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Find Me

(Call Me By Your Name #2)

André Aciman (Goodreads Author)

3.32 · Rating details · 31,889 ratings · 4,639 reviews

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.

No novel in recent memory has spoken more movingly to contemporary readers about the nature of love than André Aciman’s haunting Call Me by Your Name. First published in 2007, ...more

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Dec 04, 2018 Kyle rated it did not like it

Shelves: lgbtqia, literature-fiction, worst-of-the-worst

Actual rating: 1.5 (rounded down)

I... don’t know what to say. I didn’t think this would ever happen. I am painedddd. This is, without doubt, one of the most disappointing literary moments of my life.

Where do I begin?

Aciman retconned many of the events from Call Me By Your Name. Some events/relationships/characterizations were changed for the better, and others for the worse. The fan service is there, but it’s so goddamn inconsequential; too little, too late.

First and foremost, let me tell you fr ...more

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Dec 11, 2018 Kai marked it as never-in-my-life

there's gonna be a sequel

~~in other words: what a great day to be gay~~ haha convinced myself this would be a good and gay read but I'm sad to inform you that I have no intention of ever picking this book up cause I don't want to torture myself with the blabbering of an old man who starts an affair with a much younger woman which seems to be all that the book is about. no thanks. ...more

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Nov 01, 2019 Fatma rated it did not like it

Shelves: audiobooks, lgbtqia

hats off to andré aciman for writing the most actively bad book ive read this whole year. like truly in terms of being extremely and painfully bad this book is a total 10/10

lmao i dont even know what the fuck i just read this book asked me to buy some of the most bizarre shit ive ever laid my eyeballs on as if i havent lived on god's green earth for more than 2 decades and dont know how actual human interaction works

some bullet points bc i cant be bothered to properly write a review for this (ya hats off to andré aciman for writing the most actively bad book ive read this whole year. like truly in terms of being extremely and painfully bad this book is a total 10/10

lmao i dont even know what the fuck i just read this book asked me to buy some of the most bizarre shit ive ever laid my eyeballs on as if i havent lived on god's green earth for more than 2 decades and dont know how actual human interaction works

some bullet points bc i cant be bothered to properly write a review for this (yall are lucky i read this on audiobook bc otherwise i would have PAGES of receipts):

- there is one (1) female character in this book, miranda, and ohhhhhhh myyyyyyy goooooood. manic pixie dream girl doesnt even begin to cover it. miranda is like if all the manic pixie dream girls from media history got concentrated into some kind of transformers mega ultra manic pixie dream girl. it was BAD (Very Bad), but also hilarious. like has andré aciman seen a real life woman before ?

- the first part of this book was a fucking disaster. it was so absurd i literally couldnt believe what i was reading. i was honestly baffled that someone had not only written this, but edited it, MULTIPLE TIMES, and decided that yes, we are going to publish this! ive seen pixels more realistic than the straight up nonsense i was asked to believe in in part 1 (and the rest of the book, for that matter). also the sex scenes were NASTY. i never want to think about that shit ever again. at one point the phrase "cum and juices" was used. at another point miranda orders samuel to slap her on the face and when he does it even though he doesnt want to shes like "did it make you hard" and hes like "ya" and shes like "ok thats all matters." im sorry, but what the actual fuck is going on ?????

- THE FUCKING INSTALOVE. if a single person so much as glances at another person in this book, then you can be 99% sure that within the span of about 10 pages theyll end up admitting their deep and everlasting love for each other. again, i am forced to ask: what the fuck is going on ??? i cannot stress how instalovey the instalove in this book was. i can say with absolute certainty that every single example of instalove you could possibly think of will pale in comparison to the instalove in find me. this book has instalove so instant itll give you whiplash.

- youve heard of instalove, now get ready for instaobjectification !!!! basically every time any man in this book so much as glances at a woman this happens:

female character: *exists*
male character: i wanted to caress her body. run my hands along her jawline. she crossed her legs and exposed the smooth beautiful skin of her ankles. i wanted to kiss her forehead. to whisper into her ear. i looked at her legs and thought about her opening them for me. the graceful curve of her neck was beckoning me; i wanted to stroke it.

apparently there is not a single man in this book who can keep it in their pants for 1 second to consider the woman in front of them as something more than just a thing for them to have sex with. cool. nice. very nice .

