It’s 1960 and Kemp has been hired by Puerto Rico’s only English language newspaper, a fact I know because I’ve read the book, but which the film never gets around to going over. Thompson squint (Kemp was loosely based on The Rum Diary author) and instead of letting us see him stumbling out of his hotel room the film instantly flashes to his first day at work. Johnny Depp gives the camera his Hunter S. It starts by introducing us to Paul Kemp, an alcoholic holed up in a hotel room, awaiting his breakfast. Here those villainous rich bastards who lack only mustaches for twirling, loom large over a story which seems better suited to something else. Compact Disc (January 1st, 2006): $55.The movie writer/director Bruce Robinson made out of Thompson’s work is rooted in a world of cartoonishly evil white people and downtrodden Puerto Ricans, things which were only a sidebar in a book with much loftier aspirations.This is a brilliant tribal study and a bone in the throat of all decent people.' -Jimmy Buffett Product Details But it is a world that Hunter Thompson knows in the nerves of his neck. 'The Run Diary shows a side of human nature that is ugly and wrong. There, too were the beginnings of his future as a masterful prose stylist.' -William Kennedy, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ironweed 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. “Thompson flashes signs of the vitriol that would later be turned loose on society.” - USA Today a languid and lovingly executed book that reveals its emotional depths slowly.' - Salon 'A remarkably full and mature first novel. with a kind of pride.' - The Washington Post Book World The Rum Diary gives us this side of him without apology.

“At the core of this hard-drinking, hard-talking, hard-living man is a moralist, Puritan, even an innocent. Reveals a young Hunter Thompson brimming with talent.” - The Philadelphia Inquirer “Enough booze to float a yacht and enough fear and loathing to sink it.” - New York Daily News A shot of Gonzo with a rum chaser.” - San Francisco Chronicle “Crackling, twisted, searing, paced to a deft prose rhythm.

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