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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...
Orange cruise ship gunner
  12/29/25
49, if listening to the opera counts as reading Wagner's &qu...
aphrodisiac filthy church building goal in life
  12/29/25
#22 may surprise you
cowardly ebony theater roommate
  12/29/25
ran here - wow
yellow vibrant digit ratio public bath
  12/30/25
...
Obsidian Volcanic Crater
  01/01/26
25 I always liked to read and to write *eyes bug ou...
hairraiser anal telephone space
  12/29/25
2026 might be the year of book backlogs. 2025 was film and b...
Orange cruise ship gunner
  12/29/25
...
wonderful home twinkling uncleanness
  12/29/25
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swashbuckling rose sex offender
  12/29/25
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coiffed plaza
  12/29/25
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Orange cruise ship gunner
  12/29/25
What a faggot, poser list of mostly shit.
Navy Theater Stage Cuckoldry
  12/29/25
...
carmine cerebral set
  01/01/26
40 The version of this list I remember from when I was a te...
Plum Personal Credit Line Market
  12/29/25
It was largely manga
Orange cruise ship gunner
  12/29/25
there was a 4chan recommendations wiki that had different pa...
Plum Personal Credit Line Market
  12/29/25
/lit/ is filled with faggots not even wasting my time rea...
godawful jet-lagged resort
  12/29/25
Storm of Steel is a 180 book though
Orange cruise ship gunner
  12/29/25
There are some decent recs on there actually but they shoeho...
godawful jet-lagged resort
  12/29/25
...
coiffed plaza
  12/29/25
Yeah those are 2 that stood out to me that seem shitty. I do...
Orange cruise ship gunner
  12/29/25
when we were all still in college EVERYONE here sucked off i...
godawful jet-lagged resort
  12/29/25
Recommend some based 180 books
Orange cruise ship gunner
  12/29/25
people are hating to be contrarian but this list is actually...
swashbuckling rose sex offender
  12/29/25
greatest books of all time clockwork orange the great gats...
godawful jet-lagged resort
  12/29/25
do they say the unedited UK clockwork orange with last chapt...
coiffed plaza
  12/29/25
wow a handful out of 100 are bad i guess the list sucks
swashbuckling rose sex offender
  12/29/25
how bad is spring snow? i thought mishima was just famous fo...
silver locale
  12/29/25
on its own it's quite captivating, but it certainly doesn't ...
Pungent demanding den juggernaut
  12/30/25
the Spring Snow movie is decent, book is boring imo and yeah...
contagious bistre patrolman
  12/30/25
correct
yellow vibrant digit ratio public bath
  12/30/25
All Along the Western Front should be on there even though i...
coiffed plaza
  12/29/25
ernst junger's storm of steel has replaced it as the canonic...
supple prole
  12/29/25
lol at mishima having 3 books on this extremely gay list, co...
Pungent demanding den juggernaut
  12/29/25
...
silver locale
  12/29/25
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrHK7FNgnrM
godawful jet-lagged resort
  12/29/25
i assume everyone knows that mishima was a flaming lisping h...
Pungent demanding den juggernaut
  12/29/25
24/50 and then i lost interest. way more than expected give...
Puce Abnormal Pervert Piazza
  12/29/25
30
titillating salmon queen of the night
  12/29/25
I've read 28, broken down roughly as follows: Middle Scho...
Big Embarrassed To The Bone Trust Fund
  12/29/25
I have read about half these. Some of these picks are pure c...
Multi-colored infuriating jewess location
  12/29/25
look if you're not gonna acknowledge kant just gtfo of the t...
swashbuckling rose sex offender
  12/29/25
I acknowledge Kant bro but I also acknowledge that I don&rsq...
Multi-colored infuriating jewess location
  12/29/25
yeah i tried to read it myself and gave up it was too hard f...
swashbuckling rose sex offender
  12/29/25
Same lmao
Multi-colored infuriating jewess location
  12/29/25
I read it in a seminar class where it was the only assigned ...
Coral Dashing Main People Dilemma
  12/30/25
Oh? You haven't read all six volumes of A la recherche du te...
hairraiser anal telephone space
  12/30/25
Si, je les ai lus tous
Multi-colored infuriating jewess location
  12/30/25
Lol cr
wine razzle-dazzle mad cow disease
  01/01/26
16 lol
Avocado floppy temple circlehead
  12/30/25
95. List is OK with some retardation sprinkled in.
Coral Dashing Main People Dilemma
  12/30/25
...
underhanded know-it-all pocket flask
  01/01/26
BEE over Jane austen is certainly edgy and cool of them!
Coral Dashing Main People Dilemma
  12/30/25
>The Summa at 88
underhanded know-it-all pocket flask
  01/01/26
Is infinite jest cr? Always assumed it was a faggot gen x fa...
wine razzle-dazzle mad cow disease
  01/01/26
yes even though your assumption is true
silver locale
  01/01/26
Ok but for further evidence can you list ur favorite handful...
wine razzle-dazzle mad cow disease
  01/01/26
DFW is a good writer but man gen x is going down as an irrel...
Coral Dashing Main People Dilemma
  01/01/26
Lol at all the AZN shit and the Andrew Tate type shit
wine razzle-dazzle mad cow disease
  01/01/26
93
vermilion hospital sweet tailpipe
  01/01/26


