Find Me: A Novel
A New York Times Bestseller
In this spellbinding exploration of the varieties of love, the author of the worldwide bestseller Call Me by Your Name revisits its complex and beguiling characters decades after their first meeting.
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Call Me By Your Name is a novel that I will hold close to my heart, so when I heard a sequel was getting written, I was hesitant, but excited. As you can see, I was a bit more hesitant, since I’m finally reading the book. After sitting on it, it’s a fine read, a quick one at that, but is just fine. There are some beautifully written passages here, but there are some that are difficult and, in all honestly, cringey to read. As nice as it was to reconnect with these characters, there wasn’t anything that warranted another novel, and this novel certainly wasn’t what you’d expect when it comes to these characters. It does offer some closure, while leaving more questions unanswered, but manages to pull at the heartstrings when it does get good. Overall a bit disappointing, but it was a nice trip down memory lane with these characters.
Katy Waldman of the New Yorker put it best “ The leads in “Call Me by Your Name” were self-conscious and soulful, but they also scanned as sweet and curious; theirs was the insufferability of youth. Their universality, too, formed part of their appeal: precisely drawn, with delicately shaded interactions, the Elio and Oliver of 2007 made for a convincing portrait of first love. That universality has fled from “Find Me,” which feels alternately too vague, too offensive, and too ridiculous to do anything but place one’s empathic imagination on a rack until one surrenders to one’s own contempt.”
I loved “Call Me by Your Name” and found this sequel to be forced, all the characters spontaneously falling in fast, deep love with practical strangers with in a matter of minutes. While there were glimpses of the magic of CMBYN, adulthood doesn’t suit the original characters created, and Aciman forces all of his youthful character into limited boxes of neat, and overly privileged adulthood.
I loved “Call Me by Your Name” and found this sequel to be forced, all the characters spontaneously falling in fast, deep love with practical strangers with in a matter of minutes. While there were glimpses of the magic of CMBYN, adulthood doesn’t suit the original characters created, and Aciman forces all of his youthful character into limited boxes of neat, and overly privileged adulthood.
yeah i'm just going to pretend that this doesn't exist except for the fact that elio and oliver finally end up together because it is riddled with continuity errors seeing as they've had to retcon events in order to make a sequel feasible in the first place
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