- theres like a random ass convoluted music mystery in part 2 which ??? like ok i guess this might as well happen this book is already bizarre as shit anyway go big or go home right

- im not kidding when i say that my reaction to almost every single thing the characters in this book said was "shut the fuck up." i cannot convey to you how AGONIZINGLY pretentious the writing was. not a single phrase that was uttered by anyone sounded like anything an Actual Human Being would say. in order to suspend your disbelief to believe any of it you wouldve had to basically shut your whole brain down

-and all this for what ? 10 pages in the end where we got some underwhelming shit that didnt even feel meaningful bc it was so bogged down by the rest of the dumpster fire that was this book ?

- i am so confused. who is this book for ????? because this book was not anything even remotely close to fanservice. it was like the exact opposite of fanservice. a sequel/companion book should enhance its predecessor, not make it worse. find me spits on everything that people liked about CMBYN in the first place. also, i have a hard time believing that anyone wanted to read about literally anything in this book that wasnt in the last 10ish pages. unless i am sorely mistaken and someone actually had a headcanon about elio's dad running away with a woman he's known for like 5 seconds who has no personality aside from being beautiful and having a body for him to have sex with. if thats the case then whoever you are, you are in a for a treat !!

- also i HAD to mention this: (view spoiler)

- im just gonna forget i ever read this bc a) it was nasty and b) it was WEIRD AS FUCK and c) it was really Bad

if you want to read Actual Good Reviews of this book that get at what i meant in my review then check this one or this one ...more

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Aug 31, 2019 Barry Pierce rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 21st-century, read-in-2019, read-for-review

My review of Find Me can be read on the Irish Times here: https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/bo... ...more

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Nov 13, 2019 Nilufer Ozmekik rated it liked it

Three efficiently, adroitly written but not my kind of cuppa story stars!
Sniff! My heart aches because I missed Elio and Oliver so much!!But this book is not about them!!! I can hear your screams right now!

I truly understand the frustration, disappointment and boiling anger of the readers after reading this book because most of them (partly me, too) wanted to see conclusion ( a small chance of HEA) of Elio and Oliver! We want to grab the sequel, reading their compassionate journey ( older and wi Three efficiently, adroitly written but not my kind of cuppa story stars!
Sniff! My heart aches because I missed Elio and Oliver so much!!But this book is not about them!!! I can hear your screams right now!

I truly understand the frustration, disappointment and boiling anger of the readers after reading this book because most of them (partly me, too) wanted to see conclusion ( a small chance of HEA) of Elio and Oliver! We want to grab the sequel, reading their compassionate journey ( older and wiser version) so most of us really got excited for upcoming release (this time I forced my mother and sister in law to join my happy dance but both them hurt their legs. I didn’t intend to kick them! I was performing my special kickbox and kungfu figures for sharpening my dance skills. Anyway, i left them to the ER door and came back to continue my reading)

News flash my dearest friends: This is not a sequel! This is a standalone! There is a misunderstanding about the promo or because of mercury’s retrograde we all fooled and confused, postponing everything in our lives and dealing with dissatisfaction (because mercury moves back in Scorpio!) I know this is not a logical explanation but if you expect those two memorable characters’ unfinished story, you’re never gonna get it. There are only 11 pages devoted to those characters!!! Seriously?!! Yeap, I wish I was kidding!

So buckle up and get ready to read about SAMUEL PEARLMAN, Elio’s father’ s story which takes half of the book. He meets with a woman on a train journey (Sliding Doors meets Before the Sunrise kind of instalove story or let’s say “love at first train stop!”

I’m not a prude enough to judge an old man and young woman’s sudden steamy, passionate relationship. Everything shouldn’t be defined as midlife crisis and we shouldn’t criticize poor Samuel and call him: “Look at this guy is another victim of andropause!”
I didn’t find their relationship so genuine, relatable. Did they want to have rough sex, did they want to have matching tattoos or having dozens of children? That’s fine! It never bothers me! They believe in that they’re soulmates! But my concern about this story is we already know what will happen to Samuel after four years!!! This is not a spoiler because if you also read “Call Me By Your Name” and know the time lining of the book, you also know what will happen to him! So this story looks like a tribute to this character’s memory which made me sad and bothered but I can deal with it. Let’s move to the other part.

