I sincerely thank you for posting this. I am severely dyslexic. This is the first audio book ive ever listened to, and its been a more positive experience than anything ive ever tried to read. Ive always loved hunter s thompson and read fear and loathing las vegas. Which took a long time for and was alot of effort.
I think this is the 4th time I have listened to this. It takes me to a time and place I wish I had existed in. I take a vacation to the Caribbean in my mind every time I listen to the story.
Damn, people back then sure did drink a lot. No wonder they got into so many shenanigans. I love this book, seriously. The lazy, relaxed atmosphere, especially with this reader. Beautiful.
I fell like this should be considered Thomson's best work. I completely understand why Fear and Loathing is the most widely known, but this is a perfect novel, perfectly contained in it's outwardly happy world full of unhappy, lost, people.
Rip to all the great comments, comments about lives ending and beginning, comments of people passing through this book for the first time or the 40th and feeling the same emotions of hunter’s beautiful writing. Emotions like hope and despair, loneliness and melancholy, pure happiness and nostalgia for a time that may or may not have even ever existed. But it did to them, and even when the entire world had been open or shut they had the hidden refuge of hopeless seekers and aspiring writers here in these comments. Have fun listening to this book. It’s truly one of his best.
I love audio books for road trips. Check out On The Road by Kerouac if you haven't already. It Really helps make the most of spending hours chasing those white and yellow lines... 👍
Quite good! (for what it is) Forgot this even existed for a long time...was urged to read it in High School by a friend...but ended up living parts of it instead. Heck, i even lived getting Boot Partied by Puerto Ricans! For some bizarre reason, the trials and tribulations of these characters reminds me of Glengary Glen Ross. Maybe all the years of heavy drink have done me in after all! IDK..great to finally "read" this! I am much more a Camus or Miller guy, but this was fun.
Imagine if the Coen Brothers had done The Rum Diary, they would have nailed the sweat and the tight cliques. This book builds and peaks wildly. A must read sat in the sun with your chosen vice.
‘Jesus,’ I thought. Sala was newly 30 and I was late into 32, but 34 sounded like all that time would have to pass us by again before we reached it. ‘He’s the old one.’ I laughed.
Favorite Hunter work, fear and loathing is brilliant in form and it’s hysterical but this is just the purest thing he ever wrote besides some of his letters
If anyone is as big of a fan of Rum Diary as I am, then please consider listening to my Audiobook that I did with the same narrator, Christopher Lane. The book is titled (Last of a Dying Breed: An Up-Close Look at the Final Stages of Outlaw Country Music) and will be available on Amazon, iTunes and Audible starting in May, 2021. You can find a promo right here on RUclips by simply typing in the name of the title. I guarantee if you like Rum Diary you will enjoy it. The story is about a Music Journalist from Nashville, who travels to Ohio in order to cover the live music scene. During his journey he becomes entangled with a cast of crazed hillbillies. I will also have promo codes available for the full audiobook for free so, feel free to reach out with your email and I can send them to you. Cheers!!!
@@kmac123ize actually send an email to me at carlmiller19910207@gmail.com and let me know that we met under this videos comment section and I will send you a free promo code. If you enjoy Rum Diary and the way it's narrated I promise you will enjoy Last of a Dying Breed. This was my main motivation to write it.
If anyone is as big of a fan of Rum Diary as I am, then please consider listening to my Audiobook that I did with the same narrator, Christopher Lane. The book is titled (Last of a Dying Breed: An Up-Close Look at the Final Stages of Outlaw Country Music) and will be available on Amazon, iTunes and Audible starting in May, 2021. You can find a promo right here on RUclips by simply typing in the name of the title. I guarantee if you like Rum Diary you will enjoy it. The story is about a Music Journalist from Nashville, who travels to Ohio in order to cover the live music scene. During his journey he becomes entangled with a cast of crazed hillbillies. I will also have promo codes available for the full audiobook for free so, feel free to reach out with your email and I can send them to you. Cheers!!!
@@universescorner2398 In the book I write of Hank with great importance, and I think one of the best mentions in the book- "Hank Williams Jr once referred to himself as a dinosaur in his song of the same name, and he’s not too far off, in many ways he is one of the very last of a dying breed."
@@MeanMrMustard85 Johnny Depp did a great reading... the movie was way too Hollywood and the Amber Heard thing is ironically poetic... generation of swines!!!
