I just didn't care enough about any of the characters or the setting to keep going past page 75. It sounds like it would be interesting for the right person, but I am not the right reader for this book. Borrowed from the library and there are several reserves on it and I really don't feel a want o...
An excellent book, though not for the faint-hearted, that deserves all the hype and awards.This is a dystopian future created by a free market economy rather than a tyrannical dictator. Greedy corporations have destroyed the world's natural food resources while at the same time oil has run out and g...
I really enjoyed this book.The future world that Bacigalupi creates is full of life and details and technologies that are plausible and functional. The main characters are believable, and have flaws that make them interesting.The only reason that I cannot give it five stars is that I thought that th...
(refers to audiobook)Narrated masterfully by Jonathan Davis, Paolo Bacigalupi's "The Windup Girl" is stunning and sweeping, with a vocabulary that sticks (particularly thinking in economic terms of "expansion" and "contraction" vs. "recession" etc.), and a story that is engaging at several levels, f...
The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi is a science-fiction or steampunk novel following the story of Anderson Lake, a "Calorie Man." The planet is in a state of disarray, where food we take for granted today, have gone extinct. This is a result of genetically engineered diseases, which mutate faster ...
Following the resounding success of my Locus Quest, I faced a dilemma: which reading list to follow it up with? Variety is the spice of life, so I’ve decided to diversify and pursue six different lists simultaneously. This book falls into my HUGO WINNERS list.This is the reading list that follows th...
Set in a twenty-third century dystopia in which global warming has raised the levels of world's oceans catastrophically and carbon fuel sources are nearly exhausted, The Windup Girl was named as the ninth best fiction book of 2009 by TIME magazine and garnered a whole tranche of prizes including the...
There are 50 or so pages left in this book, and I just can't bring myself to read them. I sit down and can't remember who the characters are, how they're related, and The Windup Girl is one of those books that switches from one side to the other with each character - in one chapter we're on this guy...
Plot: You are dumped in a futuristic society where the corporations rule and everyone is a pawn or puppet. This Thai society is the last refuge on earth that has a source of natural energy and a sort of political stability. Through the lives of four interconnecting characters, you go on an adventure...
Holy crap, this book is slow.Maybe 2 stars is a little harsh, but according to the goodreads scale that means "it was okay", and that's pretty close to how I feel about this one. It's not a bad book, really. The worldbuilding is really imaginative, it's well-written, and there are some cool ideas he...
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