Favroite 15 books

[Anonymous No.23210991]

This seemed like a fun way to learn about new books Post your own below

https://topsters.org/

[Anonymous No.23211002]

>>23210991
My mom says you're a faggot.
She says faggots go to reddit.

[Anonymous No.23211318]

>>23210991
Where's the fiction, anon?

[Anonymous No.23211343]

pacifism, liberalism, marxism, moralism, you came from reddit, didn't you?

[Anonymous No.23211483]

>>23210991

[Anonymous No.23211904]

[Anonymous No.23211970]

[Anonymous No.23211977]

>>23211343
every post2015 newfaggot comes from reddit and 95% of anons still lurk and post there, newfaggot

[Anonymous No.23212002]

>>23211977
Kill yourself back there.

[Anonymous No.23212020]

>>23210991
Another bait thread or for real?

[Anonymous No.23212249]

>>23211318
I read very little fiction and when I do I'm pretty indifferent towards it. I love Star Trek books but I couldn't fit them on this list.
>>23211343
>liberalism
Lol no. What book on there is liberal? It's all anarchist, socialist or Marxist.
>you came from reddit, didn't you?
No.
>>23211483
>Basketball books
>Halo books
Good shit.
>>23211904
>Aquinas
>New testament
>Mushishi
All essential spiritual texts.
>>23212020
Yet you still replied...

[Anonymous No.23212292]

>>23210991
A bunch of my old favorites and new favorites

Most of Henry Miller
Most of DH Lawrence
The Letters of Van Gogh
Tao Te Ching
The Chuang Tzu
I Ching
Kenneth Rexroth (mostly his Chinese and Japanese poetry translations, and his essays
Leaves of Grass by Whitman
Lots of William Carlos Williams
Lots of William Blake
Siddhartha by Hesse
Dhammapada
Bhagavad Gita
Lots of the Upanishads
Lots of Sophocles
Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus
Cellini’s autobiography
Casanova’s autobiography
Conversations with Goethe by Eckermann
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
The Dharma Bums/Big Sur by Kerouac
Sometimes a Great Notion by Kesey
Most of Nietzsche
Montaigne
Kafka
Gogol
Stendhal
Rabelais
Boccaccio
The Snow Leopard by Matthiessen
Edmund Wilson essays and reviews
The Waste Books by Lichtenberg
The Notebooks of Joubert
Gerard de Nerval
USA Trilogy by Dos Passos
Wind, Sand, and Stars by Saint Exupery
Mysteries by Hamsun
Seneca
Henry James short stories
Great Expectations by Dickens
Les Chants de Maldoror by Lautreamont
Plutarch
Paris Spleen by Baudelaire
Illuminations by Rimbaud
Rainer Maria Rilke
Hemingway’s short stories
The Rings of Saturn by Sebald
The Anatomy of Melancholy by Burton
Germinal by Zola
Memoirs of Hadrian by Yourcenar
A Glastonbury Romance by JC Powys

[Anonymous No.23212304]

I don't even know how to pick favorites. I just don't know anymore. Making this kind of list just feels like trying to show off and present an image of myself to strangers on the internet. When in reality, I read a book, and rarely ever come back to it, even if I liked it.

I just don't care enough to list 'favorites' anymore.

[Anonymous No.23212311]

[Anonymous No.23212330]

>>23212311
Is that Gitanji by Tagore?

[Anonymous No.23212388]

>>23211002
This attitude needs to die.

[Anonymous No.23212394]

>>23211483
You get some perverse satisfaction from being criticized for your lowly tastes, don't you?

[Anonymous No.23212464]

[Anonymous No.23212717]

>>23212311
>Ralph Waldo Emerson
>Zen Buddhism
Based anon.

[Anonymous No.23213317]

>>23211970
can't read shit on this image bro :(

[Anonymous No.23213852]

>>23213317
Ahh shit, here's a less compressed image

[Anonymous No.23214126]

Here's mine

[Anonymous No.23214144]

>>23210991
Brown hands made this shit thread

[Anonymous No.23214366]

The site's not working properly, the books aren't coming up

[Anonymous No.23214399]

[Anonymous No.23214413]

What a garbage slow site & shitty thread

Anyways I just started getting into reading last year these are the books I've read so far, minus 'Before the Coffee gets Cold' which was atrocious slop written for teenagers. Wasn't much of a fan of 'The Road' (or The Passenger, which I dropped) but I have All the Pretty Horses which I'll read eventually.

