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The Rum DiaryWATCH:
"Now all of this may look like some crazed hallucination," Johnny Depp, as Hunter S. Thompson stand-in Paul Kemp, says, "but it's all true... I think."
Depp, as Kemp, plays an alcoholic journalist who starts kicking around San Juan, Puerto Rico, writing for a failing local paper and taking LSD. It was a fearful, doomsday description of what Thompson worried he may become in the early stages of his career, though, obviously, his real life success far exceeded that of his nervous projection. About The Rum Diary movie: The film stars Johnny
Depp, Amber
Heard, Aaron
Eckhart Richard Jenkins , and hits theaters October 28th. About the Book: 
Hunter S. Thompson... review by Jon
Konrath "John"
Diary: A Novel (Paperback)
This is the "lost novel" by Hunter S. Thompson, a book that he started
writing in 1959 to make a quick buck. He struggled all through the sixties to
get this thing rewritten and published, but because of its quality and
Thompson's legendary shakedowns with agents, publishers, and contracts, it died
on the vine - until a few years ago. This quasi-fictional account of a New York
reporter drifting into a job at the San Juan Daily News is somewhat based on
Thompson's experience on the Carribean island in the late 1950. Trying to put
Puerto Rico on the literary map like Hemingway did for Paris, he spells out a
story of corruption, boredom, and alcohol in a more simple San Juan, before the
big booms of the travel booms and technology of the sixties. Paul Kemp, the
fictional narrator, describes the coworkers, women, natives, and insane
government, riddled with syndicates and kickbacks. The writing here isn't like
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - it's more of the Orwell/Mailer/Miller genre,
and does a good job of painting memorable scenes of the insanity, camaraderie,
poverty, and drunkenness on top of the tropical backdrop. It's not bad stuff,
and I wonder if it recently went through heavy rewrites, or if there just wasn't
a market for it back in the sixties. Either way, it's a light, fast read at just
over 200 pages, and made me wonder if Thompson's other unpublished work would be
as satisfying in a trade hardcover. Maybe someday?
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