Hero? I used to feel the same. The old adage stands true; you don't want to learn about your hero's. Watch his documentaries. I heard stories that he was abusive, and witnessed him be cruel to animals, in his home videos. Dude tended to be an asshole. To his credit, he didn't hide it.
Unfortunately I saw the movie first before I knew about the book. The narration was superb and this is definitely a new classic for me. It’s a must read I will recommend to others
I think the movie captures the essence if not the story. It was Johnny Depp who discovered the manuscript which HST had been trying to get published since the early 60s,that's the story I heard anyway.
If anyone is as big of a fan of Rum Diary as I am, then please consider listening to my Audiobook that I did with the same narrator, Christopher Lane. The book is titled (Last of a Dying Breed: An Up-Close Look at the Final Stages of Outlaw Country Music) and will be available on Amazon, iTunes and Audible starting in May, 2021. You can find a promo right here on RUclips by simply typing in the name of the title. I guarantee if you like Rum Diary you will enjoy it. The story is about a Music Journalist from Nashville, who travels to Ohio in order to cover the live music scene. During his journey he becomes entangled with a cast of crazed hillbillies. I will also have promo codes available for the full audiobook for free so, feel free to reach out with your email and I can send them to you. Cheers!!!
@@mushroomanjcc1954 The movie adds a bunch of things not in book. It does capture the essence of the book and takes some liberties in story telling. Idk if I agree that making Depp a depraved booze hound was the right call. It’s worth a viewing for sure
@Happy Joy -Prince Jellyfish 1960 -Hells Angels 1967 -Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas 1971 -Fear & Loathing on the Campaign Trail 1973 -The Great Shark Hunt 1979 -The Curse of Lono 1983 -Generation of Swine 1988 -The Songs of the Doomed 1990 -Screw-Jack 1991 -Better Than Sex 1994 -The Proud Highway 1997 -The Rum Diary 1998 -Polo Is My Life 1998 There are others as well... Check 'em out! He's an ICON! A real American journalist and author! (Dates are referencing when they were published) to the best of my knowledge)
My personal favorite way to spend a day at the beach is to smoke some grass, drop a vodka shooter or two in some Minute Maid orange juice, and wear my best RayBan aviators while reading this book. It puts you right there in the book and you feel every part of it.
A great work! Reminds me of a bead of sweat caught in just the right light, making it shine like a valuable jewel. Mostly mundane but with the right appreciation a great story.
If anyone is as big of a fan of Rum Diary as I am, then please consider listening to my Audiobook that I did with the same narrator, Christopher Lane. The book is titled (Last of a Dying Breed: An Up-Close Look at the Final Stages of Outlaw Country Music) and will be available on Amazon, iTunes and Audible starting in May, 2021. You can find a promo right here on RUclips by simply typing in the name of the title. I guarantee if you like Rum Diary you will enjoy it. The story is about a Music Journalist from Nashville, who travels to Ohio in order to cover the live music scene. During his journey he becomes entangled with a cast of crazed hillbillies. I will also have promo codes available for the full audiobook for free so, feel free to reach out with your email and I can send them to you. Cheers!!!
Good book well read, the film did not do it justice, good story told in a matter of fact entertaining style.Made me want to read more of Thompson's work.
FANTASTIC! But the story should have ended while he was swimming after Chenault left... The last 10 minutes was little more than wrapping up loose ends having nothing to do with the story.
There is no calle oleary in san juan after the american war in 1898 america are here they are called gringos because of the song the american soldiers would play the jingo and the food is very good the best Caribbean Spanish, it seems the american are very colonial towards the Puerto Rican people in this book.
5:58:15 He's not wrong, the preface to that book is fuckin complex. I still have trouble grasping it, and I've tried about three times now. Hopefully I'll get it soon. Curse you Conrad
I find it odd that the story narrative states that "he was reminded of himself at what he was like at 24" when he was only 22 when he wrote this. It sounds autobiographical, but is it just autobiographical fiction?
@@kathrynjohnson3040 It's autobiography, Thompson was always obsessed w/ his age. "Autobiographical fiction" is a..............sorta like "jumbo shrimp" or "military intelligence".
