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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...
drunken lemon indian lodge
  12/29/25
49, if listening to the opera counts as reading Wagner's &qu...
galvanic startling clown
  12/29/25
#22 may surprise you
hot odious pozpig
  12/29/25
ran here - wow
Slippery Soul-stirring Potus
  12/30/25
...
Quality Learing Center alumnus
  01/01/26
25 I always liked to read and to write *eyes bug ou...
avocado confused principal's office friendly grandma
  12/29/25
2026 might be the year of book backlogs. 2025 was film and b...
drunken lemon indian lodge
  12/29/25
...
swashbuckling outnumbered organic girlfriend police squad
  12/29/25
...
concupiscible painfully honest office laser beams
  12/29/25
...
Pink histrionic university
  12/29/25
...
drunken lemon indian lodge
  12/29/25
What a faggot, poser list of mostly shit.
Naked Sable Brunch
  12/29/25
...
Roblox
  01/01/26
40 The version of this list I remember from when I was a te...
Talented Ape
  12/29/25
It was largely manga
drunken lemon indian lodge
  12/29/25
there was a 4chan recommendations wiki that had different pa...
Talented Ape
  12/29/25
/lit/ is filled with faggots not even wasting my time rea...
judgmental electric furnace
  12/29/25
Storm of Steel is a 180 book though
drunken lemon indian lodge
  12/29/25
There are some decent recs on there actually but they shoeho...
judgmental electric furnace
  12/29/25
...
Pink histrionic university
  12/29/25
Yeah those are 2 that stood out to me that seem shitty. I do...
drunken lemon indian lodge
  12/29/25
when we were all still in college EVERYONE here sucked off i...
judgmental electric furnace
  12/29/25
Recommend some based 180 books
drunken lemon indian lodge
  12/29/25
people are hating to be contrarian but this list is actually...
concupiscible painfully honest office laser beams
  12/29/25
greatest books of all time clockwork orange the great gats...
judgmental electric furnace
  12/29/25
do they say the unedited UK clockwork orange with last chapt...
Pink histrionic university
  12/29/25
wow a handful out of 100 are bad i guess the list sucks
concupiscible painfully honest office laser beams
  12/29/25
how bad is spring snow? i thought mishima was just famous fo...
thriller area
  12/29/25
on its own it's quite captivating, but it certainly doesn't ...
overrated locale patrolman
  12/30/25
the Spring Snow movie is decent, book is boring imo and yeah...
Bonkers home selfie
  12/30/25
correct
Slippery Soul-stirring Potus
  12/30/25
All Along the Western Front should be on there even though i...
Pink histrionic university
  12/29/25
ernst junger's storm of steel has replaced it as the canonic...
aquamarine hell prole
  12/29/25
lol at mishima having 3 books on this extremely gay list, co...
overrated locale patrolman
  12/29/25
...
thriller area
  12/29/25
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrHK7FNgnrM
judgmental electric furnace
  12/29/25
i assume everyone knows that mishima was a flaming lisping h...
overrated locale patrolman
  12/29/25
24/50 and then i lost interest. way more than expected give...
Seedy corner
  12/29/25
30
Walnut soggy dilemma
  12/29/25
I've read 28, broken down roughly as follows: Middle Scho...
sepia halford
  12/29/25
I have read about half these. Some of these picks are pure c...
Twinkling striped hyena
  12/29/25
look if you're not gonna acknowledge kant just gtfo of the t...
concupiscible painfully honest office laser beams
  12/29/25
I acknowledge Kant bro but I also acknowledge that I don&rsq...
Twinkling striped hyena
  12/29/25
yeah i tried to read it myself and gave up it was too hard f...
concupiscible painfully honest office laser beams
  12/29/25
Same lmao
Twinkling striped hyena
  12/29/25
I read it in a seminar class where it was the only assigned ...
irradiated milky church building hairy legs
  12/30/25
Oh? You haven't read all six volumes of A la recherche du te...
avocado confused principal's office friendly grandma
  12/30/25
Si, je les ai lus tous
Twinkling striped hyena
  12/30/25
Lol cr
MAHA Movement
  01/01/26
16 lol
curious school partner
  12/30/25
95. List is OK with some retardation sprinkled in.
irradiated milky church building hairy legs
  12/30/25
...
Christoph Waltz stare
  01/01/26
BEE over Jane austen is certainly edgy and cool of them!
irradiated milky church building hairy legs
  12/30/25
>The Summa at 88
Christoph Waltz stare
  01/01/26
Is infinite jest cr? Always assumed it was a faggot gen x fa...
MAHA Movement
  01/01/26
yes even though your assumption is true
Brother Peter Dimond
  01/01/26
Ok but for further evidence can you list ur favorite handful...
MAHA Movement
  01/01/26
DFW is a good writer but man gen x is going down as an irrel...
the cathedral of light
  01/01/26
Lol at all the AZN shit and the Andrew Tate type shit
MAHA Movement
  01/01/26
93
....;...:.;..;;
  01/01/26


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Date: December 29th, 2025 2:52 PM
Author: drunken lemon indian lodge

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: galvanic startling clown

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: hot odious pozpig

#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: Slippery Soul-stirring Potus

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: Quality Learing Center alumnus (βœ…πŸ‘)



(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: avocado confused principal's office friendly grandma

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: drunken lemon indian lodge

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: swashbuckling outnumbered organic girlfriend police squad



(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: concupiscible painfully honest office laser beams



(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: Pink histrionic university



(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: drunken lemon indian lodge



(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: Naked Sable Brunch

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: Roblox



(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: Talented Ape

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: drunken lemon indian lodge

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: Talented Ape

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: judgmental electric furnace

/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: drunken lemon indian lodge

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: judgmental electric furnace

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: Pink histrionic university



(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: drunken lemon indian lodge

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: judgmental electric furnace

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: drunken lemon indian lodge

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: concupiscible painfully honest office laser beams

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: judgmental electric furnace

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: Pink histrionic university

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: concupiscible painfully honest office laser beams

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: thriller area

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: overrated locale patrolman

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: Bonkers home selfie

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: Slippery Soul-stirring Potus

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: Pink histrionic university

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: aquamarine hell prole

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: overrated locale patrolman

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: thriller area



(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: judgmental electric furnace

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: overrated locale patrolman

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: Seedy corner

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: Walnut soggy dilemma

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: sepia halford

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: Twinkling striped hyena

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: concupiscible painfully honest office laser beams

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: Twinkling striped hyena

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: concupiscible painfully honest office laser beams

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: Twinkling striped hyena

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: irradiated milky church building hairy legs

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: avocado confused principal's office friendly grandma

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: Twinkling striped hyena

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: MAHA Movement

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: curious school partner

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: irradiated milky church building hairy legs

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: Christoph Waltz stare (πŸΎπŸ‘£)



(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: irradiated milky church building hairy legs

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: Christoph Waltz stare (πŸΎπŸ‘£)

>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: MAHA Movement

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: Brother Peter Dimond

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: MAHA Movement

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: the cathedral of light

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: MAHA Movement

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: ....;...:.;..;;

93

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