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Find Me
- Narrated by: Michael Stuhlbarg
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
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Summary
In this spellbinding new exploration of the varieties of love, the author of Call Me by Your Name lets us back into his characters' lives years after their first meeting
In Find Me, Aciman shows us Elio's father, Samuel, on a trip from Florence to Rome to visit Elio, now a gifted classical pianist. A chance encounter on the train upends Sami's visit and changes his life forever.
Elio soon moves to Paris, where he, too, has a consequential affair, while Oliver, a New England college professor with a family, suddenly finds himself contemplating a return trip across the Atlantic.
Aciman is a master of sensibility, of the intimate details and the nuances of emotion that are the substance of passion. Find Me brings us back inside the world of one of our greatest contemporary romances to show us that in fact true love never dies.
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- FENARETI
- 24-01-20
I'm sad I didnt pick it up sooner
The book is extraordinary and brilliant and so beautiful. You can really see how smart the author is, how much attention he paid into everything that he put in this book. What an amazing and heartbreaking experience. The performance was good, although a bit slow, I personally heard it at 1.80-2.0 speed.
Now for some more in depth thoughts (spoilers ahead)
I am so freaking annoyed that it took me too long to read this book because I trusted all the negative reviews.
Damn was I wrong.
People who dislike this book have no valid reasons. Hoenstly.
You need to understand literature and plot and symbolism in order to appreciate this book. It asks of you to be smart.
I appreciate books that do that, books that dont talk down to you or make you feel silly.
This book is beautifully written and it flows so effortlessly and naturally.
It follows 3 narrators, Samuel, Elio and Oliver.
Samuel was a story about second chances in life. It served the purpose it set to and it had some amazing dialogues and themes. It really challenges the reader to think without prejudice.
Then we follow Elio in his adulthood when he always has to deal with the loss of Oliver and how that has shaped literally his entire life. It felt great seeing how Elio found someone who truly cared for him to numb his pain and if he had given him more time I feel like they could have been happy together if things with Oliver never worked out.
Then there is one small chapter from Oliver's point of view where for the first time we see how he felt about the whole situation. He was never as calculating as he presented himself to be, we see him vulnerable and full of regret. We see him miss Elio painfully much and we finally can forgive him for breaking his heart.
Then we have 10 wonderful pages that tell us about their lives once they get back together. People complain that 10 pages aren't enough. They fail to understand that it is 100% on purpose. The entire book keeps repeating about time being lost and about the years and years they had to be apart. The reader through this book gets to experience the pain they did, breafly, since by the end of the book they get together. But these two people had to experience 20 years apart. 20 years. 20 years.
That's why it's so brilliant. It makes you fully understand what those years felt like.
What a brilliant author. What an incredible sequel.
You cannot compare it with the first book, they are too different. The first book is a summer read about first loves. This is a winter read about soulmates and destiny and true love and pain and loneliness.
How truly wonderful. I've never read anything like it.
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- Chris Thompson
- 08-11-19
A poignant reflection on the passage of time
I can imagine there will be a lot of people who don’t appreciate ‘Find Me’. Rather than being the direct continuation of Elio and Oliver’s story that some may expect, it picks up on the lives of all the characters - starting with Elio’s father, Samuel. The narrative shifts between Samuel, Elio and Oliver to reflect the many paths our lives can take, and to demonstrate the steady passage of time that continues to pass, with or without our permission. In that way it’s a far more realistic book than one might have expected, but it’s not without hope or impossible romance ... far from it, in fact. Aciman’s prose is beautiful and lyrical - drawing the reader in to the mindset of each character we get to inhabit briefly. As joyful as it is to read, I’d also highly recommend the audio book as narrated by Michael Stuhlbarg, who played Elio’s father in the original film. The gravitas and tenderness he lends to the work is something truly special, and provides a perfect complement (or mirror) to what Andre Aciman himself has done. As I said, this won’t resonate with everyone - because some people just want Elio and Oliver to pick up where they left off - but for those who appreciate the romance of life, it’s a wonderful journey to undertake.
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- Sallymarie
- 27-08-20
Disappointing sequel
It’s not a sequel to ‘Call Me By Your Name’ in the way I was expecting. Oliver doesn’t appear at all until the final third of the book and the first section doesn’t feature Elio at all.
