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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all-important footnotes missing

The all-important footnotes are missing. The preface advises using a printed text to keep track of these. But I bought the Audible edition, not the printed text. The footnotes need to be included somehow. Returning.

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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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Nice story, wrong format

I loved the book, but the division in chapters is poorly done, so it is a bit hard to follow it sometimes.

the narrator is great!

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too many big words - not for me

it's been a while since i gave up on this, but from what I do remember I had no idea what was going on in the story. things were moving at a snails pace and I found my attention shorting out every few minutes from dullness and over explaining every little detail.

maybe the story is just not of interest to me, maybe there were too many unknown words to keep track of - to the point where some sentences I couldn't even guess what they were getting at. either way the performance was fine since the narrator knew how to pronounce the words at least, but the content was too long and drawn out for me.

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Absolute gibberish,

Couldn't have got through another second of this utter and total hog wash. Not recommended.

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Truly dreadful

How boring and over promoted. Emperor’s New Clothes or what … Shocking waste of time, don’t bother.

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Needs the footnotes

The plot is missing the all important footnotes that help explain the text and give the reader a better understanding of the complex plot. This was a marathon listening that ultimately felt like a wasted investment of my time. Yes, there are flashes of brilliance, but there are also long flabby sections that need a good editor.

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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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