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The Windup Girl (2009)

by Paolo Bacigalupi(Favorite Author)

3.73 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1597801577 (ISBN13: 9781597801577)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Night Shade Books

review 1: Creepy and depressing. If you want to read something that leaves you somewhat nauseated and simultaneously makes you despair of any hope for humanity, this is it. I finished it, hoping to find something redeeming at the end, but no. This dystopia was just too bleak for me. I guess I like to see how the human spirit and faith and compassion can still survive in an ugly world and this vision was simply too pessimistic for me.
review 2: Terrific. A real page turner, plus all the fascination of a story set in Thailand (in the near future); a country about which I know almost nothing. A really inventive take on what might happen to us if we continue with the pattern of limiting the variety of genes in the staple crops that feed the world. Now it's not oil that d... morerives the economic wheels but calories. It looks like the author has done extensive research in preparing the "science" side of the fiction. And the characters he has created are varied, deep, fascinating and you really care what will happen to them during the power struggle the book venters on. A great read. less

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