Its mostly fiction. Sure there's truth here and there, but Thompson and Kempt are two different people. Don't listen to that idiot Marti Tinkovich, that idiot thinks the best scene in the book is the one where Chano got abducted, and he even thinks Thompson did it as some weird revenge rape fantasy. A real weirdo that Marti guy
lol I did that the other night. with ket i find it the most controllable psychedelic. crack on mate and fear and loathing is a bit better in my opinion.
Does anyone know why there are 2 diff versions of this audio book? The original book 1998 has 4 cassette tapes and a 4 hr run time. Read by Campbell Scott. And this one is 2 and half hours more read by someone else. And also! The cover with depps face and words "now a major motion picture" doesn't make sence for the 4 hour release in 2006 since the movie came out on 2011..then this version of the audio book was released 2011 with Christopher lane. I dont understand and I have looked for answers everywhere. Why is depps face on the cover of the 4 hour version? On audible the same cover is used for both the 4 hr one and 6 hr 20 min one. With the wrong narrator name on the cover.. I just want to understand why this version has 2 extra hours? What is the difference between the Campbell Scott version vs Christopher lane? Please someone know this answer. Im going mad!
As for the length: it could just be the slower pace of reading but that might be a stretch. Depp’s cover makes sense as he was Hunter’s best friend and convinced him to publich it in the first place. He had also tried to get the movie off the ground as early as the first release of the book in 1998. Or just to bank off another Hunter/Depp release following the Fear and Loathing movie
If it was read by hunter himself you wouldn’t be able to understand it. You’re as wrong as wrong gets this guy is perfect for this book. He hits every sentence like I read it in my head.
I sincerely thank you for posting this. I am severely dyslexic. This is the first audio book ive ever listened to, and its been a more positive experience than anything ive ever tried to read. Ive always loved hunter s thompson and read fear and loathing las vegas. Which took a long time for and was alot of effort.
Try the famous Fear and loathing in las vegas, it's so amazing as this one
I love it!
Enjoy!
Time stamps:
chapter 1 10:11
chapter 2 45:36
chapter 3 1:03:06
chapter 4 1:21:44
chapter 5 1:35:40
chapter 6 1:59:47
chapter 7 2:13:43
chapter 8 2:36:54
chapter 9 2:53:00
chapter 10 3:10:52
chapter 11 3:27:46
chapter 12 3:45:30
chapter 13 4:10:40
chapter 14 4:29:51
chapter 15 4:40:33
chapter 16 4:55:35
chapter 17 5:14:21
chapter 18 5:34:52
chapter 19 5:52:43
chapter 20 6:00:30
chapter 21 6:15:31
Many thanks!
legend
Cheers
I think this is the 4th time I have listened to this. It takes me to a time and place I wish I had existed in. I take a vacation to the Caribbean in my mind every time I listen to the story.
That island sounds awful.
A dream would be if the rum dairy audiobook was mumbled by hunter Thomson himself on RUclips!!
Yup 😊
JK Simmons would be my choice.
I'm so glad that fraud ain't reading with his cancer throat and shtick.
hell no.
i wouldn't listen to it.
Damn, people back then sure did drink a lot. No wonder they got into so many shenanigans.
I love this book, seriously. The lazy, relaxed atmosphere, especially with this reader. Beautiful.
I fell like this should be considered Thomson's best work. I completely understand why Fear and Loathing is the most widely known, but this is a perfect novel, perfectly contained in it's outwardly happy world full of unhappy, lost, people.
If you like this you should check out "Junkie" by William S. Burroughs. That is if you haven't already
@@abraxas9340 thanks for the suggestion
Rip to all the great comments, comments about lives ending and beginning, comments of people passing through this book for the first time or the 40th and feeling the same emotions of hunter’s beautiful writing. Emotions like hope and despair, loneliness and melancholy, pure happiness and nostalgia for a time that may or may not have even ever existed. But it did to them, and even when the entire world had been open or shut they had the hidden refuge of hopeless seekers and aspiring writers here in these comments. Have fun listening to this book. It’s truly one of his best.
This is why they call it modern literature. He's brilliant. The work is stone solid. I was in it from the first line.
What a story! Truly a great American novel, which is what he set out to create. A unique and original story unlike anything before it.
Jeez, started listening to this last night, didnt stop until two oclock in the morning, got up at 6! have been yawning all day :(
Hunter S. Thompson does that to you.😅
Christopher Lane did a fantastic job reading!!
Thanks for naming the reader! He’s fantastic!
