The Windup Girl in Our Shared Shelf

Jul 25, 2010 Andrea rated it it was ok

Shelves: 2010

I really, really wanted to like this book. The writing was compelling, the setting was fascinating, but I just didn't care about the eponymous Windup Girl character. She was annoying and boring--the Bella Swan of biopunk. ...more

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Jul 13, 2017 Rachel rated it liked it

I wanted to like it more than I did. It's a unique world with some great characters. But too much going on, too many names to keep track of, some people I never quite understood what their story was. Glad I finished it, but could easily put it down between reads. ...more

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Jan 04, 2012 Lindi rated it did not like it

Shelves: speculative-fiction, abandoned

Perhaps I'm impatient, but the first third of the book didn't give me any reason to care about these stock characters: a world-weary white guy in a foreign country meets exotic young woman who needs saving. Did I mention she is gorgeous?

I'll try another Bacigalupi, but life is too short to spend any more time on this one. ...more

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Sep 25, 2010 Angela rated it liked it

Shelves: sf, fictional-societies, dystopia-utopian

It was chance timing that I happened to pick this up after having just read Guns Germs and Steel, in which I was surprised and somewhat scared to find that no new major food plants have been domesticated since ancient times, and that, of all the plants that grow on the Earth, we can actually only eat a rather small number of them. So how appropriate to follow that with a book set in a future in which whole families of food plants have gone extinct, resulting in mass starvation and a scramble to ...more

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