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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...
Effete twisted clown menage
  12/29/25
49, if listening to the opera counts as reading Wagner's &qu...
misanthropic charismatic pozpig shitlib
  12/29/25
#22 may surprise you
Flirting Coral Weed Whacker Mother
  12/29/25
ran here - wow
gay foreskin yarmulke
  12/30/25
...
swashbuckling ebony famous landscape painting church
  01/01/26
25 I always liked to read and to write *eyes bug ou...
alcoholic claret den mental disorder
  12/29/25
2026 might be the year of book backlogs. 2025 was film and b...
Effete twisted clown menage
  12/29/25
...
Hairraiser chocolate property marketing idea
  12/29/25
...
Appetizing Smoky Abode Circlehead
  12/29/25
...
seedy library
  12/29/25
...
Effete twisted clown menage
  12/29/25
What a faggot, poser list of mostly shit.
Bronze associate reading party
  12/29/25
...
slate whorehouse
  01/01/26
40 The version of this list I remember from when I was a te...
zombie-like talented mediation public bath
  12/29/25
It was largely manga
Effete twisted clown menage
  12/29/25
there was a 4chan recommendations wiki that had different pa...
zombie-like talented mediation public bath
  12/29/25
/lit/ is filled with faggots not even wasting my time rea...
Floppy stage patrolman
  12/29/25
Storm of Steel is a 180 book though
Effete twisted clown menage
  12/29/25
There are some decent recs on there actually but they shoeho...
Floppy stage patrolman
  12/29/25
...
seedy library
  12/29/25
Yeah those are 2 that stood out to me that seem shitty. I do...
Effete twisted clown menage
  12/29/25
when we were all still in college EVERYONE here sucked off i...
Floppy stage patrolman
  12/29/25
Recommend some based 180 books
Effete twisted clown menage
  12/29/25
people are hating to be contrarian but this list is actually...
Appetizing Smoky Abode Circlehead
  12/29/25
greatest books of all time clockwork orange the great gats...
Floppy stage patrolman
  12/29/25
do they say the unedited UK clockwork orange with last chapt...
seedy library
  12/29/25
wow a handful out of 100 are bad i guess the list sucks
Appetizing Smoky Abode Circlehead
  12/29/25
how bad is spring snow? i thought mishima was just famous fo...
Flushed Striped Hyena
  12/29/25
on its own it's quite captivating, but it certainly doesn't ...
tan set
  12/30/25
the Spring Snow movie is decent, book is boring imo and yeah...
Poppy theater
  12/30/25
correct
gay foreskin yarmulke
  12/30/25
All Along the Western Front should be on there even though i...
seedy library
  12/29/25
ernst junger's storm of steel has replaced it as the canonic...
Odious mood chad
  12/29/25
lol at mishima having 3 books on this extremely gay list, co...
tan set
  12/29/25
...
Flushed Striped Hyena
  12/29/25
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrHK7FNgnrM
Floppy stage patrolman
  12/29/25
i assume everyone knows that mishima was a flaming lisping h...
tan set
  12/29/25
24/50 and then i lost interest. way more than expected give...
deep brethren idea he suggested
  12/29/25
30
lime contagious state goyim
  12/29/25
I've read 28, broken down roughly as follows: Middle Scho...
Racy skinny woman
  12/29/25
I have read about half these. Some of these picks are pure c...
Curious ivory rigor therapy
  12/29/25
look if you're not gonna acknowledge kant just gtfo of the t...
Appetizing Smoky Abode Circlehead
  12/29/25
I acknowledge Kant bro but I also acknowledge that I don&rsq...
Curious ivory rigor therapy
  12/29/25
yeah i tried to read it myself and gave up it was too hard f...
Appetizing Smoky Abode Circlehead
  12/29/25
Same lmao
Curious ivory rigor therapy
  12/29/25
I read it in a seminar class where it was the only assigned ...
onyx pisswyrm halford
  12/30/25
Oh? You haven't read all six volumes of A la recherche du te...
alcoholic claret den mental disorder
  12/30/25
Si, je les ai lus tous
Curious ivory rigor therapy
  12/30/25
Lol cr
Yapping Titillating Toaster Hall
  01/01/26
16 lol
Burgundy stirring step-uncle's house
  12/30/25
95. List is OK with some retardation sprinkled in.
onyx pisswyrm halford
  12/30/25
...
Aqua shrine toilet seat
  01/01/26
BEE over Jane austen is certainly edgy and cool of them!
onyx pisswyrm halford
  12/30/25
>The Summa at 88
Aqua shrine toilet seat
  01/01/26
Is infinite jest cr? Always assumed it was a faggot gen x fa...
Yapping Titillating Toaster Hall
  01/01/26
yes even though your assumption is true
Flushed Striped Hyena
  01/01/26
Ok but for further evidence can you list ur favorite handful...
Yapping Titillating Toaster Hall
  01/01/26
DFW is a good writer but man gen x is going down as an irrel...
onyx pisswyrm halford
  01/01/26
Lol at all the AZN shit and the Andrew Tate type shit
Yapping Titillating Toaster Hall
  01/01/26
93
tripping hideous windowlicker piazza
  01/01/26