[Anonymous No.23214523]

>>23214413
Check out some mark twain, great gatsby, Charles Bukowski, and if you get into Pynchon, start with lot 49, then V, then GR

[Anonymous No.23214550]

>>23210991
>>23212464
Naess>Linkola, in my opinion

[Anonymous No.23214554]

>>23211977
and this is supposed to be a bad thing, der summerfag. mass immigration ruins cultural cohesion.

[Anonymous No.23215031]

This was a lot of work; it's hard to compare recent favorites to big books I read 10+ years ago

[Anonymous No.23215040]

>>23212292
Kill yourself

[Anonymous No.23215047]

>>23211483
>star wars
ye your taste is shite

[Anonymous No.23215056]

>>23212388
You have to go back.

[Anonymous No.23216625]

In no particular order
Candide
Master & Margarita
The Man Who Was Thursday
The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy,a Gentleman
Gay Science
Madame Bovary
The Sailor Who Fell from the Grace with the Sea
Messiah (Gore Vidal)
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The Heart of the Matter (Graham Greene)
All the King's Man
The Time Machine
The Book of Disquiet
The Life and Opinions of Tomcat Murr
The Portrait of Dorian Gray
The Great Gatsby
Hunger
The Main Currents of Marxism
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Lolita
Against Nature
Journey to the End of the Night
Franny & Zooey
Submission
The Wanderer & His Shadow
The Tale of Things to Come
Paradise Lost

[Anonymous No.23217484]

>>23213852
thank you anon

[Anonymous No.23217679]

Book of Exodus
Book of Genesis
Book of Numbers
Ecclesiastes
Book of Deuteronomy
Book of Numbers (Joshua Cohen)
Book of Joshua
Book of Daniel
Book of Sneed
Book of Ezekiel
Book of Moses
Book of Deuteronomy
Book of Sirach
Book of Haggai
Book of Joel

[Anonymous No.23217762]

>>23215031
Cool selection I can’t get through brothers k

[Anonymous No.23217774]

>>23213852
Not bad at all. What'd you think of the Mesopotamia book?

[Anonymous No.23217791]

>>23214399
I recognize you from the Japan thread. Based list; what's your favorite bird species?

>>23214550
>>23215031
Love Homer, Sappho, Aeschylus, religious studies, Beckett, Frazer, old Asian stuff, and Spengler. Really high quality picks overall in this thread.

[Anonymous No.23217821]

>>23214523
Thanks, never heard of Bukowski before

I plan to read Pynchon eventually, so I'll follow that order

Thanks again

[Anonymous No.23218150]

>>23217791
Religious studies in undergrad was the best decision of my life. One that didn't quite make the list is Terror in the Mind of God. Amazing book on religious violence that I used when I assisted on a terrorism class. I also almost included Liezi because I translated a chapter of it for a grant to attempt to reconstruct the philosophy of Yang Zhu. We have like one section of it that's supposedly legitimately from a conversation Yang had with a student of Mozi.

[Anonymous No.23218178]

>>23215031
Extremely tryhard list

[Anonymous No.23218427]

>>23214399
>The Dark Domain
Very nice, one of my favourites too. Maldoror is also pretty good.

[Anonymous No.23218606]

>>23214126
Is there a particular translation / version of Herodotus' Histories that you recommend?

[Anonymous No.23219033]

>>23218150
That all sounds vaguely familiar, did you post about it in /clg/? I remember reading something there about Yang Zhu coincidentally right after looking him up because I came across a reference to him in Du Fu (the anecdote about crying when he came to a crossroads). Very interesting and unique figure.
Anyway the more I’ve read and learned the more it’s become obvious to me how much literature and art, not to mention philosophy, are intertwined with religion, it’s fascinating to me to understand those connections.

[Anonymous No.23219080]

>>23210991
Terminally California. California-to-death, even!

