"The Rum Diary" - A journalist loses himself in the Caribbean's debauched world.

"The Rum Diary" txt e-book free download is Hunter Thompson's debut work. It depicts an idealistic journalist who gradually descends into the alcohol and idleness of the Caribbean, eventually leaving with a shattered American dream and infinite regret. "The Rum Diary" was published thirty years later and won multiple American book awards. The same-name movie is starred by Hunter Thompson's disciple Johnny Depp, which is currently popular in Europe and America and is one of the hot candidates for the 2012 Oscars.

I came here, stayed in luxury hotels, but sat in toy cars that looked like cockroaches and sounded like jet planes, circling half the city; sneaked away from back alleys, but shamelessly messed around on the beach; hunted lobsters in the sea where sharks appeared, but ended up being targeted by mobs speaking foreign languages.

These things happened in Puerto Rico under Spanish colonial rule, but people here used US dollars, drove American-made cars, played roulette in casinos, pretending they were in Casablanca. Part of this city looks like Tampa, a tourist destination in Florida, USA, while another part resembles an old refugee camp. Everyone I saw seemed to have just walked out of an important film audition.