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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...
Slate gas station hunting ground
  12/29/25
49, if listening to the opera counts as reading Wagner's &qu...
Dun Stirring Faggotry Stock Car
  12/29/25
#22 may surprise you
godawful hospital toilet seat
  12/29/25
ran here - wow
beady-eyed nursing home pozpig
  12/30/25
...
vigorous jade house
  01/01/26
25 I always liked to read and to write *eyes bug ou...
Racy Menage
  12/29/25
2026 might be the year of book backlogs. 2025 was film and b...
Slate gas station hunting ground
  12/29/25
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Coral Sticky Property
  12/29/25
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Greedy yellow crackhouse cuckold
  12/29/25
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Tan vivacious depressive
  12/29/25
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Slate gas station hunting ground
  12/29/25
What a faggot, poser list of mostly shit.
Magenta circlehead area
  12/29/25
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Internet-worthy honey-headed idiot generalized bond
  01/01/26
40 The version of this list I remember from when I was a te...
Lascivious space bbw
  12/29/25
It was largely manga
Slate gas station hunting ground
  12/29/25
there was a 4chan recommendations wiki that had different pa...
Lascivious space bbw
  12/29/25
/lit/ is filled with faggots not even wasting my time rea...
irate stag film
  12/29/25
Storm of Steel is a 180 book though
Slate gas station hunting ground
  12/29/25
There are some decent recs on there actually but they shoeho...
irate stag film
  12/29/25
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Tan vivacious depressive
  12/29/25
Yeah those are 2 that stood out to me that seem shitty. I do...
Slate gas station hunting ground
  12/29/25
when we were all still in college EVERYONE here sucked off i...
irate stag film
  12/29/25
Recommend some based 180 books
Slate gas station hunting ground
  12/29/25
people are hating to be contrarian but this list is actually...
Greedy yellow crackhouse cuckold
  12/29/25
greatest books of all time clockwork orange the great gats...
irate stag film
  12/29/25
do they say the unedited UK clockwork orange with last chapt...
Tan vivacious depressive
  12/29/25
wow a handful out of 100 are bad i guess the list sucks
Greedy yellow crackhouse cuckold
  12/29/25
how bad is spring snow? i thought mishima was just famous fo...
aromatic azure people who are hurt
  12/29/25
on its own it's quite captivating, but it certainly doesn't ...
Hairraiser rigor business firm
  12/30/25
the Spring Snow movie is decent, book is boring imo and yeah...
exciting idiotic ceo
  12/30/25
correct
beady-eyed nursing home pozpig
  12/30/25
All Along the Western Front should be on there even though i...
Tan vivacious depressive
  12/29/25
ernst junger's storm of steel has replaced it as the canonic...
avocado garrison
  12/29/25
lol at mishima having 3 books on this extremely gay list, co...
Hairraiser rigor business firm
  12/29/25
...
aromatic azure people who are hurt
  12/29/25
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrHK7FNgnrM
irate stag film
  12/29/25
i assume everyone knows that mishima was a flaming lisping h...
Hairraiser rigor business firm
  12/29/25
24/50 and then i lost interest. way more than expected give...
Laughsome sienna ticket booth
  12/29/25
30
slippery crotch
  12/29/25
I've read 28, broken down roughly as follows: Middle Scho...
brindle weed whacker gaming laptop
  12/29/25
I have read about half these. Some of these picks are pure c...
Thirsty field gay wizard
  12/29/25
look if you're not gonna acknowledge kant just gtfo of the t...
Greedy yellow crackhouse cuckold
  12/29/25
I acknowledge Kant bro but I also acknowledge that I don&rsq...
Thirsty field gay wizard
  12/29/25
yeah i tried to read it myself and gave up it was too hard f...
Greedy yellow crackhouse cuckold
  12/29/25
Same lmao
Thirsty field gay wizard
  12/29/25
I read it in a seminar class where it was the only assigned ...
Soul-stirring Kitchen Boiling Water
  12/30/25
Oh? You haven't read all six volumes of A la recherche du te...
Racy Menage
  12/30/25
Si, je les ai lus tous
Thirsty field gay wizard
  12/30/25
Lol cr
Massive giraffe
  01/01/26
16 lol
Lilac stage
  12/30/25
95. List is OK with some retardation sprinkled in.
Soul-stirring Kitchen Boiling Water
  12/30/25
...
cobalt coldplay fan
  01/01/26
BEE over Jane austen is certainly edgy and cool of them!
Soul-stirring Kitchen Boiling Water
  12/30/25
>The Summa at 88
cobalt coldplay fan
  01/01/26
Is infinite jest cr? Always assumed it was a faggot gen x fa...
Massive giraffe
  01/01/26
yes even though your assumption is true
aromatic azure people who are hurt
  01/01/26
Ok but for further evidence can you list ur favorite handful...
Massive giraffe
  01/01/26
DFW is a good writer but man gen x is going down as an irrel...
Soul-stirring Kitchen Boiling Water
  01/01/26
Lol at all the AZN shit and the Andrew Tate type shit
Massive giraffe
  01/01/26
93
Anal shrine
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Date: December 29th, 2025 2:52 PM
Author: Slate gas station hunting ground

