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snowystingrayI finished "Lord Hornblower" last night. I thought it was going to take a lot for me to finish reading it, but it was the same deal with every other Hornblower book I have read: I plan to take my time reading it, but once I start, I am incredibly hooked and cannot wait to find out what happens next.
Oh, my dear, sweet Bush! I can't believe you are dead. Sad face, mourning, tears, wah, etc. etc.! I cried. A lot. It wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be, though. A lot of the reviews I had read weren't upset just about the fact that Bush had died, but about the way Hornblower failed to react to it. I was expecting it to be something like "Bush blew up. Hornblower said 'Ha -- hm,' and drank some tea." Thank you, dearest Cecil Scott, for not letting me down. Hornblower is torn up with anxiety about Bush, and once he learns that he is dead he does his usual "it's all my fault" riff and feels guilty as hell. He ruins his wife's lovely evening and is even kind of happy about it; he's more concerned about missing Bush than about seeing Barbara. Hornblower even wants to build him a pyramid of skulls, for goodness' sake! If that doesn't spell L-O-V-E, then I don't know what does.
While I am sad that Bush is dead, I am overall satisfied with how his death was handled. With the Hornblower saga, I have grown accustomed to having my favourite characters die. If somebody new and cool pops up early on in the novel, I go, "Hey, that person is cool! ...And soon to be dead. Too bad." I'll just have to reread "Lieutenant Hornblower" soon and everything will feel nice and fuzzy again.
Oh, my dear, sweet Bush! I can't believe you are dead. Sad face, mourning, tears, wah, etc. etc.! I cried. A lot. It wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be, though. A lot of the reviews I had read weren't upset just about the fact that Bush had died, but about the way Hornblower failed to react to it. I was expecting it to be something like "Bush blew up. Hornblower said 'Ha -- hm,' and drank some tea." Thank you, dearest Cecil Scott, for not letting me down. Hornblower is torn up with anxiety about Bush, and once he learns that he is dead he does his usual "it's all my fault" riff and feels guilty as hell. He ruins his wife's lovely evening and is even kind of happy about it; he's more concerned about missing Bush than about seeing Barbara. Hornblower even wants to build him a pyramid of skulls, for goodness' sake! If that doesn't spell L-O-V-E, then I don't know what does.
While I am sad that Bush is dead, I am overall satisfied with how his death was handled. With the Hornblower saga, I have grown accustomed to having my favourite characters die. If somebody new and cool pops up early on in the novel, I go, "Hey, that person is cool! ...And soon to be dead. Too bad." I'll just have to reread "Lieutenant Hornblower" soon and everything will feel nice and fuzzy again.
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