Comments on: Robert Haydon Jonesand Matthew Levine https://getsparked.org/spark12/matthew-levine-and-robert-haydon-jones get together | get creative | get sparked! Sat, 06 Jun 2020 14:39:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.8 By: Marius Sonnen https://getsparked.org/spark12/matthew-levine-and-robert-haydon-jones/comment-page-1#comment-54379 Sat, 06 Jun 2020 14:39:03 +0000 http://www.getsparked.org/?p=6443#comment-54379 Thanks for the inspiration to write a story as well. Miss you man.
Marius.

]]> By: Emmaleah https://getsparked.org/spark12/matthew-levine-and-robert-haydon-jones/comment-page-1#comment-2176 Sat, 09 Feb 2013 22:51:55 +0000 http://www.getsparked.org/?p=6443#comment-2176 A fascinating story. I find it very interesting that the nature of the writing itself (the slight ramble of memory, the circuitous patterns of the storytelling) is indicative of the speaker himself; through the diction, we get a glimpse into the mind of the innocent but impulsive addict. Well done!

]]> By: paul zalon https://getsparked.org/spark12/matthew-levine-and-robert-haydon-jones/comment-page-1#comment-1083 Tue, 08 Nov 2011 23:02:26 +0000 http://www.getsparked.org/?p=6443#comment-1083 Great story!
Elmore Leonard does a qualification? Tough to be hard boiled, lean and dramatic while dancing around one guys’ recovery. A lot is evoked in a short piece of work. Could easily see this expanded without losing the momentum. Excellent.

]]> By: Linda Rhinehart Neas https://getsparked.org/spark12/matthew-levine-and-robert-haydon-jones/comment-page-1#comment-999 Fri, 26 Aug 2011 01:11:42 +0000 http://www.getsparked.org/?p=6443#comment-999 Great piece…you can smell the sweat, feel the heat, taste the stale booze. Awesome job!

]]> By: Mark Liberman https://getsparked.org/spark12/matthew-levine-and-robert-haydon-jones/comment-page-1#comment-996 Thu, 11 Aug 2011 01:04:56 +0000 http://www.getsparked.org/?p=6443#comment-996 Could’ve been me, but I would’ve ended up with a sentence!! Had me in the grip of it all. Great prose, but disturbing….it touched the core!

Thanks

]]> By: Joe R https://getsparked.org/spark12/matthew-levine-and-robert-haydon-jones/comment-page-1#comment-995 Tue, 09 Aug 2011 22:08:24 +0000 http://www.getsparked.org/?p=6443#comment-995 Impressive Rob. First paragraph hooks and doesn’t let go.

]]> By: Ed Lambertson https://getsparked.org/spark12/matthew-levine-and-robert-haydon-jones/comment-page-1#comment-986 Sat, 02 Jul 2011 15:57:03 +0000 http://www.getsparked.org/?p=6443#comment-986 Best yet!! from Mr. Jones. A tightly wound yarn that would make for a “Best yet” CSI episode.

]]> By: Chris https://getsparked.org/spark12/matthew-levine-and-robert-haydon-jones/comment-page-1#comment-985 Fri, 01 Jul 2011 20:16:28 +0000 http://www.getsparked.org/?p=6443#comment-985 Why are the cops always the bad guys & the swine junkie the victim? Maybe they’re the victims of too many junkioes.

]]> By: John H. Tucker https://getsparked.org/spark12/matthew-levine-and-robert-haydon-jones/comment-page-1#comment-971 Sun, 26 Jun 2011 00:08:14 +0000 http://www.getsparked.org/?p=6443#comment-971 Whoa, great kicker.

This is straight outta a movie. I can see the buzz-cutted FBI dick right now in his cashmere sweater … turtle-neck, right? And Leon and Rachel TOTALLY hang out at Club Bongo, don’t they?!

What a breeze to stroll through. I couldn’t decide if I was jealous of the narrator’s affair with big-breasted Angela and the polyamorous romps on the big bed, or saddened by the pathetic addiction. Probably both.

]]> By: Charles L. DeFanti https://getsparked.org/spark12/matthew-levine-and-robert-haydon-jones/comment-page-1#comment-969 Thu, 23 Jun 2011 15:55:53 +0000 http://www.getsparked.org/?p=6443#comment-969 More Jones magic. Here he manages cop talk and street talk with equal élan. No, Carl, Jones is classy fiction writer, not an autobiographer, though it’s hard to tell the difference under the veneer of such skill. Jones is hard-boiled, but not in a way that would discomfit you. The mess is only in the prose.

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