>>23211483
You're awesome, don't let anyone stop you from being you
+Frankenstein

>>23211904
Nice chart, I just read a selection of Aquinas' political works for Lent

>>23211970
+Dead Souls
How's the book about Aeneas?

>>23212311
Very very nice
+Walden, Meditations, Moby Dick
Doing the Dhammapada now, bit by bit every night

>>23212464
I will read the Enneads some day... maybe

>>23214126
Wew lad, someone else read all of Natural History?! Awesome taste all around

>>23214413
+Stoner, American Psycho, Moby Dick

>>23214550
+Heraclitus, he always deserves some love

>>23215031
I should read Wise Blood, I've only read her short story collection

[Anonymous No.23219110]

I was torn between beloved and the bluest eye but I think the latter edges out because of its focus on internalized racism. It helped me recognize the unseen effects of racism on the psyche.

[Anonymous No.23219665]

What else would I like?

>>23215031
Best in thread
post a favorite passage from second skin

[Anonymous No.23219727]

>>23211977
I am a post 2015 newfaggot, but I have never used reddit nor facebook. I just had a really terrible nazi phase, which has now ended thanks to good book that you guys recommended me here.
I hate this place but I also thank you a lot, you don't know it but you made me less worse (not better).

[Anonymous No.23220160]

>>23211904
I like you, you seem cool, if you were a women I would marry you
>>23213852
I didn't care for dead souls, rest seems fine
>>23214126
based for confederacy
>>23214413
you should definitely read Tristram shandy and sot weed factor since you like Moby dick. Mencken is great too.
>>23214550
you should read e.m. frimbo
>>23215031
definitely you'll enjoy lady's serpentine by jay fowler
>>23216625
you ever read burr by gore Vidal?
>>23219080
you'll will enjoy Eric brighteyes by h. rider haggrid
>>23219110
read some dickens
>>23219665
you should read CAS
>>23212464
based for sartor resartus

[Anonymous No.23220269]

>>23210991
Recommendations plz

[Anonymous No.23220293]

>>23220269
Try anything written before the 1960s

[Anonymous No.23220306]

>>23220160
didn’t ask

[Anonymous No.23220353]

>>23220269
Les Chants de Maldoror

[Anonymous No.23220420]

I'll spare the wankery and just include fiction.

>>23219110
>>23219665
>>23220160
These are based. I'll save them.

>>23220269
The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll the Gaviero, Heart So White by Javier Marías, and Memoirs from Beyond the Grave by Francois-René de Chateaubriand---all of these gave me a similar feel to 2666, and that's my favorite book of all time.

[Anonymous No.23220434]

>>23210991
sure thing

[Anonymous No.23220447]

>>23219665
>What else would I like?
Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal maybe.

>>23220434
I've wanting to read anything by Meister Eckhart for quite some time now. Do I need to be familiar with Scholasticism to understand him or nah?

[Anonymous No.23220461]

>>23220447
I just noticed I accidentally only put 12, oh well. As far as Eckhart goes, no, hes a mystic you wouldn't need to understand scholasticism

[Anonymous No.23220471]

>>23220461
Thanks, mate.

[Anonymous No.23220517]

>>23210991

[Anonymous No.23220522]

>>23220517
Twitter LARPer-core.

[Anonymous No.23220595]

>>23220306
but your mother did

[Anonymous No.23220780]

[Anonymous No.23221152]

>>23212388
get the fuck out of here

[Anonymous No.23221336]

>>23220461
It is incorrect to say that Eckhart was not a Scholastic
While he is better known for his mystical works, which he wrote primarily in German, he also wrote a large body of scholastic works in Latin, and as a Dominican he was very clearly influenced by other Dominican scholastics, primarily St. Thomas Aquinas (who was also a great mystic)

[Anonymous No.23221366]

>>23210991
Any recs for me?

