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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...
Dead Sadistic University Quadroon
  12/29/25
49, if listening to the opera counts as reading Wagner's &qu...
Razzmatazz smoky pit generalized bond
  12/29/25
#22 may surprise you
Vivacious office
  12/29/25
ran here - wow
cheese-eating goal in life
  12/30/25
...
Wonderful Boiling Water
  01/01/26
25 I always liked to read and to write *eyes bug ou...
Twinkling Fighting Shrine
  12/29/25
2026 might be the year of book backlogs. 2025 was film and b...
Dead Sadistic University Quadroon
  12/29/25
...
erotic aggressive sanctuary
  12/29/25
...
Startling community account
  12/29/25
...
confused jew scourge upon the earth
  12/29/25
...
Dead Sadistic University Quadroon
  12/29/25
What a faggot, poser list of mostly shit.
Vengeful main people half-breed
  12/29/25
...
Blathering Galvanic Home
  01/01/26
40 The version of this list I remember from when I was a te...
talented green brethren organic girlfriend
  12/29/25
It was largely manga
Dead Sadistic University Quadroon
  12/29/25
there was a 4chan recommendations wiki that had different pa...
talented green brethren organic girlfriend
  12/29/25
/lit/ is filled with faggots not even wasting my time rea...
henna crackhouse
  12/29/25
Storm of Steel is a 180 book though
Dead Sadistic University Quadroon
  12/29/25
There are some decent recs on there actually but they shoeho...
henna crackhouse
  12/29/25
...
confused jew scourge upon the earth
  12/29/25
Yeah those are 2 that stood out to me that seem shitty. I do...
Dead Sadistic University Quadroon
  12/29/25
when we were all still in college EVERYONE here sucked off i...
henna crackhouse
  12/29/25
Recommend some based 180 books
Dead Sadistic University Quadroon
  12/29/25
people are hating to be contrarian but this list is actually...
Startling community account
  12/29/25
greatest books of all time clockwork orange the great gats...
henna crackhouse
  12/29/25
do they say the unedited UK clockwork orange with last chapt...
confused jew scourge upon the earth
  12/29/25
wow a handful out of 100 are bad i guess the list sucks
Startling community account
  12/29/25
how bad is spring snow? i thought mishima was just famous fo...
Nubile cerebral range
  12/29/25
on its own it's quite captivating, but it certainly doesn't ...
arousing depressive
  12/30/25
the Spring Snow movie is decent, book is boring imo and yeah...
self-absorbed senate knife
  12/30/25
correct
cheese-eating goal in life
  12/30/25
All Along the Western Front should be on there even though i...
confused jew scourge upon the earth
  12/29/25
ernst junger's storm of steel has replaced it as the canonic...
glassy alcoholic national
  12/29/25
lol at mishima having 3 books on this extremely gay list, co...
arousing depressive
  12/29/25
...
Nubile cerebral range
  12/29/25
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrHK7FNgnrM
henna crackhouse
  12/29/25
i assume everyone knows that mishima was a flaming lisping h...
arousing depressive
  12/29/25
24/50 and then i lost interest. way more than expected give...
heady pungent theater
  12/29/25
30
federal hairy legs
  12/29/25
I've read 28, broken down roughly as follows: Middle Scho...
house-broken shimmering institution doctorate
  12/29/25
I have read about half these. Some of these picks are pure c...
maize overrated whorehouse dopamine
  12/29/25
look if you're not gonna acknowledge kant just gtfo of the t...
Startling community account
  12/29/25
I acknowledge Kant bro but I also acknowledge that I don&rsq...
maize overrated whorehouse dopamine
  12/29/25
yeah i tried to read it myself and gave up it was too hard f...
Startling community account
  12/29/25
Same lmao
maize overrated whorehouse dopamine
  12/29/25
I read it in a seminar class where it was the only assigned ...
Dashing fanboi karate
  12/30/25
Oh? You haven't read all six volumes of A la recherche du te...
Twinkling Fighting Shrine
  12/30/25
Si, je les ai lus tous
maize overrated whorehouse dopamine
  12/30/25
Lol cr
Multi-colored Parlour Useless Brakes
  01/01/26
16 lol
Red Aromatic Public Bath Mother
  12/30/25
95. List is OK with some retardation sprinkled in.
Dashing fanboi karate
  12/30/25
...
avocado free-loading nowag lay
  01/01/26
BEE over Jane austen is certainly edgy and cool of them!
Dashing fanboi karate
  12/30/25
>The Summa at 88
avocado free-loading nowag lay
  01/01/26
Is infinite jest cr? Always assumed it was a faggot gen x fa...
Multi-colored Parlour Useless Brakes
  01/01/26
yes even though your assumption is true
Nubile cerebral range
  01/01/26
Ok but for further evidence can you list ur favorite handful...
Multi-colored Parlour Useless Brakes
  01/01/26
DFW is a good writer but man gen x is going down as an irrel...
Dashing fanboi karate
  01/01/26
Lol at all the AZN shit and the Andrew Tate type shit
Multi-colored Parlour Useless Brakes
  01/01/26
93
pea-brained slate indian lodge
  01/01/26


