Because I desperately need to get back to posting

[eclectician]

1. The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi was really quite rocking

Comments

[sandmantv]

I heartily agree with #4 and #6.

I trust you when it comes to #3.

I don't get #1 at all. It contains by far the most graphic sex scenes I have ever heard of in a non-pornographic context (chapter 3). Am I incredibly sheltered and have missed a lot of specfic with such scenes, are the times a changing, or am I in fact prurient and just notice this stuff more than other people? (Otherwise the writing of the book was good and the plot was loose, as you tend to get from any novel based on initial short stories).

[eclectician]

I thought the loose plot actually came together very nicely into something solid. As for the sex, I didn't particularly notice or care. I didn't think it detracted from the book as a whole.

So maybe you really are just prurient or puritanical at heart. =P

[yaleartificer]

I also think #1,#3, and #4 are quite rocking.

Windup Girl was really great in that it was decidedly culturally odd and interesting, to go with the nifty calorie economy idea. In a genre where the characters are often Americans in Funny Costumes, it was nice to see the Americans thoroughly out of their element and often offstage throughout the book. I also thought each of the characters was very well drawn.

[eclectician]

All agreed! If there was one flaw with the cultural milieu, it was that the Thai characters came across as a little researched and intellectually decided, rather than real, but even then, it was only very slightly.

[preraphaelite]

If I still had a .plan file, I would make #6 it.