The two writers shared this, and an editor: Jim Silberman of Random House was famously Thompson's editor for Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and Ellison's for his essay collection, Shadow and Act. (Ralph Ellison was also known to copy entire stories from Hemingway for the same reason. Mencken and harbored dreams of being "universally hailed as the new 'Granny' Rice." Later, while he had a "plum" job as a copyboy at Time, he would type The Great Gatsby and A Farewell to Arms in their entirety in order to study their sentence structures. Years earlier, while still "Airman Thompson" of the Air Force (and sports editor of his base's newspaper), he wrote letters in the style of H.L.
The young man in Puerto Rico was one still beholden to his literary heroes and still speaking in their voices-in his fiction, anyway. This is a brilliant tribal study and a bone in the throat of all decent people.But the author of The Rum Diary was then, despite his virtuosic talent for the picturesque threat and brutal insult, the same as that of the Fear and Loathing books in name only. But it is a world that Hunter Thompson knows in the nerves of his neck. "The Run Diary shows a side of human nature that is ugly and wrong. There, too were the beginnings of his future as a masterful prose stylist." -William Kennedy, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ironweed Thompson would use in the years ahead-bizarre wit, mockery without end, redundant excess, supreme self-confidence, the narrative of the wounded meritorious ego, and the idiopathic anger of the righteous outlaw-were all there in his precocious imagination in San Juan. "Thompson flashes signs of the vitriol that would later be turned loose on society." - USA Today a languid and lovingly executed book that reveals its emotional depths slowly." - Salon "A remarkably full and mature first novel. with a kind of pride." - The Washington Post Book World The Rum Diary gives us this side of him without apology. "At the core of this hard-drinking, hard-talking, hard-living man is a moralist, Puritan, even an innocent. Reveals a young Hunter Thompson brimming with talent." - The Philadelphia Inquirer "Enough booze to float a yacht and enough fear and loathing to sink it." - New York Daily News
A shot of Gonzo with a rum chaser." - San Francisco Chronicle "Crackling, twisted, searing, paced to a deft prose rhythm.
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