This Is Water: The Original David Foster Wallace Recording: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the This Is Water: The Original David Foster Wallace Recording: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life audiobook runs 0.4 hours unabridged, narrated by David Foster Wallace (about 0.3 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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What our data says
- At 0.4 hours, it is shorter than 96% of the 26,666 Self-Development audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace narrates 5 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 59 hours in all.
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Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
This Is Water: The Original David Foster Wallace Recording: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life is an audiobook by David Foster Wallace: a 0.4-hour unabridged recording, read by David Foster Wallace, released May 1, 2010, on the Self-Development shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 0.4 hrs
- Narrated by
- David Foster Wallace
- Released
- May 1, 2010
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Self-Development
- ISBN
- 9781607885276
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How long is the This Is Water: The Original David Foster Wallace Recording: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life audiobook?
This Is Water: The Original David Foster Wallace Recording: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life runs 0.4 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 0.3 hours.
Is the This Is Water: The Original David Foster Wallace Recording: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life audiobook free?
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Who narrates This Is Water: The Original David Foster Wallace Recording: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life?
This Is Water: The Original David Foster Wallace Recording: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life is narrated by David Foster Wallace.