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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...
Big-titted Chrome Telephone Death Wish
  12/29/25
49, if listening to the opera counts as reading Wagner's &qu...
lime spectacular national faggot firefighter
  12/29/25
#22 may surprise you
Shaky travel guidebook lodge
  12/29/25
ran here - wow
stimulating greedy trailer park
  12/30/25
...
jet-lagged forum mexican
  01/01/26
25 I always liked to read and to write *eyes bug ou...
Bull Headed Comical New Version Hospital
  12/29/25
2026 might be the year of book backlogs. 2025 was film and b...
Big-titted Chrome Telephone Death Wish
  12/29/25
...
territorial passionate knife
  12/29/25
...
Mint histrionic messiness
  12/29/25
...
razzle fear-inspiring scourge upon the earth point
  12/29/25
...
Big-titted Chrome Telephone Death Wish
  12/29/25
What a faggot, poser list of mostly shit.
Umber duck-like sanctuary
  12/29/25
...
contagious double fault stag film
  01/01/26
40 The version of this list I remember from when I was a te...
medicated range
  12/29/25
It was largely manga
Big-titted Chrome Telephone Death Wish
  12/29/25
there was a 4chan recommendations wiki that had different pa...
medicated range
  12/29/25
/lit/ is filled with faggots not even wasting my time rea...
Rose space mother
  12/29/25
Storm of Steel is a 180 book though
Big-titted Chrome Telephone Death Wish
  12/29/25
There are some decent recs on there actually but they shoeho...
Rose space mother
  12/29/25
...
razzle fear-inspiring scourge upon the earth point
  12/29/25
Yeah those are 2 that stood out to me that seem shitty. I do...
Big-titted Chrome Telephone Death Wish
  12/29/25
when we were all still in college EVERYONE here sucked off i...
Rose space mother
  12/29/25
Recommend some based 180 books
Big-titted Chrome Telephone Death Wish
  12/29/25
people are hating to be contrarian but this list is actually...
Mint histrionic messiness
  12/29/25
greatest books of all time clockwork orange the great gats...
Rose space mother
  12/29/25
do they say the unedited UK clockwork orange with last chapt...
razzle fear-inspiring scourge upon the earth point
  12/29/25
wow a handful out of 100 are bad i guess the list sucks
Mint histrionic messiness
  12/29/25
how bad is spring snow? i thought mishima was just famous fo...
Splenetic Menage
  12/29/25
on its own it's quite captivating, but it certainly doesn't ...
alcoholic exciting senate
  12/30/25
the Spring Snow movie is decent, book is boring imo and yeah...
Self-centered Hairraiser Personal Credit Line Lay
  12/30/25
correct
stimulating greedy trailer park
  12/30/25
All Along the Western Front should be on there even though i...
razzle fear-inspiring scourge upon the earth point
  12/29/25
ernst junger's storm of steel has replaced it as the canonic...
Unholy church mad cow disease
  12/29/25
lol at mishima having 3 books on this extremely gay list, co...
alcoholic exciting senate
  12/29/25
...
Splenetic Menage
  12/29/25
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrHK7FNgnrM
Rose space mother
  12/29/25
i assume everyone knows that mishima was a flaming lisping h...
alcoholic exciting senate
  12/29/25
24/50 and then i lost interest. way more than expected give...
Charcoal library macaca
  12/29/25
30
heady high-end box office rigor
  12/29/25
I've read 28, broken down roughly as follows: Middle Scho...
Frozen zippy private investor
  12/29/25
I have read about half these. Some of these picks are pure c...
Thriller School Son Of Senegal
  12/29/25
look if you're not gonna acknowledge kant just gtfo of the t...
Mint histrionic messiness
  12/29/25
I acknowledge Kant bro but I also acknowledge that I don&rsq...
Thriller School Son Of Senegal
  12/29/25
yeah i tried to read it myself and gave up it was too hard f...
Mint histrionic messiness
  12/29/25
Same lmao
Thriller School Son Of Senegal
  12/29/25
I read it in a seminar class where it was the only assigned ...
Supple Main People
  12/30/25
Oh? You haven't read all six volumes of A la recherche du te...
Bull Headed Comical New Version Hospital
  12/30/25
Si, je les ai lus tous
Thriller School Son Of Senegal
  12/30/25
Lol cr
Hyperventilating impertinent electric furnace
  01/01/26
16 lol
Trip pocket flask
  12/30/25
95. List is OK with some retardation sprinkled in.
Supple Main People
  12/30/25
...
Mustard Boyish Hunting Ground Water Buffalo
  01/01/26
BEE over Jane austen is certainly edgy and cool of them!
Supple Main People
  12/30/25
>The Summa at 88
Mustard Boyish Hunting Ground Water Buffalo
  01/01/26
Is infinite jest cr? Always assumed it was a faggot gen x fa...
Hyperventilating impertinent electric furnace
  01/01/26
yes even though your assumption is true
Splenetic Menage
  01/01/26
Ok but for further evidence can you list ur favorite handful...
Hyperventilating impertinent electric furnace
  01/01/26
DFW is a good writer but man gen x is going down as an irrel...
Supple Main People
  01/01/26
Lol at all the AZN shit and the Andrew Tate type shit
Hyperventilating impertinent electric furnace
  01/01/26
93
idiotic den
  01/01/26