At the second part, we see Elio meets an older man ( this time he’s nearly 30 years older than him so it’s not the same 7 years age gape he had with Oliver)
And the third part we meet Oliver again, moving from New York to New Hampshire. He attends a party and saw the piano player who reminds him of Elio.
So I’m not gonna talk more, you have to read and make your own decision and face with your own demons about this book but I honestly say it was not boring, dull, suffocating reading for me. I think the author’s approach about the choices we make, regrets about the things we procrastinate , differences about our decisions when it comes to listen our hearts or own minds was delectably and meticulously described.

Instead of getting a HEA of our characters, we caught some glimpses of their future lives, how they moved on, settled in new relationships, made new career choices, aged and faced new life challenges.

It’s not my kind of stories. I’m also a little disappointed but I didn’t find it fair to give less than three stars to this book because the writing is so fantastic.
Well, farewell to my favorite characters and let’s move on to the next book journey! ...more

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Nov 01, 2019 Larry H rated it it was amazing

Find Me was altogether different than I expected, but it was utterly, gloriously moving.

"...the magic of someone new never lasts long enough. We only want those we can’t have. It’s those we lost or who never knew we existed who leave their mark. The others barely echo."

While Find Me is, in essence, a sequel to Call Me By Your Name , for the most part it’s more a book that follows some of the characters. If you go in expecting another whole book about Oliver and Elio you’ll be disappoi ...more

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Nov 13, 2019 Elyse Walters rated it it was amazing

Shelves: coming-of-age, fiction, romance, lgbt-themes

I read many angry 1 star reviews.
I’m not one of them,
yet I understand the frustration from those readers. They wanted more than 11 pages of *Elio & Oliver*.

Where some readers felt the characters were shallow -I felt the they were real.
I was totally captivated with the entire novel.

We first meet Samuel, ( Elio’s father), and the much younger witty/beautiful Miranda. They are strangers on a train.
I thought their dialogue was phenomenal- vibrantly engaging, insightful, truthful, and easily im ...more

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Dec 25, 2018 Carla added it

THIS IS NOT GOOD- THE STORY WAS PERFECT. WE DONT NEED MORE. PEOPLE NEED TO LEARN TO LET GO. WRITE A NEW ONE. A WHOLE NEW STORY. LEAVE ELIO ALONE YOU FUCKING PEOPLE.

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Oct 28, 2019 lottie rated it it was amazing

Shelves: 2019, advanced-reading-copy, lgbt, romancé

thank you to Andre Aciman for using this sequel to confirm what I always knew in my heart: Elio is a Scorpio

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Mar 31, 2019 Glire marked it as to-read-or-not-to-read

Sequel to the novel Call Me By Your Name?

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Jul 19, 2019 Ben Rosenstock rated it liked it

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Okay, so I want to start by addressing the big question: where does this fit into the continuity? (I know most people probably don’t care, but it’s really interesting to me.) Let’s recap the timeline: most of Call Me By Your Name takes place during the summer of 1987. Oliver visits Elio’s parents 11 years afterward (I’ll call this 11A-CMBYN, because it’s more accurate than just saying 1998—some of the time jumps aren’t exact and it could be technically 1997, etc.). Elio visits Oliver in America ...more

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Apr 14, 2019 Kenn Laurence rated it liked it

HIDE YOUR PEACHES!!!!!!🍑

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NOT WHAT I EXPECTED... but still worth the read.

I loved and hated parts of this book. And I read this book because I desperately wanted to find out what happened with Elio, and Oliver. If you expected a sequel, this isn’t what this is necessarily.

