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title: "Wool: Silo, #1; Wool, #1-5"
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# Wool: Silo, #1; Wool, #1-5

**Brand:** hugh howeyamanda sayleaudible studios
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    Not the quality I was hoping for
  

*by R***J on Reviewed in the United States on July 29, 2018*

I had very high hopes for this book.  I bought the trilogy because it was rated as one of the best dystopian sci fi series out there on a couple of sites.  But I had a very hard time getting through the first book.- Poor dialogue for many characters... sometimes cringe worthy.- I needed a strong suspension of disbelief.  Here are a few examples...  - Its a totalitarian state, where the 'mayor' can send someone to their death when desired.  However this 'mayor' doesn't know what is happening on many of the 144 floors, doesn't understand how the information technology or 'IT' people collect and use data on all the citizens, doesn't understand how the 'machines' way down in the mechanics area keeps everyone alive with the water and power and all that.  Knowledge is power.  And this 'mayor' did little more than sign birth certificates.  Seemed like some token leader that didn't fit the vibe of the book at all.  - The sheriff is the law, and again in my mind just didn't fit.  In this type of totalitarian state he would be integrated into IT, monitoring and controlling the thoughts of the inhabitants... with a well armed militia ready to stamp out dissent at a moments notice.  Instead we get a guy and his aged deputy who know nothing about 'IT' or much of the rest of this silo...  Just seemed incredibly hokey.  - They have an apprentice system for career fields, called 'shadows' that spend their youth learning their trade from the elders.  Mechanics, porters, doctors... whatever.  Then the sheriff needs to be replaced and they say they don't need a shadow.  Eh.. just screw it and learn on the fly.  Its only the law after all...  - They live in what is basically an underground sky scraper.  They have foundries and machine shops and can fix whatever problems have arise... and have for many, many years.  But they cannot install an elevator?  They have one set of stairs going up and down...  What happens when they have an earthquake?  Or the stairs collapse due to heavy use?  Where is the set of stairs for the porters to go up and down to deliver goods?  Why not install a service elevator??  They have all these techno widgets and computers... but cannot install something that was invented in the 19th century?  What??All these things just kept echoing in my mind as I plodded through the book.  I went from reading 30 pages at a time, to 15, to two... and ended up just skimming through the last third.  Not very well thought out and nowhere near the quality of something like GRR Martin.  I read that it was an indie book.  I can see why.  I am very surprised that it has done as well as it has.

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    Great indie book
  

*by N***) on Reviewed in the United States on June 17, 2017*

Self-publishing still gets a bad rap. Sometimes it’s justified: with a lower barrier to entry, platforms like Kindle Direct Publishing allow anyone to publish anything, even if it’s a stream-of-consciousness first draft riddled with typos. But there are plenty of brilliant, professional “indie” authors out there. And Hugh Howey is one of them.Wool: Omnibus Edition is a collection of his first five novellas in the Wool series. The stories are set in a post-apocalyptic future in which the earth’s air has become toxic and the last survivors are forced to live underground in an immense silo with over 130 levels. How the world came to ruin is lost to history. But people know that talking about going outside is punished by being forced to go outside: troublemakers are sentenced to use wool pads to clean the lenses of the silo’s exterior cameras before succumbing to the noxious atmosphere.There’s as much mystery as science fiction in the first few novellas. Aside from the big question—what caused the apocalypse?—Howey builds his world piece by piece in an investigative format that takes the reader along on a hunt for the truth. Why do people condemned to die still fulfill the ritual of cleaning the cameras? What caused the dimly remembered uprisings in the silo? Who’s keeping all these secrets? Are they right to do so? And why isn’t there a freaking elevator? There are murders to solve too, and while the action is slow-paced at first, Howey turns out to be as ruthless with his characters as George R. R. Martin.All this—plus heaps of strong writing—would be enough to make me like Wool on its own. But the Omnibus Edition also features beautiful illustrations, many of which are animated. (Even the cover on Amazon has motion to it.) At first, I found the kinetic bits distracting, but I came to enjoy them as the stories developed.None of this is to say Wool is perfect. I thought the third novella spent too much time rehashing a mystery that had already been solved in the first. And now and then Howey’s descriptions get a touch granular for my tastes. But I’ve never read a flawless “traditionally” published book either, and Wool is better than most.Because good writing is good writing, no matter who puts it out.

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    The world has gone to crap. The air is toxic
  

*by R***D on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 10, 2016*

Finally a book I couldn’t put down. It has been a long barren spell for me, but Wool is a cracking read.The world has gone to crap. The air is toxic. Wool opens in an underground silo, all 140 odd floors, self-sufficient, with the sheriff, asking the mayor to let him clean. Cleaning isn’t such a good thing for a man to ask to do. It involves going outside the silo in a crap suit to clean the many lens that offer the occupants of the silo a clear view of the crap going on in the outside world. The suit is fitted with woolen pads for the cleaning, but is deliberately faulty, like something you’d buy at Target or Primark, so it falls apart and the cleaner dies.Now I found the beginning confusing, not quite understanding what Holsten’s - the sheriff looking to clean - problem was. It had been three years since he’s lost his wife to this cleaning bug, her dead decomposing body, visible in the screen on the wall by the cafeteria. And when he went out into the toxic world outside the silo, I expected the story to continue outside the silo. And when it didn’t I had to mourn Holsten, and learn to like another character, the mayor, but she also died. Murdered she was.Can you see my confusion? Don’t worry, as I’m sort of thick, and slow at picking up on stuff like plot. This story sorts itself out and the pace and the intrigue kick on.Because in Juliet, the author offers a grand character we can cheer for. She is a mechanical genius living in the bowels of the silo, but due to her assistance with an earlier murder her talents are recognized and rewarded. Juliet is offered the Sheriff’s position, and unearths’ the clues Holsten’s wife had discovered, and slowly we all begin to learn through Juliet, the secret behind the silo and the world outside.

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