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Date: December 29th, 2025 2:52 PM
Author: Big-titted Chrome Telephone Death Wish

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\u0026show=posted#49547555)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 2:59 PM
Author: lime spectacular national faggot firefighter

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\u0026show=posted#49547568)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 2:59 PM
Author: Shaky travel guidebook lodge

#22 may surprise you

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2\u0026show=posted#49547569)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 10:43 AM
Author: stimulating greedy trailer park

ran here - wow

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2\u0026show=posted#49549594)



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Date: January 1st, 2026 7:02 PM
Author: jet-lagged forum mexican



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2\u0026show=posted#49555041)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 3:01 PM
Author: Bull Headed Comical New Version Hospital

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\u0026show=posted#49547574)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 3:36 PM
Author: Big-titted Chrome Telephone Death Wish

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\u0026show=posted#49547656)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:07 PM
Author: territorial passionate knife



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2\u0026show=posted#49548142)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:10 PM
Author: Mint histrionic messiness



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2\u0026show=posted#49548150)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:21 PM
Author: razzle fear-inspiring scourge upon the earth point



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2\u0026show=posted#49548191)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:47 PM
Author: Big-titted Chrome Telephone Death Wish



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2\u0026show=posted#49548248)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 3:04 PM
Author: Umber duck-like sanctuary

What a faggot, poser list of mostly shit.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2\u0026show=posted#49547577)



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Date: January 1st, 2026 6:22 PM
Author: contagious double fault stag film



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2\u0026show=posted#49554932)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 3:34 PM
Author: medicated range

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\u0026show=posted#49547646)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:03 PM
Author: Big-titted Chrome Telephone Death Wish

It was largely manga

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2\u0026show=posted#49548134)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:18 PM
Author: medicated range

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\u0026show=posted#49548179)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:11 PM
Author: Rose space mother

/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\u0026show=posted#49548155)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:13 PM
Author: Big-titted Chrome Telephone Death Wish

Storm of Steel is a 180 book though

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2\u0026show=posted#49548161)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:15 PM
Author: Rose space mother

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\u0026show=posted#49548165)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:22 PM
Author: razzle fear-inspiring scourge upon the earth point



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2\u0026show=posted#49548195)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:26 PM
Author: Big-titted Chrome Telephone Death Wish

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\u0026show=posted#49548203)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:28 PM
Author: Rose space mother

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\u0026show=posted#49548208)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:47 PM
Author: Big-titted Chrome Telephone Death Wish

Recommend some based 180 books

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2\u0026show=posted#49548249)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:18 PM
Author: Mint histrionic messiness

