Truly awesome

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

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Sean Pratt deserves an Oscar for this.

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.

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Stunning

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.

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this is an incredible work.

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

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Yes - here’s why.

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.

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A masterpiece and a brilliant performance.

I absolutely loved this. The book speaks for itself but this narration performance really brought it to life. Both are meticulously refined. Read the pdf footnotes. This seems like a lengthy listen but it flies by. As soon as I finished I had to start it again.

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Sean Pratt as a story teller is brilliant

while Infinite Jest is a homage to Mr Burroughs Naked Lunch, it's really fkn good

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Immense and so human

The second time around, without foot notes and listening rather than reading I was able to follow the plot a bit more. But the plot is actually secondary in a way, with DFW's profound insights into human interactions being the real source of pleasure. As a passionate tennis player, Schtitt's talk to the ETA students after the cold morning training session stands out to me, and I appreciated listening to it as opposed to reading it.

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Great Book, Great Performance, but no End Notes.

Infinite Jest is one of those books that a lot of people know of but have never read. So creating an audiobook version is a no-brainer. Partly since it makes the book more accessible and partly because it lets you enjoy the flow of Wallace's prose. Add to that Sean Pratt does a fantastic job. But be warned: this audiobook has no End Notes. I understand it would be difficult to get them to work in audio format, but the version on Audible US has them, so why can't we? Please Audible, add the end notes, and then this would be perfect.

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