Call Me by Your Name

It's the stream of consciousness of an overthinking self absorbed fickle teen. i think what people liked was this lifestyle reminiscent of the 60s, no mentions of phone or technology, days spent under the sun, reading playing classical music on the piano. Throughout i could not understand in which decade the story is supposed to happen in cause it did not mention anything of the present so it could've happened at any time, which adds to the ephemeral mood of the book, but other than that there really is nothing (I had to google to see that the story was happening in the 80s, which makes a lot of aspects of the book anachronistic, I'm sure the writer didn't care one bit about the period of the book, only reference of time is “after ww2” and “televisions exist cause there were mentioned once” homosexuality doesn't seem to be an issue and no pop song was mentioned in that supposed 80s book)

It seemed the writer wanted to reproduce a 60s book where being gay felt tragic in itself, for that you might read Tenessee Williams, Truman Capote, Baldwin or Isherwood. This is just a cheap knockoff and if it weren't for the film no one would've care about it. Where is the damn conflict? You have a teen overthinking a relationship no one minded (that summarizes the book well)

*** I had in mind rating it 3/5 cause of the mood, but minus 1 star for the two positive mentions of Israel.