Ive read it twice, and the characters already have their own voices for me. Later, the audiobook publishing company hired the narrator back to just read the footnotes, which you need to buy as a separate title. Somewhere in the notsodistant future the residents of ennet house, a boston halfway house for recovering addicts, and students at the nearby enfield tennis academy are ensnared in the search for the master copy of infinite jest, a movie said to be so dangerously entertaining its viewers become entranced and expire in a state of catatonic bliss. The novel is widely noted for its unconventional narrative structure and its experimental use of endnotes there are a total of 388 endnotes, some with footnotes of their own. Like most of those david foster wallace fans, i felt more than a little surprised when i turned to his page and found out which ten books hed chosen.
But the most addictive force in infinite jest is a seemingly innocuous videotape referred to simply as the entertainment. Since its publication, the world has moved past the events and years of the novels shaky mid2000s dystopian world. David foster wallaces infinite jest is an audiobook. David foster wallaces infinite jest is an audiobook, minus. We go behind the scenes with the team that produced and recorded. The good news is that it is not a thousandpage paragraph or even a thousandpage story. I have yet to find any site that shows the total length of the audio book, which.
The footnotes were not incorporated into the main text at all. The depressed person by david foster wallace 1998 pdf. Thank goodness david foster wallace wrote over 1,000 pages of it to ensure overeducated english majors can get horned up no matter the circumstance. A gargantuan, mindaltering comedy about the pursuit of happiness in. Partly since it makes the book more accessible and partly because it lets you enjoy the flow of wallaces prose. The programme also contains some rare archive reflections by a young david foster wallace, recorded a year before the publication of infinite jest. The beloved 1100page novel is david foster wallaces magnum opus and one of the most influential books of its time, but did you know he. Infinite jest by david foster wallace audiobook 37 infinite jest by david foster wallace audiobook 37.
Certainly, there would be issues with inserting footnotes. After starting and stopping infinite jest twice before, i believe i now have a fairly strong method for making progress. 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 occasion. A previous release of infinite jest for ereaders solved the footnote challenge by embedding them as hyperlinks, but that option is not available on an audio. I was talking to my roommate about infinite jest, and he asked me how it compared to illuminatus. Infinite jest takes place in the indefinite future, a time when years are subsidized by major corporations so that we get the year of the tucks medicated pad.
These are the endnotes to david foster wallaces infinite jest, a gargantuan, mindaltering comedy about the pursuit of happiness in america. In an instant of sudden clarity i realized he was right, that they were basically the same book the same fractally complex narrative of broken meandering plots about an endlesslyawaited but never arriving apocalypse. Search results for infinite jest sorted by relevance. Then again, they managed to turn the thursday next series into audiobooks, and there are much weirder format issues there a footnoterphone, 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. An old reserve of books, ebooks, audiobooks, ordering online, etc. Infinite jest david foster wallace back bay books, 2006 where do i even start to talk about infinite jest. Audiobook hd audio david foster wallace infinite jest 17.
Infinite jest ebook by david foster wallace rakuten kobo. Infinite jest in the age of addiction the millions. 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. We felt that it was important to make infinite jest accessible in the audio format as soon as we were able. Some of the best humor can be found here, tucked away at the back of the book. Take these dirty, dirty footnotes to the bedroom and youll be enjoying consistent, rockhard dick for as long as it takes to read infinite jest months, maybe years. It has been categorized as an encyclopedic novel and made time magazines list of the 100 best englishlanguage novels published between 1923 and 2005. Why i cannot recommend the infinite jest audio book. But, in a move that might give some fans a case of the howling fantods, hachette decided. What its like to record the audiobook version of infinite. Some early listeners have been disappointed that the novels endnotes are. 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. Listen to thousands of best sellers and new releases on your iphone, ipad, or android.
Infinite jest by david foster wallace audiobook 17 infinite jest by david foster wallace audiobook 17. A great new way to read infinite jest dont worry youre not going to hell. David foster wallaces infinite jest is a really long book and one of the main criticisms. Infinite jest ebook by david foster wallace 9780316073851. What if i just dont read the footnotes in infinite jest. I cant recommend the purchase of the what at first appears to be the amazing ive heard good things about the audio.
If youre used to the audiobook of infinite jest, the transition to the audio endnotes is ideal. The way the footnotes were handled in infinite jest was that they werent. I bought the audiobook but i also bought the kindle version to help with the. Endnotes david foster wallace bbc documentary youtube. After twenty years, david foster wallaces grand overture on humans and addiction, infinite jest, has only become more powerful. The exhaustive footnotes and overused slang was a little off putting at first, but i think it is warranted as wallace wanted to try something new and ambitious here. How is the experience of reading infinite jest on a kindle. This is the chapter about boston aa, from infinite jest. Because of his schedule, pratt had to record it in sections. Steven asin infinite jest is the perfect book for the kindle paperwhite. This is the chapter about boston aa, from infinite jest, by david foster wallace i have removed one or two of the passages which are very characterheavy, to make this a standalone piece on boston aa, which by the way is the most insightful, wellwritten, and of course verbose take on the aa experience that exists, as far as i know. Here, as quoted in the christian science monitor, we have the infinite jest author and widely recognized if reluctant highbrow literary figures top ten list. The shear size of the book commanded attention the kind of attention t.
The pale king what does it take to bring a book to audio. I love infinite jest, but im not sure if i want to listen to it. At more than 1,000 pages with copious footnotes infinite jest is a famously difficult read. Infinite jest by david foster wallace 24 hours through the utopian west with. Highly recommend reading the book over listening to the audiobook as there are hundreds of footnotes to refer to, i however listened to the audiobook and still understood the story. Slightly off screen to the right sits one large bottle of dark ambered beer. Buy infinite jest book online at low prices in india. This got me wondering if infinite jest was in audiobook form. It is at times overwhelming to flip to a footnote and find a 16. Without endnotes, the audiobook version of infinite jest ends up being around 56 hours. 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. The decision was made to not do the footnotes, but include the footnote reference.
Theyre only getting infinite jest preloaded on mp3 players, so it will be worth. I remember harish venkatesan lugging around the paperback copy in college and hearing that this effort was part of the experience. Its not a stretch or very original to call infinite jest the defining work of the 1990s. David foster wallace february 21, 1962 september 12, 2008 was an american author of novels, essays and shortstories, and a professor at pomona college in claremont, california. When you buy the audio edition of ij, you get the novel sans footnotes. We lost a great giant when he stepped down from the throne. It is the genx ulysses that even those like me, who consider themselves dfw superfans, are. David foster wallaces surprising list of his 10 favorite. David foster wallaces infinite jest is a novel known for its length and difficulty, its portraits of addiction and recovery and its many, many footnotes.
There are 28 unnumbered chapter breaks signified by a little circle, similar to 28 days in a lunar continue reading matt bucher. Every time i read infinite jest, i wonder how much of it is basically autobiographical with a thin veneer of difference and a heap of really, really tight prose. Infinite jest audiobook david foster wallace audible. Stream and download audiobooks to your computer, tablet or mobile phone. David foster wallace was a crowning genius when he wrote the endnotes footnotes for infinite jest. The recursive spiral of recursion is really hard to avoid with dfw to the point you think it is the point, which, of course, is itself recursive. Infinite jest is one of those books that a lot of people know of but have never read. David foster wallaces second novel is s et in an absurd but agonizingly believable nearfuture, and. Footnotes were also excluded from hachettes audiobook release of wallaces pulitzerprize finalist novel the pale king, which, like infinite jest, was directed by john mcelroy.
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