A gargantuan, mindaltering comedy about the pursuit of happiness. Infinite jest by david foster wallace turns 20 today, and im still confused by it all these years later. David foster wallaces infinite jest is an audiobook, minus. 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 has come to so dominate our lives. Infinite summer formed in the summer of 2009 to read david foster wallaces masterwork infinite jest. I dont think my stuffs meant to be read out loud, david foster wallace told an interviewer in 1997, a year after. A gargantuan, mindaltering comedy about the pursuit of happiness in. The publication of infinite jest on feb 1, 1996 turned david foster. Audiobook hd audio david foster wallace infinite jest 17. Stream and download audiobooks to your computer, tablet or mobile phone. Infinite jest ebook by david foster wallace rakuten kobo. Later, the audiobook publishing company hired the narrator back to just read the footnotes, which you need to buy as a separate title. Infinite jest works well in audiobook form and this is in no small part helped by sean pratts fantastic reading complete with impressive changes in accent, tone and characterisation. Part i with a foreword by dave eggers audiobook by david foster wallace.
My copy of the book is sawn in three, abused, with smudges of food across its pages, from when i couldnt stop. When his infinite jest came out 20 years ago, david foster wallace felt some anxiety about how his fully stuffed novel would be received. Books by david foster wallace author of infinite jest. Hang your posters in dorms, bedrooms, offices, or anywhere blank walls arent welcome.
Infinite jest but its taking me a long time to get through it i think the jest is. Infinite jest are a female fronted hardalternative rock band based in christchurch uk christchurch. It is an exuberant, uniquely american exploration of the passions that make us human and one of those rare books that renew the idea of what a novel can do. On march 27, hachette audio released david foster wallaces magnum opus infinite jest most of it, at least as a 56hourlong audiobook. Today, i turned the last page of infinite jest, around a week late for my deadline. These are the endnotes to david foster wallaces infinite jest, a gargantuan, mindaltering comedy about the pursuit of happiness in america. For infernatroninterlace tp systems for home, office or mobile. Equal parts philosophical quest and screwball comedy, infinite jest bends every rule of fiction without sacrificing for a moment its own entertainment value.
The 5 impressive ways david foster wallaces infinite jest predicted. When you buy the audio edition of ij, you get the novel sans footnotes. Heres how i finally read infinite jest and how you can, too. Guido cupani, read infinite jest twice in italian and english. Infinite jest is a 1996 novel by american writer david foster wallace. Though published in 1996, david foster wallaces infinite jest appears to be the. Readers will spend a lot of time with the characters here, and almost all of them are interesting. This is long listen but the chapters are well paced, and as mentioned, sean pratt reads with a deep sensitivity and knowledge of the text and the author humour is particularly effectively conveyed. Infinite jest is filled with tons of ideas and tons of characters. But, in a move that might give some fans a case of the howling fantods, hachette decided. Mario incandenza ranks among one of my favorite characters in literature. The mindbending novel, celebrated for its gargantuan length and mentally demanding, nonlinear narrative, is particularly famous for wallaces exhaustive endnotes, which routinely interrupt the authors prose. The novel infinite jest is the story of this addictive entertainment, and in particular how it affects a boston halfway house for recovering addicts.
Why i cannot recommend the infinite jest audio book infinite jest. And the books interlace world of ondemand viewing predated. If one of your reading resolutions is to finally finish infinite jest, david foster wallaces mammoth novel, im here to help. While i cant read the book not even the end notes for you, i. Year of dairy products from the american heartland. Ive seldom been more engrossed in a novel, and more willing to put in the time of. Some of them are fun, and some of them are despicable. What its like to record the audiobook version of infinite jest. I received an email earlier today from a reader who had excitedly received their unabridged audio book of infinite jest only to discover that in. Read infinite jest by david foster wallace available from rakuten kobo. This is the third time ive read through infinite jest in its entirety and the first ive attempted to put down the back breaking print edition in favor of the kindle edition. Becoming a made man is something akin to getting tenure. David foster wallace has 105 books on goodreads with 842055 ratings.
The latest entry in this medium is an electric lit essay called men recommend david foster wallace to me, where a woman who was told by several men. I do things like get in a taxi and say, the library, and step on it. The way the footnotes were handled in infinite jest was that they werent. A friend gave me a copy of infinite jest 20 years ago when i was a grad. David foster wallaces most popular book is infinite jest.
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