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Jul 22, 2019 Dianah rated it it was amazing

Shelves: literature, autographed, arc, favorites, quotes

The sequel to Call Me By Your Name is probably one of the most anticipated books in the literary world, and yes, it was worth the wait. The continuation of the story of Elio and Oliver examines the lives they've lived separately for the past twenty years, and it's genius how well Aciman re-captures the essence of these two. Untangling themes of loneliness, love, commitment, and the intangible idea of soul mates, Aciman writes a story that leaves his lovers.... well, you'll see. A haunting closur ...more

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Jan 05, 2020 Kenny rated it liked it

Shelves: queer-lit, short-stories-novellas

As the French poet says, Le temps d’apprendre à vivre il est déjà trop tard, by the time we learn to live, it’s already too late.
Find Me ~~ André Aciman

Waaaah! Waaaah! (cue helpless wailing) This is the sound from so many people throwing temper tantrums for not getting the sequel to Call Me By Your Name they wanted. The cries have been deafening. To be honest, my fear was this sequel would read like fan fiction. It did and it didn’t. Thankfully it was not Call Me By Your Name Part Deux

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Nov 01, 2019 Michael rated it did not like it

Well, this is the most heartbreaking one-star rating I’ve ever doled out.

I should preface this by saying I was firmly in the no-sequel camp from the second I heard of this novel being a possibility. CMBYN had one of the best-executed endings I’ve ever read, and any sequel charting that love story again would ruin the tense, bittersweet longing Aciman created in that novel. However, I felt a little better about Find Me once the synopsis surfaced - not necessarily a sequel, but a series of vignett Well, this is the most heartbreaking one-star rating I’ve ever doled out.

I should preface this by saying I was firmly in the no-sequel camp from the second I heard of this novel being a possibility. CMBYN had one of the best-executed endings I’ve ever read, and any sequel charting that love story again would ruin the tense, bittersweet longing Aciman created in that novel. However, I felt a little better about Find Me once the synopsis surfaced - not necessarily a sequel, but a series of vignettes charting the lives of Samuel, Elio, and Oliver at later points in their lives.

What this should’ve been called is Instalove: A Short Story Collection. The first third of the novel follows Samuel who, on a train to visit his son, meets Wish Fulfillment Love Interest Exhibit A, and readers are forced to see the first twenty-four hours of this love affair unfold. I actually thought this was meant to be a parody and waited about seventy pages for the other shoe to drop - Sami and Miranda speak to each other like freshman Philosophy majors who just spent the evening carousing writing blogs on Tumblr, and this banter goes back and forth the entire duration of the story. When Miranda is finally given a backstory, it sounds like it was pulled straight from the melodramatic horrors of A Little Life without any of the nuance of that novel, and Aciman would’ve been better off not including it at all. While I thought it was a bold and almost tongue-in-cheek choice to begin Find Me with a story about Elio’s father, a mostly supporting character in CMBYN, and make readers wait for any follow-up on the two characters they came for, this story does nothing to advance the tone of the story nor develop Samuel’s character.

It’s much of the same once we get to Elio’s story, with him falling suddenly in love with an older man and the subsequent week they spend together at his apartment, doing a whole lot of nothing for a hundred pages. By this point, I couldn’t help but wonder - what did Aciman hope to accomplish with this novel? Were all these flings supposed to make the buildup to a Elio/Oliver reunion that much more fervent? I have no idea.

Oliver’s story is the closest we get to the tone of the previous novel and the closest I came to enjoying this work. We get glimpses of that tone of omnipresent longing on full display in the final pages of CMBYN, but it’s interesting we see this more from Oliver than Elio, since Oliver was the one that had the other life in America, never came back for Elio, etc. The final chapter (eleven whole pages, folks) is what you actually came for and, well, I think I would’ve been better off if those pages didn’t exist because it was so oddly executed.

I’m never one to say a sequel outright shouldn’t exist, but I’m saying it with this one. Find Me manages to muddy the canon of this world that is almost poorly executed enough to affect my enjoyment of CMBYN, which is saying something given how much I adore that novel. This reads like four separate pieces of fanfiction compiled into a novel; none of it flows or upholds the tone of its predecessor. I know I was setting myself up for failure by reading this, but I couldn’t have imagined anything this disappointing. ...more

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Nov 03, 2019 Suanne Laqueur rated it it was ok · review of another edition

OK, so obviously I wasn't a fan. I finished it and simply thought, "Why?"

