Reviews tagging 'Alcohol'

Call Me by Your Name by André Aciman

67 reviews

qspeaks's review against another edition

emotional hopeful lighthearted reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.75

The way Aciman writes really makes you feel all of the raw emotion of being 17 and experiencing your first real love again. There are moments when this book brought back memories and emotions that I had completely forgotten I had ever felt. It's a slow read and feels almost stream-of-consciousness in some areas, which is incredibly charming and oddly adds to the immersion. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Sexual content, Excrement, Vomit, and Grief

Minor: Cancer, Drug use, Terminal illness, and Alcohol

amberrenfrey's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship and Sexual content

Moderate: Biphobia, Cancer, Homophobia, and Alcohol

Minor: Child death, Terminal illness, Excrement, Vomit, and Death of parent

aexileigh's review against another edition

adventurous sad 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

1.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship and Alcohol

Moderate: Death

Minor: Cancer, Homophobia, Forced institutionalization, Antisemitism, Grief, and War

bardic_llama's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

0.25

While there’s a plot, it has no substance. It’s pedophilia disguised as a teen’s first summer fling that ends in heartbreak because they were never meant to be in the first place. And it feels as if the queer aspects of it were to hide the pedophilia. Even though I hated Lolita due to how intimately you get to know Herbert Herbert’s thoughts, I’d rather torture myself by rereading that. 

Lastly, this could be due to the amount of horror stuff but Élio had the potential to be a yandere and even though I knew from the get-go that wouldn’t be happened, I’m disappointed that it didn’t go in that direction.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Sexual content, and Alcohol

Minor: Child death, Vomit, and Injury/Injury detail

jfield351's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective relaxing 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

4.5

Wow. That about sums up what I thought of this wonderful, brilliant book. Of course it doesn’t hurt thats it’s set in my favourite time period in  beautiful country.
I have never read a book with so much imagery and description that completely relates to what I feel. Elio’s irrational and impulsive thoughts somehow reflect my own invasive and irrational thoughts - they change as the slightest external detail changes, they swing to both extremes, they are selfish and sad and powerful. The description in this book is - and this is not an understatement - god tier. Aciman creates sentences in a way that leaves you with a feeling that depicts what has happened, rather than an image. one i can think of now is

“his reaction to Vimini’s death, rather than soothe an open sore, seemed to graze one that had healed on its own”

but there are so many more beautiful descriptive sentences in this wonderful book. i wish i could write like this.
the ending is what hurt most. the type of love elio and oliver have actually scares me,

because in the final pages you see just how much of an impact they each had on each other’s life from a period of six weeks. it’s insanely powerful

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Another aspect I liked was how malleable the time aspect was. Time wasn’t linear or even, it was all over the place and would be stretched out or skipped over. It was very much Elio’s perspective of time and how Oliver influenced him.
Something else i liked - the only time the name Elio is mentioned is when Oliver is saying it, and it doesn’t happen a lot. When the name is finally mentioned it has a more powerful impact, especially considering the title of the book.
I may come back to this review when I reflect on other aspects I loved. the only reason i didn’t give it 5/5 stars was that while it was interesting, for the most part it wasn’t compelling (although i have been very busy at work and with exams so that could be why). It gives me Lana Del Rey vibes. The movie did not do it justice, though it was very good.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Terminal illness, Vomit, Abandonment, and Alcohol

sashatheoptimist's review against another edition

emotional funny informative inspiring lighthearted sad medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Cancer, Child death, Death, Homophobia, Terminal illness, Vomit, Death of parent, Cultural appropriation, and Alcohol

maess's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective sad slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship and Sexual content

Moderate: Vomit

Minor: Cancer, Child death, Death, Self harm, Death of parent, and Alcohol

murcurymo'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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

the scenery descriptions of 1980s Italy are beautiful, it's so nostalgic for summers in the countryside, has such a raw insight into falling in love from 1st person perspective.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship and Sexual content

Minor: Alcohol

j4cq's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

3.0

this is not a love story

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Cancer

Minor: Death of parent and Alcohol

dice_reads's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Sexual content and Alcohol