The Rum Diary: A Novel Audiobook (Free)

Made into a significant motion picture starring Johnny Depp, The Rum Diary-a national bestseller and NY Moments Notable Book-is Hunter S. Thompson’s excellent love story of jealousy, treachery, and violent lust in the Caribbean.

Begun in 1959 by a twenty-two-year-old Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary is certainly a brilliantly tangled love story of jealousy, treachery, and violent alcoholic lust in the Caribbean boomtown that was San Juan, Puerto Rico, in the past due 1950s. The narrator, freelance journalist Paul Kemp, irresistibly attracted to a sexy, incomprehensible woman, is quickly thrust right into a world where problem and get-rich-quick schemes rule, and anything (including murder) is usually permissible. Exuberant and mad, fresh and lively, this stunning comedic romp offers a fictional excursion as riveting and outrageous as Thompson’s Fear and Loathing books.