I mean, like, why? What was that all about?

The book is divided into three sections. The first, from Samuel's point of view, was ridiculous. The second, from Elio's was better but ended up being pointless because it was followed by Oliver's section, which was... what?

I don't know. Aciman is a brilliant writer and I love some of his turns of phrase and insights. But the book just seemed a three-movement concerto in the key of ...more

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Sep 20, 2019 Eric Anderson rated it really liked it

Literary sequels are definitely a trend this year with the recent massive release of “The Testaments” and now the forthcoming publication of André Aciman’s much-anticipated sequel to his novel “Call Me by Your Name”. Readers naturally have a lot of scepticism about these beloved stories being extended. The very popular film adaptation of “Call Me by Your Name” brought the romantic story of sensitive teenager Elio and older graduate student Oliver to a much wider audience. This not only prompted Literary sequels are definitely a trend this year with the recent massive release of “The Testaments” and now the forthcoming publication of André Aciman’s much-anticipated sequel to his novel “Call Me by Your Name”. Readers naturally have a lot of scepticism about these beloved stories being extended. The very popular film adaptation of “Call Me by Your Name” brought the romantic story of sensitive teenager Elio and older graduate student Oliver to a much wider audience. This not only prompted fans to clamour to know what happened next between these lovers but it also encouraged Aciman to revisit their story as he said in an interview “The film made me realize that I wanted to be back with them and watch them over the years.” Many will instantly dismiss the creation of “Find Me” as a money-grabbing opportunity given the new-found popularity of the original book. Whatever the motivation for writing it, I can assure you this new novel doesn’t kowtow to fans. Rather, it thoughtfully explores the deeper meaning of desire when stretched over time and juxtaposes a few different kinds of romantic encounters which turn into profound life-changing events. That’s not to say this new novel is without its problems and it’s likely to delight and frustrate fans in equal measure.

I read “Call Me by Your Name” shortly after it was originally published in 2007 and swooned. Revisiting Elio and Oliver’s story by watching the film adaptation a couple of years ago reawakened my love for their story. But there’s an important difference between the book and film. The film ends with Elio receiving the news that Oliver is going to be married which prompts him to mournfully stare into a fireplace. However, the original novel ends with a flash forward far into the future when Elio and Oliver reunite in Italy and we learn the news that Elio’s father Samuel has died at a relatively young age. Whether their passion is reignited or not is left vague, but their reconnection is cemented. This poses an interesting dilemma for the sequel because it needs to either fill readers in on what happened up to this point or follow them after it. “Find Me” manages to do both in a way which is unique and clever.

Read my full review of Find Me by André Aciman on LonesomeReader and you can watch my video review here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKWDJxKAJs0 ...more

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Oct 25, 2019 Iris rated it did not like it

I hated this.
Don't read it.
Alternatively, if you need a satisfying ending to CMBYN, buy this and skip the first half of the book.

Authors should not be allowed to be misogynistic assholes in this day and age. Having one named female character be essentially a cliche and a babymaker made me hate this book.

I will never read another Andre Aciman novel.
Now I gotta go brush my teeth and get this bad taste out of my mouth.

⭐Edit⭐
Here is the reading vlog where I review this book: Find Me Reading Vlog
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Feb 10, 2020 farith rated it did not like it

Shelves: audiobooks, lgbt, read-in-english, nope

-so Aciman, what motivated you to write Find Me?

-...

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Nov 03, 2019 Meags rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: mm, teachers-and-librarians, lgbt, romance, musicians

2 Stars

Well, I’m not sure what to say.

Call Me By Your Name is one of the most stunningly composed and profoundly affecting stories I’ve ever read, and this sequel.... well, let’s just say it left a lot to be desired.

BEWARE: Spoilers ahead!...

Spanning the course of the twenty years after Elio and Oliver’s life-changing summer together, this story is broken into three main sections, each narrated by a different character.

The first section sees Elio’s father Samuel, as he travels to Rome to visit a ...more

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Apr 08, 2020 Dannii Elle rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: contemporary-cuteness

Much of what I loved about Call Me By Your Name I also loved here. The prose was lush, the characters - although perhaps a little pretentious - were often involved in conversations of a philosophical nature, and this had an underlying current of deeper themes than were presented and explored.