[Anonymous No.23221388]

>>23214550
How is Illuminations? I own it

[Anonymous No.23221389]

>>23221336
Possibly but I tend to separate the two regardless

[Anonymous No.23222174]

>>23210991
bump

[Anonymous No.23222286]

>>23211970
the 19th century poetry here is really good

[Anonymous No.23223008]

>>23220434
decided to update it to 15

[Anonymous No.23223118]

>>23210991
>tfw chef
I mostly read book on food and cooking. I last read "All about the burger" by Sef Gonzalez and I am currently reading "The Devil's Cup" by Stewart Allen. One book I wanted to add the chart was "Phone Losers of America" by Brad Carter, but the book wasn't in their database

>>23210991
One of my sisters went to South Africa on a college trip and had to read "A Long Walk to Freedom". She did not finish it and almost a decade later I still tease her about it.
>>23212311
>>23214126
>>23214413
>>23221366
Have you read the /lit/ annotated version of Moby Dick? I hope another project like that is started soon.
>>23212464
>Can Life Prevail
lmao remember the part where Pentti is mad at the Finnish government for outlawing the act of drowning cats

[Anonymous No.23223265]

>>23215047
Anon...

[Anonymous No.23223571]

[Anonymous No.23223577]

>>23223571
oh yeah forgot it was 15 only. Oh well.

[Anonymous No.23223770]

>>23217679
lame
when is this fake digital christianity shit going to end

[Anonymous No.23223813]

>>23219033
Yeah I did. I've been obsessed with Yang for six years. There just isn't much about him. The best explanation I've seen is that he's sort of the anti-Mozi, that there's a sort of Mozi-Confucius-Yang Zhu continuum. Mo is all about universal love, Confucius makes it into concentric circles of importance, Yang's primary concerns seem to be about self preservation and health at all costs. Thinking about the Warring States period, all this makes a lot of sense.
The connections run so deep. An example I often use in relation to art is how Orthodox Christians eschew strict hyperrealism to connect with the spiritual. Another one is the stark difference between Shingon and Zen Buddhisms in Japan. Icons and Iconoclasm by Winfield gives an amazing overview of that one.
>>23221388
Benjamin is one of the best Marxists. He's brought me to tears in the past. I have a life goal of visiting the memorial to him in Portbou, Spain. He is extremely relevant. On the Concept of History is one of my favorite things ever written. We've got to subdue the Antichrist and awaken the dead to make this world whole.

[Anonymous No.23223952]

>>23219080
The Aeneid (besides Caesar of course) was the first work that I read in Latin at school so it has a lot of sentinental value because I'm becoming a Classicist. But beyond that, I prefer Vergil's artistry to Homer because he is not only an imitator of Homer but of the other Greek poets up to his time, such as the Attic dramatists as seen in the Dido episode and the Alexandrian poets with his focus of aetiology. To me, Vergil is the Classist's Classicist.
>>23217774
I really enjoyed it as a compilation, a fine collection. I was especially pleased by its handling of Gilgamesh with it's inclusion of both the Standard Akkadian and Old Babylonian versions. Can never beat Oxford annotations and introductions for such a cheap price compared to Penguin and the others. With Coogan's Stories From Ancient Canaan it's a very fun way to understand the cultural and religious contexts that gave rise to Judaism and its descendants.

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[Anonymous No.23224098]

>>23218178
why wouldn't you like those are you stupid

[Anonymous No.23224108]

>>23223770
As soon as you repent

>>23223813
I'll check him out

[Anonymous No.23224475]

>>23223813
Oh yeah I just meant it in more direct terms of how most arts began by dealing with religious subjects or literally being part of a ritual, but specific theoretical stuff like you're talking about is really cool too. If you're interested in Orthodox art you should definitely watch Andrei Rublyov.
>Icons and Iconoclasm
Sounds really cool, I'm very interested in how this manifests in China in terms of popular religion vs. the iconoclastic tendencies of Confucianism.

>>23223952
Nice, I've mostly read the Sumerian stuff (which is almost all Old Babylonian period anyway) but afaik there's a lot of overlap. The Dumuzid cult stuff is really fascinating and beautiful, obviously it's not too different from something like Horus/Osiris but it's cool how naturalistically they portray it (and, speaking of Attic drama, it's probably a distant ancestor of that).
Can't say I agree about Homer vs. Virgil btw but I respect your understanding and reasoning.

