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通常只有在极为心平气和的状态下，才能一口气把一本书看完，茶饭不香。
更何况那是要老命的英文原版。ALAN那个死肥猪回底特律前竟然要我随后交出读后感。我的神啊，上帝以及老天爷。
身边不是有郎文牛津各式“葵花宝典”么，怕撒。
翻开却发现老HUNTER的措辞并不难于理解和生僻。简单明了又处处透出深刻的客观描述。
"Like most of the others,I was a seeker,a mover,a malcontent,and at times a stupid hell-raiser."
他承认自己的平凡，同时又向往如文章里的世外生活。
略微心有不甘。
"At the time, I shared a dark suspicion that the life we were leading was a lost cause, that we were all actors, kidding ourselves along on a senseless odyssey. It was the tension between these two poles - a restless idealism on one hand and sense of impending doom on the other - that kept me going."

于是，年届六十高龄的老牌乡村摇滚歌星Jimmy Buffett这样评价道:"The Rum Diary shows a side of human nature that is ugly and wrong.But it is a world that Hunter Thompson knows in the nerves of his neck."
人都不能免俗啊。果然。
同名的电影已由Johnny Depp，Josh Hartnett等出演，并在波多黎各--小说的世界观原地拍摄完。
影片的分类是冒险。理由是一目了然。太现实的事情总无异于一场华丽的冒险。

那么ALAN我也现实一把。So...Uh...Alan!Air mail the movie record of <The Rum Diary> to me sooner or later.

ALSO BY HUNTER S.THOMPSON

Hell's Angels
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Songs of the Doomed
Better Than Sex