NP - Have any of you read David Cronenberg's 2015 novel, CONSUMED?

[Mark Thibodeau]

I recently read it, and found it to be very much in keeping with many of my
favorite aspects of his cinematic aesthetic.

Upon completing my first read-through, I got a definite sense that
Cronenberg is a reader of Pynchon... although that is something one might
have gleaned from his mid-career films, as well. Say, from The Brood,
onward to Existenz. There are a lot of surface similarities, including
funky nomenclature, corporation-as-conspiracy, the sexual fetishization of
technology, etc.

CONSUMED is also simultaneously very funny and somewhat frightening. There
is a certain cool ferocity to the descriptions of the novel's central
crime, wherein the male half of a modern version of the French ideal of a
Sartre/de Beauvoir "public intellectuals" power couple appears to have
murdered and partially cannibalized his partner before beating a hasty
retreat to Japan.

The novel's central characters, however, are two relatively successful
indie photojournalists covering two very different stories about two very
different, smallish groups of people; he, a couple of doctors (one
European, the other, Canadkan) with strange hobbies and stranger habits,
she, the aforementioned French philosophical power-couple.

Anyway, I very much recommend it, and would love to hear what Pynchon
admirers have to say about

A pretty good review by Johnathan Lethem here:
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/28/books/review/consumed-by-david-cronenberg.html