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Question to JG and KR - How do audiobooks handle DFW's numerous and voluminous (and essential?) footnotes in "IJ?" Jest wonderin'.
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I love love love Infinite Jest but can't imagine listening to it. Is the narrator amazing? How's this business about having all the endnotes as PDF?

Some early listeners have been disappointed that the novel's endnotes are currently available only in text form, to be read. Choosing to include the endnotes as a downloadable PDF file, rather than as a recording by the narrator, was a difficult decision for all involved, and we debated different options at length before beginning production. The audio format allows us great opportunities to showcase Wallace's love of language and grammatical dexterity, to illuminate characters and their relationships, and to bring out some of the unique humor inherent in his work
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Listening to Infinite Jest is cheating.
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Oh dear. While I adore the book, I found the new "A Room with a View" pretty awful. Fantastic singing and acting, otherwise it would have been truly unbearable. But the songs are so boring boring boring, when they're not being a mess. True shame that the rain song is so unmemorable. The skinny dipping scene is fun (as are the audible anticipatory audience noises when Louis Hobson appears in a towel in act one). It just seems such a flawed concept for a musical. (quiet longings and tamped down emotions don't translate well into large musical numbers). Too bad. Curious to learn what Frizzelle thinks of it.

Please wait...

and remember to be decent to everyone
all of the time.

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