Infinite Jest

This is an incredible book. I t is not an easy listen but immensely engaging and well written some sentences leave you with an open mouth in terms of pure description or poignancy or horror. i recommend having a copy of the actual book in order to read the endnotes which are unfortunately not included in this recording. The narrator is excellent and captures the tone of the book very well. I also recommend you listen to the Infinite Cast podcast where the whole book with end notes is read and discussed. Highly recommended

Listeners, Beware! David Foster Wallace had a clever way with words, but it's impossible to _listen_ to this book. Maybe it would work better by reading it in print, but I doubt it. After four hours of listening, there was not one sympathetic character to care for, and Wallace's incessant ramblings about recreational drugs, complete with their chemical names, can hardly pass for a plot. "The New Yorker" calls "Infinite Jest" "hysterical realism." After four hours of hysterical realism, I was not prepared to invest another _50_ hours to this plotless torture. Sad but not surprising that the author of "Infinite Jest" hanged himself. Another AudioBooks credit wasted.

Great book, great reading! It’s a lot to take in, but very good.

Awesome. Well worth the time. Such an amazing experience.