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Infinite Jest

By: David Foster Wallace, Dave Eggers
Narrated by: Sean Pratt
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A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America.

Set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up 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; about how our desire for entertainment affects our need to connect with other people; and about what the pleasures we choose say about who we are.

Equal parts philosophical quest and screwball comedy, Infinite Jest bends every rule of fiction without sacrificing for a moment its own entertainment value. 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.

"The next step in fiction...Edgy, accurate, and darkly witty...Think Beckett, think Pynchon, think Gaddis. Think." Sven Birkerts, The Atlantic

©2024 David Foster Wallace (P)2024 Little, Brown & Company

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Great story with foor notes but one huge flaw

Not going to review the story because you can get the elsewhere. The narrator is good, great even, but there is one major issue with this edition. The footnotes. I appreciate them actually including them, but they included them in the most obnoxious way. On every footnote there is this very loud bell sound (I think there was an update to reduce the sound btw but still loud). it's very jarring and takes you out the mood. I like to listen to these stories to wind down and get in the mood to sleep. The bells are like slapping me in my ears. It's annoying.

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With footnotes!

This version of the audiobooks includes the (excellent) footnotes in line with the rest of the text. In my opinion, this is the only way to listen to this book. Extraordinary book, superlative narrator.

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