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I was aiming to train the model as to learn the themes and characters from the book, and convincingly imitate the authors writing style, while not overfitting to the text, ie. How is the experience of reading infinite jest on a kindle. You start the book having no clue when it is happening and who the various characters are. There are titles by famous authors like mark twain, victor hugo, aristotle and others. While i cant read the book not even the end notes for you, i. Buy infinite jest 01 by foster wallace, david isbn. Infinite jest by david foster wallace, signed abebooks passion for books. Infinite jest is unlike anything else i have ever read. To be fair, the essay, penned on the topic of and shortly after 911, was by wallaces own admission written very fast and in what probably. Infinite jest chapter 1, year of glad, and chapter 2, year.
David foster wallace was born in ithaca, new york, in 1962 and raised in illinois, where he was a regionally ranked junior tennis player. As the novel unfolds, various individuals, organizations, and governments vie to obtain the master copy of infinite jest for their own ends, and the denizens of the tennis school and the halfway house are caught up in increasingly desperate efforts to control the movie as is a cast including burglars, transvestite muggers, scam artists. Infinite jest signed by david foster wallace first. Infinite jest is a 1996 novel by david foster wallace. Infinite jest by wallace, david foster and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. The abundance of or excess of guides and commentaries on the novel can perhaps have the adverse and unintentional consequence of making readers new to infinite jest believe that they cant get it without help. Feb, 2006 carl reiner, a comedian, actor, novelist, and film director, was a creator, writer, and producer of the dick van dyke show. Infinite jest is a cult book that became a phenomenon right from its publication day in 1996.
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