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A review by lyakimov
Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman
1.0
Alternate titles for this book: Grooming 101? Grooming for Dummies? Maybe… Grooming with Extra Nasty Perv Behavior? I think they are all fitting.
The book gets an immediate 1 star from me because of the grooming, but there were so many more problematic and disgusting aspects to this book. I feel like this book is the epitome of fetishization of gay men and it is awful. Let’s face it, this book would probably never be as popular and widely loved if it was not two men being in…love? I feel like I can’t even call it that because the entire time Elio was a child being manipulated by a conniving, creepy older man. Ironic how the person who played the creepy older man in the movie has been accused of extremely disgusting criminal acts & sexual abuse.
There was not much substance in this book and it felt like it was just thrown together with little editing. During the peach scene, there was a disgusting line that mentioned that the peach was like a sexual assault victim and that was absolutely horrendous and unnecessary and should have never been included.
I don’t want to insult people’s fetishes but this book was just not for me. I don’t want to read about an obsession with swim shorts and them watching each other go to the bathroom and observing their shits in the toilet. So this was not my cup of tea at all. I felt like I was in purgatory having to get through this book at some points, and the ending was so weird because of the sudden extreme time jumps. I definitely would have skipped parts of the book if I did not listen to it as an audiobook. Let’s just say I was very uncomfortable on my commute for these past couple days. I should not have even forced myself to finish this. What I will say is that I did get some entertainment out of it which is good.
The book gets an immediate 1 star from me because of the grooming, but there were so many more problematic and disgusting aspects to this book. I feel like this book is the epitome of fetishization of gay men and it is awful. Let’s face it, this book would probably never be as popular and widely loved if it was not two men being in…love? I feel like I can’t even call it that because the entire time Elio was a child being manipulated by a conniving, creepy older man. Ironic how the person who played the creepy older man in the movie has been accused of extremely disgusting criminal acts & sexual abuse.
There was not much substance in this book and it felt like it was just thrown together with little editing. During the peach scene, there was a disgusting line that mentioned that the peach was like a sexual assault victim and that was absolutely horrendous and unnecessary and should have never been included.
I don’t want to insult people’s fetishes but this book was just not for me. I don’t want to read about an obsession with swim shorts and them watching each other go to the bathroom and observing their shits in the toilet. So this was not my cup of tea at all. I felt like I was in purgatory having to get through this book at some points, and the ending was so weird because of the sudden extreme time jumps. I definitely would have skipped parts of the book if I did not listen to it as an audiobook. Let’s just say I was very uncomfortable on my commute for these past couple days. I should not have even forced myself to finish this. What I will say is that I did get some entertainment out of it which is good.