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Infinite jest by david foster wallace coming february 7, 2012 ive tried to read the hardcopy version but made it to about page 300 before giving up. The lack of physicality is a bummer, but i feel its vastly compensated by having access to everything id like to read in seconds. Ken erdedy noticed that nobody came right out and used the term depression or melancholy, much less clinical depression, but this worst of symptoms, this logarithm of all other suffering, seemed, though unmentioned, to hang foglike just over the rooms heads, to drift between the peristyle columns and over the decorative astrolabes and medieval knockoffs and framed knights of columbus. Infinite jest is a gargantuan, mindaltering comedy about the pursuit of happiness in america. All content included on our site, such as text, images, digital downloads. In a sprawling, wild, superhyped magnum opus, david foster wallace fulfills the promise of his precocious novel the broom of the system. Equal parts philosophical quest and screwball comedy, infinite jest bends every rule of fiction, features a huge cast and multilevel narrative, and questions essential elements of american culture our entertainments, our addictions, our relationships, our. I guess this is a first for me and ill get straight to the point.
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Feb 04, 2016 if one of your reading resolutions is to finally finish infinite jest, david foster wallaces mammoth novel, im here to help. Because of his schedule, pratt had to record it in sections, interspaced by the other books he was narrating. I did find it a bit of a slog for the first 100 pages, but once i learned to trust that the author would fill in the blanks for me over time, everything became awesome. Heres how i finally read infinite jest and how you can, too. David foster wallace 19622008 was born in ithaca, new york, in 1962 and raised in champaignurbana, illinois, where in his teens he was a regionally ranked junior tennis. For roughly the same cost of unlimited movies on netflix or unlimited music on spotify, you can download all the books you. Infinite jest audiobook by david foster wallace, read by. 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 ebook by david foster wallace rakuten kobo. 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. Not too many people write thousandpagers, much less read them. David foster wallaces infinite jest is an audiobook, minus endnotes audio by andres jauregui on march 27, hachette audio released david foster wallaces magnum opus infinite jest most of it, at least as a 56hourlong audiobook.
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