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A review by knobbyknees
Call Me By Your Name - Screenplay by André Aciman, James Ivory
I have a lot of mixed feelings about this book.
I was impressed by the writing (barring the weird, long chunk where the poet talks about Thailand), the way Aciman pushed and pulled time to make the story flow well. It's really hard to do. (A lot of contemporary books are just chronological, with occasional flashback, if you pay attention to structure... this is flow forward, flow backward, flow a detail, flow back... really tricky but masterfully done.)
I honestly think the movie ruined me for the book because I preferred the changes made in the adaptation (changing the story to present-tense for the movie, ending at a different spot since it's not a flashback).
I was impressed by the writing (barring the weird, long chunk where the poet talks about Thailand), the way Aciman pushed and pulled time to make the story flow well. It's really hard to do. (A lot of contemporary books are just chronological, with occasional flashback, if you pay attention to structure... this is flow forward, flow backward, flow a detail, flow back... really tricky but masterfully done.)
I honestly think the movie ruined me for the book because I preferred the changes made in the adaptation (changing the story to present-tense for the movie, ending at a different spot since it's not a flashback).