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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...
Internet-worthy Zippy Black Woman Native
  12/29/25
49, if listening to the opera counts as reading Wagner's &qu...
grizzly galvanic parlour people who are hurt
  12/29/25
#22 may surprise you
Abnormal casino
  12/29/25
ran here - wow
Emerald sandwich
  12/30/25
...
odious hairy legs
  01/01/26
25 I always liked to read and to write *eyes bug ou...
Dashing plum queen of the night base
  12/29/25
2026 might be the year of book backlogs. 2025 was film and b...
Internet-worthy Zippy Black Woman Native
  12/29/25
...
Multi-colored citrine idea he suggested
  12/29/25
...
Talented Iridescent Theatre Liquid Oxygen
  12/29/25
...
autistic state dingle berry
  12/29/25
...
Internet-worthy Zippy Black Woman Native
  12/29/25
What a faggot, poser list of mostly shit.
Trip Narrow-minded Gay Wizard
  12/29/25
...
spectacular fortuitous meteor space
  01/01/26
40 The version of this list I remember from when I was a te...
Stirring hateful business firm stain
  12/29/25
It was largely manga
Internet-worthy Zippy Black Woman Native
  12/29/25
there was a 4chan recommendations wiki that had different pa...
Stirring hateful business firm stain
  12/29/25
/lit/ is filled with faggots not even wasting my time rea...
adventurous mewling gunner church building
  12/29/25
Storm of Steel is a 180 book though
Internet-worthy Zippy Black Woman Native
  12/29/25
There are some decent recs on there actually but they shoeho...
adventurous mewling gunner church building
  12/29/25
...
autistic state dingle berry
  12/29/25
Yeah those are 2 that stood out to me that seem shitty. I do...
Internet-worthy Zippy Black Woman Native
  12/29/25
when we were all still in college EVERYONE here sucked off i...
adventurous mewling gunner church building
  12/29/25
Recommend some based 180 books
Internet-worthy Zippy Black Woman Native
  12/29/25
people are hating to be contrarian but this list is actually...
Talented Iridescent Theatre Liquid Oxygen
  12/29/25
greatest books of all time clockwork orange the great gats...
adventurous mewling gunner church building
  12/29/25
do they say the unedited UK clockwork orange with last chapt...
autistic state dingle berry
  12/29/25
wow a handful out of 100 are bad i guess the list sucks
Talented Iridescent Theatre Liquid Oxygen
  12/29/25
how bad is spring snow? i thought mishima was just famous fo...
swashbuckling rough-skinned background story
  12/29/25
on its own it's quite captivating, but it certainly doesn't ...
aphrodisiac sickened laser beams reading party
  12/30/25
the Spring Snow movie is decent, book is boring imo and yeah...
Hilarious Twinkling Uncleanness
  12/30/25
correct
Emerald sandwich
  12/30/25
All Along the Western Front should be on there even though i...
autistic state dingle berry
  12/29/25
ernst junger's storm of steel has replaced it as the canonic...
white duck-like patrolman
  12/29/25
lol at mishima having 3 books on this extremely gay list, co...
aphrodisiac sickened laser beams reading party
  12/29/25
...
swashbuckling rough-skinned background story
  12/29/25
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrHK7FNgnrM
adventurous mewling gunner church building
  12/29/25
i assume everyone knows that mishima was a flaming lisping h...
aphrodisiac sickened laser beams reading party
  12/29/25
24/50 and then i lost interest. way more than expected give...
Copper Beta Party Of The First Part
  12/29/25
30
lascivious police squad
  12/29/25
I've read 28, broken down roughly as follows: Middle Scho...
charismatic spruce potus
  12/29/25
I have read about half these. Some of these picks are pure c...
Chestnut Exhilarant Theater Stage Immigrant
  12/29/25
look if you're not gonna acknowledge kant just gtfo of the t...
Talented Iridescent Theatre Liquid Oxygen
  12/29/25
I acknowledge Kant bro but I also acknowledge that I don&rsq...
Chestnut Exhilarant Theater Stage Immigrant
  12/29/25
yeah i tried to read it myself and gave up it was too hard f...
Talented Iridescent Theatre Liquid Oxygen
  12/29/25
Same lmao
Chestnut Exhilarant Theater Stage Immigrant
  12/29/25
I read it in a seminar class where it was the only assigned ...
Vengeful stage
  12/30/25
Oh? You haven't read all six volumes of A la recherche du te...
Dashing plum queen of the night base
  12/30/25
Si, je les ai lus tous
Chestnut Exhilarant Theater Stage Immigrant
  12/30/25
Lol cr
bonkers chad hissy fit
  01/01/26
16 lol
Insecure stubborn idiot
  12/30/25
95. List is OK with some retardation sprinkled in.
Vengeful stage
  12/30/25
...
exciting rehab
  01/01/26
BEE over Jane austen is certainly edgy and cool of them!
Vengeful stage
  12/30/25
>The Summa at 88
exciting rehab
  01/01/26
Is infinite jest cr? Always assumed it was a faggot gen x fa...
bonkers chad hissy fit
  01/01/26
yes even though your assumption is true
swashbuckling rough-skinned background story
  01/01/26
Ok but for further evidence can you list ur favorite handful...
bonkers chad hissy fit
  01/01/26
DFW is a good writer but man gen x is going down as an irrel...
Vengeful stage
  01/01/26
Lol at all the AZN shit and the Andrew Tate type shit
bonkers chad hissy fit
  01/01/26
93
violent snowy travel guidebook garrison
  01/01/26


