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37th out of 66 books
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17 voters
Boot Tracks
"Mr. Jones has created a powerful blend of love and violence, of the grotesque and the tender.""The New York Times" A commanding, stylishly written novel that tells the harrowing story of an assassination gone terribly wrong and the man and woman who are taking their last chance to find a safe place in a hostile world.
Matthew F. Jones is the author of the novels "Deepwater...more
Matthew F. Jones is the author of the novels "Deepwater...more
Paperback, 208 pages
Published
April 1st 2006
by Europa Editions
(first published 2006)
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shit, man, i don't know what just happened here...
i thought i would read a book by matthew f jones, to counteract my recent 0 for 2 book streak because i thought at least i knew what i was getting into with him, having just finished and loved A Single Shot last week.
this one was... different from that one.
i am still trying to decide whether it is genius or a mess. i am leaning towards genius, but i think this is a book i am going to have to read again. in a way, it seems perfect, but when i st...more
i thought i would read a book by matthew f jones, to counteract my recent 0 for 2 book streak because i thought at least i knew what i was getting into with him, having just finished and loved A Single Shot last week.
this one was... different from that one.
i am still trying to decide whether it is genius or a mess. i am leaning towards genius, but i think this is a book i am going to have to read again. in a way, it seems perfect, but when i st...more
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Jones, Matthew F. BOOT TRACKS. (2006). ****. This was another new author for me, but one certainly worth following up on. This novel takes us on a trip with Charlie Rankin, a convict just released from prison who is given a job to do by one of the other inmates. The other inmate is known as Buddah, and was the only friend Charlie had while in prison. The job was to track down and kill a man he didn’t know for something he had done to the Buddah – a revenge killing. Charlie, however, isn’t wrappe...more
I discovered Matthew F. Jones from a goodreads list pinging off of Daniel Woodrell (Winter's Bone). I'm so glad I did. This book blew me away. Storyline is a guy gets out of jail tasked with a mission to kill someone, in part to payback the protection he received while in jail. Charlie (or Little Charlie, or Samson) ends up on an odyssey of horror real and imagined, accompanied by Florence (or Lulu). Those visions poke hard, really hard, at the roots of violence (and violent fantasies) and the u...more
Charlie Rankin, newly released from prison, has been sent on an errand. "The Buddha", the man who gave him protection on the inside has given him the name of a man that he wants killed, a man Charlie has never seen. Not the least of his challenges in getting the job done is that he can’t distinguish what is real from what his overheated imagination is creating. Did he go to the right house? Did he kill the right man, or any man at all for that matter? How can he know for sure?
This is good stuff...more
This is good stuff...more
Surprisingly good. Really enjoyed this -- will be looking for more novels by this author; apparently he's written quite a few.
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One hell of a novel that I may never understand, but like to think I did because I am that smart. Good book, looking for more of it. If only I got it.
Kind of boring but read it though. Weird story for me.
Soon to be a major motion picture.
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