A bleak look at what happens when the world passes (and is well on the downhill slide beyond) "peak oil", and GMO agri-businesses control the world's food supplies.Thailand is one of the few countries that is managing to survive without selling out to agri-business, even though the "calorie companie...
The Windup Girl is set in a grim and depressing Bangkok, Thailand, after the end of the world as we know it. Mutation in genetically-modified food has killed, and continues killing, millions. Currently, the greatest commodity is calories, derived from ever-modified food – because there’s no such thi...
This book was intriguing...set in a dystopian future filled with terrible diseases, and because of human meddling, natural food is scarce and many animals are extinct. There are dirigibles (which is pretty much the only thing "steampunk" about it, so I'm not sure why so many believe it's steampunk)....
Since the book is named The Windup Girl, I assumed she'd be the main viewpoint character. Instead she was often lost among a large cast... I think there were five viewpoint characters, total. As it turns out, I was glad she wasn't in more scenes, since her life mainly consisted of finding her next s...
I wanted to like this book more than I ended up liking it. At first I was smitten. Loved the setting, the narrator was great (I listened to the audio version), and I was genuinely interested in the resolution of the plot.As the book progressed though, it was clear the writing was so-so. It didn't gr...
The most interesting storyline, which is what the title refers to, is not the focus. Bacigalupi has 4 different storylines and some characters. None of which I could connect to or find myself caring or hating. They just existed. The plot, while an interesting hook about bio-engineering in response t...
Enjoyable. Misleading title; I kept waiting for the story to focus more on the wind-up girl. Perhaps it should have been called The Company Man. I didn't put down my thoughts while reading, so to do it justice, back it goes on the TBR shelf.
My grandmother reads food labels to see if they contain any genetically modified products. I used to laugh at it. Now, after reading The Windup Girl, I'm tempted to take a closer look at the food labels myself. Paolo Bacigalupi's The Windup Girl is a bleak and depressing story set in the future ru...
I should have enjoyed this book more than I did. It has all the ingredients I like - dystopia, exotic location (Thailand), interesting characters, and good background premise.The premise is between the depletion of oil the plagues wrought by patented genetically engineered food sources (I particula...
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