First time I've listened. . I'm in love... . He's brilliant.
Dang, thanks for reading this to me. Started it a few weeks ago on a drive through Oregon and just finished it. You're great.
I love audio books for road trips. Check out On The Road by Kerouac if you haven't already. It Really helps make the most of spending hours chasing those white and yellow lines... 👍
I love this book - the narrator is wonderful
Quite good! (for what it is) Forgot this even existed for a long time...was urged to read it in High School by a friend...but ended up living parts of it instead. Heck, i even lived getting Boot Partied by Puerto Ricans! For some bizarre reason, the trials and tribulations of these characters reminds me of Glengary Glen Ross. Maybe all the years of heavy drink have done me in after all! IDK..great to finally "read" this! I am much more a Camus or Miller guy, but this was fun.
Hemingway's " The Killers" influenced Camus to write "The Stranger." According to Camus. 😎
Funny you say that because this book reminds me SO MUCH of the stranger
Imagine if the Coen Brothers had done The Rum Diary, they would have nailed the sweat and the tight cliques. This book builds and peaks wildly. A must read sat in the sun with your chosen vice.
But they didn't.
Maybe they will…
Crack.
@@WilliamsElaine😅😅
Opiates
My mom gave me this book at 14 and at 34 I finally.picked it up.
Lol
‘Jesus,’ I thought. Sala was newly 30 and I was late into 32, but 34 sounded like all that time would have to pass us by again before we reached it.
‘He’s the old one.’ I laughed.
Favorite Hunter work, fear and loathing is brilliant in form and it’s hysterical but this is just the purest thing he ever wrote besides some of his letters
If anyone is as big of a fan of Rum Diary as I am, then please consider listening to my Audiobook that I did with the same narrator, Christopher Lane. The book is titled (Last of a Dying Breed: An Up-Close Look at the Final Stages of Outlaw Country Music) and will be available on Amazon, iTunes and Audible starting in May, 2021. You can find a promo right here on RUclips by simply typing in the name of the title. I guarantee if you like Rum Diary you will enjoy it. The story is about a Music Journalist from Nashville, who travels to Ohio in order to cover the live music scene. During his journey he becomes entangled with a cast of crazed hillbillies. I will also have promo codes available for the full audiobook for free so, feel free to reach out with your email and I can send them to you. Cheers!!!
@@cmiller3981 I'd love to hear it man how can I reach out
@@kmac123ize absolutely send email I've got you
@@kmac123ize actually send an email to me at carlmiller19910207@gmail.com and let me know that we met under this videos comment section and I will send you a free promo code. If you enjoy Rum Diary and the way it's narrated I promise you will enjoy Last of a Dying Breed. This was my main motivation to write it.
@J F Thanks, appreciate that. Would you like a promo code?
Great book. The one thing I didn't like was that it ended. I wanted it to go on and on. One of the best
This book gives the answer to the question of why the Rum is always gone....
Christopher Lane was amazing at reading this novel!!
If anyone is as big of a fan of Rum Diary as I am, then please consider listening to my Audiobook that I did with the same narrator, Christopher Lane. The book is titled (Last of a Dying Breed: An Up-Close Look at the Final Stages of Outlaw Country Music) and will be available on Amazon, iTunes and Audible starting in May, 2021. You can find a promo right here on RUclips by simply typing in the name of the title. I guarantee if you like Rum Diary you will enjoy it. The story is about a Music Journalist from Nashville, who travels to Ohio in order to cover the live music scene. During his journey he becomes entangled with a cast of crazed hillbillies. I will also have promo codes available for the full audiobook for free so, feel free to reach out with your email and I can send them to you. Cheers!!!
@@cmiller3981 post it on goodreads comments. more ready people
@@pedestrianandroid thanks for tip. If you'd like a free promo code for the Audiobook feel free to message back.
@@cmiller3981 May as well just had written about Hank Willaims JR
@@universescorner2398 In the book I write of Hank with great importance, and I think one of the best mentions in the book- "Hank Williams Jr once referred to himself as a dinosaur in his song of the same name, and he’s not too far off, in many ways he is one of the very last of a dying breed."
One of my favourite novels and certainly up there with Thompson’s best work.
Hunter S Fitzgerald!... Gatsby of a broken generation...pre Gonzo and political pariah!!!...a true wordsmith...
With audio books especially HST... it's all about the cadence...
