The Windup Girl - Paolo Bacigalupi

Took me more than a month to read, which should say something. As sci-fi it is brilliant. It's brilliantly imagined. The amount of work that went into researching, imagining and plotting it must have been phenomenal. But it's not very well written. Maybe I'm just spoiled on Auster and King lately, but I kept running into characters "forcing back anger" or being "flooded with relief". Lazy. And wordy, undisciplined sentences. I think that's why it took me so long. In the end it was worth it though. By the climax of the last hundred or so pages, I was finally invested.