However some of the other aspects I also loved were prevalent and I appreciated them far less. The young age of the characters in the former series instalment made their romantic infatuations and obsessive e ...more

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Sep 18, 2019 Jonathan rated it it was amazing

“it’s just that the magic of someone new never last long enough. We only want those we can’t have. It’s those we lost or who never knew we existed who leave their mark. The others barely echo.”
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Find me isn’t necessarily a sequel to call me by your name as much a revelatory continuation of the beautiful feeling that I harbored while reading, and long after reading CMBYN. Andre Aciman writes about love and longing unlike any other, his ability to capture an intangible sense of dire heartache echo “it’s just that the magic of someone new never last long enough. We only want those we can’t have. It’s those we lost or who never knew we existed who leave their mark. The others barely echo.”
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Find me isn’t necessarily a sequel to call me by your name as much a revelatory continuation of the beautiful feeling that I harbored while reading, and long after reading CMBYN. Andre Aciman writes about love and longing unlike any other, his ability to capture an intangible sense of dire heartache echos throughout this novel like a love letter kept forever in your drawer, sent from a lover no longer corporeal within your life. Find me reads more like three separate novellas each expanding the boundaries of love, without confining them to any boundaries. In the first part ( and probably my favorite) we find Samuel ( Elio’s father) ten years after CMBYN ends, swiftly falling in love with a woman half his age that he meets on a train, expanding on the sadness and loss he has experienced not just in the timeframe since we last saw him but upon seeing the love between Oliver and Elio, he realizes his life has been devoid of true love possibly forever. The second part is Elio fifteen years after CMBYN ends and he is now a famous pianist who falls for a man twice his age, he has experienced brief loves here and there but the sting of Olivers loss still hangs over his head, even upon finding this new thrall of passion in such an unlikely place. The third part is Oliver twenty years after CMBYN and moving from New York back to New Hampshire, throwing a party but all the while still ruminating over Elio and his time in Italy even two decades past, he seems trapped by an unending dread and sense of “what if” replaying in his mind. The fourth and shortest part I shall leave undocumented in this review. I wasn’t sure what to expect coming into this book but I will say that it was not what was imagined but it was a true testament to the fact that there are just some people we will always love and no matter time nor distance we shall never forget them. ...more

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Nov 01, 2019 Emma rated it it was ok

I was dreading this book so much and I'm sorry to say I was right.
I think it did not live up to the first book and I'm not even sure what André Aciman was trying to achieve with this novel. Were we supposed to remember the past and long for it?

The book is divided into four parts. (view spoiler) ...more

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Nov 15, 2019 Thomas Clairmont rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Before saying anything about that book, I just wanted to mention that that Call Me By Your Name is one of my all time favorite book out there and when I heard there was going to be a sequel, I was truly excited about it but also scared. I had very high hopes for that one and let me tell you that I was utterly disappointed; writing this review is actually very painful.

Where to begin? Maybe about the fact that we got only 11 pages of the content we were actually looking for and they weren't even t Before saying anything about that book, I just wanted to mention that that Call Me By Your Name is one of my all time favorite book out there and when I heard there was going to be a sequel, I was truly excited about it but also scared. I had very high hopes for that one and let me tell you that I was utterly disappointed; writing this review is actually very painful.

Where to begin? Maybe about the fact that we got only 11 pages of the content we were actually looking for and they weren't even that good. I still don't understand what happened to be completely honest. How can we go from a masterpiece and a powerful story like Call Me By Your Name to something like that "sequel" and yes, I am using quotation marks here for the simple reason that it didn't feel like a sequel to me.
The book itself and the story from that matter is divided in four parts. This is a non-spoiler review so I am not going to tell you what happened in each of these parts but I will just say that I have been extremely disappointed by the choices the author made in general. To me, the author projected too much of his own perspective and fantasies in this book and it truly showed. Some passages of the first part and one in particular really made me angry and disturbed me, I was actually disgusted by it.
I am still very sad to see that a sequel with so much potential like this one has ended up like this. To me, this is just unforgivable.
The writing felt very poor the entire time, the end part which was the part that we probably were all looking for after having painfully read the previous pages has been neglected and I am still very confused about it. How is that even possible?