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Date: December 29th, 2025 2:52 PM
Author: Internet-worthy Zippy Black Woman Native

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 galvanic parlour people who are hurt

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: Abnormal casino

#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: Emerald sandwich

ran here - wow

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Date: January 1st, 2026 7:02 PM
Author: odious hairy legs



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Date: December 29th, 2025 3:01 PM
Author: Dashing plum queen of the night base

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: Internet-worthy Zippy Black Woman Native

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: Multi-colored citrine idea he suggested



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:10 PM
Author: Talented Iridescent Theatre Liquid Oxygen



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:21 PM
Author: autistic state dingle berry



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:47 PM
Author: Internet-worthy Zippy Black Woman Native



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Date: December 29th, 2025 3:04 PM
Author: Trip Narrow-minded Gay Wizard

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: spectacular fortuitous meteor space



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Date: December 29th, 2025 3:34 PM
Author: Stirring hateful business firm stain

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: Internet-worthy Zippy Black Woman Native

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: Stirring hateful business firm stain

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: adventurous mewling gunner church building

/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: Internet-worthy Zippy Black Woman Native

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: adventurous mewling gunner church building

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: autistic state dingle berry



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:26 PM
Author: Internet-worthy Zippy Black Woman Native

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: adventurous mewling gunner church building

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: Internet-worthy Zippy Black Woman Native

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: Talented Iridescent Theatre 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: adventurous mewling gunner church building

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: autistic state dingle berry

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: Talented Iridescent Theatre 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: swashbuckling rough-skinned background story

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: aphrodisiac sickened laser beams reading party

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: Hilarious Twinkling Uncleanness

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: Emerald sandwich

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: autistic state dingle berry

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: white duck-like patrolman

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: aphrodisiac sickened laser beams reading party

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: swashbuckling rough-skinned background story



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:53 PM
Author: adventurous mewling gunner church building

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: aphrodisiac sickened laser beams reading party

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: Copper Beta Party Of The First Part

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: lascivious police squad

30

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Date: December 29th, 2025 8:18 PM
Author: charismatic spruce potus

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: Chestnut Exhilarant Theater Stage Immigrant

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: Talented Iridescent Theatre 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: Chestnut Exhilarant Theater Stage Immigrant

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: Talented Iridescent Theatre 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: Chestnut Exhilarant Theater Stage Immigrant

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: Vengeful stage

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: Dashing plum queen of the night base

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: Chestnut Exhilarant Theater Stage Immigrant

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: bonkers chad hissy fit

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: Insecure stubborn idiot

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: Vengeful stage

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: exciting rehab



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Date: December 30th, 2025 3:08 AM
Author: Vengeful stage

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: exciting rehab

>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: bonkers chad hissy fit

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: swashbuckling rough-skinned background story

yes even though your assumption is true

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Date: January 1st, 2026 7:01 PM
Author: bonkers chad hissy fit

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: Vengeful stage

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: bonkers chad hissy fit

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: violent snowy travel guidebook garrison

93

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