[Anonymous No.23224634]

>>23224475
My bachelor's was in religious studies and Asian studies. I could talk about them for days. My Asian studies capstone was a comparison of strategic thought in Greece and China. I loved reading about strategy in Homer and the Archaic period. Cunning Intelligence in Greek Culture and Society by Detienne and Vernant is really good. Turning: From Persuasion to Philosophy by Naas is great if you can get ahold of it. Naas is a Derrida scholar and the book is a reading of the Iliad. My religious studies one was on Buddhism and the deep ecology of Arne Naess.
>Andrei Rublyov
I'll check it out, thanks!

[Anonymous No.23224670]

>>23210991
psued
>>23211483
pleb or maybe bait
>>23211904
incel
>>23211970
gay retard for posting unreadable thumbnails
>>23212292
15 books
>>23212311
not bad

[Anonymous No.23224908]

>>23219665
>post a favorite passage from second skin
I love the prose of both the opening and ending; beyond that it's hard to pick favorites. All the Fernandez stuff is killer, and I adore the scene where it feels like Cassandra is about to be gang raped but she isn't.
Such a shame that hardly anyone reads Hawkes any more, and most of those who do never get to SS.

[Anonymous No.23225120]

>>23210991
I don't have a favorite

[Anonymous No.23225225]

[Anonymous No.23225706]

>>23211977
>post2015 newfaggot
Get a gf and leave this place old man

[Anonymous No.23225928]

>>23210991

[Anonymous No.23226163]

>>23224670
There's a readable version later on in the thread, troglodyte

[Anonymous No.23226308]

>>23211977
man, these post2006 newfaggots are really getting uppity.

[Anonymous No.23227183]

>>23212311
what is bottom left?

[Anonymous No.23227195]

>>23223571
I found hitchhiker’s guide insufferably annoying.
I wanted to like Rendezvous with Rama but I got filtered big time and never finished the book.

[Anonymous No.23227392]

No particular order.

Would take too long to shout out all the great picks here, so I'll just drop recommendations. My apologies if I recommend stuff you've read.

>>23225928
>Congratulations You Have Just Met The ICF/The Football Factory (movie)

>>23225225
>The Radetzky March

>>23223955
>Butcher's Crossing

>>23223118
Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life (for the Heideggerian reflections on cooking as a practice)

>>23223008
>Eros and Ethics

>>23221366
>Travels Into Bokhara (and Xenophon if you haven't read)

>>23220420
>The Glass Bees

>>23220269
>End Zone (if you haven't already)

>>23220160
>Baudolino

>>23219665
>Faust

>>23219110
>Omensetter's Luck

>>23219080
ok I gotta mention that Aitmatov is a based first choice
>Under the Glacier (also the later Junger)

>>23215031
>Suttree

>>23214550
>Oulipian poetry. Start with Christian Bok

>>23214399
>Walden

>>23214126
>Xenophon's historical writings

>>23213852
>A Hero of Our Time

>>23212464
>Also The Glass Bees

>>23210991
>The Managerial Revolution, but I assume this is bait

[Anonymous No.23227404]

I haven't even read 15 books yet. How the fuck am I supposed to make a top 15.

[Anonymous No.23227422]

>>23210991
I'm sympathetic to a lot of Marxism even though it's overall very dated and was clearly a mistake, but Bell Hooks was the worst writer I had to read as a philosophy student. Even against other major feminist "philosophers" her writing was abysmal.

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[Anonymous No.23227470]

>>23227392
can I get a qrd on the CCRU Writings?

[Anonymous No.23227550]

>>23227470
It's gigaschizo stuff, but to me it kind of represents an end of the project of institutionally-guided synthesis in continental philosophy and a lot of the seeds of what we have today in terms of decentralized internet writing. It plays a lot with the question of how seriously we should take their philosophical writing, and I like that. Some of the best thinkers you can take absolutely seriously, like Heidegger, and some require you to grapple with irony, literary devices, and cultural disconnect, like Plato. CCRU trains you to do the latter in a way where moderns can still get through to insight.

[Anonymous No.23227627]

>>23227467
Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter seems like an interesting read. I was planning to buy it a year or so ago.

[Anonymous No.23227734]

>>23210991

[Anonymous No.23227740]

>>23227734
Fixed

[Anonymous No.23227793]

>>23224634
>Asian studies
That's awesome, I've been exclusively focused on Chinese stuff lately, there's such a huge wealth there to explore.

