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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...
Racy Principal's Office Regret
  12/29/25
49, if listening to the opera counts as reading Wagner's &qu...
dun hospital
  12/29/25
#22 may surprise you
Gay pisswyrm indian lodge
  12/29/25
ran here - wow
Geriatric Narrow-minded Bawdyhouse
  12/30/25
...
beady-eyed lay
  01/01/26
25 I always liked to read and to write *eyes bug ou...
costumed old irish cottage prole
  12/29/25
2026 might be the year of book backlogs. 2025 was film and b...
Racy Principal's Office Regret
  12/29/25
...
razzle-dazzle ceo
  12/29/25
...
abnormal shitlib
  12/29/25
...
Angry smoky partner
  12/29/25
...
Racy Principal's Office Regret
  12/29/25
What a faggot, poser list of mostly shit.
Slimy ticket booth
  12/29/25
...
vigorous useless brakes
  01/01/26
40 The version of this list I remember from when I was a te...
judgmental pea-brained area
  12/29/25
It was largely manga
Racy Principal's Office Regret
  12/29/25
there was a 4chan recommendations wiki that had different pa...
judgmental pea-brained area
  12/29/25
/lit/ is filled with faggots not even wasting my time rea...
Khaki friendly grandma native
  12/29/25
Storm of Steel is a 180 book though
Racy Principal's Office Regret
  12/29/25
There are some decent recs on there actually but they shoeho...
Khaki friendly grandma native
  12/29/25
...
Angry smoky partner
  12/29/25
Yeah those are 2 that stood out to me that seem shitty. I do...
Racy Principal's Office Regret
  12/29/25
when we were all still in college EVERYONE here sucked off i...
Khaki friendly grandma native
  12/29/25
Recommend some based 180 books
Racy Principal's Office Regret
  12/29/25
people are hating to be contrarian but this list is actually...
abnormal shitlib
  12/29/25
greatest books of all time clockwork orange the great gats...
Khaki friendly grandma native
  12/29/25
do they say the unedited UK clockwork orange with last chapt...
Angry smoky partner
  12/29/25
wow a handful out of 100 are bad i guess the list sucks
abnormal shitlib
  12/29/25
how bad is spring snow? i thought mishima was just famous fo...
Fantasy-prone razzmatazz stain roommate
  12/29/25
on its own it's quite captivating, but it certainly doesn't ...
Lime foreskin twinkling uncleanness
  12/30/25
the Spring Snow movie is decent, book is boring imo and yeah...
infuriating galvanic hairy legs codepig
  12/30/25
correct
Geriatric Narrow-minded Bawdyhouse
  12/30/25
All Along the Western Front should be on there even though i...
Angry smoky partner
  12/29/25
ernst junger's storm of steel has replaced it as the canonic...
Concupiscible spruce athletic conference hissy fit
  12/29/25
lol at mishima having 3 books on this extremely gay list, co...
Lime foreskin twinkling uncleanness
  12/29/25
...
Fantasy-prone razzmatazz stain roommate
  12/29/25
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrHK7FNgnrM
Khaki friendly grandma native
  12/29/25
i assume everyone knows that mishima was a flaming lisping h...
Lime foreskin twinkling uncleanness
  12/29/25
24/50 and then i lost interest. way more than expected give...
aromatic mewling stage
  12/29/25
30
dead space
  12/29/25
I've read 28, broken down roughly as follows: Middle Scho...
godawful glittery orchestra pit round eye
  12/29/25
I have read about half these. Some of these picks are pure c...
unhinged cuckold meetinghouse
  12/29/25
look if you're not gonna acknowledge kant just gtfo of the t...
abnormal shitlib
  12/29/25
I acknowledge Kant bro but I also acknowledge that I don&rsq...
unhinged cuckold meetinghouse
  12/29/25
yeah i tried to read it myself and gave up it was too hard f...
abnormal shitlib
  12/29/25
Same lmao
unhinged cuckold meetinghouse
  12/29/25
I read it in a seminar class where it was the only assigned ...
Seedy bespoke turdskin parlor
  12/30/25
Oh? You haven't read all six volumes of A la recherche du te...
costumed old irish cottage prole
  12/30/25
Si, je les ai lus tous
unhinged cuckold meetinghouse
  12/30/25
Lol cr
Aphrodisiac alpha
  01/01/26
16 lol
Wonderful immigrant reading party
  12/30/25
95. List is OK with some retardation sprinkled in.
Seedy bespoke turdskin parlor
  12/30/25
...
autistic center degenerate
  01/01/26
BEE over Jane austen is certainly edgy and cool of them!
Seedy bespoke turdskin parlor
  12/30/25
>The Summa at 88
autistic center degenerate
  01/01/26
Is infinite jest cr? Always assumed it was a faggot gen x fa...
Aphrodisiac alpha
  01/01/26
yes even though your assumption is true
Fantasy-prone razzmatazz stain roommate
  01/01/26
Ok but for further evidence can you list ur favorite handful...
Aphrodisiac alpha
  01/01/26
DFW is a good writer but man gen x is going down as an irrel...
Seedy bespoke turdskin parlor
  01/01/26
Lol at all the AZN shit and the Andrew Tate type shit
Aphrodisiac alpha
  01/01/26
93
ungodly insanely creepy office cumskin
  01/01/26


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Date: December 29th, 2025 2:52 PM
Author: Racy Principal's Office Regret

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 hospital

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: Gay pisswyrm indian lodge

#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: Geriatric Narrow-minded Bawdyhouse

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: beady-eyed lay



(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: costumed old irish cottage prole

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: Racy Principal's Office Regret

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: razzle-dazzle ceo



(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: abnormal shitlib



(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: Angry smoky partner



(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: Racy Principal's Office Regret



(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 ticket booth

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: vigorous useless brakes



(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: judgmental pea-brained area

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: Racy Principal's Office Regret

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: judgmental pea-brained area

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: Khaki friendly grandma native

/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: Racy Principal's Office Regret

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: Khaki friendly grandma native

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: Angry smoky partner



(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: Racy Principal's Office Regret

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: Khaki friendly grandma native

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: Racy Principal's Office Regret

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: abnormal shitlib

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: Khaki friendly grandma native

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: Angry smoky partner

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: abnormal shitlib

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: Fantasy-prone razzmatazz stain roommate

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: Lime foreskin twinkling uncleanness

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: infuriating galvanic hairy legs codepig

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: Geriatric Narrow-minded Bawdyhouse

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: Angry smoky partner

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: Concupiscible spruce athletic conference hissy fit

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: Lime foreskin twinkling uncleanness

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: Fantasy-prone razzmatazz stain roommate



(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: Khaki friendly grandma native

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: Lime foreskin twinkling uncleanness

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: aromatic mewling stage

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: dead space

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: godawful glittery orchestra pit round eye

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: unhinged cuckold meetinghouse

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: abnormal shitlib

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: unhinged cuckold meetinghouse

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: abnormal shitlib

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: unhinged cuckold meetinghouse

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: Seedy bespoke turdskin parlor

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: costumed old irish cottage prole

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: unhinged cuckold meetinghouse

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: Aphrodisiac alpha

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: Wonderful immigrant reading party

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: Seedy bespoke turdskin parlor

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: autistic center degenerate



(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: Seedy bespoke turdskin parlor

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: autistic center degenerate

>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: Aphrodisiac alpha

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: Fantasy-prone razzmatazz stain roommate

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: Aphrodisiac alpha

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: Seedy bespoke turdskin parlor

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: Aphrodisiac alpha

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: ungodly insanely creepy office cumskin

93

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