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A review by marleyrollins
Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman
2.0
DNF because literally nothing of interest happens in this book. It’s just pages and pages of tediously described flirting and lusting over someone. I know loads of people love this novel, but that is just not for me at all. I’m against romance books at the best of time, but especially when they don’t have anything interesting going for them. Maybe I’ll try the film one day instead.
Also the 17 year old entangled with the grown man? Grim. I know that it is explored in the book that the relationship is questionable, but the amount of people who idolise this relationship is very weird.
It is nice to see gay fiction that isn’t afraid to really explore sex and intimacy, but I would have enjoyed that aspect a lot more if the book wasn’t so incredibly boring.
Also the 17 year old entangled with the grown man? Grim. I know that it is explored in the book that the relationship is questionable, but the amount of people who idolise this relationship is very weird.
It is nice to see gay fiction that isn’t afraid to really explore sex and intimacy, but I would have enjoyed that aspect a lot more if the book wasn’t so incredibly boring.