What its like to record the audiobook version of infinite jest. Audiobook hd audio david foster wallace infinite jest 17. Secrets of the immortal nicholas flamel 1 audiobook. Infinite jest by david foster wallace audiobook 77 duration. 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. 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.
So, you need only buy parts one and two and then consult the kindle version as you go. Heres how i finally read infinite jest and how you can, too. Thats in part because wallace, its fair to say, if one thinks about the life and the work as two expressions of the same impulse as biographers tend to do. Some of them make sense if you re read them after the next section. On march 27, hachette audio released david foster wallaces magnum opus infinite jest most of it, at least as a 56hourlong audiobook. 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. If one of your reading resolutions is to finally finish infinite jest, david foster wallaces mammoth novel, im here to help. David foster wallaces infinite jest is an audiobook. It was one of 18 books i read this year, but it gobbled up months. On the three pages between location 724 and 749 i found 1 2 typos on.
The programme also contains some rare archive reflections by a young david foster wallace, recorded a year before the publication of infinite jest, on the role of the writer in an age of media. I wonder what happened to make us diverge so much in that one year. Why i cannot recommend the infinite jest audio book was the title of a post. Wallace wrote to a friend that the fuckers cut by 600 pages from the first version. Video calling may be a relatively new thing, but as kottke points out, david foster wallace explored it in his epic novel infinite jest back in 1996. Attics 1, audio book 85, andrew sachs 1, angela goethals 1, arte johnson 4, becky ann baker 1. Addiction is just one part of the story in infinite jest. The programme also contains some rare archive reflections by a young david foster wallace, recorded a year before the publication of infinite jest. Endnotes david foster wallace bbc documentary youtube.
Attics 1, audio book 85, andrew sachs 1, angela goethals 1. Audiobook hd audio david foster wallace infinite jest 1 7. 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. 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. Equal parts philosophical quest and screwball comedy, infinite jest bends every rule of fiction without sacrificing for a moment its own entertainment value. Somehow, the author incorporated most of the seven deadly sins through his characters. While i cant read the book not even the end notes for you, i. Stream and download audiobooks to your computer, tablet or mobile phone. David foster wallacefinal thoughts infinite jest 1996 i just. Part i with a foreword by dave eggers, david foster wallace. These are the endnotes to david foster wallaces infinite jest, a gargantuan, mindaltering comedy about the pursuit of happiness in america. What its like to record the audiobook version of infinite.
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