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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...
balding sex offender
  12/29/25
49, if listening to the opera counts as reading Wagner's &qu...
Shaky Vigorous Main People
  12/29/25
#22 may surprise you
Pearly psychic
  12/29/25
ran here - wow
Bronze turdskin sanctuary
  12/30/25
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tan geriatric lodge
  01/01/26
25 I always liked to read and to write *eyes bug ou...
mustard titillating plaza
  12/29/25
2026 might be the year of book backlogs. 2025 was film and b...
balding sex offender
  12/29/25
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Claret razzle public bath trust fund
  12/29/25
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Lascivious chocolate antidepressant drug
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Citrine boyish point sweet tailpipe
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balding sex offender
  12/29/25
What a faggot, poser list of mostly shit.
Ultramarine big keepsake machete goyim
  12/29/25
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Beta faggot firefighter
  01/01/26
40 The version of this list I remember from when I was a te...
razzmatazz church building twinkling uncleanness
  12/29/25
It was largely manga
balding sex offender
  12/29/25
there was a 4chan recommendations wiki that had different pa...
razzmatazz church building twinkling uncleanness
  12/29/25
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frozen gaming laptop
  12/29/25
Storm of Steel is a 180 book though
balding sex offender
  12/29/25
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frozen gaming laptop
  12/29/25
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Citrine boyish point sweet tailpipe
  12/29/25
Yeah those are 2 that stood out to me that seem shitty. I do...
balding sex offender
  12/29/25
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frozen gaming laptop
  12/29/25
Recommend some based 180 books
balding sex offender
  12/29/25
people are hating to be contrarian but this list is actually...
Lascivious chocolate antidepressant drug
  12/29/25
...
frozen gaming laptop
  12/29/25
do they say the unedited UK clockwork orange with last chapt...
Citrine boyish point sweet tailpipe
  12/29/25
wow a handful out of 100 are bad i guess the list sucks
Lascivious chocolate antidepressant drug
  12/29/25
how bad is spring snow? i thought mishima was just famous fo...
Self-absorbed pistol home
  12/29/25
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wine blathering patrolman chad
  12/30/25
the Spring Snow movie is decent, book is boring imo and yeah...
180 Peach Athletic Conference Ladyboy
  12/30/25
correct
Bronze turdskin sanctuary
  12/30/25
All Along the Western Front should be on there even though i...
Citrine boyish point sweet tailpipe
  12/29/25
ernst junger's storm of steel has replaced it as the canonic...
snowy awkward azn
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wine blathering patrolman chad
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Self-absorbed pistol home
  12/29/25
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frozen gaming laptop
  12/29/25
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wine blathering patrolman chad
  12/29/25
24/50 and then i lost interest. way more than expected give...
Effete juggernaut
  12/29/25
30
coral menage incel
  12/29/25
I've read 28, broken down roughly as follows: Middle Scho...
bisexual ticket booth
  12/29/25
I have read about half these. Some of these picks are pure c...
Pontificating Violent Orchestra Pit
  12/29/25
look if you're not gonna acknowledge kant just gtfo of the t...
Lascivious chocolate antidepressant drug
  12/29/25
I acknowledge Kant bro but I also acknowledge that I don&rsq...
Pontificating Violent Orchestra Pit
  12/29/25
yeah i tried to read it myself and gave up it was too hard f...
Lascivious chocolate antidepressant drug
  12/29/25
Same lmao
Pontificating Violent Orchestra Pit
  12/29/25
I read it in a seminar class where it was the only assigned ...
fiercely-loyal ruby coffee pot foreskin
  12/30/25
Oh? You haven't read all six volumes of A la recherche du te...
mustard titillating plaza
  12/30/25
Si, je les ai lus tous
Pontificating Violent Orchestra Pit
  12/30/25
Lol cr
underhanded spot boltzmann
  01/01/26
16 lol
Alcoholic pale marketing idea
  12/30/25
95. List is OK with some retardation sprinkled in.
fiercely-loyal ruby coffee pot foreskin
  12/30/25
...
Abusive striped hyena
  01/01/26
BEE over Jane austen is certainly edgy and cool of them!
fiercely-loyal ruby coffee pot foreskin
  12/30/25
>The Summa at 88
Abusive striped hyena
  01/01/26
Is infinite jest cr? Always assumed it was a faggot gen x fa...
underhanded spot boltzmann
  01/01/26
yes even though your assumption is true
Self-absorbed pistol home
  01/01/26
Ok but for further evidence can you list ur favorite handful...
underhanded spot boltzmann
  01/01/26
DFW is a good writer but man gen x is going down as an irrel...
fiercely-loyal ruby coffee pot foreskin
  01/01/26
Lol at all the AZN shit and the Andrew Tate type shit
underhanded spot boltzmann
  01/01/26
93
Frum copper crackhouse dopamine
  01/01/26


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Date: December 29th, 2025 2:52 PM
Author: balding sex offender

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/en-en/#49547555)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 2:59 PM
Author: Shaky Vigorous Main People

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/en-en/#49547568)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 2:59 PM
Author: Pearly psychic

#22 may surprise you

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



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Date: December 30th, 2025 10:43 AM
Author: Bronze turdskin sanctuary

ran here - wow

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



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Date: January 1st, 2026 7:02 PM
Author: tan geriatric lodge



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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 3:01 PM
Author: mustard titillating plaza

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/en-en/#49547574)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 3:36 PM
Author: balding sex offender

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/en-en/#49547656)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:07 PM
Author: Claret razzle public bath trust fund



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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:10 PM
Author: Lascivious chocolate antidepressant drug



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:21 PM
Author: Citrine boyish point sweet tailpipe



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:47 PM
Author: balding sex offender



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Date: December 29th, 2025 3:04 PM
Author: Ultramarine big keepsake machete goyim

What a faggot, poser list of mostly shit.

