A review by robgruszecki
Consumed by David Cronenberg

2.0

Wow. I’m so surprised and disappointed in how much I didn’t enjoy this. David Cronenberg is one of my absolute favourite filmmakers (Videodrome, The Fly, The Brood, Scanners, Existenz are all some of my favourite movies) and I was so excited for his first novel. He’s got some great prose throughout and the plot is very very ‘Cronenberg’ so in theory I should have loved it. But I sadly found it exhausting, relentless and interminably boring in parts. I found the characters hollow and dull and at about the halfway point I completely stopped caring about them at all. I found this to be such a slog to get through and it bums me out that this just didn’t click with me at all in the way every movie I’ve watched of his absolutely captivates me. Cronenberg is a brilliant artist but this one in particular just didn’t land for me.