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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...
cerebral hyperactive base psychic
  12/29/25
49, if listening to the opera counts as reading Wagner's &qu...
chocolate fighting boistinker space
  12/29/25
#22 may surprise you
gay aromatic queen of the night
  12/29/25
ran here - wow
Lime Excitant Library
  12/30/25
...
poppy coldplay fan pit
  01/01/26
25 I always liked to read and to write *eyes bug ou...
Soggy elastic band
  12/29/25
2026 might be the year of book backlogs. 2025 was film and b...
cerebral hyperactive base psychic
  12/29/25
...
Cerise flatulent location
  12/29/25
...
Doobsian spot
  12/29/25
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Lavender vivacious depressive jewess
  12/29/25
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cerebral hyperactive base psychic
  12/29/25
What a faggot, poser list of mostly shit.
Bateful indirect expression locus
  12/29/25
...
Yellow Love Of Her Life Dragon
  01/01/26
40 The version of this list I remember from when I was a te...
Gold swashbuckling dopamine kitchen
  12/29/25
It was largely manga
cerebral hyperactive base psychic
  12/29/25
there was a 4chan recommendations wiki that had different pa...
Gold swashbuckling dopamine kitchen
  12/29/25
/lit/ is filled with faggots not even wasting my time rea...
infuriating domesticated sneaky criminal windowlicker
  12/29/25
Storm of Steel is a 180 book though
cerebral hyperactive base psychic
  12/29/25
There are some decent recs on there actually but they shoeho...
infuriating domesticated sneaky criminal windowlicker
  12/29/25
...
Lavender vivacious depressive jewess
  12/29/25
Yeah those are 2 that stood out to me that seem shitty. I do...
cerebral hyperactive base psychic
  12/29/25
when we were all still in college EVERYONE here sucked off i...
infuriating domesticated sneaky criminal windowlicker
  12/29/25
Recommend some based 180 books
cerebral hyperactive base psychic
  12/29/25
people are hating to be contrarian but this list is actually...
Doobsian spot
  12/29/25
greatest books of all time clockwork orange the great gats...
infuriating domesticated sneaky criminal windowlicker
  12/29/25
do they say the unedited UK clockwork orange with last chapt...
Lavender vivacious depressive jewess
  12/29/25
wow a handful out of 100 are bad i guess the list sucks
Doobsian spot
  12/29/25
how bad is spring snow? i thought mishima was just famous fo...
Fuchsia Irate Toilet Seat
  12/29/25
on its own it's quite captivating, but it certainly doesn't ...
floppy step-uncle's house
  12/30/25
the Spring Snow movie is decent, book is boring imo and yeah...
marvelous sapphire orchestra pit personal credit line
  12/30/25
correct
Lime Excitant Library
  12/30/25
All Along the Western Front should be on there even though i...
Lavender vivacious depressive jewess
  12/29/25
ernst junger's storm of steel has replaced it as the canonic...
Chartreuse pocket flask national
  12/29/25
lol at mishima having 3 books on this extremely gay list, co...
floppy step-uncle's house
  12/29/25
...
Fuchsia Irate Toilet Seat
  12/29/25
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrHK7FNgnrM
infuriating domesticated sneaky criminal windowlicker
  12/29/25
i assume everyone knows that mishima was a flaming lisping h...
floppy step-uncle's house
  12/29/25
24/50 and then i lost interest. way more than expected give...
Motley stage
  12/29/25
30
abusive nubile bawdyhouse gaming laptop
  12/29/25
I've read 28, broken down roughly as follows: Middle Scho...
Canary razzmatazz menage background story
  12/29/25
I have read about half these. Some of these picks are pure c...
Salmon Cheese-eating Whorehouse Mediation
  12/29/25
look if you're not gonna acknowledge kant just gtfo of the t...
Doobsian spot
  12/29/25
I acknowledge Kant bro but I also acknowledge that I don&rsq...
Salmon Cheese-eating Whorehouse Mediation
  12/29/25
yeah i tried to read it myself and gave up it was too hard f...
Doobsian spot
  12/29/25
Same lmao
Salmon Cheese-eating Whorehouse Mediation
  12/29/25
I read it in a seminar class where it was the only assigned ...
Maize Scourge Upon The Earth Sanctuary
  12/30/25
Oh? You haven't read all six volumes of A la recherche du te...
Soggy elastic band
  12/30/25
Si, je les ai lus tous
Salmon Cheese-eating Whorehouse Mediation
  12/30/25
Lol cr
Wonderful Saffron Gas Station Genital Piercing
  01/01/26
16 lol
Sinister Sadistic Abode Wrinkle
  12/30/25
95. List is OK with some retardation sprinkled in.
Maize Scourge Upon The Earth Sanctuary
  12/30/25
...
Grizzly Trailer Park Community Account
  01/01/26
BEE over Jane austen is certainly edgy and cool of them!
Maize Scourge Upon The Earth Sanctuary
  12/30/25
>The Summa at 88
Grizzly Trailer Park Community Account
  01/01/26
Is infinite jest cr? Always assumed it was a faggot gen x fa...
Wonderful Saffron Gas Station Genital Piercing
  01/01/26
yes even though your assumption is true
Fuchsia Irate Toilet Seat
  01/01/26
Ok but for further evidence can you list ur favorite handful...
Wonderful Saffron Gas Station Genital Piercing
  01/01/26
DFW is a good writer but man gen x is going down as an irrel...
Maize Scourge Upon The Earth Sanctuary
  01/01/26
Lol at all the AZN shit and the Andrew Tate type shit
Wonderful Saffron Gas Station Genital Piercing
  01/01/26
93
Stimulating Territorial Chapel Feces
  01/01/26


