The Rum Diary Lib/E (Audiobook)

from yougotamber

This was a great read. I've always been partial to books that have the main character going through a downward spiral. Being 31 years myself, I could relate to the inner conflicts the main character was facing. I'm glad I read this now instead of earlier or I wouldn't have been able to relate as ...

from SeriousGrace

Paul Kemp, fresh in from New York, begins writing for the Daily News in San Juan. Throughout the entire Rum Diary he comes off as a bumbling and stumbling alcoholic cad who never really writes very much. He spends a great deal of time eating hamburgers at Al's, chasing women, playing on the beach...

from EricFitz08

More accessible and less removed than Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. The Rum Diary is a portrait of the Gonzo as a young man. before the mescalin and the desert, but you can see the emptiness, the desperation, the fire in the world that would explode ten years later.

from jackkane

Very good book, reminiscent of "The Sun Also Rises". The only fault of 'The Rum Diary' is that it's too Hemingwayan, which is normal considering Thompson's age at the time of writing (22! At that age most of us are still in college, or barely out). I agree with the reviewers who regret Thompson d...

from jackkane

Very good book, reminiscent of "The Sun Also Rises". The only fault of 'The Rum Diary' is that it's too Hemingwayan, which is normal considering Thompson's age at the time of writing (22! At that age most of us are still in college, or barely out). I agree with the reviewers who regret Thompson d...