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Simon & Schuster, September 2011
eBook, 225 pages
ISBN-10: 1451669275
ISBN-13: 9781451669275
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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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“Crackling, twisted, searing, paced to a deft prose rhythm . . . A shot of Gonzo with a rum chaser.”
-- San Francisco Chronicle
“Enough booze to float a yacht and enough fear and loathing to sink it.”
-- New York Daily News
“A great and an unexpected joy . . . Reveals a young Hunter Thompson brimming with talent.”
-- The Philadelphia Inquirer
“At the core of this hard-drinking, hard-talking, hard-living man is a moralist, Puritan, even an innocent. The Rum Diary gives us this side of him without apology . . . with a kind of pride."
-- The Washington Post Book World
“Thompson flashes signs of the vitriol that would later be turned loose on society.”
-- USA Today
USA Today
Throughout The Rum Diary, Thompson flashes signs of the vitriol that would later be turned loose on society.
William Kennedy
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ironweed
The tools Hunter S. Thompson would use in the years ahead-bizarre wit, mockery without end, redundant excess, supreme self-confidence, the narrative of the wounded meritorious ego, and the idiopathic anger of the righteous outlaw
-- were all there in his precocious imagination in San Juan. There, too were the beginnings of his future as a masterful prose stylist.
Jimmy Buffett
The Run Diary shows a side of human nature that is ugly and wrong. But it is a world that Hunter Thompson knows in the nerves of his neck. This is a brilliant tribal study and a bone in the throat of all decent people.
Den of Geek, October 31, 2011
...Bruce Robinson brings Hunter S Thompson's The Rum Diary to the big screen, with a bit of help from Johnny Depp. Here's our review... With two and a half unpublished novels under his belt, Paul Kemp (Johnny ...
Huliq.com, October 29, 2011
...age 17; while his best friend Johnny Depp plays “Gonzo” to the hilt in the new film “The Rum Diary.” “Johnny Depp has a deep attraction for Hunter Thompson, whom he played earlier in ‘Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998). ...
Las Vegas City Life, October 27, 2011
...Before he went gonzo, Hunter Thompson was a journalist working in Puerto Rico. The young Thompson would retype Hemingway novels to feel Papa's taut prose flowing through his fingers, and the influence shows in ...
Los Angeles Times, October 22, 2011
...to write and direct an early Hunter S. Thompson novel. By Mark Olsen, Special to the Though "The Rum Diary" began as a semiautobiographical novel about a young journalist in Puerto Rico written by the pre-fame Hunter S. Thompson, in many ...
Philippine Daily Inquirer, October 21, 2011
...area in his Caribbean island was named after the late actor, Heath Ledger. We also talked about “The Rum Diary,” a film adaptation of the debut novel of another late friend of Johnny’s, Hunter S. Thompson. Johnny found the manuscript ...
Deadline.com, August 26, 2011
...Johnny Depp continues his exploration of the life and work of gonzo journalist Hunter Thompson. He stars in The Rum Diary , the adaptation of Thompson’s first novel. FilmDistrict has just released a new trailer for the film it releases ...
Hunter S. Thompson's Books
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Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72Hunter S. Thompson’s searing and now classic account of the Nixon and McGovern campaigns for the 1972 presidency.Read More -
Fear and Loathing at Rolling StoneRolling Stone's editors compile highlights of Hunter's illustrious career—articles he published for them in his 35-plus years as a contributor.Read More
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Fear And Loathing In AmericaLegendary gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson gives his take on life and politics in this riveting and raw collection of his letters from...Read More
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Kingdom of FearKingdom of Fear traces the course of Hunter S. Thompson's life as a rebel—from a smart-mouthed kid flouting authority to a rule-breaking...Read More
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Generation of SwineGeneration of Swine, the second volume of the legendary Dr. Hunter S. Thompson's bestselling "Gonzo Papers," was first published in 1988 and is now...Read More
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Songs of the DoomedFirst published in 1990, Songs of the Doomed is back in print -- by popular demand! In this third and most extraordinary volume of the Gonzo Papers,...Read More
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The Great Shark HuntThe first volume in Hunter S. Thompson’s bestselling Gonzo Papers offers brilliant commentary and outrageous humor, in his signature style.Read More
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Death of a PoetWith his trademark savage wit, acclaimed author Hunter S. Thompson chronicles a doomed rendezvous in a Green Bay trailer park.Read More
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