I am not a reader of Vampire stories. I am not a reader of Romance stories. I would rather poke my eyes out with a very, very pointy stick, than to go anywhere near either genre.
However, someone begged me to read a book - Twilight, by Stephenie Meyer - and, reluctantly, I did. More than read, I devoured it. After finishing it, I read New Moon. Then, I waited patiently for the library to have a copy of Eclipse available. Not only did I survive reading a series of Vampire Romance stories, I absolutely loved them.
These stories were not written for me. They are Young Adult novels. I am not a 'young' adult. My Edward Cullen is not the Edward Cullen of young girls dreams. Oddly enough, he's not even the Edward Cullen that I would imagine for myself.
That isn't to say that Edward Cullen, in his character, is different in my mind. Stephenie Meyer has made a character that is the ultimate man. The man women, young and old alike, wish existed. Okay, maybe not undead and all, but certainly the most sincere, respectful, passionate, realistic (in his thinking) man I've ever come across in fiction. There is no denying this character is fictional.
It is how Edward Cullen looks that is different to me, because I'm not the market for this book. Perhaps, the advertising for the tv show Journeyman was overboard while I read the first novel, but Edward in my mind looks like this picture. The actor is Kevin McKidd, and that is not the usual way he looks. Yes, I doctored the image a bit to give him more of an Edward Cullen look.
Now, if you do a search of images of Kevin McKidd, you will find many, many pictures of him that don't look like my Edward. He doesn't look like him all the time - maybe one out of a hundred images. The best example is a photo in the current TV Guide, but I couldn't find it on their website.
It had to be excessive advertising which set that man as my Edward. For the record, I don't like blondes, red heads, or light eyes, yet here we have it. Because I am not the target audience for this book, my Edward is a little closer to my age, rather than a teenager as he was in the book. That would be gross. My Edward Cullen is a light-haired, light-eyed, mid-thirties man. Deal with it girlies.
These stories were not written for me. They are Young Adult novels. I am not a 'young' adult. My Edward Cullen is not the Edward Cullen of young girls dreams. Oddly enough, he's not even the Edward Cullen that I would imagine for myself.
That isn't to say that Edward Cullen, in his character, is different in my mind. Stephenie Meyer has made a character that is the ultimate man. The man women, young and old alike, wish existed. Okay, maybe not undead and all, but certainly the most sincere, respectful, passionate, realistic (in his thinking) man I've ever come across in fiction. There is no denying this character is fictional.
It is how Edward Cullen looks that is different to me, because I'm not the market for this book. Perhaps, the advertising for the tv show Journeyman was overboard while I read the first novel, but Edward in my mind looks like this picture. The actor is Kevin McKidd, and that is not the usual way he looks. Yes, I doctored the image a bit to give him more of an Edward Cullen look.Now, if you do a search of images of Kevin McKidd, you will find many, many pictures of him that don't look like my Edward. He doesn't look like him all the time - maybe one out of a hundred images. The best example is a photo in the current TV Guide, but I couldn't find it on their website.
It had to be excessive advertising which set that man as my Edward. For the record, I don't like blondes, red heads, or light eyes, yet here we have it. Because I am not the target audience for this book, my Edward is a little closer to my age, rather than a teenager as he was in the book. That would be gross. My Edward Cullen is a light-haired, light-eyed, mid-thirties man. Deal with it girlies.
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