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Title: An Excellent Mystery: The Eleventh Chronicle of Brother Cadfael by Ellis Peters ISBN: 0-446-40532-9 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 1997 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.4 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The best of the Brother Cadfael Mysteries
Comment: I have to say that this is my favorite of the Chronicles. It has great characters, a riveting storyline, and the most beautiful picture of true, sacrificial love I have ever read. To say anymore would give away the ending. DO NOT skip ahead in this one or you will not get the full impact of the story. It is better to keep guessing. But read it a second time to get the details that you missed from not knowing the secret.
Rating: 3
Summary: Peters plays fair
Comment: This is the first Brother Cadfael mystery i've read. It was, perhaps, not the most fortuitous choice i could have made; certainly it was rather different from my expectation. Part of the difference can, of course, be explained by the fact that i have seen some four or five of the adaptations starring Derek Jacobi, so despite my best efforts i interpreted everything i read through that filter, seeing the characters in my mind according to their development in the television shows. The murder/mystery is well plotted out, though simple not quite simplistic, and nicely both hidden and revealed. I can point to the exact paragraph, sentence even, i was reading when i suddenly knew ~ not through anything revealed in that paragraph ~ the solution; the rest was mere reading to prove myself correct and see how Peters would handle the results of the revelation. Though this was not what i expected, i shall read another Cadfael book, just to learn a little more about him, and to see if i can't erase Jacobi's excellent interpretation from my mind.
Rating: 5
Summary: Disagree With A Review Posted
Comment: "... this story was most tedious and far-fetched. I couldn't believe that this young woman would do what she did for a man she hardly knew..."
I am currently reading The Crusades by Zoe Oldenbourg. From this book and others, the type of action taken by this young woman is very believable *FOR THE TIME*. Women worshipped heroic men and marriage was not a match for love, but for property. To put it in a more modern perspective, what if a young girl was told that in 10 years time she would be the wife of Harrison Ford or Tom Cruise or Brad Pitt or Kid Rock.
Certainly, she would spend much of her growing years yearning for every scrap of information and growing into a bond with the legend of him.
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Title: The Raven in the Foregate by Ellis Peters ISBN: 0446405345 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 1997 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Pilgrim of Hate by Ellis Peters ISBN: 0446405310 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1997 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Dead Man's Ransom by Ellis Peters ISBN: 0446405167 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 1997 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Hermit of Eyton Forest: The Fourteenth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael by Ellis Peters ISBN: 0445403470 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 09 August, 1989 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: The Rose Rent by Ellis Peters ISBN: 0446405337 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 1997 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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