Reviews tagging 'Cancer'

Call Me by Your Name by André Aciman

59 reviews

lindasoderlundd's review against another edition

emotional reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.25

The writing was beautiful and atmospheric, and I really liked the last part of the book. Other than that, this book was just... meh. There was a lot of stuff that I found boring, and a lot of stuff that weirded me out. And for the most part, the love story didn't even feel like one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship and Sexual content

Moderate: Alcohol

Minor: Biphobia, Cancer, Child death, Cursing, Infidelity, Transphobia, Excrement, Vomit, Antisemitism, Dementia, Stalking, and Death of parent

elliehaahr's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship and Sexual content

Moderate: Cancer, Child death, Death, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

paigespages08's review against another edition

emotional relaxing medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Cancer, Child death, and Sexual content

Moderate: Vomit

kutreen's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

Very beautifully written, philosophical and sentimental story about what lust and a soul connection between an unlikely (and LGBT+) pair feels like. Especially the first half is quite erotic, sometimes vulgarly so, but in my opinion it doesn't overshadow the other parts and this book is worth reading even if you prefer to skip/skim over those scenes.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Cancer and Child death

mittymyers's review against another edition

reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

This book was a wonderfully poetic read that had the exact feeling of slow molasses summer in a book until you hit the bit where

the TEENAGER starts banging the FULLY GROWN ADULT.  Elio says at one point that he knows nothing (paraphrasing) and that is the only way I could enjoy the rest of this. It was just taking the whole relationship and following story in the context of a teenager romanticising something he truely does not understand.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Pedophilia

Minor: Cancer

_mariah_'s review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Cancer, Child death, and Vomit

vanesst's review against another edition

emotional lighthearted slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship and Sexual content

Moderate: Alcohol

Minor: Cancer, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Homophobia, Infidelity, Rape, Vomit, and Death of parent

v1l25's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Cursing, Sexual content, Vomit, and Alcohol

Moderate: Antisemitism

Minor: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Antisemitism, and Death of parent

luxxltyd's review against another edition

emotional reflective relaxing slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship and Sexual content

Moderate: Death and Terminal illness

Minor: Cancer, Vomit, Death of parent, and Alcohol

mushroom_frog's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective relaxing slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

A book that I intend to come back to time and time again. Aciman has a unique way of writing that I fell in love with immediately. The only fault, in my opinion, is the fact that the romance itself is between an adult and a minor, and the age gap isn't so small as to validate the relationship (e.g. it isn't between, say, a 17- and 19-year-old), but Elio's naivety is used well and contributes a lot to the plot.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Cancer, Child death, Death, and Death of parent