Infinite Summer

I've not seen this mentioned anywhere else, is there an audiobook for Infinite Jest? I've looked in places like Audible and others but can't find anything. It would be great for the car.

Funny you should say that. As soon as I posted I thought 'No, that's daft. I'd end up driving in the wrong direction. Either that or in a ditch somewhere.'

You are quite correct. lol

The following from today's blog post had this humorous note about the audio version:
"And somewhere in Nova Scotia there’s a soundproof bunker where some poor b-list Shakespearean actor has been subsisting on Jell-O and hand-rolled American Spirits, recording an unabridged audio version of Infinite Jest for the last thirteen years."

Due to a neck injury I can't read big books for long (Don't ask, it's kind of gruesome, and involves a neurologist and an inappropriate use of the word 'serrated') so I have to improvise an audiobook. I have my mac reading out IJ with the text to speech feature.

You'd think that wouldn't work, but it is. And weirdly, the mechanical and jagged shifting voice synth is almost enhancing for a book like IJ. It feels like that could be an on-purpose voice, increasing again the order of the fractal jagged qualities of the narrative. I have to stop it at the endnotes and read them in the real book, but I go back to the speech synth for most of it. Sometimes I read along on the screen, but I am finding I don't really get that much more out of it that way.

This may only be working for me because I'm used to it, though.