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

The Rum Diary

Hunter S. Thompson

Paperback | Pages: 224 pages

Rating: 3.82 | 51411 Users | 2035 Reviews

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Alternate Cover Edition can be found here. 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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Original Title:	The Rum Diary
ISBN:	0684856476 (ISBN13: 9780684856476)
Edition Language:	English

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New review:Id love to go to the Caribbean and do nothing but drink rum for a few months. Instead Ill have to settle for picking up this book every now and then and reading a few pages. Although there is no plot going on, this book works in an abstract kind of way giving the reader the experience of spending idle time wandering aimlessly around the head of a drunk who doesnt know what hes doing with his life anymore. I read it at about the age of 30 and it works for me now just like it worked

Oh girlfriends, is this stuff dated! Its so dated it stinks. I cant imagine who would like to read it, really. Old boys, priests of the cult of St. Hemingway, who feel nostalgic about the good times when women, coloreds, and queers knew their place? Honestly, I cant see the appeal.So the dude knew how to write, but hey, there are plenty of good writers who manage to write well AND stay fresh and relevant. Thompson isnt one of them.Its a sad and Tragic story of tough white Guys who are alone and

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

This book is basically the fantasy of every creative teenaged boy's fantasy. Working as a writer on a tropical island, drinking and smoking all day, having women throwing themselves at you just because you're all mysterious and shit. It's not my fantasy and I found all of the characters irritating.

First time I read this book, I was in the perfect place: depressed and working night shifts for a dead-end job with people I hated. My breaks were spent up in the lunchroom, alone and wanting to be alone, reading this book and wishing I was stoned. The novel was my reprieve from the mindlessness and numbed-out melancholia. I'm in a different place now, so I'm keen to see how it speaks to me now.---As I expected, the book sung a different song this time around. Far less bleak and hopeless than I

"No matter how much I wanted all those things that I needed money to buy, there was some devilish current pushing me off in another direction - toward anarchy and poverty and craziness. That maddening delusion that a man can lead a decent life without hiring himself out as a Judas Goat." Allegedly autobiographical, The Rum Diary is an accounting of newspaper journalist Paul Kemp's alcohol induced misadventures in Puerto Rico, circa 1959(ish). Aptly titled with a plethora of boozy contrivances

"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.