[Anonymous No.23227870]

>>23210991
The secret lives of Trebitsch Lincoln
Storm of Steel
The Bloody White Baron
After the Banquet
Kama Sutra
Ubik
The Amazing story of Adolphus Tips
Manifesto for the abolition of enslavement to interest on money
The secret teachings of all ages
Atlas of the Eastern front
The city and guilds textbook level 2 NVQ diploma in Plumbing and Heating
Might is Right
One up on Wall Street

[Anonymous No.23228216]

>>23212464
solid

[Anonymous No.23228314]

[Anonymous No.23228359]

some of these are so bad. please grow up and find something you actually enjoy and resonate with.

[Anonymous No.23228374]

>>23228359
I find them all solid, which do you think are bad then?

[Anonymous No.23228380]

>>23228374
that was a 'you know who you are' comment. if you feel personally attacked, good.

[Anonymous No.23228429]

>>23228380
no I just think your obnoxious cause all lists are good at minimum

[Anonymous No.23228448]

>>23219665
>What else would I like?
Calvino, Pessoa, Hart Crane, Wallace Stevens, Moravagine, TS Eliot, Eugenio Montale.
t. very similar taste

[Anonymous No.23228942]

Any recs?

[Anonymous No.23228974]

>>23228942
Today I wrote nothing, Dictionary of the Khazars, Borges, The other prague

[Anonymous No.23229027]

[Anonymous No.23229374]

>>23228942
Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun

[Anonymous No.23229789]

>>23225225
I recommend John Hawkes' "Travesty", you weirdo

[Anonymous No.23230464]

>>23223118
I have not read the annotated version.
>>23227392
Not read Bokhara, but I have read some of Xenophon good stuff. (Also, do not mind me for having a cookbook among my favourites, I just love the insight that it provided me with).

[Anonymous No.23231064]

>>23210991
Here are some of my favorites over the last few years. My favorite authors are McCarthy and Melville. Love the recast here.

[Anonymous No.23231329]

>>23227627
Do it anon. It's one of the comfiest books I've had the pleasure of reading. I've been told that the audiobook is well-narrated too, if that's your thing

[Anonymous No.23231889]

>>23225928
Congrats - you have the most interesting in thread. I’ll be picking up a few off this chart.

[Anonymous No.23231943]

>>23212292
That's more than 15 you fucking nigger

[Anonymous No.23231952]

>>23216625
Hey news flash nigger: that's more than 15, read the title

[Anonymous No.23231960]

>>23229789
Whoops, meant this for >>23225928
but anyone might enjoy it~

[Anonymous No.23232976]

>>23210991
>both Kropotkin and Marx
>both Parenti and Chomsky
>both bell hooks and Adolph Reed Jr
>also a few Buddhist works thrown in
Your reading list is insanely contradictory, and throwing in a dash of Western-targeted "Eastern spirituality" just seals the deal.

[Anonymous No.23232981]

>>23227392
Thanks

[Anonymous No.23232990]

>>23227392
Btw Eros & Ethics is like 28 dollars anything cheaper?

[Anonymous No.23233015]

>>23210991

[Anonymous No.23233080]

>>23228448
i like pessoa and ts eliot, never got the appeal of calvino. Eugenio Montale is new to me, will check out

[Anonymous No.23233604]

>>23228429
lol, exactly

[Anonymous No.23233680]

any recommendations?

[Anonymous No.23233689]

i refuse to believe these lists lol

[Anonymous No.23233819]

>>23233680
Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Baztérrica seems right in your aisle.

[Anonymous No.23234549]

bump

[Anonymous No.23235178]

>>23229789
Thanks! Will look into it. Love The Cannibal by Hawkes. Still haunted by some of the images.

[Anonymous No.23235380]

>>23233680
Exquisite Corpse, by Poppy Z. Brite

[Anonymous No.23235729]

[Anonymous No.23235753]

>>23235729
I never hear anyone talk about that particular Beckett. What's it like?

[Anonymous No.23235883]

>>23235753
Very word-drunk, macaronic (many a passage in French, German, Italian), "still much under the influence of Joyce's maximalism" would be the old saw, but with his own pessimistic bent.

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[Anonymous No.23236381]

>>23210991