Hunter Thompson was such a great writer. This novel was not what I expected, but I really, really liked it. It was a story about a young newspaper writer's time in Puerto Rico in the late 's, giving a lot of insight into why so many Puerto Ricans fled to New York at the time/5(K). Begun in 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 s. 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 /5(K). Begun in by a then 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 s/5(K).
The Rum Diary is jealousy, romantic, treachery and fiction novel on the love story of man and women. Hunter S. Thompson was the author of this great novel. He is the bestseller in the New York Times. In this novel, the writer narrates the story of a young writer who is delivering his services. Hunter S. Thompson was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky. He is a regular contributor to various national and international publications. Does the world belong to no one but you?" - Paul Kemp ~ The Rum Diary. It struck me as an audience, like lightning. Hunter Thompson. Rum Diary. Notify me when the book's added. Impression. Add to shelf. Already read. Report an error in the book. Share. Facebook.
The Rum Diary is an early novel by American writer Hunter S. Thompson. It was written in the early s but was not published until The manuscript, begun in , was discovered among Thompson's papers by Johnny Depp. The story involves a journalist named Paul Kemp who, in the s, moves from New York to work for a major newspaper, The Daily News, in San Juan, Puerto Rico. It is Thompson's second novel, preceded by the still-unpublished Prince Jellyfish. In fact, Thompson was only 22 when he wrote The Rum Diary, but his fear of winding up like Moberg was well founded. What saved him was the fantastic conflagration of the s, a fiery wind on which the reptilian wings of his prose style could catch and soar to the cackling heights of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Begun in by a twenty-two-year-old Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary is a tangled love story of jealousy, treachery, and violent alcoholic lust in the Caribbean boomtown that was San Juan, Puerto Rico, in the late s. The narrator, freelance journalist Paul Kemp, irresistibly drawn to a sexy, mysterious woman, is soon thrust into a world where corruption and get-ric.
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