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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...
Olive new version
  12/29/25
49, if listening to the opera counts as reading Wagner's &qu...
vermilion federal potus meetinghouse
  12/29/25
#22 may surprise you
Scarlet Wild Crackhouse
  12/29/25
ran here - wow
Embarrassed To The Bone Trailer Park Useless Brakes
  12/30/25
...
Odious Home Mood
  01/01/26
25 I always liked to read and to write *eyes bug ou...
floppy aquamarine travel guidebook tank
  12/29/25
2026 might be the year of book backlogs. 2025 was film and b...
Olive new version
  12/29/25
...
electric knife main people
  12/29/25
...
pearl orchestra pit prole
  12/29/25
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arousing nighttime plaza
  12/29/25
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Olive new version
  12/29/25
What a faggot, poser list of mostly shit.
dark godawful heaven incel
  12/29/25
...
zippy laughsome bawdyhouse cuckoldry
  01/01/26
40 The version of this list I remember from when I was a te...
Sticky idiotic legend coldplay fan
  12/29/25
It was largely manga
Olive new version
  12/29/25
there was a 4chan recommendations wiki that had different pa...
Sticky idiotic legend coldplay fan
  12/29/25
/lit/ is filled with faggots not even wasting my time rea...
brilliant racy area
  12/29/25
Storm of Steel is a 180 book though
Olive new version
  12/29/25
There are some decent recs on there actually but they shoeho...
brilliant racy area
  12/29/25
...
arousing nighttime plaza
  12/29/25
Yeah those are 2 that stood out to me that seem shitty. I do...
Olive new version
  12/29/25
when we were all still in college EVERYONE here sucked off i...
brilliant racy area
  12/29/25
Recommend some based 180 books
Olive new version
  12/29/25
people are hating to be contrarian but this list is actually...
pearl orchestra pit prole
  12/29/25
greatest books of all time clockwork orange the great gats...
brilliant racy area
  12/29/25
do they say the unedited UK clockwork orange with last chapt...
arousing nighttime plaza
  12/29/25
wow a handful out of 100 are bad i guess the list sucks
pearl orchestra pit prole
  12/29/25
how bad is spring snow? i thought mishima was just famous fo...
hyperactive spot
  12/29/25
on its own it's quite captivating, but it certainly doesn't ...
Mauve rehab degenerate
  12/30/25
the Spring Snow movie is decent, book is boring imo and yeah...
House-broken concupiscible resort
  12/30/25
correct
Embarrassed To The Bone Trailer Park Useless Brakes
  12/30/25
All Along the Western Front should be on there even though i...
arousing nighttime plaza
  12/29/25
ernst junger's storm of steel has replaced it as the canonic...
thriller house feces
  12/29/25
lol at mishima having 3 books on this extremely gay list, co...
Mauve rehab degenerate
  12/29/25
...
hyperactive spot
  12/29/25
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrHK7FNgnrM
brilliant racy area
  12/29/25
i assume everyone knows that mishima was a flaming lisping h...
Mauve rehab degenerate
  12/29/25
24/50 and then i lost interest. way more than expected give...
at-the-ready tantric stag film dog poop
  12/29/25
30
primrose well-lubricated weed whacker associate
  12/29/25
I've read 28, broken down roughly as follows: Middle Scho...
Talking range
  12/29/25
I have read about half these. Some of these picks are pure c...
buck-toothed milk
  12/29/25
look if you're not gonna acknowledge kant just gtfo of the t...
pearl orchestra pit prole
  12/29/25
I acknowledge Kant bro but I also acknowledge that I don&rsq...
buck-toothed milk
  12/29/25
yeah i tried to read it myself and gave up it was too hard f...
pearl orchestra pit prole
  12/29/25
Same lmao
buck-toothed milk
  12/29/25
I read it in a seminar class where it was the only assigned ...
French Hominid
  12/30/25
Oh? You haven't read all six volumes of A la recherche du te...
floppy aquamarine travel guidebook tank
  12/30/25
Si, je les ai lus tous
buck-toothed milk
  12/30/25
Lol cr
multi-colored skinny woman gaming laptop
  01/01/26
16 lol
swashbuckling abode masturbator
  12/30/25
95. List is OK with some retardation sprinkled in.
French Hominid
  12/30/25
...
magenta pervert generalized bond
  01/01/26
BEE over Jane austen is certainly edgy and cool of them!
French Hominid
  12/30/25
>The Summa at 88
magenta pervert generalized bond
  01/01/26
Is infinite jest cr? Always assumed it was a faggot gen x fa...
multi-colored skinny woman gaming laptop
  01/01/26
yes even though your assumption is true
hyperactive spot
  01/01/26
Ok but for further evidence can you list ur favorite handful...
multi-colored skinny woman gaming laptop
  01/01/26
DFW is a good writer but man gen x is going down as an irrel...
French Hominid
  01/01/26
Lol at all the AZN shit and the Andrew Tate type shit
multi-colored skinny woman gaming laptop
  01/01/26
93
flesh disturbing property
  01/01/26


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Date: December 29th, 2025 2:52 PM
Author: Olive new version

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\u0026mark_id=5310796#49547555)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 2:59 PM
Author: vermilion federal potus meetinghouse

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\u0026mark_id=5310796#49547568)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 2:59 PM
Author: Scarlet Wild Crackhouse

#22 may surprise you

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#49547569)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 10:43 AM
Author: Embarrassed To The Bone Trailer Park Useless Brakes

ran here - wow

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#49549594)



