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Infinite Jest

By: David Foster Wallace
Narrated by: Sean Pratt
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Somewhere in the not-so-distant 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....

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©2008 David Foster Wallace (P)2008 Hachette Audio UK Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Emotionally Gripping

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Critic reviews

"A writer of virtuostic talents who can seemingly do anything." (New York Times)

"Wallace is a superb comedian of culture...his exuberance and intellectual impishness are a delight." (James Woods, Guardian)

"One of the best books about addiction and recovery to appear in recent memory." (Sunday Times)
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I don’t want to be a cliche but this book is amazing. It is a bit of a graft but you get out of it what you put into it. The writing is awesome. I loved this book

Truly awesome

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listening to this book .. 50+ hrs over these past strange few weeks . . the river of words .. ripples and Eddy's time taking on the texture of water
swimming in that liminal mindscape just at the edge

this is an incredible work.

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Sean Pratt deserves an Oscar for this reading, hundreds of characters, all with subtly diff. dialects and accents. He totally nails this and in dojng so makes it massively easier for us to keep tabs on who is who.

Sean Pratt deserves an Oscar for this.

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I will keep this brief. This is the finest narration of any audio book I have so far listened to. Wallace's characters are brought to vivid life and what is considered to be a difficult read by some is made wholly accessible. A truly fine performance.

A master-class in audio book narration

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A superb performance of a wonderful book that I am going to have to read again (and again) to fully appreciate. Should be on everyone’s ‘must read’ list.

Stunning

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Excellent narration. Fantastic depth and complexity of a novel. Will have to go back for a second read. Loved it!
PS if you like tennis this is a book for you!

Brilliant

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A true Masterpiece! As a disclaimer; I am far from qualified to dole out literary review, though I can say for myself, that this experience has changed my life substantially. Made me want to find a higher power only to thank for the experience, or the entertainment. Made me want to curse the higher power for not intervening to keep David Foster Wallace here on Earth. I've reached the end of a book that I know for myself will never be over.

Thank You Sean Pratt!

I feel bereft now that it's over

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Exceptionally well written, but also expect to be very confused for the first 20 hours as to wherethe plot is going. persevere and all will become clear eventually.

I would also avoid the footnotes, they don't clarify much, if anything on the first pass and are very awkward to access every time one come up.

A worthwhile story though, will make you a more understanding and compassionate person if you make it through.

A hard, but worthwhile book

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just absolutely fantastic in language, subject. great performance. second time I listened and certainly not the last!

brilliant.

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I guess the main point of something like this is to help you decide Should I listen to this or not?

It is long - but then the reader is doing the work for you. And he does a superb job 95% of the time. His tone seems absolutely right generally and he dramatises brilliantly some passages which merit being dramatised.
I can’t say I like everything about Infinite Jest. Parts of it I would describe as mildly entertaining. Parts seem gratuitously disturbing. But it’s not for those parts I recommend you listen to it or read it. The most telling passages are truly bravura pieces of writing which I would be very sorry to have not encountered. Sometimes deeply moving, sometimes very funny, sometimes just spectacularly well observed. Writing of this quality is such a rarity we can’t afford to miss out on it.

Yes - here’s why.

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