Others who have helped to pave the road you hope to tread. Thompson, will appeal to anyone who harbors romantic. Read this because you want to feel a little lonely, but also to know that there are others out there. 27, 2011 The Rum Diary, directed by Bruce Robinson ( Withnail and I) and based on an early novel of the same title by Hunter S. Read this because you want to laugh and wish for a better time in your youth, filled with strong drink, and pretty girls and pissing off your boss. Read it because you want to see where an American icon took some of his first noble strides toward literary Rockstardom. And that clear, bright, shining kind of rage that crackles around you like an invisible mantle of armor.Īll these things are here, delivered in a familiar tone used for chatting with the locals at your favorite watering hole. A sadness that catches in the back of your throat, the kind that only happens when you find out you might not change the world in the way you originally thought. A kind of bewilderment that only exists in young men who know what they want but are not quite sure how to get it. No less irreverent, his tale of rum fueled hijinks in Puerto Rico and beyond set in the late 50’s is filled with the early signs and signifiers of his madcap persona to be, the first steps on a long and weird and winding road.īut that is not enough. The lost and found again novel by the 20th Century's own Witch Doctor of Journalism, Hunter S.
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