In conclusion, Elio and Oliver deserved way better (not from the story but from the way to actually say it, remember, 11 pages!!!!) and I will simply try my best to forget about this book and only remember the masterpiece that is Call Me By Your Name and all the feels it gave me while reading it.

I am planning on writing a spoiler review soon because I have highlighted a lot of passages from that book and wrote a lot of things on it as well that need to be said.

Again, I am utterly disappointed and won't recommend reading it, at all.

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Oct 22, 2019 Olivia (Stories For Coffee) added it

Shelves: literary-fiction, review-requested

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When I finished Call Me By Your Name in 2018, it lingered in my mind and entrapped me in its romantic, hazy world that I never wanted to escape. The prose and musings tucked between its pages changed me, as a reader, and I wish that Find Me had the same effect. But I’ve realized, after processing the story for a bit, that this novel is not necessarily a sequel to CMBYN but a companion novel for those curious about Elio a ...more

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Oct 25, 2019 Read By RodKelly added it

For all the lives we don't live, time is the perpetual price we pay. These counterlives, in which we love our true beloveds, feeling passion & its expression as an extension of time itself, or rather, a cessation of time, where we are once again who we were when love first denuded us with its flaming tongue, changing us on a molecular level; we are kept under glass, preserved, as in a cryogenic sleep, to be awakened at our true love's kiss -- if it arrives; & what of spending a lifetime loving e ...more

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Oct 29, 2019 Iulia rated it liked it

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After having loved Call Me By Your Name so much, news of a sequel made me feel equal parts delight and apprehension. The initial story was so impactful precisely because it was brief. Along with the lovely Italian summer, the whimsy of the Perlman household and Elio's exploration of his own desire, it all comes together in a perfectly encapsulated and unrepeatable story. I was afraid that extending it might dilute its essence, and to be frank, that was the case at times with Find Me. Suffice to ...more

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Nov 12, 2019 Moony Eliver rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: m-m, 2019, m-f, lgbtqia

1.5-2 stars. I'm not sure whether I'm going to write a real review on this one. I'll mull over it. I did not like the narrative voice (which felt the same, regardless of the three POVs) and ultimately the resolution felt really anti-climactic to me.

I'm not sure how much of the style of this one was also applicable in CMBYN (which I loved), and to be honest, I'm kind of afraid to go back and look. I think I was inclined to forgive a lot in that one because of my hearteyes. ...more

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Jan 02, 2020 Gerhard rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: 2020, gay-interest

I originally read Call Me By Your Name in 2013. When the movie was announced I was a bit skeptical, but was reassured that the director was Luca Guadagnino. If any book needed an auteur approach, it was this one.

When I eventually got to see it, I was pleased that James Ivory’s elegant screenplay had whittled away a lot of the florid excesses of Aciman’s prose. Guadagnino masterfully used his Italian villa setting as a major character in the movie; one does not really appreciate its importance in ...more

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Nov 05, 2019 Rose rated it liked it

The rating of this book is given only for the last ten pages of this book, the rest I wish I hadn’t bothered with. I do like Aciman’s writing and I thoroughly enjoy the book center-Ing around time (lost or taken or wasted) it’s nice to read something that isn’t so finite about death and life. The cyclical journey throughout the book and the connections between people is very endearing.

I’m not sure if this makes sense to anyone other than myself, it’s late

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André Aciman was born in Alexandria, Egypt and is an American memoirist, essayist, novelist, and scholar of seventeenth-century literature. He has also written many essays and reviews on Marcel Proust. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, The Paris Review, The New Republic, Condé Nast Traveler as well as in many volumes of The Best American Ess ...more

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“It’s just that the magic of someone new never lasts long enough. We only want those we can’t have. It’s those we lost or who never knew we existed who leave their mark. The others barely echo.” — 84 likes

“Some people may be brokenhearted not because they’ve been hurt but because they’ve never found someone who mattered enough to hurt them.” — 72 likes

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