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Mocha
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i find it hard to put his books down once i start reading. then i'm so bummed when i finish the book... he is one of the better MN authors, imo.
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schweady
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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.
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schweady
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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.
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removedmember1
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Which would be among his better attempts?
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removedmember1
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Thanks Schweady, amazon just got more of my hard earned cash.
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timatkn
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Just finished Trickster's Point. Another great read if you like the series that takes place in Northern MN near the Boundary Waters (all the books do for the most part.)
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schweady
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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.
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