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Original Title:	The Rum Diary
ISBN:	0684856476 (ISBN13: 9780684856476)
Edition Language:	English

The Rum Diary

Hunter S. Thompson

Paperback | Pages: 224 pages

Rating: 3.82 | 51411 Users | 2035 Reviews

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Made into a major motion picture starring Johnny Depp, The Rum Diary—a national bestseller and New York Times Notable Book—is Hunter S. Thompson’s brilliant love story of jealousy, treachery, and violent lust in the Caribbean.

Begun in 1959 by a twenty-two-year-old Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary is a brilliantly tangled love story of jealousy, treachery, and violent alcoholic lust in the Caribbean boomtown that was San Juan, Puerto Rico, in the late 1950s. The narrator, freelance journalist Paul Kemp, irresistibly drawn to a sexy, mysterious woman, is soon thrust into a world where corruption and get-rich-quick schemes rule and anything (including murder) is permissible. Exuberant and mad, youthful and energetic, this dazzling comedic romp provides a fictional excursion as riveting and outrageous as Thompson’s Fear and Loathing books.

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Title	:	The Rum Diary
Author	:	Hunter S. Thompson
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 224 pages
Published	:	November 1999 by Scribner / Simon & Schuster (first published 1998)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Novels. Literature. Contemporary

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This is my first foray into Hunter S. Thompson's work. Ashamedly, I have not read any of his legitimate Gonzo journalism, and I understand that this is not an appropriate representation of his more psychedelic work. However, from the standpoint of an everyday novel, this is one of the best non-crime fiction, non-science fiction, non-Vonnegut mundane fiction that I have read in a long time.I don't anticipate all of Hunter's work to resonate the same way this work has, but I don't want to dismiss

Thompson wrote this semi-autobiographical novel in his early twenties but put it aside, regarding it as a failure. Nearly forty years later, apparently with the encouragement of his friend Johnny 'The Colonel' Depp, he dug it out and got it published.This is the Hunter S. Thompson of his pre-gonzo-journalism callow youth, displaying some obvious influence from Fitzgerald and Hemingway - specifically The Great Gatsby and The Sun Also Rises, I would suggest. And yet the tone and the prose are

My first night in Saigon. I was sitting in a restaurant when a blind lady selling counterfeit books approached my table. Despite her glazed eyeballs (and her inability to find my eyes with her own) I was captivated by her bright personality and attractive face, and so I decided to actually have a look at her selection of illegally printed books rather than shoo her off like I did everyone else. She mostly had garbage travel books and lonely planet guides, but I did spot The Rum Diary (1961) in

This was the first time that I've actually ventured into the works of Hunter S. Thompson. I was immediately taken by how immensely readable it was. I had the misguided preconception that it would have been more difficult as a result of his historic substance [ab]use. Concerns were quickly alleviated, and following Thompson's presumed alter-ego to San Juan, Puerto Rico, proved to be an interesting ride.Despite The Rum Diary having been the first novel Thompson wrote (it was mostly written in 1959

I guess I should explain the rating to those of you who would argue that this is Thompson's weakest work, and therefore undeserving of praise...*This novel catches Thompson before he is wrapped in the arms of fame and can get away with anything he wants. In this particular story, he still has to worry about going broke, getting stuck somewhere without hope or help, and potentially watching his dreams smash against the rocks like a heavily polluted ocean wave. Though much of this narrative is

I think books should carry a misogyny warning box on the cover; just an FYI for the discerning reader. I could have used a warning of that ilk before beginning this book. Gross mistreatment, blatant abuse, and general lack of respect for women aside, I found the book disappointing. I didnt connect with the main character (or any other character for that matter). He did nothing and went nowhere in the course of the tale and drank the entire time. Even his internal dialogue about his current state

"I was not proud of what I had learned but I never doubted it was worth knowing." Rum. Lots of rum. And few hamburgers. Some debauchery. A little journalism. I liked it. This semi-autobiographical novel was the second book Thompson penned yet was not published until 1998, presumably for financial reasons.