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Boundary Waters Quetico Forum Group Forum: BWCA.com Book Club William Kent Krueger |
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01/31/2013 03:31PM
Some of the guys had one or another of his books along on various canoe trips over the years, so I found his oeuvre and read each of his books in order in a few months' time, beginning with Iron Lake, 1998. Very interesting to sense his growth as an author by doing it like that (not to mention avoiding some huge 'spoilers' along the way). The first couple of books were almost bad enough that I didn't continue, but I'm glad I did. Very entertaining.
Looks like you're saying that I have one more to read now, so put my request in at the library for this latest one. It will be nice to get back to good old Tamarack County, Minnesota. Thanks.
Looks like you're saying that I have one more to read now, so put my request in at the library for this latest one. It will be nice to get back to good old Tamarack County, Minnesota. Thanks.
"You can observe a lot just by watching." -- Yogi Berra
02/20/2013 07:25AM
Finished Trickster's Point the other day. Entertaining and fast-paced tale, but maybe not his best work. Krueger has a way of re-introducing the characters over and over again that helped somewhat since it had been a while since I had read Northwest Angle, but it gets slightly tiresome. Nice intertwining of his fictional Northland personalities, though.
"You can observe a lot just by watching." -- Yogi Berra
02/20/2013 10:30AM
Blood Hollow, Mercy Falls, Thunder Bay, Red Knife.
Maybe I enjoyed his 2011 work the most: Northwest Angle.
But, I read them one after the other in the order they came out, so I can't think of doing it any other way. I'm sure it helped in setting the scene and the mood he created in the characters around his Aurora, MN. And it's a serial, so there are some 'spoilers' in later books that will detract from skipping around and going back. After all, how could you skip his second book, 'Boundary Waters'?
That said, I did note a pleasing maturity in his style about 3-4 books in.
Maybe I enjoyed his 2011 work the most: Northwest Angle.
But, I read them one after the other in the order they came out, so I can't think of doing it any other way. I'm sure it helped in setting the scene and the mood he created in the characters around his Aurora, MN. And it's a serial, so there are some 'spoilers' in later books that will detract from skipping around and going back. After all, how could you skip his second book, 'Boundary Waters'?
That said, I did note a pleasing maturity in his style about 3-4 books in.
"You can observe a lot just by watching." -- Yogi Berra
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