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The Windup Girl

Paolo Bacigalupi

Start date: March 7, 2010

Finish date: May 17, 2010

Discussion: 2010 Reads

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What Members Thought

Feb 28, 2016 Silvana rated it did not like it

Shelves: disappointing, sci-fi, stand-alones, reading-with-friends, dick-lit

Seriously, this won both Hugo and Nebula? Sheesh. For me, no characters are interesting enough to carry the novel, not even the hentai titular girl. I don't mind unlikable characters but I DO mind if they were flat as a board and the rambutan fruit was even more interesting.

Speaking of which, I miss those fruits. It is only seasonal in Indonesia. My favorite variety would be the ones with shorter 'hairs (we call them rapia here) ' since even though the outer skin is still green, the inside is s ...more

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Apr 17, 2016 mina rated it liked it

The most depressing book I read this year.

A dystopian story, focusing on Thailand in the future. This time the destruction of the world is brought by bio-engineered plague causing the plants and animals (and human beings) die. Thereafter, the world is controlled by global calorie companies producing genehacked carbohydrate sources, fruits, vegetables. Add to that the extinction of fossil fuels. I am shuddered thinking of the possibility that this might also happen to us in reality.

The idea itse ...more

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Oct 01, 2014 Tanvir Muntasim rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Bacigalupi makes an outstanding debut with this science fiction (sweeping 5 major awards including Hugo and Nebula) that depicts a chilling future with multinational agro businesses dominating economics and politics. He shows how the control over seeds and food in general will determine where the actual power lies. This is visionary and cautionary story telling at its best. An all too feasible reflection of the future, and it doesn't look pretty. Unlike the popular Young Adult dystopian novels, ...more

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