Indeed it is, they certainly did a good job in this instance.
@@MeanMrMustard85 Johnny Depp did a great reading... the movie was way too Hollywood and the Amber Heard thing is ironically poetic... generation of swines!!!
@@paulproulx6190 this is johnny depp reading?
Thank you Karin Mathews.
What an excellent story!
thank you for this upload. Hunter is definitely one of my heroes.
Hero?
I used to feel the same.
The old adage stands true; you don't want to learn about your hero's. Watch his documentaries. I heard stories that he was abusive, and witnessed him be cruel to animals, in his home videos.
Dude tended to be an asshole. To his credit, he didn't hide it.
Enjoyed every minute of that.
Unfortunately I saw the movie first before I knew about the book. The narration was superb and this is definitely a new classic for me. It’s a must read I will recommend to others
I think the movie captures the essence if not the story. It was Johnny Depp who discovered the manuscript which HST had been trying to get published since the early 60s,that's the story I heard anyway.
@@adeladd7638 I agree it captures a bit of the essence buy definitely drifts from the story
If anyone is as big of a fan of Rum Diary as I am, then please consider listening to my Audiobook that I did with the same narrator, Christopher Lane. The book is titled (Last of a Dying Breed: An Up-Close Look at the Final Stages of Outlaw Country Music) and will be available on Amazon, iTunes and Audible starting in May, 2021. You can find a promo right here on RUclips by simply typing in the name of the title. I guarantee if you like Rum Diary you will enjoy it. The story is about a Music Journalist from Nashville, who travels to Ohio in order to cover the live music scene. During his journey he becomes entangled with a cast of crazed hillbillies. I will also have promo codes available for the full audiobook for free so, feel free to reach out with your email and I can send them to you. Cheers!!!
Theres a movie? Thank goodness
@@mushroomanjcc1954 The movie adds a bunch of things not in book. It does capture the essence of the book and takes some liberties in story telling. Idk if I agree that making Depp a depraved booze hound was the right call. It’s worth a viewing for sure
I've never been to puerto rico, but after this, I kinda feel like I've been there.
Agree
Just go above 150th street in Manhattan- it's all _Puerto Rico._
Just finish'd it, Loved it. I like Sala, he was enjoyable.
That was so great, thank you for uploading. =)
After listening to this then watching the Johnny Depp movie I realized how many subtle things I missed watching it back in 2011
Most underrated Thompson novel. Almost masterpiece material.
Almost?
@@growmiezhomiez8760 it's no "Fear and Loathing in LV", but it's still worth a few re-reads.
Matt B ah gotcha.
@Happy Joy -Prince Jellyfish 1960
-Hells Angels 1967
-Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas 1971
-Fear & Loathing on the Campaign Trail 1973
-The Great Shark Hunt 1979
-The Curse of Lono 1983
-Generation of Swine 1988
-The Songs of the Doomed 1990
-Screw-Jack 1991
-Better Than Sex 1994
-The Proud Highway 1997
-The Rum Diary 1998
-Polo Is My Life 1998
There are others as well...
Check 'em out! He's an ICON! A real American journalist and author! (Dates are referencing when they were published) to the best of my knowledge)
Heard about 3 hours of it. It’s okay.
Hunter is no Bukowski IMHO. Gonzo tempo is tad behind… but Hunter gives a good account of San Juan in this period as well as the newspaper biz.
1 - 10:10
2 - 45:35
3 - 1:03:07
4 - 1:21:46
5 - 1:35:40
6 - 1:59:48
7 - 2:13:42
8 - 2:36:53
9 - 2:52:58
10 - 3:10:50
11 - 3:27:44
12 - 3:45:30
13 - 4:10:39
14 - 4:29:50
15 - 4:40:32
16 - 4:55:35
17 - 5:14:21
18 - 5:34:51
19 - 5:52:43
20 - 6:00:30
21 - 6:15:30
01:19:50 the crazed sports fan analogy is so applicable to the 2020 zeitgeist. Maybe it always has been applicable.
thank you for posting this
bookmarks: 45:35
1:21:45
1:59:48
2:53:01
3:10:50
3:45:29
4:29:50
5:14:20
What a great one !
Works like this haunt me with the smell of stale cigar smoke for months afterward...
