Infinite jest kindle edition by wallace, david foster. Infinite jest audiobook by david foster wallace 9781609418120. Signin to download and listen to this audiobook today. I was talking to my roommate about infinite jest, and he asked me how it compared to illuminatus. Infinite jest is proving to be confusing, but the confusion is not to the degree that. Listen to infinite jest by david foster wallace available from rakuten kobo. Infinite jest is a 1996 novel by american writer david foster wallace. Absolutely, for the novice to this type of literary fiction, i cannot tell you how. Listen to the full audiobook infinite jest by david foster wallace for free. Hatecast electratone guitar effects oh the insanity. Definitely worth it to anyone considering audio version. Infinite jest by david foster wallace turns 20 today, and im still confused by it all these years later. But, in a move that might give some fans a case of the howling fantods, hachette decided.
The novel is widely noted for its unconventional narrative structure and its experimental use of endnotes there are a total of 388. Infinite jest by david foster wallace audiobook 17. Why i cannot recommend the infinite jest audio book. Infinite jest is both sad, depressed and funny and even 25 years after it was published in 1994 remains relevant to the modern age. Infinite jest audiobook by david foster wallace, read by. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading infinite jest. Set in an addicts halfway house and a tennis academy, and. Listen to thousands of best sellers and new releases on your iphone, ipad, or android. Is there no ending to infinite book because there couldnt be. Would you consider the audio edition of infinite jest. Infinite jest by david foster wallace audiobook 27 melisa zupan uploaded a video 1 year ago. Infinite jest is a gargantuan, mindaltering comedy about the pursuit of happiness in america.
Part ii thats 28 hrs and 54 mins, and then finally the third being infinite jest. What its like to record the audiobook version of infinite. Some early listeners have been disappointed that the novels endnotes are currently available only in text form, to be read. My library already has the stand on preorder for the audio download, and im first on the hold list so hurray. Ive seldom been more engrossed in a novel, and more willing to put in the time of. Infinite jest is one of those books that a lot of people know of but have never read. David foster wallaces infinite jest is an audiobook, minus. David foster wallaces infinite jest is an audiobook, minus endnotes audio by andres jauregui on march 27, hachette audio released david foster wallaces magnum opus infinite jest most of it, at least as a 56hourlong audiobook. For those who have actually read infinite jest, youll probably get more out of my very spoilerheavy summary of what happens just after the end of the book. Theyre only getting infinite jest preloaded on mp3 players, so it will be worth. Trying to listen to the book in its audio book version from audible. When you buy the audio edition of ij, you get the novel sans footnotes. This performance by sean pratt is really humorous, sad and entertaining.
Find books like infinite jest from the worlds largest community of readers. I bought the audiobook but i also bought the kindle version to help with the notes. Part i with a foreword by dave eggers that is 28 hrs mins, second one being infinite jest. 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 has been waiting for just this. Start a free 30day trial today and get your first audiobook. And then the following three that are released 0420, the first being infinite jest. Just over twenty years ago, david foster wallace published his bestknown and most frustrating novel, infinite jest. Goodreads members who liked infinite jest also liked. Partly since it makes the book more accessible and partly because it lets you enjoy the flow of wallaces prose. In fact, its take on the very nature of entertainment itself. Part of what makes this publication hard are generous undefined phrases deliberately. Its not really that good of an audio book to listen to and the narration was too slow for me so i ended up reading the whole thing on my own after maybe a hundred pages in. Later, the audiobook publishing company hired the narrator.
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David foster wallaces infinite jest is an audiobook. Otherwise, what i recommend is when you finish the book, go and read aaron swartzs explanation of the text and itll help enormously. I plan on reading through infinite jest over my break from classes over the summer and. Written by david foster wallace, narrated by sean pratt. These are the endnotes to david foster wallaces infinite jest, a gargantuan, mindaltering comedy about the pursuit of happiness in america.
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