Call me By Your Name

[Andrew]

The saddest, most lovely gay coming of age novel that has ever graced my bookshelf. I read this in 4 hours and didn't cry once. However, spent the next week in a state of melancholic despair.

[Jane]

I loved it too! You knew it wouldn't end happily and yet it was a happy and sad story. They were like two ships who passed in the night.

[Randy]

Lovely story, well written. I look forwad to the author's next book.

[Bob]

I didn't cry either. However, that novel is still with me and I read it over two months ago. I have a copy of his later one "Eight White Nights" and will be starting that this weekend.

[Bob]

This wonderful novel is not only well written, but like "The San Clemente Syndrome," described within, it operates on many levels that must be excavated by the reader. My most recent discoveries are the parallels between the book and Greek Mythology. I liken basic story line to the abduction of the beautiful young lad Ganymede by the God Zeus, who makes the boy an immortal to serve as cup bearer to the Gods. Let's face it, Oliver is perfect, gorgeous to behold, completely organized to the point of being "compartmentalized," in other words, he is a god among men. Oliver takes Elio to Mt. Olympus, or as in the novel, Rome. Elio enters a bookstore with two Roman statues in from of a brass trimmed door, or, the temple of the Gods. Elio has found his own heaven. Enter Oliver accompanied by two "babes," and soon meet up with a third. These beautiful ladies are the muses of music, poetry and dance. Elio has found his place in the world, enabling an untearful farewell to Oliver when he flies home. Oliver then gets on with his life, forgetting some of the many intimacies shared with Elio. There are many other parallels to be discussed here as well as other levels found within this book, but I will stop here. Thanks for reading this.