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Set in the nottoodistant future, where numbered years no longer exist because corporate sponsors have. It is deeply psychologically minded as told through a prism of multiple points of view and a bewildering number of different inner lives. Not certain if this is the right place for this, let me know if theres another place to post something like this. Today, i turned the last page of infinite jest, around a week late for my deadline. Also, as a teacher, i look for works that sound related to things we study in class. My copy of the book is sawn in three, abused, with smudges of food across its pages, from when i couldnt stop. David foster wallaces infinite jest is an audiobook, minus. A gargantuan, mindaltering comedy about the pursuit of happiness in america set in an addicts halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwedup family to come along in recent fiction, infinite jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why it. Stream and download audiobooks to your computer, tablet or mobile phone. Why i cannot recommend the infinite jest audio book.
Mar 20, 2009 the slate audio book club on infinite jest. The shear size of the book commanded attention the kind of attention t. Some early listeners have been disappointed that the novels endnotes are currently available only in text form, to be read. But, in a move that might give some fans a case of the howling fantods, hachette decided. There are 28 unnumbered chapter breaks signified by a little circle, similar to 28 days in a lunar continue reading matt bucher.
Infinite jest audiobook by david foster wallace, read by sean pratt. Part ii audiobook, by david foster wallace extended sample. Audible audiobook infinite jest must be read without any preconceptions of a typical novels structure and content. I remember harish venkatesan lugging around the paperback copy in college and hearing that this effort was part of the experience. Written by david foster wallace, audiobook narrated by sean pratt. Infinite jest audiobook david foster wallace audible. In fact, its take on the very nature of entertainment itself perhaps foresaw the age of vanity and social media, as seen through the prisms of tinder, facebook, twitter and instagram.
Reviews of infinite jest david foster wallace wiki. Blog essentials of being a man at least according to me ive been seeing an uncomfortable amount of people losing the thread of what it is to be an adult these days. Why i cannot recommend the infinite jest audio book infinite jest. Im trying to pursue reading infinite jest, i was curious though because there are 4 editions of it including the iii. We felt that it was important to make infinite jest accessible in the audio format as soon as we were able, and are gratified to find that there is an audience that. The novel is a interconnected sequence of events, told out of timeline order, that focuses on addiction in all its forms. Apr 12, 2012 why i cannot recommend the infinite jest audio book infinite jest i guess this is a first for me and ill get straight to the point. Infinite jest audiobook by david foster wallace, read by. I found the navigation between main text and endnotes and endnotes to endnotes. How is the experience of reading infinite jest on a kindle. Download and keep this book for free with a 30 day trial. Infinite jest is a gargantuan, mindaltering comedy about the pursuit of happiness in america. At its very core, this book is a critique of flashiness and attitude, and argues for a healthy distrust of irony and intellectualizing. There are those days, after all, that our poor eyes are simply too strained to take in that bedside copy of infinite jest youve been meaning to finish.
Christopher lydon interviews david foster wallace on february 21st, 1996, three weeks after the publication of infinite jest. Feb 15, 2016 today, i turned the last page of infinite jest, around a week late for my deadline. Infinite jest ebook by david foster wallace rakuten kobo. Infinite jest is a novel written by david foster wallace.
Infinite jest is both sad, depressed and funny and even 25 years after it was published in 1994 remains relevant to the modern age. Whether its drugs, sex, or fame, the novels primary goal is to examine the need for these addictions and show that it is possible to addicted to addiction itself. Partly since it makes the book more accessible and partly because it lets you enjoy the flow of wallaces prose. Yes, a voice lets the listener know where endnotes appear, and a pdf with a typo making it difficult to download if you purchased online. This huge volume will prop open even a castles gates. The viewpoints it presents with the greatest vividness are so simple that, at times, they come across as truisms and cliches. Infinite jest is one of those books that a lot of people know of but have never read. Always before, i picked a book here or there, i dabbled, i started a book and then let it sit for months. When i unsubscribed because of this, i also sent it to audible cs, and then replied to audiobook giveaways email. What its like to record the audiobook version of infinite jest. Infinite jest is a 1996 novel by american writer david foster wallace. Signin to download and listen to this audiobook today. Also, i wonder how theyll deal with the footnotes in other dfw audiobooks, e.
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