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



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Date: January 1st, 2026 6:22 PM
Author: Beta faggot firefighter



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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 3:34 PM
Author: razzmatazz church building twinkling uncleanness

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/en-en/#49547646)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:03 PM
Author: balding sex offender

It was largely manga

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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:18 PM
Author: razzmatazz church building twinkling uncleanness

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/en-en/#49548179)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:11 PM
Author: frozen gaming laptop



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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:13 PM
Author: balding sex offender

Storm of Steel is a 180 book though

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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:15 PM
Author: frozen gaming laptop



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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:22 PM
Author: Citrine boyish point sweet tailpipe



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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:26 PM
Author: balding sex offender

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/en-en/#49548203)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:28 PM
Author: frozen gaming laptop



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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:47 PM
Author: balding sex offender

Recommend some based 180 books

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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:18 PM
Author: Lascivious chocolate antidepressant drug

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/en-en/#49548177)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:19 PM
Author: frozen gaming laptop



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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:23 PM
Author: Citrine boyish point sweet tailpipe

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/en-en/#49548196)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:26 PM
Author: Lascivious chocolate antidepressant drug

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/en-en/#49548205)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:33 PM
Author: Self-absorbed pistol home

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/en-en/#49548215)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 2:33 AM
Author: wine blathering patrolman chad



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Date: December 30th, 2025 4:21 PM
Author: 180 Peach Athletic Conference Ladyboy

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/en-en/#49550529)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 2:03 PM
Author: Bronze turdskin sanctuary

correct

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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:26 PM
Author: Citrine boyish point sweet tailpipe

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/en-en/#49548202)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:31 PM
Author: snowy awkward azn

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/en-en/#49548213)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:50 PM
Author: wine blathering patrolman chad



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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:50 PM
Author: Self-absorbed pistol home



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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:53 PM
Author: frozen gaming laptop



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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:58 PM
Author: wine blathering patrolman chad



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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:55 PM
Author: Effete juggernaut

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/en-en/#49548276)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:56 PM
Author: coral menage incel

30

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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 8:18 PM
Author: bisexual ticket booth

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/en-en/#49548372)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 10:33 PM
Author: Pontificating Violent Orchestra Pit

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/en-en/#49548914)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 10:47 PM
Author: Lascivious chocolate antidepressant drug

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/en-en/#49548953)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 10:59 PM
Author: Pontificating Violent Orchestra Pit

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/en-en/#49548984)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 11:00 PM
Author: Lascivious chocolate antidepressant drug

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/en-en/#49548987)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 11:01 PM
Author: Pontificating Violent Orchestra Pit

Same lmao

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



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Date: December 30th, 2025 2:54 AM
Author: fiercely-loyal ruby coffee pot foreskin

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/en-en/#49549210)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 2:55 AM
Author: mustard titillating plaza

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/en-en/#49549211)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 4:20 PM
Author: Pontificating Violent Orchestra Pit

Si, je les ai lus tous

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



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Date: January 1st, 2026 6:31 PM
Author: underhanded spot boltzmann

Lol cr

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



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Date: December 30th, 2025 2:45 AM
Author: Alcoholic pale marketing idea

16 lol

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



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Date: December 30th, 2025 2:59 AM
Author: fiercely-loyal ruby coffee pot foreskin

95.

List is OK with some retardation sprinkled in.

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



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Date: January 1st, 2026 5:45 PM
Author: Abusive striped hyena



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



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Date: December 30th, 2025 3:08 AM
Author: fiercely-loyal ruby coffee pot foreskin

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

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



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Date: January 1st, 2026 5:48 PM
Author: Abusive striped hyena

>The Summa at 88

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



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Date: January 1st, 2026 6:14 PM
Author: underhanded spot boltzmann

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/en-en/#49554916)



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Date: January 1st, 2026 6:49 PM
Author: Self-absorbed pistol home

yes even though your assumption is true

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



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Date: January 1st, 2026 7:01 PM
Author: underhanded spot boltzmann

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/en-en/#49555035)



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Date: January 1st, 2026 6:51 PM
Author: fiercely-loyal ruby coffee pot foreskin

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/en-en/#49555021)



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Date: January 1st, 2026 7:07 PM
Author: underhanded spot boltzmann

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

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



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Date: January 1st, 2026 7:08 PM
Author: Frum copper crackhouse dopamine

93

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