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Date: December 29th, 2025 2:52 PM
Author: cerebral hyperactive base psychic

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: chocolate fighting boistinker space

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: gay aromatic queen of the night

#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: Lime Excitant Library

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: poppy coldplay fan pit



(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: Soggy elastic band

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: cerebral hyperactive base psychic

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: Cerise flatulent location



(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: Doobsian spot



(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: Lavender vivacious depressive jewess



(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: cerebral hyperactive base psychic



(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: Bateful indirect expression locus

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: Yellow Love Of Her Life Dragon



(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: Gold swashbuckling dopamine kitchen

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: cerebral hyperactive base psychic

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: Gold swashbuckling dopamine kitchen

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: infuriating domesticated sneaky criminal windowlicker

/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: cerebral hyperactive base psychic

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: infuriating domesticated sneaky criminal windowlicker

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: Lavender vivacious depressive jewess



(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: cerebral hyperactive base psychic

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: infuriating domesticated sneaky criminal windowlicker

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: cerebral hyperactive base psychic

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: Doobsian spot

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: infuriating domesticated sneaky criminal windowlicker

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: Lavender vivacious depressive jewess

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: Doobsian spot

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: Fuchsia Irate Toilet Seat

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: floppy step-uncle's house

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: marvelous sapphire orchestra pit personal credit line

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: Lime Excitant Library

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: Lavender vivacious depressive jewess

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: Chartreuse pocket flask national

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: floppy step-uncle's house

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: Fuchsia Irate Toilet Seat



(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: infuriating domesticated sneaky criminal windowlicker

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: floppy step-uncle's house

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: Motley stage

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: abusive nubile bawdyhouse gaming laptop

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: Canary razzmatazz menage background story

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: Salmon Cheese-eating Whorehouse Mediation

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: Doobsian spot

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: Salmon Cheese-eating Whorehouse Mediation

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: Doobsian spot

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: Salmon Cheese-eating Whorehouse Mediation

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: Maize Scourge Upon The Earth Sanctuary

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: Soggy elastic band

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: Salmon Cheese-eating Whorehouse Mediation

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: Wonderful Saffron Gas Station Genital Piercing

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: Sinister Sadistic Abode Wrinkle

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: Maize Scourge Upon The Earth Sanctuary

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: Grizzly Trailer Park Community Account



(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: Maize Scourge Upon The Earth Sanctuary

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: Grizzly Trailer Park Community Account

>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: Wonderful Saffron Gas Station Genital Piercing

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: Fuchsia Irate Toilet Seat

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: Wonderful Saffron Gas Station Genital Piercing

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: Maize Scourge Upon The Earth Sanctuary

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: Wonderful Saffron Gas Station Genital Piercing

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: Stimulating Territorial Chapel Feces

93

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