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The Cadfael series,and Name of the Rose.

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I bet there are other books that need to be performed to be truly appreciated. One comes strongly to my mind: Le Morte de Arthur. Having owned the abridged version of the audiobook read marvelously by Derrik Jacobi,I decided to get the full print version from Amazon. What I got was a few hundred pages of prose laid out like a solid wall. Not arranged in paragraphs, nor with simple punctuation marks like quotations to tell when characters were speaking,just the occasional capital letter or period. It hurt my eyes to read it,and how Mister J managed to translate such textural brickwork into nuanced poetry one can only wonder at. Anyone else find a distasteful text better heard than read?

This,and I stumbled across another clerical sleuth:Sister Fidelma in A Hemlock at Vespers,a Celtic Christian who has some archbishop like authority she uses to clear obstacles from her path to the truth. And,I suppose in a minor way,Father Brown,who may be too contemporary in setting for your desires,but has the higher ground in sight as he muddled through the baseness of criminal motivation.

Ellis Peters Cadfael series.

'Nuff said.

I am meandering through the Brother Cadfael books by Ellis Peters. Mental comfort food.