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\u0026show=posted#49548177)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:19 PM
Author: Rose space mother

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\u0026show=posted#49548184)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:23 PM
Author: razzle fear-inspiring scourge upon the earth point

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\u0026show=posted#49548196)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:26 PM
Author: Mint histrionic messiness

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\u0026show=posted#49548205)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:33 PM
Author: Splenetic Menage

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\u0026show=posted#49548215)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 2:33 AM
Author: alcoholic exciting senate

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\u0026show=posted#49549208)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 4:21 PM
Author: Self-centered Hairraiser Personal Credit Line Lay

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\u0026show=posted#49550529)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 2:03 PM
Author: stimulating greedy trailer park

correct

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2\u0026show=posted#49550101)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:26 PM
Author: razzle fear-inspiring scourge upon the earth point

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\u0026show=posted#49548202)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:31 PM
Author: Unholy church mad cow disease

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\u0026show=posted#49548213)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:50 PM
Author: alcoholic exciting senate

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\u0026show=posted#49548259)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:50 PM
Author: Splenetic Menage



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2\u0026show=posted#49548262)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:53 PM
Author: Rose space mother

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2\u0026show=posted#49548272)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:58 PM
Author: alcoholic exciting senate

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\u0026show=posted#49548283)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:55 PM
Author: Charcoal library macaca

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\u0026show=posted#49548276)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:56 PM
Author: heady high-end box office rigor

30

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2\u0026show=posted#49548278)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 8:18 PM
Author: Frozen zippy private investor

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\u0026show=posted#49548372)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 10:33 PM
Author: Thriller School Son Of Senegal

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\u0026show=posted#49548914)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 10:47 PM
Author: Mint histrionic messiness

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\u0026show=posted#49548953)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 10:59 PM
Author: Thriller School Son Of Senegal

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\u0026show=posted#49548984)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 11:00 PM
Author: Mint histrionic messiness

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\u0026show=posted#49548987)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 11:01 PM
Author: Thriller School Son Of Senegal

Same lmao

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2\u0026show=posted#49548989)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 2:54 AM
Author: Supple 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\u0026show=posted#49549210)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 2:55 AM
Author: Bull Headed Comical New Version Hospital

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\u0026show=posted#49549211)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 4:20 PM
Author: Thriller School Son Of Senegal

Si, je les ai lus tous

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2\u0026show=posted#49550526)



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Date: January 1st, 2026 6:31 PM
Author: Hyperventilating impertinent electric furnace

Lol cr

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2\u0026show=posted#49554957)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 2:45 AM
Author: Trip pocket flask

16 lol

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2\u0026show=posted#49549209)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 2:59 AM
Author: Supple Main People

95.

List is OK with some retardation sprinkled in.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2\u0026show=posted#49549213)



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Date: January 1st, 2026 5:45 PM
Author: Mustard Boyish Hunting Ground Water Buffalo



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2\u0026show=posted#49554864)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 3:08 AM
Author: Supple 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\u0026show=posted#49549214)



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Date: January 1st, 2026 5:48 PM
Author: Mustard Boyish Hunting Ground Water Buffalo

>The Summa at 88

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2\u0026show=posted#49554869)



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Date: January 1st, 2026 6:14 PM
Author: Hyperventilating impertinent electric furnace

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\u0026show=posted#49554916)



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Date: January 1st, 2026 6:49 PM
Author: Splenetic Menage

yes even though your assumption is true

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2\u0026show=posted#49555018)



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Date: January 1st, 2026 7:01 PM
Author: Hyperventilating impertinent electric furnace

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\u0026show=posted#49555035)



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Date: January 1st, 2026 6:51 PM
Author: Supple 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\u0026show=posted#49555021)



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Date: January 1st, 2026 7:07 PM
Author: Hyperventilating impertinent electric furnace

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2\u0026show=posted#49555046)



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Date: January 1st, 2026 7:08 PM
Author: idiotic den

93

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2\u0026show=posted#49555049)