I was very surprised when I read Atropos, because I had started at BtQ/THR where he thinks about his homelife as being just a giant ball of inconvenience and misery. And yes, I think people discount Atropos because of that silly opening and ignore the fact that Horatio was actually pretty happy in that book, and loved his family. But, you know, it has to be a happy fun opening in order to set you up for the end. There's a point in the book (I have it marked for discussion once we get there in the comm) where Horatio talks about the law of averages and good luck following bad and vice versa and I didn't notice that the first time through, but on this reread I'm like - oh Forester you dog, you're preparing us for the ending.
Re: Babs: You know it had to have made him more attractive to her - don't we all want to fix the broken, especially if they look like Ioan Gruffudd? Heh. But I think that Barbara and Horatio seem enough alike in personality and temperament that she'd have been drawn to him anyway; she just might not have done anything about it if he hadn't been so clearly in need. Marie as well, I think, especially since he also had the grief then of not having Barbara.
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Date: 2006-04-02 08:06 pm (UTC)Re: Babs: You know it had to have made him more attractive to her - don't we all want to fix the broken, especially if they look like Ioan Gruffudd? Heh. But I think that Barbara and Horatio seem enough alike in personality and temperament that she'd have been drawn to him anyway; she just might not have done anything about it if he hadn't been so clearly in need. Marie as well, I think, especially since he also had the grief then of not having Barbara.