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Date: January 1st, 2026 7:02 PM
Author: Odious Home Mood



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Date: December 29th, 2025 3:01 PM
Author: floppy aquamarine travel guidebook tank

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\u0026mark_id=5310796#49547574)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 3:36 PM
Author: Olive new version

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\u0026mark_id=5310796#49547656)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:07 PM
Author: electric knife main people



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:10 PM
Author: pearl orchestra pit prole



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#49548150)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:21 PM
Author: arousing nighttime plaza



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:47 PM
Author: Olive new version



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#49548248)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 3:04 PM
Author: dark godawful heaven incel

What a faggot, poser list of mostly shit.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#49547577)



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Date: January 1st, 2026 6:22 PM
Author: zippy laughsome bawdyhouse cuckoldry



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#49554932)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 3:34 PM
Author: Sticky idiotic legend coldplay fan

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\u0026mark_id=5310796#49547646)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:03 PM
Author: Olive new version

It was largely manga

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#49548134)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:18 PM
Author: Sticky idiotic legend coldplay fan

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\u0026mark_id=5310796#49548179)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:11 PM
Author: brilliant racy area

/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\u0026mark_id=5310796#49548155)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:13 PM
Author: Olive new version

Storm of Steel is a 180 book though

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#49548161)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:15 PM
Author: brilliant racy area

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\u0026mark_id=5310796#49548165)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:22 PM
Author: arousing nighttime plaza



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#49548195)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:26 PM
Author: Olive new version

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\u0026mark_id=5310796#49548203)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:28 PM
Author: brilliant racy area

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\u0026mark_id=5310796#49548208)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:47 PM
Author: Olive new version

Recommend some based 180 books

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#49548249)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:18 PM
Author: pearl orchestra pit prole

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\u0026mark_id=5310796#49548177)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:19 PM
Author: brilliant racy area

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\u0026mark_id=5310796#49548184)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:23 PM
Author: arousing nighttime plaza

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\u0026mark_id=5310796#49548196)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:26 PM
Author: pearl orchestra pit prole

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\u0026mark_id=5310796#49548205)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:33 PM
Author: hyperactive spot

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\u0026mark_id=5310796#49548215)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 2:33 AM
Author: Mauve rehab degenerate

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\u0026mark_id=5310796#49549208)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 4:21 PM
Author: House-broken concupiscible resort

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\u0026mark_id=5310796#49550529)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 2:03 PM
Author: Embarrassed To The Bone Trailer Park Useless Brakes

correct

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#49550101)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:26 PM
Author: arousing nighttime plaza

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\u0026mark_id=5310796#49548202)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:31 PM
Author: thriller house feces

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\u0026mark_id=5310796#49548213)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:50 PM
Author: Mauve rehab degenerate

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\u0026mark_id=5310796#49548259)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:50 PM
Author: hyperactive spot



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#49548262)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:53 PM
Author: brilliant racy area

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#49548272)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:58 PM
Author: Mauve rehab degenerate

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\u0026mark_id=5310796#49548283)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:55 PM
Author: at-the-ready tantric stag film dog poop

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\u0026mark_id=5310796#49548276)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:56 PM
Author: primrose well-lubricated weed whacker associate

30

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#49548278)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 8:18 PM
Author: Talking range

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\u0026mark_id=5310796#49548372)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 10:33 PM
Author: buck-toothed milk

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\u0026mark_id=5310796#49548914)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 10:47 PM
Author: pearl orchestra pit prole

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\u0026mark_id=5310796#49548953)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 10:59 PM
Author: buck-toothed milk

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\u0026mark_id=5310796#49548984)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 11:00 PM
Author: pearl orchestra pit prole

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\u0026mark_id=5310796#49548987)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 11:01 PM
Author: buck-toothed milk

Same lmao

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#49548989)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 2:54 AM
Author: French Hominid

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\u0026mark_id=5310796#49549210)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 2:55 AM
Author: floppy aquamarine travel guidebook tank

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\u0026mark_id=5310796#49549211)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 4:20 PM
Author: buck-toothed milk

Si, je les ai lus tous

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#49550526)



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Date: January 1st, 2026 6:31 PM
Author: multi-colored skinny woman gaming laptop

Lol cr

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#49554957)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 2:45 AM
Author: swashbuckling abode masturbator

16 lol

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#49549209)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 2:59 AM
Author: French Hominid

95.

List is OK with some retardation sprinkled in.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#49549213)



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Date: January 1st, 2026 5:45 PM
Author: magenta pervert generalized bond



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#49554864)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 3:08 AM
Author: French Hominid

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#49549214)



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Date: January 1st, 2026 5:48 PM
Author: magenta pervert generalized bond

>The Summa at 88

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#49554869)



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Date: January 1st, 2026 6:14 PM
Author: multi-colored skinny woman gaming laptop

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\u0026mark_id=5310796#49554916)



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Date: January 1st, 2026 6:49 PM
Author: hyperactive spot

yes even though your assumption is true

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#49555018)



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Date: January 1st, 2026 7:01 PM
Author: multi-colored skinny woman gaming laptop

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\u0026mark_id=5310796#49555035)



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Date: January 1st, 2026 6:51 PM
Author: French Hominid

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\u0026mark_id=5310796#49555021)



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Date: January 1st, 2026 7:07 PM
Author: multi-colored skinny woman gaming laptop

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#49555046)



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Date: January 1st, 2026 7:08 PM
Author: flesh disturbing property

93

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#49555049)