New Sequel Book To, Call Me By Your Name

[tampa24]

Hey Everyone,

I just wanted to let you know that the sequel book to Call Me By Your Name is now out. I loved the movie and was enthralled by the book.

The new sequel book is called, Find Me. By Andre' Aciman. It came out on October 29th.

I would love to post some videos about the book. But even the YT vids that claim in the titles to have no spoilers...start offering spoilers. So I prefer to wait and read the book myself first, so that just about everything is a surprise. The first book seemed to be written as a stand-alone story with the intent of having no sequels. It even jumped forward at the end of the first book and gave a brief follow-up with the characters some 20 years later. So it kind of boxed in the author with that previous ending to the first book. We'll see how he works around that. But with the huge success of the movie, the author felt compelled to give the fans more of the characters they fell in love with, and more of their story. Time will tell if the sequel (and another possible movie) can live up anywhere close to the originals.

 

[SFPS01]

Have read it last week the day it came out. All I will say is I found it disappointing. I loved the movie and the first book. Have read Call Me By Your Name probably 10 times and watch the movie at least once a month.

 

[tampa24]

 

[tampa24]

Have read it last week the day it came out. All I will say is I found it disappointing. I loved the movie and the first book. Have read Call Me By Your Name probably 10 times and watch the movie at least once a month.

Thanks for the heads up SFPS.

Wow! You are really a devoted fan of the book and movie. I have my own copy of the movie also. I rarely go out and buy a DVD. But I made an exception for CMBYN. And you've got me thinking that I want to read the book again.

 

[SFPS01]

Thanks for the heads up SFPS.

Wow! You are really a devoted fan of the book and movie. I have my own copy of the movie also. I rarely go out and buy a DVD. But I made an exception for CMBYN. And you've got me thinking that I want to read the book again.

I guess it had a lot to do with the fact that CMBYN was a true love story that just happened to be between two males. I still get tears in my eyes at the very end when he is staring into the fireplace and also when he calls his mother to come pick him up at the train station. (in the movie).

 

[SFPS01]

Hey tampa24, there is a group of people on the internet that have been following and responding to CMBYN story. One of the contributors in that group wrote their own version of the sequel to the first book. It was incredible and the writing was so much like Aciman. Not sure if its still available but can find out for you if interested.

 

[tampa24]

Yes I would. Thank you! If you find the link or info to the story you can either notify me/us here...or you can PM me with it.

 

[tampa24]

I still get tears in my eyes at the very end when he is staring into the fireplace and also when he calls his mother to come pick him up at the train station. (in the movie).

Those are both such moving moments in the movie. My heart ached for him also when Elio referred to the tortuously slow buildup in their mutual attraction and seduction of each other, and lamented to Oliver that they had "lost so many days." Of course receiving the infamous phone call near the end of the movie crushed the nerves of just about everyone in the theater with me.

I did love the fact that there were no villains in this storyline trying to take away their happiness or trying to make them feel ashamed of their love and sexual intimacy. No parental disapproval. No spouse finding out about infidelity. No nosy neighbors snooping in with threats of exposure to public ridicule. The only villains per se were just the bad timing and circumstances, along with inconvenient geography in their lives, that wouldn't allow them to continue their relationship beyond a finite point.

 

[tampa24]

I finished reading the new book today. I must say that (as I was warned by others) I was also disappointed with the novel itself. It was not bad. But it could have been much better. I'll give away a tiny little bit of spoiler. So if you still want to read the book, then read no further.


I will state up front that Andre' Aciman's prose are amazing. He writes with such an advanced vocabulary and he takes even the most mundane of human interactions and delves deep into all the hidden motives, fears, joys and the unspoken layers of a conversation. His knowledge of world literature, ancient history, art, music, foreign languages, architecture, philosophy and the like, make me feel wholly inadequate. haha Reading his works helps me feel like I have been exposed to an advanced class in the humanities.

All that said, I felt like the pacing of the book, in the beginning especially, was off. For me it dragged and felt bogged down in places. For instance the book (IMO) spends an inordinate amount of time focusing on what I consider to be a minor character. About 40% of the book focuses on Elio's father. While this book helps develop and round out his character more so than the first book, I feel Aciman could have wrapped up the dad's storyline with fewer pages. It isn't until the 100th page before Elio himself finally joins the story. Up until then it's all about his dad.

The book does have the potential to be a fantastic movie. The only caveat is that like the movie Brokeback Mountain's origins as a short story (of only 60 pages), there would have to be a lot more meat added to the bones of this novel. It would need to fill in a lot of blanks. The screenplay would need to be much better and more rounded out than the book. Which of course is usually the opposite of how movies adapted from books work out.

 

[SFPS01]

I finished reading the new book today. I must say that (as I was warned by others) I was also disappointed with the novel itself. It was not bad. But it could have been much better. I'll give away a tiny little bit of spoiler. So if you still want to read the book, then read no further.


I will state up front that Andre' Aciman's prose are amazing. He writes with such an advanced vocabulary and he takes even the most mundane of human interactions and delves deep into all the hidden motives, fears, joys and the unspoken layers of a conversation. His knowledge of world literature, ancient history, art, music, foreign languages, architecture, philosophy and the like, make me feel wholly inadequate. haha Reading his works helps me feel like I have been exposed to an advanced class in the humanities.

All that said, I felt like the pacing of the book, in the beginning especially, was off. For me it dragged and felt bogged down in places. For instance the book (IMO) spends an inordinate amount of time focusing on what I consider to be a minor character. About 40% of the book focuses on Elio's father. While this book helps develop and round out his character more so than the first book, I feel Aciman could have wrapped up the dad's storyline with fewer pages. It isn't until the 100th page before Elio himself finally joins the story. Up until then it's all about his dad.

The book does have the potential to be a fantastic movie. The only caveat is that like the movie Brokeback Mountain's origins as a short story (of only 60 pages), there would have to be a lot more meat added to the bones of this novel. It would need to fill in a lot of blanks. The screenplay would need to be much better and more rounded out than the book. Which of course is usually the opposite of how movies adapted from books work out.

Excellent review of the book, I felt the same way.......