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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...
Ivory whorehouse nowag
  12/29/25
49, if listening to the opera counts as reading Wagner's &qu...
Multi-colored messiness
  12/29/25
#22 may surprise you
Big slippery dragon center
  12/29/25
ran here - wow
Splenetic prole
  12/30/25
...
Mustard Vigorous Toaster
  01/01/26
25 I always liked to read and to write *eyes bug ou...
Haunting glittery trailer park mental disorder
  12/29/25
2026 might be the year of book backlogs. 2025 was film and b...
Ivory whorehouse nowag
  12/29/25
...
demanding parlour gay wizard
  12/29/25
...
Cocky Light Spot
  12/29/25
...
Insecure shrine
  12/29/25
...
Ivory whorehouse nowag
  12/29/25
What a faggot, poser list of mostly shit.
Mind-boggling Field Windowlicker
  12/29/25
...
Hairraiser Maize Meetinghouse Boltzmann
  01/01/26
40 The version of this list I remember from when I was a te...
Stimulating Main People
  12/29/25
It was largely manga
Ivory whorehouse nowag
  12/29/25
there was a 4chan recommendations wiki that had different pa...
Stimulating Main People
  12/29/25
/lit/ is filled with faggots not even wasting my time rea...
Slap-happy canary university turdskin
  12/29/25
Storm of Steel is a 180 book though
Ivory whorehouse nowag
  12/29/25
There are some decent recs on there actually but they shoeho...
Slap-happy canary university turdskin
  12/29/25
...
Insecure shrine
  12/29/25
Yeah those are 2 that stood out to me that seem shitty. I do...
Ivory whorehouse nowag
  12/29/25
when we were all still in college EVERYONE here sucked off i...
Slap-happy canary university turdskin
  12/29/25
Recommend some based 180 books
Ivory whorehouse nowag
  12/29/25
people are hating to be contrarian but this list is actually...
Cocky Light Spot
  12/29/25
greatest books of all time clockwork orange the great gats...
Slap-happy canary university turdskin
  12/29/25
do they say the unedited UK clockwork orange with last chapt...
Insecure shrine
  12/29/25
wow a handful out of 100 are bad i guess the list sucks
Cocky Light Spot
  12/29/25
how bad is spring snow? i thought mishima was just famous fo...
Charismatic peach mad cow disease
  12/29/25
on its own it's quite captivating, but it certainly doesn't ...
Gay Fanboi
  12/30/25
the Spring Snow movie is decent, book is boring imo and yeah...
Cerebral Library
  12/30/25
correct
Splenetic prole
  12/30/25
All Along the Western Front should be on there even though i...
Insecure shrine
  12/29/25
ernst junger's storm of steel has replaced it as the canonic...
snowy hot stead selfie
  12/29/25
lol at mishima having 3 books on this extremely gay list, co...
Gay Fanboi
  12/29/25
...
Charismatic peach mad cow disease
  12/29/25
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrHK7FNgnrM
Slap-happy canary university turdskin
  12/29/25
i assume everyone knows that mishima was a flaming lisping h...
Gay Fanboi
  12/29/25
24/50 and then i lost interest. way more than expected give...
Hideous henna immigrant
  12/29/25
30
beta effete menage
  12/29/25
I've read 28, broken down roughly as follows: Middle Scho...
Aquamarine electric roast beef yarmulke
  12/29/25
I have read about half these. Some of these picks are pure c...
Pink Persian Bawdyhouse
  12/29/25
look if you're not gonna acknowledge kant just gtfo of the t...
Cocky Light Spot
  12/29/25
I acknowledge Kant bro but I also acknowledge that I don&rsq...
Pink Persian Bawdyhouse
  12/29/25
yeah i tried to read it myself and gave up it was too hard f...
Cocky Light Spot
  12/29/25
Same lmao
Pink Persian Bawdyhouse
  12/29/25
I read it in a seminar class where it was the only assigned ...
sooty dopamine
  12/30/25
Oh? You haven't read all six volumes of A la recherche du te...
Haunting glittery trailer park mental disorder
  12/30/25
Si, je les ai lus tous
Pink Persian Bawdyhouse
  12/30/25
Lol cr
vibrant milk
  01/01/26
16 lol
french juggernaut reading party
  12/30/25
95. List is OK with some retardation sprinkled in.
sooty dopamine
  12/30/25
...
topaz antidepressant drug
  01/01/26
BEE over Jane austen is certainly edgy and cool of them!
sooty dopamine
  12/30/25
>The Summa at 88
topaz antidepressant drug
  01/01/26
Is infinite jest cr? Always assumed it was a faggot gen x fa...
vibrant milk
  01/01/26
yes even though your assumption is true
Charismatic peach mad cow disease
  01/01/26
Ok but for further evidence can you list ur favorite handful...
vibrant milk
  01/01/26
DFW is a good writer but man gen x is going down as an irrel...
sooty dopamine
  01/01/26
Lol at all the AZN shit and the Andrew Tate type shit
vibrant milk
  01/01/26
93
amethyst razzmatazz forum water buffalo
  01/01/26


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Date: December 29th, 2025 2:52 PM
Author: Ivory whorehouse nowag

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=2Reputation#49547555)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 2:59 PM
Author: Multi-colored messiness

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=2Reputation#49547568)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 2:59 PM
Author: Big slippery dragon center

#22 may surprise you

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2Reputation#49547569)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 10:43 AM
Author: Splenetic prole

ran here - wow

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2Reputation#49549594)



