A footnote or endnote drags you out of that trance and forces you to break the. Those endnotes signal an amazing attention to detail and a curious insecurity at the same time. Buy infinite jest book online at low prices in india. I see characters as figures on a spreadsheet, like a, b, c, and so on. Why i cannot recommend the infinite jest audio book. Infinite jest is a 1996 novel by american writer david foster wallace. I bought the audiobook but i also bought the kindle version to help with the. Mario incandenza ranks among one of my favorite characters in literature. The procedure closely echoes an entire section in infinite jest in. What its like to record the audiobook version of infinite. Infinite jest is filled with tons of ideas and tons of characters. The endnotes arent included in the audio and i can see why the publisher omitted them out. Otherwise, what i recommend is when you finish the book, go and read aaron.
These are the endnotes to david foster wallaces infinite jest, a gargantuan, mindaltering comedy about the pursuit of happiness in america. Endnotes, the first one, infinite jest according to audible released 042012 that. I cant recommend the purchase of the what at first appears to be the amazing ive heard good things about the audio. Aaron wiener for slate on attending a 24hour long play in berlin based on. Infinite jest audiobook endnotes on the way infinite jest the. Infinite jest audiobook david foster wallace audible. Thats okaythis is 23 times the length of an average audiobook, and im not opposed to paying a corresponding amount.
Audible decided to split this titanic volume into two audiobooks. The audiobook community audibly mourns the passing of one of its giants. Buy infinite jest book online at best prices in india on. 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 jest by david foster wallace audiobook 77 duration. Readers will spend a lot of time with the characters here, and almost all of them are interesting. By turns descriptive and digressive, definitive and satiric, the. The way the footnotes were handled in infinite jest was that they werent.
Some of them are fun, and some of them are despicable. In infinite jest, the characters actions are so bizarre that you cant forget where you left off. With endnotes added, the infinite jest audiobook nears 70 hours. Why i cannot recommend the infinite jest audio book infinite jest. The next installment in the audiobook series pgs 6878. Astonishingly, thats not even half as long as the longest book pratt. Twentyfour hours watching the berlin theatrical adaptation of david foster wallaces magnum opus. The novel infinite jest is the story of this addictive entertainment, and in particular how it affects a boston halfway. When you buy the audio edition of ij, you get the novel sans footnotes. Equal parts philosophical quest and screwball comedy, infinite jest bends every rule of fiction without sacrificing for a moment its own entertainment value. Its not a stretch or very original to call infinite jest the defining work of the 1990s.
These refer to the novels endnotes a device well known to fans of infinite jest. David foster wallaces infinite jest is an audiobook, minus. Infinite jest by david foster wallace the millions. David foster wallaces infinite jest is an audiobook, minus endnotes audio. Search results for infinite jest sorted by relevance. Later, the audiobook publishing company hired the narrator back to just read the footnotes, which you need to buy as a separate title. Listen to thousands of best sellers and new releases on your iphone, ipad, or android. David foster wallaces infinite jest is an audiobook. Infinite jest audiobook endnotes on the way infinite jest readers might recall some of the concerns and criticisms last month about the. 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. In infinite jest, the footnotes seem at first to function solely as. 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.
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