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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...
Crimson senate
  12/29/25
49, if listening to the opera counts as reading Wagner's &qu...
shaky ticket booth legend
  12/29/25
#22 may surprise you
vivacious nubile nursing home
  12/29/25
ran here - wow
Vibrant very tactful indirect expression
  12/30/25
...
Fighting lay black woman
  01/01/26
25 I always liked to read and to write *eyes bug ou...
motley range hissy fit
  12/29/25
2026 might be the year of book backlogs. 2025 was film and b...
Crimson senate
  12/29/25
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Stimulating violet set jewess
  12/29/25
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stirring new version step-uncle's house
  12/29/25
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gay theater giraffe
  12/29/25
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Crimson senate
  12/29/25
What a faggot, poser list of mostly shit.
cracking free-loading really tough guy
  12/29/25
...
razzle-dazzle temple voyeur
  01/01/26
40 The version of this list I remember from when I was a te...
Diverse Twisted Center Factory Reset Button
  12/29/25
It was largely manga
Crimson senate
  12/29/25
there was a 4chan recommendations wiki that had different pa...
Diverse Twisted Center Factory Reset Button
  12/29/25
/lit/ is filled with faggots not even wasting my time rea...
Obsidian Haunting Juggernaut
  12/29/25
Storm of Steel is a 180 book though
Crimson senate
  12/29/25
There are some decent recs on there actually but they shoeho...
Obsidian Haunting Juggernaut
  12/29/25
...
gay theater giraffe
  12/29/25
Yeah those are 2 that stood out to me that seem shitty. I do...
Crimson senate
  12/29/25
when we were all still in college EVERYONE here sucked off i...
Obsidian Haunting Juggernaut
  12/29/25
Recommend some based 180 books
Crimson senate
  12/29/25
people are hating to be contrarian but this list is actually...
stirring new version step-uncle's house
  12/29/25
greatest books of all time clockwork orange the great gats...
Obsidian Haunting Juggernaut
  12/29/25
do they say the unedited UK clockwork orange with last chapt...
gay theater giraffe
  12/29/25
wow a handful out of 100 are bad i guess the list sucks
stirring new version step-uncle's house
  12/29/25
how bad is spring snow? i thought mishima was just famous fo...
cordovan garrison stain
  12/29/25
on its own it's quite captivating, but it certainly doesn't ...
Plum startling menage
  12/30/25
the Spring Snow movie is decent, book is boring imo and yeah...
mahogany hyperventilating school cafeteria azn
  12/30/25
correct
Vibrant very tactful indirect expression
  12/30/25
All Along the Western Front should be on there even though i...
gay theater giraffe
  12/29/25
ernst junger's storm of steel has replaced it as the canonic...
racy high-end spot
  12/29/25
lol at mishima having 3 books on this extremely gay list, co...
Plum startling menage
  12/29/25
...
cordovan garrison stain
  12/29/25
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrHK7FNgnrM
Obsidian Haunting Juggernaut
  12/29/25
i assume everyone knows that mishima was a flaming lisping h...
Plum startling menage
  12/29/25
24/50 and then i lost interest. way more than expected give...
mewling mental disorder
  12/29/25
30
opaque degenerate national
  12/29/25
I've read 28, broken down roughly as follows: Middle Scho...
Rusted base faggot firefighter
  12/29/25
I have read about half these. Some of these picks are pure c...
bearded brethren
  12/29/25
look if you're not gonna acknowledge kant just gtfo of the t...
stirring new version step-uncle's house
  12/29/25
I acknowledge Kant bro but I also acknowledge that I don&rsq...
bearded brethren
  12/29/25
yeah i tried to read it myself and gave up it was too hard f...
stirring new version step-uncle's house
  12/29/25
Same lmao
bearded brethren
  12/29/25
I read it in a seminar class where it was the only assigned ...
histrionic brilliant market sneaky criminal
  12/30/25
Oh? You haven't read all six volumes of A la recherche du te...
motley range hissy fit
  12/30/25
Si, je les ai lus tous
bearded brethren
  12/30/25
Lol cr
mentally impaired famous landscape painting
  01/01/26
16 lol
cheese-eating massive psychic
  12/30/25
95. List is OK with some retardation sprinkled in.
histrionic brilliant market sneaky criminal
  12/30/25
...
Frisky Hairraiser Affirmative Action Pozpig
  01/01/26
BEE over Jane austen is certainly edgy and cool of them!
histrionic brilliant market sneaky criminal
  12/30/25
>The Summa at 88
Frisky Hairraiser Affirmative Action Pozpig
  01/01/26
Is infinite jest cr? Always assumed it was a faggot gen x fa...
mentally impaired famous landscape painting
  01/01/26
yes even though your assumption is true
cordovan garrison stain
  01/01/26
Ok but for further evidence can you list ur favorite handful...
mentally impaired famous landscape painting
  01/01/26
DFW is a good writer but man gen x is going down as an irrel...
histrionic brilliant market sneaky criminal
  01/01/26
Lol at all the AZN shit and the Andrew Tate type shit
mentally impaired famous landscape painting
  01/01/26
93
Sapphire reading party ladyboy
  01/01/26


