Reviews
"Crackling, twisted, searing, paced to a deft prose rhythm . . . A shot of Gonzo with a rum chaser." - San Francisco Chronicle, "At the core of this hard-drinking, hard-talking, hard-living man is a moralist, Puritan, even an innocent. The Rum Diary gives us this side of him without apology . . . with a kind of pride." - The Washington Post Book World, The Washington Post Book World At the core of this hard-drinking, hard-talking, hard-living man is a moralist, Puritan, even an innocent. The Rum Diary gives us this side of him without apology...with a kind of pride., "A great and an unexpected joy . . . Reveals a young Hunter Thompson brimming with talent." - The Philadelphia Inquirer, Jimmy Buffett The Run Diary shows a side of human nature that is ugly and wrong. But it is a world that Hunter Thompson knows in the nerves of his neck. This is a brilliant tribal study and a bone in the throat of all decent people., Salon A remarkably full and mature first novel...a languid and lovingly executed book that reveals its emotional depths slowly., The Philadelphia Inquirer A great and an unexpected joy...reveals a young Hunter Thompson brimming with talent., At the core of this hard-drinking, hard-talking, hard-living man is a moralist, Puritan, even an innocent. The Rum Diary gives us this side of him without apology . . . with a kind of pride." - The Washington Post Book World, William Kennedy Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ironweed The tools Hunter S. 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. There, too were the beginnings of his future as a masterful prose stylist., USA Today Throughout The Rum Diary, Thompson flashes signs of the vitriol that would later be turned loose on society., San Francisco Chronicle Crackling, twisted, searing, paced to a deft prose rhythm...a shot of Gonzo with a rum chaser.