Excellent nararration
Thank you for this, i Just Love that book
... through Bogota, Rio... wheeling and dealing in a world I'd never seen, but I knew I could handle it because I was a champ.
I’ve downed a few bottles of Rum during Lockdown! 😉
Lock down. Dont let them scare you in to giving your freedom up. I'm not lock down and never will be.
03:27:45 chapter 11
Ive poped a bunch of oxys and lsd...and xanax....and weed oh and ketamine i think it has gotten a little out of hand lol
@@miilan666 You're just an addict
@@Fuq2 yes and so what? Im aware of it
Thank god for johnny depp convincing him to release this
The greatest novelist I read.
You obviously haven't read much😅😊
You are the best rip hunter s Thompsonson
Amen
sonson..........hearhear
Heavy Gratitude.
Damn this makes me wanna have a whole lotta rum, weed, and hammock on a beach
"Anything worth doing is worth doing right"
If that’s what you take away from this then I’m sure your life currently is comparable to that of kemp about halfway through
My personal favorite way to spend a day at the beach is to smoke some grass, drop a vodka shooter or two in some Minute Maid orange juice, and wear my best RayBan aviators while reading this book. It puts you right there in the book and you feel every part of it.
@@milessmith6611 Get a job sir!
@@cahillgreg lol, that’s where my job is 😎😎
Great listen while high
Shot of _rum_ 20¢, cup of ice 30¢- that is what the *third world* was like in those days.
_Swine!_
Thanks!
2:59:21 why did you censor the book here?
Better than the movie
100% agree I watched movie first and enjoyed it, then bought the book and realized the movie in some ways ruins the book.
You have to understand that Yeoman and Kemp are an combination of Hunter. They had to make changes to make sense.
Interesting audio book.
A great work! Reminds me of a bead of sweat caught in just the right light, making it shine like a valuable jewel. Mostly mundane but with the right appreciation a great story.
This is a *brilliant novel.*
After she gets *raped by savages* he finds her reading Conrad's _Heart of Darkness-_ classic HST. 5:47:27
I rediscovered this some 40 years after I initially read the book.
It seems even better now than I remember it.
But the book came out it 1998
The story is a bunch of insignificant weirdos. But the language is outstanding and the character sketches so incisive
Damn I wish hunter wrote more books like this
try “Pulp” by Buko
the audiobook
@@moorbilt thnx I'll check it out
Any recommendations for books along this same style of writing?
Hemingway...Camus...Henry Miller. These Authors have all written things of a similar flavor.
3:24:00 is hilarious classic thompson
Love HST, n you know it's double good when 1/2 the comments are time stamps.
If anyone is as big of a fan of Rum Diary as I am, then please consider listening to my Audiobook that I did with the same narrator, Christopher Lane. The book is titled (Last of a Dying Breed: An Up-Close Look at the Final Stages of Outlaw Country Music) and will be available on Amazon, iTunes and Audible starting in May, 2021. You can find a promo right here on RUclips by simply typing in the name of the title. I guarantee if you like Rum Diary you will enjoy it. The story is about a Music Journalist from Nashville, who travels to Ohio in order to cover the live music scene. During his journey he becomes entangled with a cast of crazed hillbillies. I will also have promo codes available for the full audiobook for free so, feel free to reach out with your email and I can send them to you. Cheers!!!
Is this Book an Autobiographical Account?
❤❤❤
That ending gave me strange vibes of Kerouac.
Does anyone else get the feeling of this book is telling you to do somthing
stupid00888 all of his books do
stupid00888 *WHAT?*
“You fool, there is no reward. And their never was”
hell yes
stupid00888 drink rum
An excellent narrator but I thought Hunter was going to do it given the title, that would of been awesome.
Imagen, if hunter had never wrote the rum diary's Johnny depp would never have met amber heard!!
6:18:00 It just ends like this? Not even a change of infliction to be more concluding.
the amount of time Rum is mentioned made me go buy Rum......
Just reminds of Captain Jack Sparrow and why is the rum always gone. Lol
Good book well read, the film did not do it justice, good story told in a matter of fact entertaining style.Made me want to read more of Thompson's work.
Great narration, made me laugh out loud.
Sounds like Tom Green
What CLASS!
FANTASTIC!
But the story should have ended while he was swimming after Chenault left... The last 10 minutes was little more than wrapping up loose ends having nothing to do with the story.
I think of The Radio Reader, Dick Estel, where I first listened to sombody read to me over the radio.
