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Hunter S. Thompson
Rum Diary
disgusting as he usually was' hunter thompson writes in this his 1959 novel 'on rare occasions he showed flashes of a stagnant intelligence but his brain was so rotted with drink and dissolute living that whenever he put it to work it behaved like an old engine that had gone haywire from being dipped in lard' surprise thompson isn't writing about himself but one of the other older aimlessly carousing newspapermen in puerto rico a guy called moberg whose chief achievement is the ability to find his car after a night's drinking because it stinks so much i can smell it for blocks he boasts the autobiographical hero paul kemp is 30 trapped in a deadend job thompson wound up writing for a bowling magazine and feeling as if his bigtime writer dreams soaked in f scott fitzgerald and ernest hemingway are evaporating as rapidly as the rum in his fist