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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...
exciting narrow-minded hell
  12/29/25
49, if listening to the opera counts as reading Wagner's &qu...
Jet thriller piazza famous landscape painting
  12/29/25
#22 may surprise you
Mustard market kitty cat
  12/29/25
ran here - wow
rough-skinned irate candlestick maker abode
  12/30/25
...
turquoise parlour wagecucks
  01/01/26
25 I always liked to read and to write *eyes bug ou...
chrome center
  12/29/25
2026 might be the year of book backlogs. 2025 was film and b...
exciting narrow-minded hell
  12/29/25
...
passionate yellow state
  12/29/25
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Orange roast beef
  12/29/25
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arousing multi-billionaire
  12/29/25
...
exciting narrow-minded hell
  12/29/25
What a faggot, poser list of mostly shit.
Adventurous Self-centered Incel
  12/29/25
...
Concupiscible Plaza
  01/01/26
40 The version of this list I remember from when I was a te...
godawful garnet mexican
  12/29/25
It was largely manga
exciting narrow-minded hell
  12/29/25
there was a 4chan recommendations wiki that had different pa...
godawful garnet mexican
  12/29/25
/lit/ is filled with faggots not even wasting my time rea...
Lascivious amber pozpig quadroon
  12/29/25
Storm of Steel is a 180 book though
exciting narrow-minded hell
  12/29/25
There are some decent recs on there actually but they shoeho...
Lascivious amber pozpig quadroon
  12/29/25
...
arousing multi-billionaire
  12/29/25
Yeah those are 2 that stood out to me that seem shitty. I do...
exciting narrow-minded hell
  12/29/25
when we were all still in college EVERYONE here sucked off i...
Lascivious amber pozpig quadroon
  12/29/25
Recommend some based 180 books
exciting narrow-minded hell
  12/29/25
people are hating to be contrarian but this list is actually...
Orange roast beef
  12/29/25
greatest books of all time clockwork orange the great gats...
Lascivious amber pozpig quadroon
  12/29/25
do they say the unedited UK clockwork orange with last chapt...
arousing multi-billionaire
  12/29/25
wow a handful out of 100 are bad i guess the list sucks
Orange roast beef
  12/29/25
how bad is spring snow? i thought mishima was just famous fo...
amethyst windowlicker
  12/29/25
on its own it's quite captivating, but it certainly doesn't ...
sooty overrated pit nowag
  12/30/25
the Spring Snow movie is decent, book is boring imo and yeah...
ocher cruise ship
  12/30/25
correct
rough-skinned irate candlestick maker abode
  12/30/25
All Along the Western Front should be on there even though i...
arousing multi-billionaire
  12/29/25
ernst junger's storm of steel has replaced it as the canonic...
milky sadistic menage
  12/29/25
lol at mishima having 3 books on this extremely gay list, co...
sooty overrated pit nowag
  12/29/25
...
amethyst windowlicker
  12/29/25
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrHK7FNgnrM
Lascivious amber pozpig quadroon
  12/29/25
i assume everyone knows that mishima was a flaming lisping h...
sooty overrated pit nowag
  12/29/25
24/50 and then i lost interest. way more than expected give...
dashing preventive strike
  12/29/25
30
impressive glittery circlehead
  12/29/25
I've read 28, broken down roughly as follows: Middle Scho...
soul-stirring factory reset button
  12/29/25
I have read about half these. Some of these picks are pure c...
Burgundy fortuitous meteor
  12/29/25
look if you're not gonna acknowledge kant just gtfo of the t...
Orange roast beef
  12/29/25
I acknowledge Kant bro but I also acknowledge that I don&rsq...
Burgundy fortuitous meteor
  12/29/25
yeah i tried to read it myself and gave up it was too hard f...
Orange roast beef
  12/29/25
Same lmao
Burgundy fortuitous meteor
  12/29/25
I read it in a seminar class where it was the only assigned ...
Trip Personal Credit Line
  12/30/25
Oh? You haven't read all six volumes of A la recherche du te...
chrome center
  12/30/25
Si, je les ai lus tous
Burgundy fortuitous meteor
  12/30/25
Lol cr
Bull headed tattoo
  01/01/26
16 lol
Buff disgusting office queen of the night
  12/30/25
95. List is OK with some retardation sprinkled in.
Trip Personal Credit Line
  12/30/25
...
brilliant pervert
  01/01/26
BEE over Jane austen is certainly edgy and cool of them!
Trip Personal Credit Line
  12/30/25
>The Summa at 88
brilliant pervert
  01/01/26
Is infinite jest cr? Always assumed it was a faggot gen x fa...
Bull headed tattoo
  01/01/26
yes even though your assumption is true
amethyst windowlicker
  01/01/26
Ok but for further evidence can you list ur favorite handful...
Bull headed tattoo
  01/01/26
DFW is a good writer but man gen x is going down as an irrel...
Trip Personal Credit Line
  01/01/26
Lol at all the AZN shit and the Andrew Tate type shit
Bull headed tattoo
  01/01/26
93
slippery startled goyim church
  01/01/26


