Before the review a couple of notes not specific to windup girl, rather, information on audio-books and definitions.
Have you ever read an audio-book and it played to slow? Well, I have a solution out there for many of you.
If you have the media player VLC you can speed up your playback to whatever feels more comfortable to you. Here are the controls that I discovered:
Speed up: ] Key in keyboard
Speed down: [ Key in keyboard
Normal speed: = Key in keyboard
I go for triple speed if not taking notes. If taking notes then I go for double speed and pause when I need to. I still finish substantially faster and can follow along easier. If the audio book plays to slow I will lose interest or fall asleep.
Is this a steampunk novel? I have seen this book on several steampunk reading lists. 
Let us discuss what is steampunk first off.
Steampunk as defined by writers digest, " Steampunk sub-genre of science fiction that, as the name suggests, comes from the idea that technology never developed beyond steampunk. The science can deviate a bit from there, but that’s generally where it all starts. It’s a look into what could have happened had science and industry taken a different turn, but didn’t."
If we use this definition as the guideline for steampunk then this is not it. I would play this book more or less as a dystopia novel as that is more suiting. 
What this book definitely fits into as a sub-genre is calledbiopunk:
A science fiction genre that focuses on biotechnology. It is derived from cyberpunk, but focuses on the implications of biotechnology rather than information technology.

Now on the the review.
Plot 4
Pacing 3
Characters 4
World Building 5
Originality 5
Writing Style 3
Total = 4

Plot: Solid plot-line and complex protagonist and antagonist. -1 for being unnecessarily complex. I don't mind complexity, however, it appears to come across as unorthodox and unneeded. 
Pacing: First negative out of the gate is pacing. Not the action sequences, rather, the time that it takes the reader to be grabbed by the story. For me it was around 20 pages or so. Substantially to long so for me that is going to be -1 on the review alone. Something has to gather my attention and make me invested into the story aside from the cost of purchase or if it is part of an assignment. There is no immediate connection to what is going on. Another -1 because I have a hard time making it to the chapter breaks.
Characters: Excellent characters although I did find it difficult to embrace them, root for them or against. I was more or less invested only to point of finding out how it ended. I didn't really care who lived or died. Some of the racial undertones made some of the characters a bit grittier and realistic. -1 for no vested interest in the characters success.
World Building: The true champion of ths novel. It is difficult to write a Dystopia novel that does not come off as either possible or cheesy. Take Hunger Games as an example. Yes, it is Dystopia literature. No, it does not come off as credible nor as probable. Yes, it comes off as simply an emotional yarn of a love story. This world is seedy, grimy, and altogether disturbing. Not much to like, including the people. Which I believe is the author's intent. It is one of those tales that you like not liking.
Originality: Nothing else out there that I have come across just like this. To complex for my liking but it is solid nonetheless. 
Writing Style:. To complicated. To the damnation of this book. I understand why it won the awards that it did and none of it involved the quality of the actual literary body. The Windup Girl won the awards that it did because of it showing a very possible glimpse of a not to distant future. This is a work of political mind shaping and designed to affect the common soul and hold in disdain the corporate machines that are taking over the world out of pure greed for motives. I believe the author missed a larger audience by not simplifying the writing somewhat as well as not hooking in a larger user base.

I am still trying to find my voice when it comes to doing reviews. Sometimes I process the review in a more analytic light such as this one. Others I process from being a fanboy. Often times it is laborious to even write the review. 

I wasn't as much of a fan of this work as I wanted to be, I have certainly read more enjoyable novels. This book does have merits though and is a work of art. Not certain how anyone could rate Windup Girl a 1 or 2. There is no merit for that low of a score whatsoever. Fan or not, this writing shows genius.