5/9/2023 0 Comments The rum diary authorTo hell with it - I'll go back to some Godforsaken little town and be a fireman. "We're just drunkards," he said, "helpless drunkards. "That's horrible." He raised the bottle to his lips and finished it off. Journalists - Puerto Rico - San Juan - Fiction, Alcoholics - Puerto Rico - San Juan - Fiction, Alcoholics, Journalists, Puerto Rico - San Juan. "There is no reward and there never was." "Jesus," he said. In Paul Kemp, the novels hero, there are echoes of the young Thompson. "You know - I'm a rebel, I took off - now where's my reward?" "You fool," I said. The Rum Diary was begun in 1959 by a then-twenty-two-year-old Hunter S. "We're all going to the same damn places, doing the same damn things people have been doing for fifty years, and we keep waiting for something to happen." He looked up. “But I have a feeling that I'm following a course that somebody laid out a long time ago - and I have one hell of a lot of company." I looked up at the plantain tree and let him go on. This passage in particular really threw me, in an existential dread sense: First book in a while that made me just sit back and think after flipping the final page. Recently finished The Rum Diary, absolutely loved it.
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