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A review by mitslits
Call Me By Your Name - Screenplay by André Aciman, James Ivory
I saw the movie and knew I had to read the book. Fortunately, my book club ended up doing it, so I got the chance sooner than I was expecting.
It was good. It was definitely good. Very pretty prose. Very good at hitting on all the nostalgia I can muster at 21 years old. Interesting, to say the least. I liked Oliver, and Elio, and their relationship, which are really the three main points of this book, so I really can't say I didn't like it as a whole.
But there were parts that didn't work for me? A lot of the things characters said - especially the poet and the father - did not sound like things people would say. Maybe it makes sense for a drunk poet to go off lyrically, but Elio's dad? It seemed strange. And for some reason, I couldn't get into that whole Rome segment. Maybe it's because being loud, and close, and drunk with a lot of strangers sounds like my version of hell, but I can't say for sure what about it I didn't like.
I'm glad the movie was the way it was, because I think it really captured the free-flowing, meandering style of the novel, and I also think I'll have to reread this when I'm older to see if my feelings change.
It was good. It was definitely good. Very pretty prose. Very good at hitting on all the nostalgia I can muster at 21 years old. Interesting, to say the least. I liked Oliver, and Elio, and their relationship, which are really the three main points of this book, so I really can't say I didn't like it as a whole.
But there were parts that didn't work for me? A lot of the things characters said - especially the poet and the father - did not sound like things people would say. Maybe it makes sense for a drunk poet to go off lyrically, but Elio's dad? It seemed strange. And for some reason, I couldn't get into that whole Rome segment. Maybe it's because being loud, and close, and drunk with a lot of strangers sounds like my version of hell, but I can't say for sure what about it I didn't like.
I'm glad the movie was the way it was, because I think it really captured the free-flowing, meandering style of the novel, and I also think I'll have to reread this when I'm older to see if my feelings change.