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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...
excitant incel
  12/29/25
49, if listening to the opera counts as reading Wagner's &qu...
canary really tough guy
  12/29/25
#22 may surprise you
Topaz stimulating market
  12/29/25
ran here - wow
hairraiser elite background story mexican
  12/30/25
...
Quality Learing Center alumnus
  01/01/26
25 I always liked to read and to write *eyes bug ou...
olive autistic jew
  12/29/25
2026 might be the year of book backlogs. 2025 was film and b...
excitant incel
  12/29/25
...
Comical Base
  12/29/25
...
Kink-friendly therapy
  12/29/25
...
bearded dog poop
  12/29/25
...
excitant incel
  12/29/25
What a faggot, poser list of mostly shit.
lake dashing trailer park sneaky criminal
  12/29/25
...
Roblox
  01/01/26
40 The version of this list I remember from when I was a te...
chocolate mewling mood quadroon
  12/29/25
It was largely manga
excitant incel
  12/29/25
there was a 4chan recommendations wiki that had different pa...
chocolate mewling mood quadroon
  12/29/25
/lit/ is filled with faggots not even wasting my time rea...
flirting indian lodge antidepressant drug
  12/29/25
Storm of Steel is a 180 book though
excitant incel
  12/29/25
There are some decent recs on there actually but they shoeho...
flirting indian lodge antidepressant drug
  12/29/25
...
bearded dog poop
  12/29/25
Yeah those are 2 that stood out to me that seem shitty. I do...
excitant incel
  12/29/25
when we were all still in college EVERYONE here sucked off i...
flirting indian lodge antidepressant drug
  12/29/25
Recommend some based 180 books
excitant incel
  12/29/25
people are hating to be contrarian but this list is actually...
Kink-friendly therapy
  12/29/25
greatest books of all time clockwork orange the great gats...
flirting indian lodge antidepressant drug
  12/29/25
do they say the unedited UK clockwork orange with last chapt...
bearded dog poop
  12/29/25
wow a handful out of 100 are bad i guess the list sucks
Kink-friendly therapy
  12/29/25
how bad is spring snow? i thought mishima was just famous fo...
racy disgusting clown
  12/29/25
on its own it's quite captivating, but it certainly doesn't ...
Charismatic ebony dilemma ratface
  12/30/25
the Spring Snow movie is decent, book is boring imo and yeah...
Nippon Professional Baseball
  12/30/25
correct
Kenneth Play
  12/30/25
All Along the Western Front should be on there even though i...
bearded dog poop
  12/29/25
ernst junger's storm of steel has replaced it as the canonic...
ivory site love of her life
  12/29/25
lol at mishima having 3 books on this extremely gay list, co...
Charismatic ebony dilemma ratface
  12/29/25
...
racy disgusting clown
  12/29/25
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrHK7FNgnrM
flirting indian lodge antidepressant drug
  12/29/25
i assume everyone knows that mishima was a flaming lisping h...
Charismatic ebony dilemma ratface
  12/29/25
24/50 and then i lost interest. way more than expected give...
magenta swollen gay wizard volcanic crater
  12/29/25
30
motley senate prole
  12/29/25
I've read 28, broken down roughly as follows: Middle Scho...
light appetizing station
  12/29/25
I have read about half these. Some of these picks are pure c...
spectacular smoky office travel guidebook
  12/29/25
look if you're not gonna acknowledge kant just gtfo of the t...
Kink-friendly therapy
  12/29/25
I acknowledge Kant bro but I also acknowledge that I don&rsq...
spectacular smoky office travel guidebook
  12/29/25
yeah i tried to read it myself and gave up it was too hard f...
Kink-friendly therapy
  12/29/25
Same lmao
spectacular smoky office travel guidebook
  12/29/25
I read it in a seminar class where it was the only assigned ...
Provocative puppy stock car
  12/30/25
Oh? You haven't read all six volumes of A la recherche du te...
olive autistic jew
  12/30/25
Si, je les ai lus tous
artificial intelligence
  12/30/25
Lol cr
MAHA Movement
  01/01/26
16 lol
Soggy irradiated windowlicker native
  12/30/25
95. List is OK with some retardation sprinkled in.
Provocative puppy stock car
  12/30/25
...
Christoph Waltz stare
  01/01/26
BEE over Jane austen is certainly edgy and cool of them!
Provocative puppy stock car
  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: excitant incel

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: canary really tough guy

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: Topaz stimulating market

#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: hairraiser elite background story mexican

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: olive autistic jew

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: excitant incel

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: Comical Base



(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: Kink-friendly therapy



(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: bearded dog poop



(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: excitant incel



(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: lake dashing trailer park sneaky criminal

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: chocolate mewling mood quadroon

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: excitant incel

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: chocolate mewling mood quadroon

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: flirting indian lodge antidepressant drug

/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: excitant incel

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: flirting indian lodge antidepressant drug

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: bearded dog poop



(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: excitant incel

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: flirting indian lodge antidepressant drug

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: excitant incel

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: Kink-friendly therapy

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: flirting indian lodge antidepressant drug

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: bearded dog poop

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: Kink-friendly therapy

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: racy disgusting clown

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: Charismatic ebony dilemma ratface

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: Nippon Professional Baseball

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: Kenneth Play (emotional girth)

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: bearded dog poop

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: ivory site love of her life

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: Charismatic ebony dilemma ratface

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: racy disgusting clown



(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: flirting indian lodge antidepressant drug

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: Charismatic ebony dilemma ratface

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: magenta swollen gay wizard volcanic crater

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: motley senate prole

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: light appetizing station

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: spectacular smoky office travel guidebook

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: Kink-friendly therapy

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: spectacular smoky office travel guidebook

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: Kink-friendly therapy

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: spectacular smoky office travel guidebook

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: Provocative puppy stock car

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: olive autistic jew

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: artificial intelligence

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: Soggy irradiated windowlicker native

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: Provocative puppy stock car

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: Provocative puppy stock car

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)