But someone unexpectedly sent me The Rum Diary and, desperate for brainfood Sunday morning, I grabbed the book on my way out to coffee.

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Drugs, alcohol, hysteria and the power of words unsurprisingly play a large part in the new adaptation of the Hunter S. Thompson novel, The Rum Diary.

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Written as as first-person narrative, Rum Diary chronicles a sweaty, perpetually drunken summer spent by one Paul Kemp in Puerto Rico during the 1950s.

FORBES: Go See Johnny Depp In The Rum Diary - But Read The Book First