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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...
jet startling cumskin boiling water
  12/29/25
49, if listening to the opera counts as reading Wagner's &qu...
razzle-dazzle dopamine
  12/29/25
#22 may surprise you
bespoke ticket booth famous landscape painting
  12/29/25
ran here - wow
aggressive light lay half-breed
  12/30/25
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aromatic harsh property
  01/01/26
25 I always liked to read and to write *eyes bug ou...
Angry church stain
  12/29/25
2026 might be the year of book backlogs. 2025 was film and b...
jet startling cumskin boiling water
  12/29/25
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exhilarant gaped brunch coldplay fan
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mischievous adulterous area background story
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tripping mewling multi-billionaire range
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jet startling cumskin boiling water
  12/29/25
What a faggot, poser list of mostly shit.
Lascivious painfully honest personal credit line headpube
  12/29/25
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Electric maize menage
  01/01/26
40 The version of this list I remember from when I was a te...
coral address friendly grandma
  12/29/25
It was largely manga
jet startling cumskin boiling water
  12/29/25
there was a 4chan recommendations wiki that had different pa...
coral address friendly grandma
  12/29/25
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yellow house-broken location tattoo
  12/29/25
Storm of Steel is a 180 book though
jet startling cumskin boiling water
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yellow house-broken location tattoo
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tripping mewling multi-billionaire range
  12/29/25
Yeah those are 2 that stood out to me that seem shitty. I do...
jet startling cumskin boiling water
  12/29/25
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yellow house-broken location tattoo
  12/29/25
Recommend some based 180 books
jet startling cumskin boiling water
  12/29/25
people are hating to be contrarian but this list is actually...
mischievous adulterous area background story
  12/29/25
...
yellow house-broken location tattoo
  12/29/25
do they say the unedited UK clockwork orange with last chapt...
tripping mewling multi-billionaire range
  12/29/25
wow a handful out of 100 are bad i guess the list sucks
mischievous adulterous area background story
  12/29/25
how bad is spring snow? i thought mishima was just famous fo...
bull headed frum native weed whacker
  12/29/25
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Flushed Faggotry
  12/30/25
the Spring Snow movie is decent, book is boring imo and yeah...
Maniacal razzle institution
  12/30/25
correct
aggressive light lay half-breed
  12/30/25
All Along the Western Front should be on there even though i...
tripping mewling multi-billionaire range
  12/29/25
ernst junger's storm of steel has replaced it as the canonic...
Violent Unholy Kitchen Azn
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Flushed Faggotry
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bull headed frum native weed whacker
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yellow house-broken location tattoo
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Flushed Faggotry
  12/29/25
24/50 and then i lost interest. way more than expected give...
Scarlet corner
  12/29/25
30
overrated athletic conference
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I've read 28, broken down roughly as follows: Middle Scho...
magenta fiercely-loyal resort
  12/29/25
I have read about half these. Some of these picks are pure c...
vigorous spot selfie
  12/29/25
look if you're not gonna acknowledge kant just gtfo of the t...
mischievous adulterous area background story
  12/29/25
I acknowledge Kant bro but I also acknowledge that I don&rsq...
vigorous spot selfie
  12/29/25
yeah i tried to read it myself and gave up it was too hard f...
mischievous adulterous area background story
  12/29/25
Same lmao
vigorous spot selfie
  12/29/25
I read it in a seminar class where it was the only assigned ...
beady-eyed home factory reset button
  12/30/25
Oh? You haven't read all six volumes of A la recherche du te...
Angry church stain
  12/30/25
Si, je les ai lus tous
vigorous spot selfie
  12/30/25
Lol cr
Ebony Magical Office Boistinker
  01/01/26
16 lol
Erotic dingle berry liquid oxygen
  12/30/25
95. List is OK with some retardation sprinkled in.
beady-eyed home factory reset button
  12/30/25
...
impressive box office
  01/01/26
BEE over Jane austen is certainly edgy and cool of them!
beady-eyed home factory reset button
  12/30/25
>The Summa at 88
impressive box office
  01/01/26
Is infinite jest cr? Always assumed it was a faggot gen x fa...
Ebony Magical Office Boistinker
  01/01/26
yes even though your assumption is true
bull headed frum native weed whacker
  01/01/26
Ok but for further evidence can you list ur favorite handful...
Ebony Magical Office Boistinker
  01/01/26
DFW is a good writer but man gen x is going down as an irrel...
beady-eyed home factory reset button
  01/01/26
Lol at all the AZN shit and the Andrew Tate type shit
Ebony Magical Office Boistinker
  01/01/26
93
Green curious field
  01/01/26


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Date: December 29th, 2025 2:52 PM
Author: jet startling cumskin boiling water

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: razzle-dazzle dopamine

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: bespoke ticket booth famous landscape painting

#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: aggressive light lay half-breed

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: aromatic harsh property



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Date: December 29th, 2025 3:01 PM
Author: Angry church stain

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: jet startling cumskin boiling water

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: exhilarant gaped brunch coldplay fan



(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: mischievous adulterous area background story



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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:21 PM
Author: tripping mewling multi-billionaire range



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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:47 PM
Author: jet startling cumskin boiling water



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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 3:04 PM
Author: Lascivious painfully honest personal credit line headpube

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: Electric maize menage



(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: coral address friendly grandma

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: jet startling cumskin boiling water

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: coral address friendly grandma

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: yellow house-broken location tattoo



(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: jet startling cumskin boiling water

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: yellow house-broken location tattoo



(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: tripping mewling multi-billionaire range



(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: jet startling cumskin boiling water

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: yellow house-broken location tattoo



(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: jet startling cumskin boiling water

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: mischievous adulterous area background story

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: yellow house-broken location tattoo



(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: tripping mewling multi-billionaire range

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: mischievous adulterous area background story

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: bull headed frum native weed whacker

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: Flushed Faggotry



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



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Date: December 30th, 2025 4:21 PM
Author: Maniacal razzle institution

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: aggressive light lay half-breed

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: tripping mewling multi-billionaire range

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: Violent Unholy Kitchen 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: Flushed Faggotry



(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: bull headed frum native weed whacker



(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: yellow house-broken location tattoo



(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: Flushed Faggotry



(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: Scarlet corner

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: overrated athletic conference

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: magenta fiercely-loyal resort

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: vigorous spot selfie

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: mischievous adulterous area background story

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: vigorous spot selfie

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: mischievous adulterous area background story

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: vigorous spot selfie

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: beady-eyed home factory reset button

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: Angry church stain

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: vigorous spot selfie

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: Ebony Magical Office Boistinker

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: Erotic dingle berry liquid oxygen

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: beady-eyed home factory reset button

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: impressive box office



(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: beady-eyed home factory reset button

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: impressive box office

>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: Ebony Magical Office Boistinker

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: bull headed frum native weed whacker

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: Ebony Magical Office Boistinker

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: beady-eyed home factory reset button

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: Ebony Magical Office Boistinker

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: Green curious field

93

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