The Rum Diary : A Novel

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  What made me enjoy this book most is the journalistic perspective in which it it written. It gives you a real feel for what a young males journalist life in San Juan would have been like. Rum and ice was all you really needed...isn't that the truth. The wild life of never really belonging to a place, the interesting and diverse sets of people whom you meet, it all calls for that get-a-way life most people dream of. The loneliness is the drawback-being set apart from the rest of your life,... (show more)

  What made me enjoy this book most is the journalistic perspective in which it it written. It gives you a real feel for what a young males journalist life in San Juan would have been like. Rum and ice was all you really needed...isn't that the truth. The wild life of never really belonging to a place, the interesting and diverse sets of people whom you meet, it all calls for that get-a-way life most people dream of. The loneliness is the drawback-being set apart from the rest of your life, family and friends, it leaves a longing. Traveling, writing, drinking, it all is not enough to fill that void but you try to fill it however much you can with the latter. My desire to become a journalist was only further fed by 'The Rum Diary.'

  I cannot wait to watch Kemp be portrayed by Johnny Depp on the big screen, I know he will present the role no less than extraordinary. (show less)

   

   

  by Reta S. Jabar on Apr 18, 2009 at 03:47AM

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  it took me about 3 hours to read spread out over a few days cuz i wanted it to never end. i love love LOVE this book. i wanna live in 1950's San Juan, Puerto Rico. i wanna drink rum on ice and skinny dip. i wanna dance in the streets and run away from fights fought by hot, tanned, old-school men smoking cigarillos. this book makes me want all of this.

   

   

  by Bria Servoss on Aug 04, 2008 at 04:28PM

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