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Date: December 29th, 2025 2:52 PM
Author: exciting narrow-minded hell

https://x.com/andrewchen/status/2005289538189738278 I have read 11 of these. Should I add the rest to my backlog? I feel like I don't ever wanna read Joyce or any german novelist again or any "philosopher"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2.#49547555)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 2:59 PM
Author: Jet thriller piazza famous landscape painting

49, if listening to the opera counts as reading Wagner's "Ring of the Nibelung"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2.#49547568)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 2:59 PM
Author: Mustard market kitty cat

#22 may surprise you

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



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Date: December 30th, 2025 10:43 AM
Author: rough-skinned irate candlestick maker abode

ran here - wow

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



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Date: January 1st, 2026 7:02 PM
Author: turquoise parlour wagecucks



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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 3:01 PM
Author: chrome center

25

I always liked

to read and to write

*eyes bug out of head, anus prolapses*

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2.#49547574)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 3:36 PM
Author: exciting narrow-minded hell

2026 might be the year of book backlogs. 2025 was film and before that, gaming, before doodikoff made it passé

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2.#49547656)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:07 PM
Author: passionate yellow state



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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:10 PM
Author: Orange roast beef



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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:21 PM
Author: arousing multi-billionaire



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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:47 PM
Author: exciting narrow-minded hell



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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 3:04 PM
Author: Adventurous Self-centered Incel

What a faggot, poser list of mostly shit.

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



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Date: January 1st, 2026 6:22 PM
Author: Concupiscible Plaza



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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 3:34 PM
Author: godawful garnet mexican

40

The version of this list I remember from when I was a teen on 4chan (so ~2012) was better

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2.#49547646)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:03 PM
Author: exciting narrow-minded hell

It was largely manga

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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:18 PM
Author: godawful garnet mexican

there was a 4chan recommendations wiki that had different pages for novels, manga, digital/visual novels etc

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2.#49548179)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:11 PM
Author: Lascivious amber pozpig quadroon

/lit/ is filled with faggots

not even wasting my time reading this

its like asking /tv/ for tv show recs

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2.#49548155)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:13 PM
Author: exciting narrow-minded hell

Storm of Steel is a 180 book though

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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:15 PM
Author: Lascivious amber pozpig quadroon

There are some decent recs on there actually but they shoehorn dumb shit like infinite jest and a thousand years of solitude and jew trash

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2.#49548165)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:22 PM
Author: arousing multi-billionaire



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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:26 PM
Author: exciting narrow-minded hell

Yeah those are 2 that stood out to me that seem shitty. I don't want to ever read anything a south american wrote. "magical realism" is the worst genre or beaner slop imo. And infinite jest just feels reddity but I've never read any of it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2.#49548203)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:28 PM
Author: Lascivious amber pozpig quadroon

when we were all still in college EVERYONE here sucked off infinite jest non stop, multiple 300+ poast threads about it

bunch of poser fags here

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2.#49548208)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:47 PM
Author: exciting narrow-minded hell

Recommend some based 180 books

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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:18 PM
Author: Orange roast beef

people are hating to be contrarian but this list is actually pretty good imo

yeah it's not perfect but it's better than almost any other "best books" list you will ever see

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2.#49548177)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:19 PM
Author: Lascivious amber pozpig quadroon

greatest books of all time

clockwork orange

the great gatsby

spring snow

etc etc

give me a break

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2.#49548184)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:23 PM
Author: arousing multi-billionaire

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

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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:26 PM
Author: Orange roast beef

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

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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:33 PM
Author: amethyst windowlicker

how bad is spring snow? i thought mishima was just famous for his failed coup+killing self and being a weird homo, no idea people thought so highly of any of his writing

list is fairly credited though. lol'd at all the dostoevsky books so high even though i like them. tells you the type of doods making this list

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2.#49548215)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 2:33 AM
Author: sooty overrated pit nowag

on its own it's quite captivating, but it certainly doesn't belong anywhere near the top 1000 books of all time, let alone 100, and reading the rest of the sea of fertility tetralogy reveals it to be a degenerate game played by a mentally ill homosexual.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2.#49549208)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 4:21 PM
Author: ocher cruise ship

the Spring Snow movie is decent, book is boring imo and yeah he's a huge fag

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2.#49550529)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 2:03 PM
Author: rough-skinned irate candlestick maker abode

correct

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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:26 PM
Author: arousing multi-billionaire

