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Wallace wrote to a friend that the fuckers cut by 600 pages from the first version. I felt compelled throughout to read it aloud, such was the almost poetic quality of it. 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 has come to so dominate our lives. Infinite jest by wallace, first edition abebooks passion for books. Infinite jest in the age of addiction the millions. Infinite jest is a 1996 novel by david foster wallace. But if you are seeking something other, then this book will not disappoint. Stream and download audiobooks to your computer, tablet or mobile phone. 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. My absolute favorite part happens right before page 700.
Cdroms were becoming a popular way to distribute software and preinternet computerized encyclopedias and atlases when infinite jest was written, and even then it was predicted that dvdroms or some other videodata disk would eventually supplant them. Feel free to pm me even if its years from now with questions and ill try to be helpful. I think what you say about infinite summer is quite interesting. On reading the first chapter of infinite jest sally allen.
Infinite jest audiobook by david foster wallace, read by. Part i with a foreword by dave eggers audible audiobook. Infinite jest audiobook david foster wallace audible. 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. I cant recommend the purchase of the what at first appears to be the amazing ive heard good things about the audio, excellent vocal performance audio book of infinite jest.
David foster wallace interview on infinite jest with leonard lopate. I guess this is a first for me and ill get straight to the point. 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. The ease of access to satisfaction in the digital age, from smart phone to. A novel by wallace, david foster and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. One of the best books about addiction and recovery to appear in recent memory. Audiobook hd audio david foster wallace infinite jest 1 7. Pamphile, quebec avril mondragons grandfather decides to invest in delawarebrand punch instead of cocacola. Part i with a foreword by dave eggers, david foster wallace.
Feb 04, 2016 if one of your reading resolutions is to finally finish infinite jest, david foster wallaces mammoth novel, im here to help. To miss the desperate worshipping hidden beneath the strange, erudite, bellydeep joy of infinite jest is to fall prey to its pleasure. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Heres how i finally read infinite jest and how you can, too. A gargantuan, mindaltering comedy about the pursuit of happiness in america. Buy infinite jest book online at low prices in india.
The audiobook is in three parts, with part three just being the notes. For me, the changes over the years can be marked by a few facts. Unquestionably, infinite jest required great ambition and focus to write, and requires a bit of ambition and focus to read as well. I cant recommend the purchase of the what at first appears to be the amazing ive heard good things about the audio. I received an email earlier today from a reader who had excitedly received their unabridged audio book of. It goes page by page, defining obscure words, pointing out. My copy of the book is sawn in three, abused, with smudges of food across its pages, from when i couldnt stop. While i cant read the book not even the end notes for you. The good news is that it is not a thousandpage paragraph or even a thousandpage story. I plan on reading through infinite jest over my break from classes over the summer and. 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, first edition, signed abebooks. Feb 15, 2016 today, i turned the last page of infinite jest, around a week late for my deadline. Buy infinite jest 01 by foster wallace, david isbn. Mar 08, 2016 the first chapter of infinite jest is one of the best examples ive read in recent years. 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. Infinite jest by wallace, david foster and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. 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. Not many authors or novels get this sort of treatment. Full text of the indiana school journal see other formats. They are not boring bibliographic details, but rather an integral part of the text.
There are 28 unnumbered chapter breaks signified by a little circle, similar to 28 days in a lunar continue reading matt bucher. 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. I normally dont enjoy overly complicated, tedious listens, and infinite jest seems overly complicated and tedious in the beginning, but once you get into the audiobook, its not. Audiobook hd audio david foster wallace infinite jest 17. Infinite jest kindle edition by wallace, david foster. Dec 05, 2015 infinite jest by david foster wallace audiobook 37 duration. Jul 11, 2016 the final joke of infinite jest is that the book is intended to be almost as endless and mirthful as the addictions it depicts. Infinite jest is a 1996 novel by american writer david foster wallace. 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.
I love infinite jest, but im not sure if i want to listen to it. Full text of the indiana school journal internet archive. Otherwise, what i recommend is when you finish the book, go and read aaron swartzs explanation of the text. Otherwise, what i recommend is when you finish the book, go and read aaron. The only things left are an hbo, nine part infinite jest series and an eta theme park complete with tunnels, the lung, lyle, eschaton. In the real world, best known in the name of the nonmusic version of compact discs cdrom. 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.
David foster wallaces magnum opus is definitely one of the most polarizing popular novels in recent memory. Infinite jest by david foster wallace, first edition, signed. I bought the audiobook but i also bought the kindle version to help with the notes. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading infinite jest. Having only read the first extremely exhausting chapter, i cant tell you whether i would feel this way after two or more. Also, for firsttime readers, look at the infinite jest wiki. 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 as infinite jest a supposedly fun blog. How to read infinite jest chronologically infinite jest. Drew cordes has put together a neat guide for reading infinite jest chronologically and shes given permission for it to be available here for howling fantods readers. Jan 17, 2016 if youve never read it, starting infinite jest can be a little intimidating. Trying to listen to the book in its audio book version from audible. And the bouncing backandforth is a feature, not a bug. Aaron baughman, im studying statistics at james madison university, and i like to explore ideas.
Feb 26, 2016 12 if you think infinite jest at 1,100odd pages is a long book, be advised that it started longer. If you have not read infinite jest there are major spoilers to be found. Buy infinite jest book online at low prices in india infinite jest. These are the endnotes to david foster wallaces infinite jest, a gargantuan, mindaltering comedy about the pursuit of happiness in america. Sep 10, 2016 its been a bit of a journey on this one. Ive read it twice, and the characters already have their own voices for me. Equal parts philosophical quest and screwball comedy, infinite jest bends every rule of fiction without sacrificing for a moment its own entertainment value. The lengthy and complex work takes place in a semiparodic future version of north america, and touches on substance addiction recovery programs, depression, child abuse, family relationships, advertising, popular entertainment, film theory, quebec separatism, and tennis, among other topics.
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