Matt's review
The Rum Diary
by Hunter S. Thompson
I do remember this book and the lack of a female interest. I think there's a passage about his possible attraction to the same sex. This book is better read while drunk.
Well, there is a love interest, but she's not heroic in any sense (just a loser like the rest), which I think is a departure from traditional modes or storytelling.
Matt's review
The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson
Matt's review
rating:
I read this on a train travelling across Ireland, so that may have colored my experience of it. Not too many heroes in this book, which is I think what I liked about it. Not even the female love interest. They're all just kind of a bunch of losers. So it felt familiar I guess.
Later, in a magazine, I saw a scan of a letter from Hunter Thompson to some Hollywood executives about the making of a movie version. The letter had lots of fuck words and things crossed out or added in red pen. At the bottom of the letter he wrote, in pencil, cc: Depp, Pitt, Nolte, Del Toro ... there were a few more names there I can't remember. Wondering what happened with this movie and whether "the movie version" is ever equal to the original.
Later, in a magazine, I saw a scan of a letter from Hunter Thompson to some Hollywood executives about the making of a movie version. The letter had lots of fuck words and things crossed out or added in red pen. At the bottom of the letter he wrote, in pencil, cc: Depp, Pitt, Nolte, Del Toro ... there were a few more names there I can't remember. Wondering what happened with this movie and whether "the movie version" is ever equal to the original.
I do remember this book and the lack of a female interest. I think there's a passage about his possible attraction to the same sex. This book is better read while drunk.
Well, there is a love interest, but she's not heroic in any sense (just a loser like the rest), which I think is a departure from traditional modes or storytelling.