal

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: Provocative Associate Sneaky Criminal

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: razzle tan kitchen son of senegal

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: Provocative Associate Sneaky Criminal

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: razzle tan kitchen son of senegal

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: marvelous box office background story

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: topaz passionate circlehead theatre

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: razzle tan kitchen son of senegal

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: Charismatic masturbator boistinker

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: hideous beady-eyed abode prole

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: marvelous box office background story

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: crystalline aphrodisiac goal in life market



(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: marvelous box office background story

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: crystalline aphrodisiac goal in life market

>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: Charismatic masturbator boistinker

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: Misanthropic Range Place Of Business

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: Charismatic masturbator boistinker

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: marvelous box office background story

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: Charismatic masturbator boistinker

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: maroon location affirmative action

93

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