The Rum Diary

Version: Unabridged
Author: Hunter S. Thompson
Narrator: Christopher Lane
Genres: Fiction
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Published In: January 2006
# of Units: 6 CDs
Length: 6 hours, 30 minutes
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Overview

Begun in 1959 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 1950s.

The autobiographical hero, a young writer dreaming of Hemingway but stuck in a dead-end newspaper job, embarks on a carousing, hell-raising journey through the tropics. Along the way, he comes between a wild-spirited comrade and his temptress girlfriend and gets in the middle of a violent clash between the island culture and the encroaching American tourist values.

Exuberant and energetic, The Rum Diary is an outrageous, drunken romp in the spirit of Thompson's best-selling Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Hell's Angels.

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  • Book Rating: 3/5

Decent story. Good reader, with good distinction to the characters and with voices that fit them. Not as intense character-wise as Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, but good nonetheless.

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Author Details

Author Details

Thompson, Hunter S.

Hunter S. Thompson's books include "Fear and Loathing in America, Screwjack, Hell's Angels, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Proud Highway, Better Than Sex, The Rum Diary, " and "Kingdom of Fear." He was contributor to various national and international publications, including a weekly sports column for ESPN.com.

Hunter S. Thompson died February 2005.