Reviews with content warning for Pedophilia - Chiamami col tuo nome

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Chiamami col tuo nome by André Aciman, Valeria Bastia

51 reviews

tetsueki's review against another edition

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Ew.

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mariahribeiro's review against another edition

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emotional inspiring reflective relaxing sad medium-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

3.5

This book is weird! A lot of absurde metaphors for love.
But seeing this doomed love story from the perspective of a teenager living in a beautiful place in Italy is so incredibly magnificent and really makes you fall in love with it!

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tylerdillon98's review against another edition

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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

3.75

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cgibson25's review against another edition

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dark slow-paced

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

1.0

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biareads100's review against another edition

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emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

His obsession was so well written, but if you don't understand him it might irk you off. The plot was boring but the characters were likeable enough to read just for them. The book is incredibly well written with a lot of gorgeous and relatable quotes. It has this cohesive way of presenting

a relationship from the early stages till the end and after the end as well as the cocktail of emotions people from LGBTQ+ community face when finding themselves

An amazing summer read the vibes of rural Italy are unmatched. There are some weird and vile scenes but overall a good book.

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sadie_bg's review against another edition

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reflective medium-paced

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

2.5

What annoyed me the most about this book is that at times Andre Aciman was so comfortabl writing about explicit and VILE scenes however when it came to the word sex he always referred to it as " love making " ???? Just say it as it is.
I gave 2.5 stars mainly for the poetic / lyrical writing aswell as aesthetic but that's all.
There are so many better books out there with LGBTQ+ romance and characters that dont romantacise grooming and pedophilia.

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bardic_llama's review against another edition

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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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oraclereadings's review against another edition

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tw; underage sex, pedophilia, grooming
(probably others but I didn't finish the book 🤮)

I had heard some awful things about this and I wanted to hate read it. (If you don't support hate reading, get out.) I didn't even make it past part one. It's so bad.

I was fairly aware of the age gap, but I didn't know the full extent. This includes a 24-year-old man being involved with a 17-year-old. That's pedophilia. I don't care about your "well the age of consent is..." arguments. No. No one in their mid twenties should be attracted to anyone that still has their age ending in teen.

And it's not even that this book is about or focuses on pedophilia. It's that it's romanticized. Incredibly! If it were focused in a problematic view, it could be better. But still not good.

Not to mention that the writing is just horrible. Like, it's just awful. Even if the events above didn't take place, I would still hate this book.

After reading a few reviews for this, I've also learned that the author is confirmed to be a pedophile and finding attraction to underage girls. Gross! 🤮

Do not support this book/author.

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nemcphile's review against another edition

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i literally couldn’t continue wtf is this book

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kaadee's review against another edition

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emotional reflective sad fast-paced

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

1.0

After reading other peoples reviews, I have come to a conclusion. I think it’s important that this book was made because it gives a glimpse into the the thought process of the groomed. We as readers know that it’s gross, uncomfortable and upsetting and while Elio also realizes this, his feelings are much different. Through Elio’s thoughts, we are also being groomed by Oliver to care for their relationship (see other peoples reviews calling this an amazing love story) it’s a good story, but not one about love. It’s about obsession, it’s about craving an experience but ultimately it’s about the power imbalances teenagers have with adults. How teenagers are easily taken advantage of and made to think they are in love. I honestly don’t think the writer wrote it to have this kind of meaning whatsoever which makes it worse for me. The deep dive into Elio’s sexual thoughts was disturbing. I mean, I really didn’t need to know what a 17 year old was thinking while he was going at it into a peach. I think it’s important to understand his thoughts but the amount of detail into the desires was gross. Also the writing style??? What pretentious person decided they would just add every word from the dictionary, put it into run on sentences, and then publish it? Some quotes were good but it’s too much philosophy without actually making any sense. People who praise this book for the writing and the feeling that you get while reading are weird. Honestly, the writing just made me want to finish it 10x faster just so I could be done. I love the movie compared to this. Also the fetish for Jewish people, GROSS!!! The author isn’t even Jewish which I didn’t know while reading. I was weirded out but I just went along with it because maybe he was just being expressive of his faith/background BUT NO, he just fetishized Jewish people.

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