Why didn't anybody tell me about Wool?

(The book series by Hugh Howley, of course - I’m down with sheep hairs.)

Okay, obviously somebody DID tell me, because I’ve had the sample on my Kindle for ages now, but I finally actually read it this weekend on vacation when I ran out of things to read and I am so hooked! I can’t get the damned thing out of my head! And then I read First Shift which totally didn’t help!

So, is the rest of his stuff any good? (And am I totally alone in being pretty sure that there’s nothing wrong with the air - that ain’t argon, and it’s what kills the cleaners and any uprisers who make it to the doors?)

Yes, it’s awesome. I think I learned about it here, actually, read a sample and was absolutely hooked.

I read First Shift after the Wool 1-5(6?) and really hope for more- I was sucked into them in a way I hadn’t been sucked into a book in a while.

I thought this was going to be a thread about how wool keeps you toasty warm during those nippy autumn nights. I seems to be some kind of book series…? But not about sheep?

If the purpose of this thread is to tell others about Wool, then perhaps some information and a few links will help. It’s a dystopian sci-fi series about a society living in an underground silo, by indie author Hugh Howey.

You can try the first of the series, a 58 page short story, for free from Amazon (or for $0.99 from Nook).

Wool Omnibus (1-5) can be found on Amazon or Nook for $5.99. (Or $1.99 if you were lucky enough to snag it two days ago when it was the Kindle Daily Deal.)

Massive thread on Mobileread forum about Wool, including some posts by the author.

No, about post-apocalyptic underground silo dwellers.

I read it after Ridley Scott mentioned it in an interview.

I enjoy post-apocalyptic fiction. I actually picked up the physical paper edition. My wife won’t set the kindle down long enough for me to use it. Ironically, she bought it for the kindle after I told her about how good it was.

Love it. Read it all at a couple of sitting, recommend it as much as possible.

I’m in the middle of the first set and love it. Strongly recommend.

The truly amazing thing about Wool is that I have yet to hear of anyone who read it who didn’t really really like it. I’ve recommended it to a whole pile of different people with different reading tastes and every one of them has come back to me and told me how much they’ve loved it.

Well, you’ve met me - I enjoyed it a lot but I thought 4 & 5 were kind of garbled. The premise began to not make sense to me on a couple of levels, and the characters became very silly, to the point where I’m not interesting in reading more books in the series.

The premise is a maguffin, and the more you see of it, the less interesting it is.

Yeah, this too. It stuck with me for a while, but after thinking over the story and the characters, I started to feel a lot more meh about it.

Nit pick

It’s Hugh Howey, not Howley.

I read the books and enjoyed them greatly…I read all 6 on the Kindle and treated them like they were one book…but frankly, had I read them individually, I would’ve felt that they were a little thin, I would be frustrated by how little happened in each one…in this book, our heroine travels up a bunch of stairs - the end.

And Howey is really inexpensive on Kindle.

I just finished and I take back my recommendation. The pace of the five sections suggests a much longer epic than this.

I take it that by now, most of you have read Shift and Dust?

No Dust spoilers yet please. It was just released a week ago.

I bought the omnibus after reading recommendations here, but I’ve yet to finish slogging thru it. The enthusiasm for the series is a puzzle to me.

Read Wool a couple of weeks ago, my daughter bought the omnibus and was quite enthusiastic about it, my expectations were low but couldn’t put it down. Daughter is not an SF fan at all so was rather surprised.

On finishing it I started Shift and although I enjoyed it I didn’t mesh with it like Wool. I think that this was mainly due to a lack of empathy with the main character, unlike with Wool.

Sitting here waiting for Dust to arrive :slight_smile: