Today
will be short because I wouldn’t want to procrastinate and do my taxes on the
fourteenth or fifteenth. LOL
The guy or gal nobody wants (by as
physically superior opposite sex)
There’s
an attraction (of pen to paper or fingers to keyboard) for the gal or the guy
who feels because of the way they look they’ll never find their mate (and they often want the physically gifted). NBC had a
show called Average Joe a few years back and it did, well, average. Susan
Elizabeth Phillips plays with physically flawed (but adorable) heroines, like
the gal in the beaver suit. I tried to think of a physically flawed hero other
than Quasimodo (who didn’t get the girl) of King Kong (too hairy), but couldn’t
think of one.
So
that’s my challenge to you. In romance novels, who out there has a hero who isn’t the pro quarterback or
Navy Seal, or outrageously handsome? I know we deal in fantasy to a certain
extent. Maybe I’m rushing today. Who? Aren’t there some scientists, nerds,
geeks, too tall, too short heroes in books you've read? Help.
Some Like it Hot, Billy Wilder, 1959, Monroe, Curtis, & Lemmon ended with an insurmountable (forgive the pun) flaw.
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