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Date: December 29th, 2025 2:52 PM
Author: Orange cruise ship gunner

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: aphrodisiac filthy church building goal in life

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: cowardly ebony theater roommate

#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: yellow vibrant digit ratio public bath

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: Obsidian Volcanic Crater



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Date: December 29th, 2025 3:01 PM
Author: hairraiser anal telephone space

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: Orange cruise ship gunner

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: wonderful home twinkling uncleanness



(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: swashbuckling rose sex offender



(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: coiffed plaza



(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: Orange cruise ship gunner



(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: Navy Theater Stage Cuckoldry

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: carmine cerebral set



(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: Plum Personal Credit Line Market

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: Orange cruise ship gunner

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: Plum Personal Credit Line Market

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: godawful jet-lagged resort

/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: Orange cruise ship gunner

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: godawful jet-lagged resort

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: coiffed plaza



(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: Orange cruise ship gunner

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: godawful jet-lagged resort

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: Orange cruise ship gunner

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: swashbuckling rose sex offender

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: godawful jet-lagged resort

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: coiffed plaza

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: swashbuckling rose sex offender

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: silver locale

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: Pungent demanding den juggernaut

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: contagious bistre patrolman

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: yellow vibrant digit ratio public bath

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: coiffed plaza

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: supple prole

ernst junger's storm of steel has replaced it as the canonical WWI account.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2#49548213)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:50 PM
Author: Pungent demanding den juggernaut

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: silver locale



(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: godawful jet-lagged resort

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: Pungent demanding den juggernaut

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: Puce Abnormal Pervert Piazza

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: titillating salmon queen of the night

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: Big Embarrassed To The Bone Trust Fund

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: Multi-colored infuriating jewess location

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: swashbuckling rose sex offender

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: Multi-colored infuriating jewess location

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: swashbuckling rose sex offender

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: Multi-colored infuriating jewess location

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: Coral Dashing Main People Dilemma

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: hairraiser anal telephone space

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: Multi-colored infuriating jewess location

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: wine razzle-dazzle mad cow disease

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: Avocado floppy temple circlehead

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: Coral Dashing Main People Dilemma

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: underhanded know-it-all pocket flask



(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: Coral Dashing Main People Dilemma

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: underhanded know-it-all pocket flask

>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: wine razzle-dazzle mad cow disease

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: silver locale

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: wine razzle-dazzle mad cow disease

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: Coral Dashing Main People Dilemma

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: wine razzle-dazzle mad cow disease

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: vermilion hospital sweet tailpipe

93

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