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Date: December 29th, 2025 2:52 PM
Author: Effete twisted clown menage

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#49547555)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 2:59 PM
Author: misanthropic charismatic pozpig shitlib

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#49547568)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 2:59 PM
Author: Flirting Coral Weed Whacker Mother

#22 may surprise you

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



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Date: December 30th, 2025 10:43 AM
Author: gay foreskin yarmulke

ran here - wow

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



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Date: January 1st, 2026 7:02 PM
Author: swashbuckling ebony famous landscape painting church



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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 3:01 PM
Author: alcoholic claret den mental disorder

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#49547574)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 3:36 PM
Author: Effete twisted clown menage

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#49547656)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:07 PM
Author: Hairraiser chocolate property marketing idea



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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:10 PM
Author: Appetizing Smoky Abode Circlehead



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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:21 PM
Author: seedy library



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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:47 PM
Author: Effete twisted clown menage



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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 3:04 PM
Author: Bronze associate reading party

What a faggot, poser list of mostly shit.

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



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Date: January 1st, 2026 6:22 PM
Author: slate whorehouse



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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 3:34 PM
Author: zombie-like talented mediation public bath

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#49547646)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:03 PM
Author: Effete twisted clown menage

It was largely manga

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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:18 PM
Author: zombie-like talented mediation public bath

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#49548179)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:11 PM
Author: Floppy stage patrolman

/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#49548155)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:13 PM
Author: Effete twisted clown menage

Storm of Steel is a 180 book though

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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:15 PM
Author: Floppy stage patrolman

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#49548165)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:22 PM
Author: seedy library



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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:26 PM
Author: Effete twisted clown menage

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#49548203)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:28 PM
Author: Floppy stage patrolman

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#49548208)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:47 PM
Author: Effete twisted clown menage

Recommend some based 180 books

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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:18 PM
Author: Appetizing Smoky Abode Circlehead

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#49548177)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:19 PM
Author: Floppy stage patrolman

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#49548184)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:23 PM
Author: seedy library

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#49548196)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:26 PM
Author: Appetizing Smoky Abode Circlehead

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#49548205)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:33 PM
Author: Flushed Striped Hyena

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#49548215)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 2:33 AM
Author: tan set

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#49549208)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 4:21 PM
Author: Poppy theater

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#49550529)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 2:03 PM
Author: gay foreskin yarmulke

correct

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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:26 PM
Author: seedy library

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#49548202)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:31 PM
Author: Odious mood chad

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#49548213)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:50 PM
Author: tan set

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#49548259)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:50 PM
Author: Flushed Striped Hyena



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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:53 PM
Author: Floppy stage patrolman

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

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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:58 PM
Author: tan set

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#49548283)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:55 PM
Author: deep brethren idea he suggested

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#49548276)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:56 PM
Author: lime contagious state goyim

30

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



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Date: December 29th, 2025 8:18 PM
Author: Racy skinny woman

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#49548372)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 10:33 PM
Author: Curious ivory rigor therapy

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#49548914)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 10:47 PM
Author: Appetizing Smoky Abode Circlehead

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#49548953)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 10:59 PM
Author: Curious ivory rigor therapy

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#49548984)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 11:00 PM
Author: Appetizing Smoky Abode Circlehead

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#49548987)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 11:01 PM
Author: Curious ivory rigor therapy

Same lmao

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



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Date: December 30th, 2025 2:54 AM
Author: onyx pisswyrm halford

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#49549210)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 2:55 AM
Author: alcoholic claret den mental disorder

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#49549211)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 4:20 PM
Author: Curious ivory rigor therapy

Si, je les ai lus tous

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



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Date: January 1st, 2026 6:31 PM
Author: Yapping Titillating Toaster Hall

Lol cr

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



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Date: December 30th, 2025 2:45 AM
Author: Burgundy stirring step-uncle's house

16 lol

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



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Date: December 30th, 2025 2:59 AM
Author: onyx pisswyrm halford

95.

List is OK with some retardation sprinkled in.

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



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Date: January 1st, 2026 5:45 PM
Author: Aqua shrine toilet seat



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



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Date: December 30th, 2025 3:08 AM
Author: onyx pisswyrm halford

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

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



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Date: January 1st, 2026 5:48 PM
Author: Aqua shrine toilet seat

>The Summa at 88

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



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Date: January 1st, 2026 6:14 PM
Author: Yapping Titillating Toaster Hall

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#49554916)



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Date: January 1st, 2026 6:49 PM
Author: Flushed Striped Hyena

yes even though your assumption is true

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



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Date: January 1st, 2026 7:01 PM
Author: Yapping Titillating Toaster Hall

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#49555035)



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Date: January 1st, 2026 6:51 PM
Author: onyx pisswyrm halford

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#49555021)



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Date: January 1st, 2026 7:07 PM
Author: Yapping Titillating Toaster Hall

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

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



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Date: January 1st, 2026 7:08 PM
Author: tripping hideous windowlicker piazza

93

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