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Richard
Yes. It definitely did not add anything to my Call Me By Your Name experience. That was all good. This was not.
Foszen is right. The book stinks of opportunity.... gone wrong.
Foszen is right. The book stinks of opportunity.... gone wrong.
Artgroupie
Yes. I wish I didn't feel that way, but I do.
In the end, despite some lovely passages, actually hearing from Oliver in the first person and of course the reunion, I don't think Find Me adds enough to CMBYN to warrant its existence, and in a number of ways it actually diminished the earlier novel and its characters for me. Aciman is like a bull in a china shop with his own timelines, retconning and rewriting aspects of CMBYN willy-nilly, to the point where it's impossible to accept both books as canon, because they contradict each other all over the place. His recycling of themes and ideas from both CMBYN and Enigma Variations feels less like an author working through his perpetual obsessions than someone who just didn't have much fresh perspective to offer on these characters. I never expected any sequel to BE Call Me By Your Name - that's not possible. But at a minimum, I hoped it wouldn't change anything about the earlier book. And then there's the atrocious treatment of female characters, from Wet Dream Miranda to the one known only as Elio's Mother (or Sami's ex-wife), since Aciman didn't see fit to give her a name, which left a definite sour aftertaste. I have a lot of admiration for Aciman's work, but this just feels like a misstep.
In the end, despite some lovely passages, actually hearing from Oliver in the first person and of course the reunion, I don't think Find Me adds enough to CMBYN to warrant its existence, and in a number of ways it actually diminished the earlier novel and its characters for me. Aciman is like a bull in a china shop with his own timelines, retconning and rewriting aspects of CMBYN willy-nilly, to the point where it's impossible to accept both books as canon, because they contradict each other all over the place. His recycling of themes and ideas from both CMBYN and Enigma Variations feels less like an author working through his perpetual obsessions than someone who just didn't have much fresh perspective to offer on these characters. I never expected any sequel to BE Call Me By Your Name - that's not possible. But at a minimum, I hoped it wouldn't change anything about the earlier book. And then there's the atrocious treatment of female characters, from Wet Dream Miranda to the one known only as Elio's Mother (or Sami's ex-wife), since Aciman didn't see fit to give her a name, which left a definite sour aftertaste. I have a lot of admiration for Aciman's work, but this just feels like a misstep.
Marc
There is so much crammed into this short book. The audiobook is fantastic.
For the teenage girl inside me that wanted another horny, lovesick 17 year old boy with a peach....that was never going to happen. You don't get a second helping of CMBYN.
I do appreciate the accomplishments of Find Me and Aciman's writing. And really, we learned all we needed to know about what happened to the two, how they managed to live their parallel lives and so forth. Most importantly, we see them living "together in the same house", as Elio imagined in CMBYN.
But Find Me offers much more than that for anyone that wants it.
For the teenage girl inside me that wanted another horny, lovesick 17 year old boy with a peach....that was never going to happen. You don't get a second helping of CMBYN.
I do appreciate the accomplishments of Find Me and Aciman's writing. And really, we learned all we needed to know about what happened to the two, how they managed to live their parallel lives and so forth. Most importantly, we see them living "together in the same house", as Elio imagined in CMBYN.
But Find Me offers much more than that for anyone that wants it.
Foszen
Yes but money makes the world and the story go round. I read about 150 books a year . Find me was the most horrible book (story and style) of the last decade
Raymond
Certainly not. It needed to be written to provide a basis for a movie sequel (for which there is still a demand). A lot of fans of the 2017 film still want their happy ending and the book fulfils that wish. As a result, the sequel clearly had something major to offer with its happy ending, even if disappointed readers here dismiss that and claim it contained nothing new.
Milla Romu
YES. It doesnt' add anything to CMBYN. Such a dissapointment
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