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Call Me by Your Name

André Aciman

Start date: February 1, 2018

Finish date: February 28, 2018

Discussion: Book of the Month Club

Discussion leader: Jordan Lombard

Why we're reading this: It was nominated, seconded, and voted as our choice for February 2018.
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Jan 17, 2015 Arch Bala rated it really liked it

Shelves: first-love, print-to-movie

I’ve had this on my files for years now but never paid any attention to it until it was picked up for a film adaptation. So last night, I finally finished reading it – a good 15 days before the movie hit the theaters locally.

I’ve conflicting feelings about thi. I liked it enough but then I’d think of one scene which I hated then I would hate the whole thing but then Elio will do this, Oliver will do that, Elio will say that and so on… it’s just giving me a lot of feels – good, bad, depressing, w ...more

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Feb 24, 2018 Jordan Lombard rated it it was ok

Shelves: a-own, a-own-ebook, bom-jl-group, g-general-fiction, mc-bisexual, y-2018read, mc-gay

I think this would have made an excellent short story, and I would have enjoyed it a lot more. It’s a beautiful story, but reading the inner monologue of a teenage boy in confused love with a young man for the first time for an entire novel gets a little tiring. Also, the ending was terrible.

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May 06, 2019 Antonella rated it really liked it · review of another edition

I bought Call Me by Your Name in 2009, and I read it only last year, I didn't want to see the film before having read the book. I kept postponing reading it, because I thought that it would be a tragically sad story. In fact it is sad only right in the end, in my opinion. But it is intense. In the meantime I've seen the film several times. It is different from the book, especially in the ending. In an interview Armie Hammer reported André Aciman's opinion that he almost likes the ending of the s ...more

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