The Problem of Thor Bridge: Greener Grass, G

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The Problem of Thor Bridge

Title: Greener Grass

Author: tweedisgood

Rating: G



Reader, I married him. Then I discovered that a rich and ruthless man of business will say and do whatever is needed to gain a contract. Once he has won, only the bare ink and paper of ownership concern him. The resource is his to enjoy, exploit, exhaust... and grow as tired of, in time, as any other fulfilled deal.

Comments

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

I fear that you do indeed have a point here. What a man has done once, he can so easily do again.

[tweedisgood.livejournal.com]

Precisely. I doubt very much that he suddenly became a model ethical enterpreneur and continued a devoted husband for the next twenty odd years...

[hisietari.livejournal.com]

Beautifully ambiguous, and sadly very true.

[tweedisgood.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I just didn't buy Holmes's sudden turnaround from "rich men like you" to "oh, now they will live happily and morally ever after, jolly good show"

[spacemutineer.livejournal.com]

to gain a contract

Ouch. That cuts to the bone. I love that we often get to see through the women's eyes in your 60s. Their voices (if not their beautiful faces) are usually drowned out.

[tweedisgood.livejournal.com]

*Nods*, and thanks.

As chivalrous as ACD can be to women in his writing, the sense of their own voice is often lacking, and I thought that the expectation of a turnaround in Gibson's character was pretty unbelievable. Not to say it can never happen, but I didn't buy it here.