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=2betting#49547555)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 2:59 PM
Author: Dun Stirring Faggotry Stock Car

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=2betting#49547568)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 2:59 PM
Author: godawful hospital toilet seat

#22 may surprise you

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



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Date: December 30th, 2025 10:43 AM
Author: beady-eyed nursing home pozpig

ran here - wow

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



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Date: January 1st, 2026 7:02 PM
Author: vigorous jade house



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Date: December 29th, 2025 3:01 PM
Author: Racy Menage

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=2betting#49547574)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 3:36 PM
Author: Slate gas station hunting ground

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=2betting#49547656)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:07 PM
Author: Coral Sticky Property



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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:10 PM
Author: Greedy yellow crackhouse cuckold



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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:21 PM
Author: Tan vivacious depressive



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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:47 PM
Author: Slate gas station hunting ground



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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 3:04 PM
Author: Magenta circlehead area

What a faggot, poser list of mostly shit.

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



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Date: January 1st, 2026 6:22 PM
Author: Internet-worthy honey-headed idiot generalized bond



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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 3:34 PM
Author: Lascivious space bbw

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=2betting#49547646)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:03 PM
Author: Slate gas station hunting ground

It was largely manga

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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:18 PM
Author: Lascivious space bbw

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=2betting#49548179)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:11 PM
Author: irate stag film

/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=2betting#49548155)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:13 PM
Author: Slate gas station hunting ground

Storm of Steel is a 180 book though

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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:15 PM
Author: irate stag film

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=2betting#49548165)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:22 PM
Author: Tan vivacious depressive



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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:26 PM
Author: Slate gas station hunting ground

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=2betting#49548203)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:28 PM
Author: irate stag film

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=2betting#49548208)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:47 PM
Author: Slate gas station hunting ground

Recommend some based 180 books

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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:18 PM
Author: Greedy yellow crackhouse cuckold

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=2betting#49548177)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:19 PM
Author: irate stag film

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=2betting#49548184)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:23 PM
Author: Tan vivacious depressive

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

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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:26 PM
Author: Greedy yellow crackhouse cuckold

wow a handful out of 100 are bad i guess the list sucks

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2betting#49548205)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:33 PM
Author: aromatic azure people who are hurt

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=2betting#49548215)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 2:33 AM
Author: Hairraiser rigor business firm

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=2betting#49549208)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 4:21 PM
Author: exciting idiotic ceo

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=2betting#49550529)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 2:03 PM
Author: beady-eyed nursing home pozpig

correct

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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:26 PM
Author: Tan vivacious depressive

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

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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:31 PM
Author: avocado garrison

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=2betting#49548213)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:50 PM
Author: Hairraiser rigor business firm

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=2betting#49548259)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:50 PM
Author: aromatic azure people who are hurt



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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:53 PM
Author: irate stag film

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

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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:58 PM
Author: Hairraiser rigor business firm

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=2betting#49548283)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:55 PM
Author: Laughsome sienna ticket booth

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=2betting#49548276)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:56 PM
Author: slippery crotch

30

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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 8:18 PM
Author: brindle weed whacker gaming laptop

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=2betting#49548372)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 10:33 PM
Author: Thirsty field gay wizard

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=2betting#49548914)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 10:47 PM
Author: Greedy yellow crackhouse cuckold

look if you're not gonna acknowledge kant just gtfo of the thread

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2betting#49548953)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 10:59 PM
Author: Thirsty field gay wizard

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=2betting#49548984)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 11:00 PM
Author: Greedy yellow crackhouse cuckold

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=2betting#49548987)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 11:01 PM
Author: Thirsty field gay wizard

Same lmao

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



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Date: December 30th, 2025 2:54 AM
Author: Soul-stirring Kitchen Boiling Water

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=2betting#49549210)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 2:55 AM
Author: Racy Menage

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=2betting#49549211)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 4:20 PM
Author: Thirsty field gay wizard

Si, je les ai lus tous

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Date: January 1st, 2026 6:31 PM
Author: Massive giraffe

Lol cr

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



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Date: December 30th, 2025 2:45 AM
Author: Lilac stage

16 lol

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



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Date: December 30th, 2025 2:59 AM
Author: Soul-stirring Kitchen Boiling Water

95.

List is OK with some retardation sprinkled in.

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



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Date: January 1st, 2026 5:45 PM
Author: cobalt coldplay fan



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Date: December 30th, 2025 3:08 AM
Author: Soul-stirring Kitchen Boiling Water

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

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



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Date: January 1st, 2026 5:48 PM
Author: cobalt coldplay fan

>The Summa at 88

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



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Date: January 1st, 2026 6:14 PM
Author: Massive giraffe

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=2betting#49554916)



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Date: January 1st, 2026 6:49 PM
Author: aromatic azure people who are hurt

yes even though your assumption is true

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



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Date: January 1st, 2026 7:01 PM
Author: Massive giraffe

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

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



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Date: January 1st, 2026 6:51 PM
Author: Soul-stirring Kitchen Boiling Water

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=2betting#49555021)



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Date: January 1st, 2026 7:07 PM
Author: Massive giraffe

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

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



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Date: January 1st, 2026 7:08 PM
Author: Anal shrine

93

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