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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...
Shivering Vibrant Nibblets Reading Party
  12/29/25
49, if listening to the opera counts as reading Wagner's &qu...
amethyst dashing jew
  12/29/25
#22 may surprise you
Claret impertinent water buffalo faggotry
  12/29/25
ran here - wow
Contagious Know-it-all Therapy Circlehead
  12/30/25
...
Out-of-control hall skinny woman
  01/01/26
25 I always liked to read and to write *eyes bug ou...
Razzmatazz Yarmulke
  12/29/25
2026 might be the year of book backlogs. 2025 was film and b...
Shivering Vibrant Nibblets Reading Party
  12/29/25
...
Coral jewess gaming laptop
  12/29/25
...
Opaque Aphrodisiac Masturbator Potus
  12/29/25
...
fighting charismatic gas station cuckoldry
  12/29/25
...
Shivering Vibrant Nibblets Reading Party
  12/29/25
What a faggot, poser list of mostly shit.
slimy razzle-dazzle piazza wrinkle
  12/29/25
...
Boyish Primrose Immigrant
  01/01/26
40 The version of this list I remember from when I was a te...
naked adventurous home sound barrier
  12/29/25
It was largely manga
Shivering Vibrant Nibblets Reading Party
  12/29/25
there was a 4chan recommendations wiki that had different pa...
naked adventurous home sound barrier
  12/29/25
/lit/ is filled with faggots not even wasting my time rea...
Provocative lodge
  12/29/25
Storm of Steel is a 180 book though
Shivering Vibrant Nibblets Reading Party
  12/29/25
There are some decent recs on there actually but they shoeho...
Provocative lodge
  12/29/25
...
fighting charismatic gas station cuckoldry
  12/29/25
Yeah those are 2 that stood out to me that seem shitty. I do...
Shivering Vibrant Nibblets Reading Party
  12/29/25
when we were all still in college EVERYONE here sucked off i...
Provocative lodge
  12/29/25
Recommend some based 180 books
Shivering Vibrant Nibblets Reading Party
  12/29/25
people are hating to be contrarian but this list is actually...
Opaque Aphrodisiac Masturbator Potus
  12/29/25
greatest books of all time clockwork orange the great gats...
Provocative lodge
  12/29/25
do they say the unedited UK clockwork orange with last chapt...
fighting charismatic gas station cuckoldry
  12/29/25
wow a handful out of 100 are bad i guess the list sucks
Opaque Aphrodisiac Masturbator Potus
  12/29/25
how bad is spring snow? i thought mishima was just famous fo...
well-lubricated sinister knife stag film
  12/29/25
on its own it's quite captivating, but it certainly doesn't ...
splenetic station
  12/30/25
the Spring Snow movie is decent, book is boring imo and yeah...
Geriatric theater stage dopamine
  12/30/25
correct
Contagious Know-it-all Therapy Circlehead
  12/30/25
All Along the Western Front should be on there even though i...
fighting charismatic gas station cuckoldry
  12/29/25
ernst junger's storm of steel has replaced it as the canonic...
fantasy-prone sanctuary gunner
  12/29/25
lol at mishima having 3 books on this extremely gay list, co...
splenetic station
  12/29/25
...
well-lubricated sinister knife stag film
  12/29/25
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrHK7FNgnrM
Provocative lodge
  12/29/25
i assume everyone knows that mishima was a flaming lisping h...
splenetic station
  12/29/25
24/50 and then i lost interest. way more than expected give...
Hairraiser White Hissy Fit Brunch
  12/29/25
30
arousing preventive strike
  12/29/25
I've read 28, broken down roughly as follows: Middle Scho...
Carnelian laughsome indian lodge athletic conference
  12/29/25
I have read about half these. Some of these picks are pure c...
odious idiot
  12/29/25
look if you're not gonna acknowledge kant just gtfo of the t...
Opaque Aphrodisiac Masturbator Potus
  12/29/25
I acknowledge Kant bro but I also acknowledge that I don&rsq...
odious idiot
  12/29/25
yeah i tried to read it myself and gave up it was too hard f...
Opaque Aphrodisiac Masturbator Potus
  12/29/25
Same lmao
odious idiot
  12/29/25
I read it in a seminar class where it was the only assigned ...
Mildly autistic candlestick maker
  12/30/25
Oh? You haven't read all six volumes of A la recherche du te...
Razzmatazz Yarmulke
  12/30/25
Si, je les ai lus tous
odious idiot
  12/30/25
Lol cr
ocher apoplectic locus
  01/01/26
16 lol
Jet-lagged Bearded Doctorate
  12/30/25
95. List is OK with some retardation sprinkled in.
Mildly autistic candlestick maker
  12/30/25
...
flesh motley kitchen indirect expression
  01/01/26
BEE over Jane austen is certainly edgy and cool of them!
Mildly autistic candlestick maker
  12/30/25
>The Summa at 88
flesh motley kitchen indirect expression
  01/01/26
Is infinite jest cr? Always assumed it was a faggot gen x fa...
ocher apoplectic locus
  01/01/26
yes even though your assumption is true
well-lubricated sinister knife stag film
  01/01/26
Ok but for further evidence can you list ur favorite handful...
ocher apoplectic locus
  01/01/26
DFW is a good writer but man gen x is going down as an irrel...
Mildly autistic candlestick maker
  01/01/26
Lol at all the AZN shit and the Andrew Tate type shit
ocher apoplectic locus
  01/01/26
93
Wonderful Famous Landscape Painting Stain
  01/01/26


