Call Me By Your Name

by Andre Aciman

THE BELOVED COMING-OF-AGE CLASSIC, NOW A WORLDWIDE BESTSELLER

During a restless summer on the Italian Riviera, a powerful romance blooms between seventeen-year-old Elio and his father's house guest, Oliver. Unrelenting currents of obsession and fear, fascination and desire threaten to overwhelm the lovers who at first feign indifference to the charge between them.

What grows from the depths of their souls is a romance of scarcely six weeks' duration, and an experience that marks them for a lifetime. For what the two discover on the Riviera and during a sultry evening in Rome is the one thing they both already fear they may never truly find again: total intimacy.

Rediscover one of the great love stories of our time.

• ISBN10: 1786495252
• ISBN13: 9781786495259
• Publish Date: 21 September 2017 (first published 23 January 2007)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: GB
• Imprint: Atlantic Books
• Edition: Main
• 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.