The main themes are the relationship between fathers and their children; mid life crises and older men having relationships with much younger men and women.
The reading style is a little disjointed in places. The reader hesitated and pauses unnecessarily but it’s easy enough to follow.
There is a continuous emphasis on how big the age gap is in all the relationships and they all follow the same pattern: meeting; dinner; misunderstandings; sex; “did you remember you’re so much younger than I am?”; more sex; unnecessarily abrupt ending.
[SPOILERS AHEAD] If you’re interested in what Elio and Oliver are up to then you can skip the first third of the book because neither of them appear or are mentioned at all beyond in passing. The first half of the book focuses mainly on Elio’s father who meets a woman called Miranda, who is half his age, on a train.
Miranda is one of the most unrealistic female characters I’ve ever come across. Her beauty is heavily emphasised, and of course there is some “darkness” about her no doubt intending to make her seem more of a rounded character (there’s also some weird talk about incest with her brother which serves no real purpose at all).
I think their relationship is supposed to read as an epic romance and an instant deep connection between two people, but honestly it just comes off as creepy.
No woman I know, on being asked ‘why so glum?’ by a strange man on a train would respond in the way she does - take that man to meet her father; cook him dinner; sleep with him and declare she wants his child - all in the space of a few hours.
Elio’s section is more enjoyable. It focuses on his relationship with another older man, Michel. I would have liked to see this story developed into a full novel in itself, but then the story skips ahead and suddenly he’s back in Italy with Oliver and Michel is never mentioned again. The whole thing feels very disjointed
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- Daniel Salleh
- 18-04-20
a disappointing sequel
this is nothing but some instant romances, unnecessary babbles, contradictory facts with the first book. it seems like it's a sequel to the movie, not to the book.
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- Amazon Customer
- 29-10-19
Dull narration
The narration from Michael Stuhlbar is a bit dull. There are several times when there’s no distinction between the characters. The whole narration is, as one would say, done by someone who is extremely tired. That’s the feeling you get at first.
The story on the other hand is a good continuation to the first one
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- N
- 29-03-20
Beautiful Story
Beautiful story with incredible narration.I genuinely didn't want it to end. As a call me by your name fan I was very hesitant to read/listen to the sequel as I'm so emotionally attached to Elio and Oliver's story and I was afraid that a sequel would ruin it. But I'm glad that Andre Aciman didn't try too hard to please the audience with giving them what they want; a continuation of Elio and Oliver's story, but something different and unexpected, that felt more original and not forced. I highly recommend.
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- Alex
- 04-01-20
Mediocre at best
I should preface this with the fact that I wasn't exactly thrilled with the idea of a sequel to a pretty much perfect story. But I loved the writing of CMBYN and Michael Stuhlbarg narrating gave me hope...that I lost within the first few chapters. The story is lacking, the characters are vague and lack substance... and overall it feels like you've somehow found yourself trapped inside Aciman's wet dreams. The book is filled with pretentious, overreaching philosophies uttered by forgettable characters, or should I say caricatures of common clichés. What a let down to meet these characters again under these circumstances... One way I can describe it better than "mediocre"... "cringe worthy".
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- mrs zoe roberts
- 19-12-19
wonderful
I am so taken by Andre Aciman! It's been a long time since two books by the same author have moved me so deeply. I could relate to many parts of both stories, and I challenge anyone to find a book about the raw, heartbreaking and somewhat terrifying experience of love that depicts a real situation more beautifully. He doesnt shy away from the difficult things that's for sure! Love is love, whoever you are.
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- PAUL S MARSHALL
- 26-07-20
I could listen to Michael Stuhlbarg forever :-)
Wonderfully narrated and the story is kind of a perfect completion to the marvellous characters in Call me by your name.
Thoroughly enjoyed it and got choked up on more than one occasion. Andre certainly knows his onions ;-)
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- Amazon Customer
- 30-10-19
Crushing disappointment
You have to wade through two highly improbable and dull relationships before you even get to Oliver. So disappointing. And I don't believe Aciman was mistranslated when he said that he finds 12-year-olds attractive, there is so much boring and weird ruminating on age in this book. Highly problematic. The first chapter is so pointless and bad I wonder if he was trolling all of us cmbyn fans.
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