Here 3rd time ❤
I like this one much better than the Vegas book
The woman voice is reeeally good
Like grating glass- like most women sound after a few drinks.
There is no calle oleary in san juan after the american war in 1898 america are here they are called gringos because of the song the american soldiers would play the jingo and the food is very good the best Caribbean Spanish, it seems the american are very colonial towards the Puerto Rican people in this book.
1:47:47
The Fear, and Why Puerto Ricans leave Puerto Rico
I played 2 months at the carnival at St Thomas in 89 90....
This book makes me want a bottle of rum
I bought one after finishing the book today haha
4:49:00 .. if you've read the novel before, and looking for the infamous.. (most likely gangb#@g) scene..this is it.. 😬😇
5:58:15
He's not wrong, the preface to that book is fuckin complex. I still have trouble grasping it, and I've tried about three times now. Hopefully I'll get it soon. Curse you Conrad
I wish there was more
Ended up chewing on a .45 ...excellent idea
NICE.
The rider is divine!
Very cool
Read the true story of the dedication of the book to "Dark Eileen" author of the poem "Lament For Art O'Leary. Heartbreaking.
01:51:33 rubber sacks and fear speech
Captain Morgan will suffice
The last of the already dead... mutiny’s vision. Get weird or dye into the Abis. Misspelling would upset the doctor, or maybe not.
Is this read by Hunter? Or someone else
A Good story is all ya need sometime's also to be a little bit dosed. 41:15
5:08:00 .Chapter 17
I find it odd that the story narrative states that "he was reminded of himself at what he was like at 24" when he was only 22 when he wrote this. It sounds autobiographical, but is it just autobiographical fiction?
its fiction
@@kathrynjohnson3040 It's autobiography, Thompson was always obsessed w/ his age. "Autobiographical fiction" is a..............sorta like "jumbo shrimp" or "military intelligence".
Its mostly fiction. Sure there's truth here and there, but Thompson and Kempt are two different people. Don't listen to that idiot Marti Tinkovich, that idiot thinks the best scene in the book is the one where Chano got abducted, and he even thinks Thompson did it as some weird revenge rape fantasy. A real weirdo that Marti guy
@@mushroomanjcc1954 Who are you talking to, you inbred mushroom cap? You don't know a novel from a postage stamp, or your ass from bubble gum.
Like "we the living"
Ketamine+ this story is great
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lol I did that the other night. with ket i find it the most controllable psychedelic. crack on mate and fear and loathing is a bit better in my opinion.
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So you pissing blood yet?
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Does anyone know why there are 2 diff versions of this audio book? The original book 1998 has 4 cassette tapes and a 4 hr run time. Read by Campbell Scott. And this one is 2 and half hours more read by someone else. And also! The cover with depps face and words "now a major motion picture" doesn't make sence for the 4 hour release in 2006 since the movie came out on 2011..then this version of the audio book was released 2011 with Christopher lane. I dont understand and I have looked for answers everywhere. Why is depps face on the cover of the 4 hour version? On audible the same cover is used for both the 4 hr one and 6 hr 20 min one. With the wrong narrator name on the cover.. I just want to understand why this version has 2 extra hours? What is the difference between the Campbell Scott version vs Christopher lane? Please someone know this answer. Im going mad!
As for the length: it could just be the slower pace of reading but that might be a stretch.
Depp’s cover makes sense as he was Hunter’s best friend and convinced him to publich it in the first place. He had also tried to get the movie off the ground as early as the first release of the book in 1998. Or just to bank off another Hunter/Depp release following the Fear and Loathing movie
At first I wondered why the narrator made Lotterman sound like Nixon. Then I paid attention to the sort of man Lotterman was. He IS Nixon.
If it was read by Hunter himself then it would be much better .
If it was read by hunter himself you wouldn’t be able to understand it. You’re as wrong as wrong gets this guy is perfect for this book. He hits every sentence like I read it in my head.
You're right. The person who actually wrote the book would be the last person you would ask. Thanks for making that clear.
THEoneNonlyFOX you’re welcome
THEoneNonlyFOX and you’re sarcastic remark is omg so funny, go watch a video of hunter talking, you’re wrong he’s a mumbler
I've got loads of his recordings and his voice is distinguished. If you're not bothered then fine. Why is my opinion so damaging to you ?