Find Me

A shocking disappointment. I had heard bad things about it, before, and adjusted my expectations beforehand, but as the book went on I really grew more and more tired of it.

Aciman likes to write about the same things. In this book alone, I counted three or four relationships between people with a huge age gap, with both parties reflecting on that. (Which was also an element in Call Me By Your Name, of course).

Where I loved his style of writing in CMBYN, and even enjoyed it in Enigma Variations, here I found it to be painfully pretentious. The plot often ridiculous, clearly Aciman's own fantasies, near-mindless drivel.

That's not to say this book is wholly unreadable. There were some solid moments, some interesting lines, some hints of a better book. But those were rare, and all-in-all, this was a completely unnecessary sequel, if you can even call it that.