Call Me by Your Name

by Andre Aciman

Now a Major Motion Picture from Director Luca Guadagnino, Starring Armie Hammer and Timothee Chalamet, and Written by Three-Time Oscar(TM) Nominee James Ivory

The Basis of the Oscar-Winning Best Adapted Screenplay

A New York Times Bestseller
A USA Today Bestseller
A Los Angeles Times Bestseller
A Vulture Book Club Pick

An Instant Classic and One of the Great Love Stories of Our Time

Andre Aciman's Call Me by Your Name is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents' cliffside mansion on the Italian Riviera. Each is unprepared for the consequences of their attraction, when, during the restless summer weeks, unrelenting currents of obsession, fascination, and desire intensify their passion and test the charged ground between them. Recklessly, the two verge toward the one thing both fear they may never truly find again: total intimacy. It is an instant classic and one of the great love stories of our time.

Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Ficition

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year - A Publishers Weekly and The Washington Post Best Book of the Year - A New York Magazine Future Canon Selection - A Chicago Tribune and Seattle Times (Michael Upchurch's) Favorite Favorite Book of the Year

• ISBN10: 031242678X
• ISBN13: 9780312426781
• Publish Date: 22 January 2008 (first published 23 January 2007)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Picador USA
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 256
• Language: English

Reviews

[roundtableknight]

Rating: 2/5 stars
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Okay, so this was not what I was expecting, but yet kind of? The plot was nonexistent, which made the book slow to a drawl, and I was put off by the age difference between the two of them. I felt what could have been a shorter novel - and it was only 250 - was stretched beyond belief like taffy and made it seem as though there was more going on than there was. I almost want to watch the movie to see if they added any plot to spruce up the story, but I don't know if I could stomach it.

[moraa]

We are not written for one instrument alone; I am not, neither are you.

I regret putting this off for so long.
It was wonderful, every bit of it tugged at my heartstrings.

[kiracanread]

A bittersweet LGBT romance which makes you feel all warm inside and then wrenches your heart from your chest with no remorse.

03/2020 Edit:
still in despair


This book flooded me with despair.

[Bianca]

‪2019 Popsugar Reading Challenge‬
29. ‪A book by an author whose first and last names start with the same letter‬

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‬We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything—what a waste!

— Of love, loss, longing, and uncertainty. So beautiful and so... peachy

[layawaydragon]

DNF.

Very pretentious and verbose. Eyes started auto skimming with the repetition and angst. This MC is like a gay Holden in a 50 Shades book and I mean that as the highest insult.

The 'call me by your name during sex' is weird and the peach scene was disgusting but whatever.

The parents acquiescence is just so odd to me but again, whatever.

While reading it was easy to forget the age difference. The prose. The childishness. The absurdity. The absolute self-centeredness and obsession. It felt like 2 teens in the summer after high school.

Since I couldn't get through the book, I googled the movie to find out what happened. Oh boy. Seeing those actors drove home what lead the book buried. This is a predator and a child. It's wrong and reprehensible how so many are okay with it.

If this was a adolescent girl, the outrage would be profound. If it was a professor woman, toxic masculinity would be proud but feminists would be protesting. Since it's two dudes, it's just hot fodder for mostly white straight women.

I'm glad I didn't force myself to finish. Reading about that trip away and the melodramatic ending is ughhhhh cringe enough as it is.

Here's two reviews by gay men to check out since my demographic sucks:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/826799090?book_show_action=true&from_review_page=1

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/698458505?book_show_action=true&from_review_page=1

[cornerfolds]

Read more of my reviews at Cornerfolds.com!

*Review to come!*

[jamiereadthis]

“Everyone goes through a period of traviamento— when we take, say, a different turn in life, the other via. Dante himself did. Some recover, some pretend to recover, some never come back, some chicken out before even starting, and some, for fear of taking any turns, find themselves leading the wrong life all life long.”

Yep. This worked for me. Right book, right time, etc. And right place… viva l’Italia.