I haven’t had much chance to read it myself, but from what I’ve heard/read, YES. It’s a Frankenstein-monster-esque collection of the worst fanfic ideas you can imagine. It seems like some of the ideas are direct responses to questions AR has gotten over the years, like (NOT the questions of i-want-my-iwtv):
Why don’t the vampire dicks work?
Why can’t they have babies? Twilight vampires can.
Why don’t they ever get married?
Tell me more about Benji and Sybelle they are so adorable!
What about SCIENCE? What would it be like to get vampire samples in a lab and analyze them?
Did Akasha have any kids while she was human?
Can someone else be Queen of the Damned? Maharet and Mekare are LAME.
Armand x Louis… well… Armand will always have a thing for Louis, bc well, who doesn’t? The way Armand is now… not sure what Louis sees in him, but perhaps I’ll find out as I read the heartbreaking work of staggering genius that is PL.
It’s short for Mater Glorioso, Latin for “Glorious Mother.” Not sure who or when first coined the term, but it’s the VC fandom’s loving and sarcastic way of paying tribute to the creator of the VC.
There’s a hilarious, though inactive, parody blog for her called anne-christ, the archive is worth checking out!
So I haven’t had much chance to read it yet but from what little I have read… there are little glimmers of the Lestat we all know and love, lines here and there that are in character! So that helps. There may be a few good quotes we can extract from this mess!
Overall, from the spoilers I’ve heard/read, the general feeling I’m getting is that this book is FAR worse than anything I/we could have predicted in terms of being a true Vampire Crackicle.
Hey, fandom in/around Belfast! Want to see Interview with the Vampire on the big screen for its 20th anniversary? Want to see it introduced by Neil Jordan himself? It’s happening!
I’m so excited for this because remcovanstraten and I approached the Strand Arts Centre with the idea and they jumped at it – now we’re hoping to get the word out to as many fans as possible, so if you can share this we’d really appreciate it.
I don’t know many VC fans locally, but I bet there’s more of us lurking in the shadows – if this sounds like a great night out to you, all the info you’ll need is here:
I-want-my-IWTV 