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The Rum Diary (Amazon.com)

The Rum Diary (Amazon.co.uk)

The Rum Diary (Powell's Books - new or secondhand)

Based on Thompons earlier days, this time as a 22 year-old hack working for a newspaper in Peurto Rico...classic Thompson, sans drugs...but they're buying rum by the *gallon*! Apparently this book was lying around in his ranch in the boonies till a friend convinced him to publish it. Despite his popular mantle as a mere drug-writer, this little book is packed with hilarity, tragedy, beauty and horror... if it's not the police beatings that the main characters receive, it's the incomparable fear that pervades the mobbed party mania on the island of St. John.

This story is, in true Thompson style, neither all fiction, or all fact, but a blending of the two. This becomes more apparent on a reading of volume 1 of his letters *The Proud Highway*.

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