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I don't post that much about what I'm reading because I'm often half heartedly reading a little of this and that and I'll never finish any of them.
I am currently reading Find Me by Andre Aciman, the author of Call Me By Your Name. I read Call Me By Your Name, at the recommendation of a friend, in two sittings, which I do not do because I'm a slow reader. I found it gripping, devastating, etc. It was shocking that this straight guy had written the great gay love story. I liked the movie a lot, only in part because Armie Hammer is SO HOT, and then read with some disdain that director Luca Guadagnino (possibly not spelled like that!) said he was going to make a sequel or a bunch of sequels. Partly because there were a few annoying things about the movie in with the good; partly because the book pretty well resolves what happens later.
So like two weeks ago I saw that the sequel to THE BOOK was coming out a week later, and was super excited, and pre-ordered a copy immediately. And it got here. And it is BAD. No big spoilers here that aren't evident from the first page, but at least half of the book is from the point of view of Elio's Dad. Fine, I guess--I don't really care about Elio's dad. He's a good secondary character. Don't need to know his whole thing. But beyond that, it's just...it's like incompetent. It's actively badly written, and sort of gross about some stuff, and I just can't believe it. I'm tempted to include one sentence under a cut because it was so staggeringly awful but maybe that's a bit much.
It shares one thing that is maybe a problem about the first one, which is the upper middle class lifestyle/travel porn. But I just can't...maybe I'll write another entry when I finish and put stuff under cuts in case anyone is going to read it. I don't feel confident that the last 100 pages are suddenly going to be wonderful. How did this happen? CMBYN wrecked me.
I am currently reading Find Me by Andre Aciman, the author of Call Me By Your Name. I read Call Me By Your Name, at the recommendation of a friend, in two sittings, which I do not do because I'm a slow reader. I found it gripping, devastating, etc. It was shocking that this straight guy had written the great gay love story. I liked the movie a lot, only in part because Armie Hammer is SO HOT, and then read with some disdain that director Luca Guadagnino (possibly not spelled like that!) said he was going to make a sequel or a bunch of sequels. Partly because there were a few annoying things about the movie in with the good; partly because the book pretty well resolves what happens later.
So like two weeks ago I saw that the sequel to THE BOOK was coming out a week later, and was super excited, and pre-ordered a copy immediately. And it got here. And it is BAD. No big spoilers here that aren't evident from the first page, but at least half of the book is from the point of view of Elio's Dad. Fine, I guess--I don't really care about Elio's dad. He's a good secondary character. Don't need to know his whole thing. But beyond that, it's just...it's like incompetent. It's actively badly written, and sort of gross about some stuff, and I just can't believe it. I'm tempted to include one sentence under a cut because it was so staggeringly awful but maybe that's a bit much.
It shares one thing that is maybe a problem about the first one, which is the upper middle class lifestyle/travel porn. But I just can't...maybe I'll write another entry when I finish and put stuff under cuts in case anyone is going to read it. I don't feel confident that the last 100 pages are suddenly going to be wonderful. How did this happen? CMBYN wrecked me.
