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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...
Gold arrogant immigrant
  12/29/25
49, if listening to the opera counts as reading Wagner's &qu...
irradiated bronze school ape
  12/29/25
#22 may surprise you
Milky abusive kitchen mental disorder
  12/29/25
ran here - wow
Twinkling dilemma legend
  12/30/25
...
Curious Address Personal Credit Line
  01/01/26
25 I always liked to read and to write *eyes bug ou...
heady sex offender den
  12/29/25
2026 might be the year of book backlogs. 2025 was film and b...
Gold arrogant immigrant
  12/29/25
...
Drab thriller gaming laptop kitty
  12/29/25
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self-absorbed charismatic gas station gaping
  12/29/25
...
Laughsome snowy toaster blood rage
  12/29/25
...
Gold arrogant immigrant
  12/29/25
What a faggot, poser list of mostly shit.
lascivious locale
  12/29/25
...
rambunctious windowlicker
  01/01/26
40 The version of this list I remember from when I was a te...
Histrionic ivory preventive strike area
  12/29/25
It was largely manga
Gold arrogant immigrant
  12/29/25
there was a 4chan recommendations wiki that had different pa...
Histrionic ivory preventive strike area
  12/29/25
/lit/ is filled with faggots not even wasting my time rea...
Navy godawful property
  12/29/25
Storm of Steel is a 180 book though
Gold arrogant immigrant
  12/29/25
There are some decent recs on there actually but they shoeho...
Navy godawful property
  12/29/25
...
Laughsome snowy toaster blood rage
  12/29/25
Yeah those are 2 that stood out to me that seem shitty. I do...
Gold arrogant immigrant
  12/29/25
when we were all still in college EVERYONE here sucked off i...
Navy godawful property
  12/29/25
Recommend some based 180 books
Gold arrogant immigrant
  12/29/25
people are hating to be contrarian but this list is actually...
self-absorbed charismatic gas station gaping
  12/29/25
greatest books of all time clockwork orange the great gats...
Navy godawful property
  12/29/25
do they say the unedited UK clockwork orange with last chapt...
Laughsome snowy toaster blood rage
  12/29/25
wow a handful out of 100 are bad i guess the list sucks
self-absorbed charismatic gas station gaping
  12/29/25
how bad is spring snow? i thought mishima was just famous fo...
canary partner
  12/29/25
on its own it's quite captivating, but it certainly doesn't ...
Fragrant Lime Stock Car
  12/30/25
the Spring Snow movie is decent, book is boring imo and yeah...
Marvelous business firm trust fund
  12/30/25
correct
Twinkling dilemma legend
  12/30/25
All Along the Western Front should be on there even though i...
Laughsome snowy toaster blood rage
  12/29/25
ernst junger's storm of steel has replaced it as the canonic...
titillating liquid oxygen
  12/29/25
lol at mishima having 3 books on this extremely gay list, co...
Fragrant Lime Stock Car
  12/29/25
...
canary partner
  12/29/25
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrHK7FNgnrM
Navy godawful property
  12/29/25
i assume everyone knows that mishima was a flaming lisping h...
Fragrant Lime Stock Car
  12/29/25
24/50 and then i lost interest. way more than expected give...
mildly autistic transparent stag film
  12/29/25
30
spruce vivacious french chef house
  12/29/25
I've read 28, broken down roughly as follows: Middle Scho...
chartreuse halford famous landscape painting
  12/29/25
I have read about half these. Some of these picks are pure c...
Free-loading bistre menage
  12/29/25
look if you're not gonna acknowledge kant just gtfo of the t...
self-absorbed charismatic gas station gaping
  12/29/25
I acknowledge Kant bro but I also acknowledge that I don&rsq...
Free-loading bistre menage
  12/29/25
yeah i tried to read it myself and gave up it was too hard f...
self-absorbed charismatic gas station gaping
  12/29/25
Same lmao
Free-loading bistre menage
  12/29/25
I read it in a seminar class where it was the only assigned ...
domesticated foreskin main people
  12/30/25
Oh? You haven't read all six volumes of A la recherche du te...
heady sex offender den
  12/30/25
Si, je les ai lus tous
Free-loading bistre menage
  12/30/25
Lol cr
Shaky Arousing Chapel Pervert
  01/01/26
16 lol
beady-eyed theater incel
  12/30/25
95. List is OK with some retardation sprinkled in.
domesticated foreskin main people
  12/30/25
...
very tactful background story
  01/01/26
BEE over Jane austen is certainly edgy and cool of them!
domesticated foreskin main people
  12/30/25
>The Summa at 88
very tactful background story
  01/01/26
Is infinite jest cr? Always assumed it was a faggot gen x fa...
Shaky Arousing Chapel Pervert
  01/01/26
yes even though your assumption is true
canary partner
  01/01/26
Ok but for further evidence can you list ur favorite handful...
Shaky Arousing Chapel Pervert
  01/01/26
DFW is a good writer but man gen x is going down as an irrel...
domesticated foreskin main people
  01/01/26
Lol at all the AZN shit and the Andrew Tate type shit
MAHA Movement
  01/01/26
93
....;...:.;..;;
  01/01/26


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Date: December 29th, 2025 2:52 PM
Author: Gold arrogant immigrant

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: irradiated bronze school ape

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: Milky abusive kitchen mental disorder

#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: Twinkling dilemma legend

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: Curious Address Personal Credit Line



(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: heady sex offender den

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: Gold arrogant immigrant

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: Drab thriller gaming laptop kitty



(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: self-absorbed charismatic gas station gaping



(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: Laughsome snowy toaster blood rage



(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: Gold arrogant immigrant



(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: lascivious locale

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: rambunctious windowlicker



(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: Histrionic ivory preventive strike 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=2.#49547646)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:03 PM
Author: Gold arrogant immigrant

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: Histrionic ivory preventive strike 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=2.#49548179)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:11 PM
Author: Navy godawful property

/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: Gold arrogant immigrant

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: Navy godawful property

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: Laughsome snowy toaster blood rage



(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: Gold arrogant immigrant

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: Navy godawful property

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: Gold arrogant immigrant

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: self-absorbed charismatic gas station gaping

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: Navy godawful property

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: Laughsome snowy toaster blood rage

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: self-absorbed charismatic gas station gaping

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: canary partner

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: Fragrant Lime Stock Car

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: Marvelous business firm trust fund

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: Twinkling dilemma legend

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: Laughsome snowy toaster blood rage

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: titillating liquid oxygen

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: Fragrant Lime Stock Car

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: canary partner



(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: Navy godawful property

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: Fragrant Lime Stock Car

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: mildly autistic transparent stag film

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: spruce vivacious french chef house

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: chartreuse halford famous landscape painting

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: Free-loading bistre menage

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: self-absorbed charismatic gas station gaping

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: Free-loading bistre menage

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: self-absorbed charismatic gas station gaping

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: Free-loading bistre menage

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: domesticated foreskin main people

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: heady sex offender den

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: Free-loading bistre menage

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: Shaky Arousing Chapel Pervert

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: beady-eyed theater incel

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: domesticated foreskin main people

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: very tactful background story



(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: domesticated foreskin main people

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: very tactful background story

>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: Shaky Arousing Chapel Pervert

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: canary partner

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: Shaky Arousing Chapel Pervert

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: domesticated foreskin main people

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: MAHA Movement

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: ....;...:.;..;;

93

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