I was half asleep on the couch when I hear Johnny Depp's voice and heard the word diary. Heard that Depp bought the rights when Hunter was on his last legs and hurting for $$. I am fucking psyched. Hope Penn actually does something with Curse of Lono.



HA. According to IMDB, Yeoman (real life Thompson) was written out of the movie.

Tritone, there should be a real life IR scene if they keep anything true to the book.

Unpublished books are usually not published for a good reason.

Unpublished? I have a copy sitting on my bookshelf.

pick up a copy.

It wasn't published for years, because Hunter wasn't relying on it for income and he was never confident in it. His heroes were Hemmingway and Stienbeck, so he wouldn't want to put anything out that couldn't stand up to their work. It's not like he shopped it to every publisher around and shown the door.

Not everyone gets to be Babe Ruth. Bernie Williams made a nice career for himself being Bernie. If he had "Babe Ruth or bust" in his head, it would have been a shame.

Thompson said it got rejected at least seven times by various publishers. He wrote it when he was 22 and didn't publish it until 1998 after decades of clear writer's block due to his drinking problem.

I love Thompson: Fear and Loathing, his Hell's Angels book and parts of The Great Shark Hunt are terrific and he even did occasionally inspired short pieces into the 80s but the publishing of this juvenilia was the act of a self-admitted burn out.

CQ, I have read it and I think the Thompson who wrote Fear knew it wasn't up to snuff. But it isn't the first time a writer has had some inferior work published, look at when they put out Ellison's unfinished Juneteenth after his death. This marginal stuff is of interest to scholars and cult followers, but if someone picked up Rum Diary instead of Fear they'd wonder what the hell all the bother was about and that just hurts a writer in the long run.

I don't remember hearing it was rejected, but if you remember the story, I'll buy it.

I think I remember hearing that he had 2 other 1/2 finished books.

I'd like to see a Hell's Angels movie.

Yeah, I love that book, certainly takes the shine off of the BS that Barger and his crew have been spewing ever since.

A co-worker left Barger's book at the store and I picked it up and read it. Most of it came across as self-indignant bullshit.