Reviews tagging 'Excrement'

Call Me by Your Name by André Aciman

48 reviews

gabrielleclarke05's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective relaxing sad slow-paced

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

2.25

Wow.. this was gross in multiple parts.  Elio compared the peach to a SA victim🧐 I’m glad the film cut out the problematic bits. This book just felt like the author writing down his weird fetishes 
The movie overall is better and this book just felt creepy and the author is a self proclaimed pedophile so take that as you will

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Stalking, Toxic relationship, Biphobia, Abandonment, Alcohol, Excrement, Gaslighting, Grief, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Sexual harassment, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Body shaming, and Sexual assault

fanygrza's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Vomit and Excrement

carolinasbooks's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-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

5.0

The way I cried-

THE LAST PAGE OHMY—
Seriously, so much better and more painful than the movie- I just- chef’s kiss

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Excrement, Grief, Homophobia, and Sexual content

sloanadrouny's review against another edition

emotional reflective tense slow-paced

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

4.0

the prose in this book was insanely beautiful, and the story did really tug on my heartstrings at times. and THE LAST PARAGRAPH holy shit. however, there were some elements in this book that did make me quite uncomfortable, and for that i don’t think i can comfortably give this 5 stars.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Terminal illness and Sexual content

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

jonsnowsmanbun's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship and Sexual content

Minor: Excrement and Vomit

boy_topics's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective sad tense medium-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

3.0

Maybe a hot take but the book doesn't compare to the movie. In fact, the only real pleasure I got out of this was in imagining the movie while I was reading. I'm probably a biased reviewer because CMBYN is my favorite movie maybe of all time. I can't stop thinking about how André Aciman had something to say about her Virginia Woolf is overrated and this is his claim to fame. It's heavy handed and corny. The movie is a masterpiece and this pales in comparison. I think the movie did an amazing job curating the best moments of this, capturing its essence and none of the bad stuff. It is a lot raunchier than the movie, which adds a nice twist of knowledge to what was left out of the movie. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Death of parent, Excrement, Grief, and Sexual content

piquareste's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

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

3.5

Reminded me a lot of Jeanette Winterson's Written on the Body—the same intensity and passion and wild tortured feeling tempered by introspection. Quite beautiful, but not particularly for me with the graphic, visceral physicality of it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship and Sexual content

Minor: Cancer and Excrement

bluedilly's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective relaxing sad medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia and Sexual content

Minor: Biphobia and Excrement