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"  If you&amp;#039;re a fan of director David Cronenberg&amp;#039;s films (Scanners, The Fly) then you&amp;#039;ll relish his first novel, Consumed. At the heart of the story are Naomi Seberg and Nathan Math, freelance Web journalists investigating the gruesome death of C\u00E9lestine Arosteguy and the disappearance of her husband/potential murderer, Aristide. Add in ample doses of violence, virtual voyeurism, a few dashes of experimental surgery and geopolitical philosophizing, and more than a hint of cannibalism and you&amp;#039;ll get a good sense of the disconnected world that the author has rendered. Admittedly, the various disconnections and indulgences in the novel are often glaring and distracting, but this also seems to be Cronenberg&amp;#039;s point: We&amp;#039;re a society, a world, that fetishizes the latest and most powerful technology, and our unchecked desire for more speed, access, and pixels is isolating us, eating us, consuming our very flesh. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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