The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson [AUDIOBOOK]

The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson
Unabridged [AUDIOBOOK] read by Christopher Lane

The Rum Diary was begun in 1959 by a then-22-year-old Hunter S. Thompson. It was his first novel and he told his friend, the author William Kennedy, that The Rum Diary would /”in a twisted way…do for San Juan what Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises did for Paris./” In Paul Kemp, the novel’s hero, there are echoes of the young Thompson, who was himself honing his wildly musical writing style as one of the /”ill-tempered wandering rabble/” on staff at the San Juan Daily News at the time.

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. /”It was a gold rush,/” says the author. /”There were naked people everywhere and we all had credit./”

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