tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4025264318423694875.post6581390945644951731..comments2024-02-05T10:41:31.777-05:00Comments on I Saw Lightning Fall: A Fascinating, Frustrating GirlLoren Eatonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12488412683340389286noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4025264318423694875.post-62498159121355038382011-05-25T13:41:35.708-04:002011-05-25T13:41:35.708-04:00If you liked the Thai-ness of Windup, you really s...If you liked the Thai-ness of <i>Windup</i>, you really should read Hallinan's <a href="http://isawlightningfall.blogspot.com/2010/04/water-is-refreshingly-good.html" rel="nofollow"><i>Breathing Water</i></a>. It's a wonderful hardboiled thriller with tons of Thai culture in it. Definitely worth your time.Loren Eatonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12488412683340389286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4025264318423694875.post-79395812968399443922011-05-25T11:05:18.653-04:002011-05-25T11:05:18.653-04:00I was just discussing The Windup Girl with a cowor...I was just discussing <i>The Windup Girl</i> with a coworker to whom I had recommended the book. He was disappointed with certain aspects of the world-building (i.e. it hadn't passed his suspension of belief).<br /><br />Yet, I think what I liked most of all was the strong Thai world-feel it created and I enjoyed the way it sprinkled bits of pieces of the language into the story.AidanFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09876041003278004627noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4025264318423694875.post-38704380779552061552011-05-24T16:22:12.121-04:002011-05-24T16:22:12.121-04:00It truly is wonderfully written. Bacigalupi's ...It truly is wonderfully written. Bacigalupi's has quite a future in front of him, I'm sure. Those two themes really did frustrate me, though. It isn't that he included them in his novel. (Gibson had the big predatory corporation all throughout his Sprawl trilogy.) It's that they were so <i>thoroughly</i> incorporated into the narrative that I couldn't just ignore them.<br /><br />Still, really well-written book.Loren Eatonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12488412683340389286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4025264318423694875.post-88584284123005804862011-05-23T20:06:00.598-04:002011-05-23T20:06:00.598-04:00The Windup Girl has probably been my favourite rea...<i>The Windup Girl</i> has probably been my favourite read so far this year. While certain SFnal elements might be questionable, I found it easy to look at how much ongoing debate is occurring in these fields, shrug and just buckle in for the ride Bacigalupi's built for me.<br /><br />I also suspect that this, along with China Miéville's <i>The City & the City</i>, gives a little insight into what makes the Hugos tick - worlds both fully realised and original.Ben Mannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03237990156034508963noreply@blogger.com