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Date: December 29th, 2025 2:52 PM
Author: Shivering Vibrant Nibblets Reading Party

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: amethyst dashing jew

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: Claret impertinent water buffalo faggotry

#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: Contagious Know-it-all Therapy Circlehead

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: Out-of-control hall skinny woman



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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 3:01 PM
Author: Razzmatazz Yarmulke

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: Shivering Vibrant Nibblets Reading Party

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 jewess gaming laptop



(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: Opaque Aphrodisiac Masturbator Potus



(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: fighting charismatic gas station cuckoldry



(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: Shivering Vibrant Nibblets Reading Party



(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: slimy razzle-dazzle piazza wrinkle

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: Boyish Primrose Immigrant



(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: naked adventurous home sound barrier

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: Shivering Vibrant Nibblets Reading Party

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: naked adventurous home sound barrier

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: Provocative lodge

/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: Shivering Vibrant Nibblets Reading Party

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: Provocative lodge

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: fighting charismatic gas station cuckoldry



(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: Shivering Vibrant Nibblets Reading Party

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: Provocative lodge

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: Shivering Vibrant Nibblets Reading Party

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: Opaque Aphrodisiac Masturbator Potus

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: Provocative lodge

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: fighting charismatic gas station cuckoldry

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: Opaque Aphrodisiac Masturbator Potus

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: well-lubricated sinister knife stag film

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: splenetic station

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: Geriatric theater stage dopamine

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: Contagious Know-it-all Therapy Circlehead

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: fighting charismatic gas station cuckoldry

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: fantasy-prone sanctuary gunner

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: splenetic station

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: well-lubricated sinister knife stag film



(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: Provocative lodge

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: splenetic station

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: Hairraiser White Hissy Fit Brunch

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: arousing preventive strike

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: Carnelian laughsome indian lodge athletic conference

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: odious idiot

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: Opaque Aphrodisiac Masturbator Potus

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: odious idiot

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: Opaque Aphrodisiac Masturbator Potus

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: odious idiot

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: Mildly autistic candlestick maker

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: Razzmatazz Yarmulke

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: odious idiot

Si, je les ai lus tous

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



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Date: January 1st, 2026 6:31 PM
Author: ocher apoplectic locus

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: Jet-lagged Bearded Doctorate

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: Mildly autistic candlestick maker

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: flesh motley kitchen indirect expression



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



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Date: December 30th, 2025 3:08 AM
Author: Mildly autistic candlestick maker

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: flesh motley kitchen indirect expression

>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: ocher apoplectic locus

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: well-lubricated sinister knife stag film

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: ocher apoplectic locus

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: Mildly autistic candlestick maker

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: ocher apoplectic locus

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: Wonderful Famous Landscape Painting Stain

93

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