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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. Download The Rum Diary By Hunter S. Thompson – kino-fada.fr 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 fic 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 fiction, the situation career, location, finances of the protagonist come from HST s own experiences in Puerto Rico Thompson articulates within the pages of this story the mindset of the hopeful lost, the starry eyed cynics of the world, the trouble making peace hunters like myself, a section of society whose collective voice he succinctly captures within this quoteLike most others, I was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent, and at times a stu...This book was brutally normal It went along nice and regular for a while and then something happens and you are sort of left to wonder how you should feel about it Hunter S Thompson is cool and collected in his thoughts and it really feels genuine John Zelazny i...Happy, I muttered, trying to pin the word down But it is on of those words, like Love, that I have never quite understood Most people who deal in words don t have much fait in them and I am no exception especially the big ones like Happy and Love and Honest and Strong They are too elusive and far too relative when you compare them to sharp, mean little words like Punk and Cheap and Phony I feel at home with these, because they re scrawny and easy to pin, but the big ones are tough andHappy, I muttered, trying to pin the word down But it is on of those words, like Love, that I have never quite understood Most people who deal in words don t have much fait in them and I am no exception especially the big ones like Happy and Love and Honest and Strong They are too elusive and far too relative when you compare them to sharp, mean little words like Punk and Cheap and Phony I feel at home with these, because they re scrawny and easy to pin, but the big ones are tough and it takes either a priest or a fool to use them with any confidenceHunter S...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 reco 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 recognisably his own as a devotee of HST I was fascinated to note just how set his style already was There is a certain cadence, a recognisable turn...It isn t very good The writing style isn t compelling, there is no plot and no hint of the future nor the direction of the book This is the kind of book that you either adore or feel indifferent for It s definitely NOT my kind of the book There s no deep characterization nor natural relationship between characters Paul is an arrogant journalist who makes his way from New York to Puerto Rico to work at the only English language paper on the island As the paper sits near bankruptcy, he begin It isn t very good The writing style isn t compelling, there is no plot and no hint of the future nor the direction of the book This is the kind of book that you either adore or feel indifferent for It s definitely NOT my kind of the book There s no deep characterization nor natural relationship between characters Paul is an arrogant journalist who makes his way from New York to Puerto Rico to work at the only English language paper on th...Journalist with bad attitude get a job in Puerto Rico working with other ill tempered men By the end of the story he has landed a beautiful girl who is simultaneously innocent and whorish In between there are several rather pointless episodes of newsroom politics, and a stint at the Carnival which is climaxed by the girl dancing naked at a party exposed to a pointedly non white audience she clinches the narrators sympathy Fans of HST may wish to read this for a look at his writing before he Journalist with bad attitude get a j...Hunter Thompson s original ambition was to be a novelist, and he wrote two unpublished novels, Prince Jellyfish and The Rum Diary, before he became a star of New Journalism and abandoned fiction for good Prince Jellyfish has not seen the light of day, except in a short, forgettable excerpt, but The Rum Diary did, well after the fact.And it s not very good It opens with an uninteresting passage of description that attempts to set up t...Oh girlfriends, is this stuff dated It s so dated it stinks I can t 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 can t 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 i...I just spentthan an hour and a half finishing The Rum Diary I wanted to stop and hit the sack but something inside me whispered to go on It was when I realized that nothing actually happened in the book Large portion of the book was very descriptive it s like reading a strong opinionated newspaper article about Puerto Rico and its appalling inhabitants The Rum Diary opens very promising, with snippets of office politics, masculine desperation and one s search to find the meaning of li I just spentthan an hour and a half finishing The Rum Diary I wanted to stop and hit the sack but something inside me whispered to go on It was when I realized that nothing actually happened in the book Large portion of the book was very descriptive it s like reading a strong opinionated newspaper article about Puerto Rico and its appalling inhabitants The...This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers To view it, click here Five decades ago, Thompson wrote what is probably the best summary I ve seen of how I feel about the newspaper industry now I shared a vagrant optimism that some of us were making real progress, that we had taken an honest road, and that the best of us would inevitably make it over the top.At the same time, I shared a dark suspicion that the life we were leading was a lost cause, that we were all actors, kidding ourselves along on a senseless odyssey It was the tension between these two polesFive decades ago, Thompson wrote what is probably the best summary I ve seen of how I feel about the newspaper industry now I shared a vagrant optimism that some of us were making real progress, that we had taken an honest road, and that the best of us would inevitably make it over the top.At the same time, I shared a dark suspicion that the life we were leading was a lost cause, that we were all actors, kidding ourselves along on a senseless odyssey It was the tension between these two poles a r...

The Rum Diary
  • English
  • 16 January 2017
  • Paperback
  • 224 pages
  • 0684856476
  • Hunter S. Thompson
  • The Rum Diary