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Date: December 29th, 2025 2:52 PM
Author: Dead Sadistic University Quadroon

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...id.#49547555)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 2:59 PM
Author: Razzmatazz smoky pit generalized bond

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...id.#49547568)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 2:59 PM
Author: Vivacious office

#22 may surprise you

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



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Date: December 30th, 2025 10:43 AM
Author: cheese-eating goal in life

ran here - wow

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



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Date: January 1st, 2026 7:02 PM
Author: Wonderful Boiling Water



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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 3:01 PM
Author: Twinkling Fighting Shrine

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...id.#49547574)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 3:36 PM
Author: Dead Sadistic University Quadroon

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...id.#49547656)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:07 PM
Author: erotic aggressive sanctuary



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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:10 PM
Author: Startling community account



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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:21 PM
Author: confused jew scourge upon the earth



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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:47 PM
Author: Dead Sadistic University Quadroon



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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 3:04 PM
Author: Vengeful main people half-breed

What a faggot, poser list of mostly shit.

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



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Date: January 1st, 2026 6:22 PM
Author: Blathering Galvanic Home



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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 3:34 PM
Author: talented green brethren organic girlfriend

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...id.#49547646)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:03 PM
Author: Dead Sadistic University Quadroon

It was largely manga

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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:18 PM
Author: talented green brethren organic girlfriend

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...id.#49548179)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:11 PM
Author: henna crackhouse

/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...id.#49548155)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:13 PM
Author: Dead Sadistic University Quadroon

Storm of Steel is a 180 book though

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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:15 PM
Author: henna crackhouse

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...id.#49548165)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:22 PM
Author: confused jew scourge upon the earth



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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:26 PM
Author: Dead Sadistic University Quadroon

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...id.#49548203)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:28 PM
Author: henna crackhouse

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...id.#49548208)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:47 PM
Author: Dead Sadistic University Quadroon

Recommend some based 180 books

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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:18 PM
Author: Startling community account

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...id.#49548177)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:19 PM
Author: henna crackhouse

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...id.#49548184)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:23 PM
Author: confused jew scourge upon the earth

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...id.#49548196)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:26 PM
Author: Startling community account

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...id.#49548205)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:33 PM
Author: Nubile cerebral range

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...id.#49548215)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 2:33 AM
Author: arousing depressive

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...id.#49549208)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 4:21 PM
Author: self-absorbed senate knife

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...id.#49550529)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 2:03 PM
Author: cheese-eating goal in life

correct

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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:26 PM
Author: confused jew scourge upon the earth

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...id.#49548202)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:31 PM
Author: glassy alcoholic national

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...id.#49548213)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:50 PM
Author: arousing depressive

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...id.#49548259)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:50 PM
Author: Nubile cerebral range



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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:53 PM
Author: henna crackhouse

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

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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:58 PM
Author: arousing depressive

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...id.#49548283)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:55 PM
Author: heady pungent theater

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...id.#49548276)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:56 PM
Author: federal hairy legs

30

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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 8:18 PM
Author: house-broken shimmering institution doctorate

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...id.#49548372)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 10:33 PM
Author: maize overrated whorehouse dopamine

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...id.#49548914)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 10:47 PM
Author: Startling community account

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...id.#49548953)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 10:59 PM
Author: maize overrated whorehouse dopamine

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...id.#49548984)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 11:00 PM
Author: Startling community account

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...id.#49548987)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 11:01 PM
Author: maize overrated whorehouse dopamine

Same lmao

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



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Date: December 30th, 2025 2:54 AM
Author: Dashing fanboi karate

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...id.#49549210)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 2:55 AM
Author: Twinkling Fighting Shrine

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...id.#49549211)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 4:20 PM
Author: maize overrated whorehouse dopamine

Si, je les ai lus tous

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



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Date: January 1st, 2026 6:31 PM
Author: Multi-colored Parlour Useless Brakes

Lol cr

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



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Date: December 30th, 2025 2:45 AM
Author: Red Aromatic Public Bath Mother

16 lol

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



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Date: December 30th, 2025 2:59 AM
Author: Dashing fanboi karate

95.

List is OK with some retardation sprinkled in.

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



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Date: January 1st, 2026 5:45 PM
Author: avocado free-loading nowag lay



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



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Date: December 30th, 2025 3:08 AM
Author: Dashing fanboi karate

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

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



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Date: January 1st, 2026 5:48 PM
Author: avocado free-loading nowag lay

>The Summa at 88

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



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Date: January 1st, 2026 6:14 PM
Author: Multi-colored Parlour Useless Brakes

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...id.#49554916)



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Date: January 1st, 2026 6:49 PM
Author: Nubile cerebral range

yes even though your assumption is true

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



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Date: January 1st, 2026 7:01 PM
Author: Multi-colored Parlour Useless Brakes

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...id.#49555035)



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Date: January 1st, 2026 6:51 PM
Author: Dashing fanboi karate

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...id.#49555021)



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Date: January 1st, 2026 7:07 PM
Author: Multi-colored Parlour Useless Brakes

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

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



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Date: January 1st, 2026 7:08 PM
Author: pea-brained slate indian lodge

93

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