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I began reading infinite jest by david foster wallace around october 2008. When people do tackle it, they often give up within the first 200 pages or soone of the most difficult parts of. Part i with a foreword by dave eggers audiobook by david foster wallace. Goodreads members who liked infinite jest also liked.
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Apr, 2009 a gargantuan, mindaltering comedy about the pursuit of happiness in america 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. Having only read the first extremely exhausting chapter, i cant tell you whether i would feel this way after two or more. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. A gargantuan, mindaltering comedy about the pursuit of happiness in america set in an addicts halfway house and a tenn.
Please keep these annotations spoilerfree by not revealing information from later pages in the novel. Infinite jest ebook by david foster wallace rakuten kobo. First of all, reading a hard book does not make you cool. I have the old kindle2 so endnotes were a little bit laggy but they link back and forth from the main text easily enough and i. Cancela en cualquier momento y manten tus audiolibros. While i cant read the book not even the end notes for you. Infinite jest is a novel written by david foster wallace. 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.
Reading david foster wallaces latest novel, infinite jest, i couldnt help thinking at times about 7yearold seymour glasss booklength letter home from camp, published in the new. Apr 09, 2009 i began reading infinite jest by david foster wallace around october 2008. David foster wallace, sean pratt, brown book group little. The plot of infinite jest takes place in a somewhatmoredystopian future uni. Infinite jest by david foster wallace audiobook 17. There are 28 unnumbered chapter breaks signified by a little circle, similar to 28 days in a lunar continue reading matt bucher. Read infinite jest by david foster wallace available from rakuten kobo. Infinite jest explores the idea that all humans are addicts and examines how the chosen drugs particularly entertainment of late 20th century americans eat them alive. The novel infinite jest is the story of this addictive entertainment, and in particular how it affects a boston halfway house for recovering addicts and a nearby tennis academy, whose students have many budding addictions of their own. Infinite jest by david foster wallace, first edition, signed abebooks.
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