![]() ![]() I was never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I felt somehow that my instincts were right. “Like most of the others, I was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent, and at times a stupid hell-raiser. The novel is based on Thompson’s adventures on the island, but is part-truth and part-fiction, written in the first person and told by a journalist Paul Kemp who comes to San Juan to work for the newspapers called San Juan Daily News. ![]() He worked for the magazine El Sportivo which folded soon after his arrival but Thompson found another job as a journalist and managed to stay on the island long enough to gather inspiration for the novel which would spend almost forty years sitting in his drawer it wasn’t published until 1998. Thompson actually lived and worked as a journalist in Puerto Rico in the late 1950s. I was especially intrigued by the fact that it wasn’t a work of pure fiction. In took not three full pages for me to fall in love with it. A few weeks ago, in these warm and yellow days of July, I decided to read the novel “The Rum Diary” written by Hunter S. I was just totally captivated by Kemp’s exciting lifestyle set against the vibrant backdrop of the Caribbean. Some time ago I watched the film “The Rum Diary”(2011) starring Johnny Depp as the main character Paul Kemp and I thoroughly enjoyed it. “I felt a tremendous distance between me and everything real.” ![]()
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