Call Me by Your Name

by Andre Aciman

[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