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

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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:31 PM
Author: milky sadistic menage

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

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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:50 PM
Author: sooty overrated pit nowag

lol at mishima having 3 books on this extremely gay list, compiled by homos on 4chan, of gay books written by gay authors for their gay audience

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2.#49548259)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:50 PM
Author: amethyst windowlicker



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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:53 PM
Author: Lascivious amber pozpig quadroon

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

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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:58 PM
Author: sooty overrated pit nowag

i assume everyone knows that mishima was a flaming lisping homo who larped as a samurai. less known is the fact that when he competed in kendo, he also fought, befitting a homo, in the least manly way possible -- the complete opposite of what he describes in runaway horses.

ps. it looks like there are 2 books by him, not 3. that's still 2 too many.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2.#49548283)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:55 PM
Author: dashing preventive strike

24/50 and then i lost interest. way more than expected given my utter lack of interest in classical literature. I would happily replace 1/2 of these with isaac asimov. Including a lot of the russians. Anna Karenina is trash.

Ok 20/50 for the bottom 50. Still no asimov. I only came back to check. I mean dune ffs but not asimov?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2.#49548276)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:56 PM
Author: impressive glittery circlehead

30

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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 8:18 PM
Author: soul-stirring factory reset button

I've read 28, broken down roughly as follows:

Middle School: ~4

High School: ~10

College: ~4

The remaining ~10 were when I was in my early 30s or so and for a while chose what to read by simply going down a list of the best 100 novels of all time (which looked very similar to this list) and read whichever ones were under 300 pages.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2.#49548372)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 10:33 PM
Author: Burgundy fortuitous meteor

I have read about half these. Some of these picks are pure crap. Also, the idea that people are sitting around reading a critique of pure reason, the world as will and representation, phenomenology of spirit etc is preposterous. Those books were just added because the people who out the list together are poseurs. You can probably identify the true nature of the faggots who out the list together by isolating the bad picks on the list and assuming they have not read the good picks on the list.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2.#49548914)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 10:47 PM
Author: Orange roast beef

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

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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 10:59 PM
Author: Burgundy fortuitous meteor

I acknowledge Kant bro but I also acknowledge that I don’t have the time or inclination to read critique of pure reason and am smart enough to know how much intelligence and effort would be required to appreciate the book. These people haven’t read Kant, never will, certainly will never put in the time to understand it, but that’s not going to stop them from putting him on the list along with Hegel and Schopenhauer (they haven’t read them either)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2.#49548984)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 11:00 PM
Author: Orange roast beef

yeah i tried to read it myself and gave up it was too hard for me lmao

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2.#49548987)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 11:01 PM
Author: Burgundy fortuitous meteor

Same lmao

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



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Date: December 30th, 2025 2:54 AM
Author: Trip Personal Credit Line

I read it in a seminar class where it was the only assigned text.

Read the prolegomena instead if you just want to read some kantian metaphysics for fun

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2.#49549210)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 2:55 AM
Author: chrome center

Oh? You haven't read all six volumes of A la recherche du temps perdu?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2.#49549211)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 4:20 PM
Author: Burgundy fortuitous meteor

Si, je les ai lus tous

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



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Date: January 1st, 2026 6:31 PM
Author: Bull headed tattoo

Lol cr

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



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Date: December 30th, 2025 2:45 AM
Author: Buff disgusting office queen of the night

16 lol

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



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Date: December 30th, 2025 2:59 AM
Author: Trip Personal Credit Line

95.

List is OK with some retardation sprinkled in.

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



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Date: January 1st, 2026 5:45 PM
Author: brilliant pervert



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



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Date: December 30th, 2025 3:08 AM
Author: Trip Personal Credit Line

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

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



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Date: January 1st, 2026 5:48 PM
Author: brilliant pervert

>The Summa at 88

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



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Date: January 1st, 2026 6:14 PM
Author: Bull headed tattoo

Is infinite jest cr? Always assumed it was a faggot gen x fart smelling fest

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2.#49554916)



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Date: January 1st, 2026 6:49 PM
Author: amethyst windowlicker

yes even though your assumption is true

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



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Date: January 1st, 2026 7:01 PM
Author: Bull headed tattoo

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

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



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Date: January 1st, 2026 6:51 PM
Author: Trip Personal Credit Line

DFW is a good writer but man gen x is going down as an irrelevant generation and culture

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2.#49555021)



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Date: January 1st, 2026 7:07 PM
Author: Bull headed tattoo

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

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



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Date: January 1st, 2026 7:08 PM
Author: slippery startled goyim church

93

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