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Date: January 1st, 2026 7:02 PM
Author: Mustard Vigorous Toaster



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2Reputation#49555041)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 3:01 PM
Author: Haunting glittery trailer park mental disorder

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=2Reputation#49547574)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 3:36 PM
Author: Ivory whorehouse nowag

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=2Reputation#49547656)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:07 PM
Author: demanding parlour gay wizard



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2Reputation#49548142)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:10 PM
Author: Cocky Light Spot



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2Reputation#49548150)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:21 PM
Author: Insecure shrine



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2Reputation#49548191)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:47 PM
Author: Ivory whorehouse nowag



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2Reputation#49548248)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 3:04 PM
Author: Mind-boggling Field Windowlicker

What a faggot, poser list of mostly shit.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2Reputation#49547577)



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Date: January 1st, 2026 6:22 PM
Author: Hairraiser Maize Meetinghouse Boltzmann



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2Reputation#49554932)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 3:34 PM
Author: Stimulating Main People

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=2Reputation#49547646)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:03 PM
Author: Ivory whorehouse nowag

It was largely manga

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2Reputation#49548134)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:18 PM
Author: Stimulating Main People

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=2Reputation#49548179)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:11 PM
Author: Slap-happy canary university turdskin

/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=2Reputation#49548155)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:13 PM
Author: Ivory whorehouse nowag

Storm of Steel is a 180 book though

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2Reputation#49548161)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:15 PM
Author: Slap-happy canary university turdskin

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=2Reputation#49548165)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:22 PM
Author: Insecure shrine



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2Reputation#49548195)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:26 PM
Author: Ivory whorehouse nowag

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=2Reputation#49548203)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:28 PM
Author: Slap-happy canary university turdskin

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=2Reputation#49548208)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:47 PM
Author: Ivory whorehouse nowag

Recommend some based 180 books

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2Reputation#49548249)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:18 PM
Author: Cocky Light 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=2Reputation#49548177)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:19 PM
Author: Slap-happy canary university turdskin

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=2Reputation#49548184)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:23 PM
Author: Insecure shrine

do they say the unedited UK clockwork orange with last chapter at least

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2Reputation#49548196)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:26 PM
Author: Cocky Light 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=2Reputation#49548205)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:33 PM
Author: Charismatic peach mad cow disease

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=2Reputation#49548215)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 2:33 AM
Author: Gay Fanboi

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=2Reputation#49549208)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 4:21 PM
Author: Cerebral Library

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=2Reputation#49550529)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 2:03 PM
Author: Splenetic prole

correct

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2Reputation#49550101)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:26 PM
Author: Insecure shrine

All Along the Western Front should be on there even though its flame

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2Reputation#49548202)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:31 PM
Author: snowy hot stead selfie

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=2Reputation#49548213)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:50 PM
Author: Gay Fanboi

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=2Reputation#49548259)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:50 PM
Author: Charismatic peach mad cow disease



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2Reputation#49548262)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:53 PM
Author: Slap-happy canary university turdskin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrHK7FNgnrM

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2Reputation#49548272)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:58 PM
Author: Gay Fanboi

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=2Reputation#49548283)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:55 PM
Author: Hideous henna immigrant

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=2Reputation#49548276)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:56 PM
Author: beta effete menage

30

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2Reputation#49548278)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 8:18 PM
Author: Aquamarine electric roast beef yarmulke

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=2Reputation#49548372)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 10:33 PM
Author: Pink Persian Bawdyhouse

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=2Reputation#49548914)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 10:47 PM
Author: Cocky Light 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=2Reputation#49548953)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 10:59 PM
Author: Pink Persian Bawdyhouse

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=2Reputation#49548984)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 11:00 PM
Author: Cocky Light 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=2Reputation#49548987)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 11:01 PM
Author: Pink Persian Bawdyhouse

Same lmao

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2Reputation#49548989)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 2:54 AM
Author: sooty dopamine

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=2Reputation#49549210)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 2:55 AM
Author: Haunting glittery trailer park mental disorder

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=2Reputation#49549211)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 4:20 PM
Author: Pink Persian Bawdyhouse

Si, je les ai lus tous

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2Reputation#49550526)



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Date: January 1st, 2026 6:31 PM
Author: vibrant milk

Lol cr

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



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Date: December 30th, 2025 2:45 AM
Author: french juggernaut reading party

16 lol

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2Reputation#49549209)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 2:59 AM
Author: sooty dopamine

95.

List is OK with some retardation sprinkled in.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2Reputation#49549213)



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Date: January 1st, 2026 5:45 PM
Author: topaz antidepressant drug



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2Reputation#49554864)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 3:08 AM
Author: sooty dopamine

BEE over Jane austen is certainly edgy and cool of them!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2Reputation#49549214)



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Date: January 1st, 2026 5:48 PM
Author: topaz antidepressant drug

>The Summa at 88

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2Reputation#49554869)



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Date: January 1st, 2026 6:14 PM
Author: vibrant milk

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=2Reputation#49554916)



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Date: January 1st, 2026 6:49 PM
Author: Charismatic peach mad cow disease

yes even though your assumption is true

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2Reputation#49555018)



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Date: January 1st, 2026 7:01 PM
Author: vibrant milk

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

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



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Date: January 1st, 2026 6:51 PM
Author: sooty dopamine

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=2Reputation#49555021)



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Date: January 1st, 2026 7:07 PM
Author: vibrant milk

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

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



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Date: January 1st, 2026 7:08 PM
Author: amethyst razzmatazz forum water buffalo

93

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