I blogged about the series last week in Forgotten Book: A MORBID TASTE FOR BONES, Ellis Peters saying I thought it would be a rare reader of crime fiction who hadn't read at least one.Books to the Ceiling concurs with my view:
If you haven’t read the Brother Cadfael novels, give yourself a treat and pick one up. Then watch the DVD’s in which Sir Derek Jacobi brings the sleuthing monk (monkish sleuth?) memorably to life.
I decided to see what I could find on YouTube for you to enjoy.
Here are a couple:
A Tribute to Cadfael
Virgin On the Ice
I like the Cadfael books a great deal and your post is inspiring me to re-read them. However I couldn't get into Derek Jacobi as Cadfael. Not that his acting was inferior, he just didn't look like Cadfael who I always imagined as looking a bit like Richard Burton who was Welsh like Cadfael. Jacobi looked more patrician than a Welsh ex-mercenary.
ReplyDeleteI don't think I have ever read any of these books...if I did it was long ago before I started keeping track. But none of it sounds familiar. Haven't seen the series either. I shall make a note to check out both my book library and Quickflix to see if the series is available.
ReplyDeleteTake your point Mack. I had watched I, Claudius so I was a Jacobi convert. I thought Cadfael himself was a better monk than a Crusader. I had a bit of trouble imagining the later.
ReplyDeleteI hope you'll enjoy the films/books Bernadette.