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The Rum Diary Blog
http://www.the-rum-diary.com
This blog follows Hunter S. Thompson's book, The Rum Diary and its development into a movie. It includes analysis of narrator Paul Kemp's ramblings as well as news relating to the Rum Diary movie, which will likely be released in 2009 and feature Johnny Depp.
- Added on: Sep 4th, 2007
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Rum Diary
- Listed in: Books Film
- Tags: movie book Johnny Depp hunter s. thompson the rum diary rum diary
Recent Posts
Chapter 9 Quotes
When Chapter 9 of The Rum Diary begins, Kemp and his crew have just gotten out of jail and survived a beating from the locals because Yeamon wouldn’t pay their bill at a restaurant. You can get a sense that Kemp is getting frustrated by the pla...
Infinitum Nihil and GK Films
Just some background info on some of the players who are involved in turning Hunter S. Thompson’s The Rum Diary into a movie. Graham King’s GK Films and Johnny Depp’s Infinitum Nihil are teaming to create this movie, which is schedu...
Bob Sala
“Sometimes I feel like kicking myself in the balls.” Bob Sala is the staff photographer from The Daily News in Hunter S. Thompson’s The Rum Diary. His attitude could best be described as “fuck the world, we’re all goin...
Top 10 Places to Avoid Arriving Drunk
According to narrator Paul Kemp in Hunter S. Thompson’s The Rum Diary: Arriving half-drunk in a foreign place is hard on the nerves. You have a feeling that something is wrong, that you can’t get a grip. (page12) Here’s our list of...
Whack a Salesman in the Face
On page 11 of The Rum Diary, Hunter S. Thompson writes: The voices set my teeth on edge. I have no valid complaint against hustlers, no rational bitch, but the act of selling is repulsive to me. I harbor a secret urge to whack a salesman in the face...
Real Progress vs. Lost Cause?
On p. 5 of The Rum Diary, Hunter S. Thompson writes: Like most of the others, I was a seeker, a movie, a malcontent, and at times a stupid hell-raiser…I shared a vagrant optimism that some of us were making real progress, that we had taken an...
alrite this looks like a good blog keep up the good work. But i also need your help. I was suppose to do a report on the rum diary. I got about halfway through and i left it on a table in the lobby of the hotel i was staying at and some rotten basterd took it. i need some main points and themes from the book so i can create a six song sountrack. And a paragraph about how each song relates to the book. help, please.
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