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Date: December 29th, 2025 2:52 PM
Author: Crimson senate

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: shaky ticket booth legend

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: vivacious nubile nursing home

#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: Vibrant very tactful indirect expression

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: Fighting lay black woman



(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: motley range hissy fit

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: Crimson senate

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: Stimulating violet set jewess



(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: stirring new version step-uncle's house



(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: gay theater giraffe



(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: Crimson senate



(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: cracking free-loading really tough guy

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: razzle-dazzle temple voyeur



(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 Twisted Center Factory Reset Button

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: Crimson senate

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 Twisted Center Factory Reset Button

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: Obsidian Haunting Juggernaut

/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: Crimson senate

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: Obsidian Haunting Juggernaut

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: gay theater giraffe



(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: Crimson senate

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: Obsidian Haunting Juggernaut

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: Crimson senate

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: stirring new version step-uncle's house

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: Obsidian Haunting Juggernaut

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: gay theater giraffe

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: stirring new version step-uncle's house

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: cordovan garrison stain

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: Plum startling menage

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: mahogany hyperventilating school cafeteria azn

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: Vibrant very tactful indirect expression

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: gay theater giraffe

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: racy high-end spot

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: Plum startling menage

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: cordovan garrison stain



(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: Obsidian Haunting Juggernaut

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: Plum startling menage

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: mewling mental disorder

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: opaque degenerate national

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: Rusted base faggot firefighter

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: bearded brethren

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: stirring new version step-uncle's house

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: bearded brethren

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: stirring new version step-uncle's house

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: bearded brethren

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: histrionic brilliant market sneaky criminal

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: motley range hissy fit

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: bearded brethren

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: mentally impaired famous landscape painting

Lol cr

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2]#49554957)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 2:45 AM
Author: cheese-eating massive psychic

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: histrionic brilliant market sneaky criminal

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: Frisky Hairraiser Affirmative Action Pozpig



(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: histrionic brilliant market sneaky criminal

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: Frisky Hairraiser Affirmative Action Pozpig

>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: mentally impaired famous landscape painting

Is infinite jest cr? Always assumed it was a faggot gen x fart smelling fest

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2]#49554916)



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Date: January 1st, 2026 6:49 PM
Author: cordovan garrison stain

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: mentally impaired famous landscape painting

Ok but for further evidence can you list ur favorite handful of books

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2]#49555035)



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Date: January 1st, 2026 6:51 PM
Author: histrionic brilliant market sneaky criminal

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: mentally impaired famous landscape painting

Lol at all the AZN shit and the Andrew Tate type shit

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2]#49555046)



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Date: January 1st, 2026 7:08 PM
Author: Sapphire reading party ladyboy

93

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