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Wool Part One Silo series Book 1 eBook Hugh Howey

Why name a novel Wool? Wool, wool. What wool? The cloth that’s itchy on sensitive skin? The fleecy covering on sheep until they share it with us? Wool, like fuzzy heads or unshaved faces? As it turns out, wool in Hugh Howey’s novel is the steel wool used to clean camera lenses on a buried silo. A silo buried for life, for the living in some post-apocalyptic world in which the descendants of survivors only have a camera’s eye view of the outside world and that camera lens must be kept clean. So wool, steel wool, is essential to this society. The title makes sense.
The opening line gets our attention with an opposition of imagery and attitude. “The children were playing while Holston climbed to his death…” The obvious dichotomy of children, full of life, playing and dying creates enough curiosity to engage the reader. The contrasts between living and dying continues as Holston takes his time, moving up each step in a methodical and ponderous way. He wears “old boots” as he climbs a metal spiral staircase, paint chipped with age and metal floor worn so thin even the diamond no-slip pattern is flatten by time and numerous footfalls. Holston punctuates this difference as he reflects on how the sounds of “childlike delight” and youthful nativity “who in their minds were not buried” are “incongruous with…his decision and determination to die.” And we ask ourselves, why is he so determined to die? Holston’s ponderings about what the “untold years had done, the ablation of molecules and lives, layer and layer ground to fine dust” help us empathize with Holston’s resignation borne of desperation.
Questions, pulled from reader with incongruities like laughing children and death, are marvelous tools for writers and Howey uses them well. We are engaged with Holston and this generationally buried society enough to read the entire account. We learn about the importance of cleaning the outside camera lenses, which needs to done every couple of years because toxic soot builds up and clouds the exterior view. We also learn that the job is fatal. The toxins in the air are still so powerful they deteriorate the chemical safety suits in a matter of minutes and kill the “cleaner.” Criminals are sometimes used to clean the lens, but at other times there are those who actually volunteer for the job, like Holston does now…like his deceased wife did a year ago.
Sheriff Holston was married to Allison, one of the few IT workers in the silo. In this limited space, controlled environment procreation is only permitted for couples who win the “lottery.” The lottery allows couples to attempt to produce offspring for one year, then that privilege goes to another winning couple. Holston and Allison won the lottery the year she volunteered for “cleaning.” The laughing children remind him of what might have been, of the child he and Allison might have had if not for the secret she learned while recovering deleted computer files. However, as Holston learns, the secret Allison thinks she discovered is not the real secret.
I highly recommend Wool by Hugh Howey because he builds his setting with rich details and his characters, though a bit stagnant, are engaging. You sympathize with the main characters and feel their pain. We don’t learn a lot about Deputy Marnes or Mayor Jahns in this first book, but we are deeply involved with Sheriff Holston, Allison and a society living in a silo. It’s not an action-packed, plot-driven escapism novella, but it does keeps moving with twists and turns you don’t see coming. And it does move quickly along, taking us into a dystopian world with rich texture and compelling traditions. We don’t get answers to questions like, “what happen to create this mess,” but we are sucked into the world of one man and his desperate reaction to the loss of a spouse and the loss of hope.
I’ve only seen one drawback to Wool. It’s a free standalone novella in the Wool Series of five separate books. (Wool, Proper Gauge, Casting Off, The Unraveling, The Stranded) It is part of the Silo Series which includes the Shift Series (First Shift: Legacy, Second Shift: Order, Third Shift: Pact), plus the final novel, Dust. It was free, so I can’t complain too much. And it did pull me in enough to read the second book in the series, Proper Gauge. FYI enjoyed it too, and now I’m working on the third book, Casting Off. More to come about those books later. My only regret is that I bought the books individually and didn’t go ahead and purchase the Wool Omnibus Edition, which contains those first five books. Don’t make the same mistake I did!


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Wool Part One Silo series Book 1 eBook Hugh Howey Reviews

I have read so many references to this book and this series in reviews of other books, so I thought it was about time for me start reading this one. I was not disappointed. This story is an excellent beginning to a dystopian world with many possibilities. It does tend a little to the dark side, though since it's post-apocalyptic, that is to be expected.

About the only thing I wanted more of in the book was to read more about the social, commercial (if any), and industrial structure of the silo society. However, since Mr. Howey has chosen to dole out the information in smaller doses (not my favorite way of reading a book series), I'm sure more information will be forthcoming in later books. With such a large reviewed base, I'm sure I do not need to go into any specifics of this story. Suffice it to say I will be reading more about the WOOLiverse by Mr. Howey as well as other authors who have entered this genre.
As a knitter I was looking forward to sci-fi with knitting, 2 of my favorite things. Although I was underwhelmed by the wool aspect, the story is a keeper, I found myself thinking about it for days after I'd finished. The book is bare but gripping and leaves the reader with many unanswered questions (thankfully the sequels are available). I highly recommend it, but Hugh's stories are like chips, it's hard to stop with just one.
I really enjoyed this series. This author is one of the few that can go into so much detail about the world he has created and yet not have you feel bogged down. It usually adds to the story rather than slow things down. The world he creates is something new and refreshing. The characters are very well balanced and I am pleasantly surprised to find as many leading female characters as men. And it works without feeling like he is trying to do it. It feels natural. You cannot often easily predict what will happen or what is happening. You will find yourself wanting to keep reading and not put down the book. I have been very late getting to bed many nights because I am going to just read a few more pages (or chapters). I really wanted to keep following the characters past the end of the book. When alone I am often yelling at or cheering on characters out loud.

It has a dark side but not so much to beat you over the head with it. You have many light sides as well.

I feel that a lot of my descriptions here is generic. I desperately want to avoid spoilers because this series is such a treat. It should appeal to a wide range of tastes in books. I have read almost everything else he has out because of this series. This is probably his best or one of his best. If you want something a little different, this might be the book for you.

Go for it!
It was a different premise at the time it was written. I bought the first series eagerly. By the time I got to the end of reading all the books in that series, I was just skimmimg. That is a bad sign for me. I do not skim books when reading Asimov or many other favorite authors. I relish every single word.

In retrospect, I have never felt the least desire to re-read these books when means I cannot give them a 4 star rating. They are not awful. They are just okay. The plot is more interesting than the characters in the plot. The characters are flat. This is a purely plot driven series. To be worthy of more than 3 three stars, something more than plot is needed for me.
I got the first Wool book and after finishing it I had to get the rest of the series. I found the plot to be excellent and the characters were well written. It was one of those reads that I just couldn't put down. The autor established one of the best plots for a far future that I have read. The concepts were great. The author's way of writing just put you in the place of each character. Looking forward to reading more by this author especially the next Wool book.
Why name a novel Wool? Wool, wool. What wool? The cloth that’s itchy on sensitive skin? The fleecy covering on sheep until they share it with us? Wool, like fuzzy heads or unshaved faces? As it turns out, wool in Hugh Howey’s novel is the steel wool used to clean camera lenses on a buried silo. A silo buried for life, for the living in some post-apocalyptic world in which the descendants of survivors only have a camera’s eye view of the outside world and that camera lens must be kept clean. So wool, steel wool, is essential to this society. The title makes sense.
The opening line gets our attention with an opposition of imagery and attitude. “The children were playing while Holston climbed to his death…” The obvious dichotomy of children, full of life, playing and dying creates enough curiosity to engage the reader. The contrasts between living and dying continues as Holston takes his time, moving up each step in a methodical and ponderous way. He wears “old boots” as he climbs a metal spiral staircase, paint chipped with age and metal floor worn so thin even the diamond no-slip pattern is flatten by time and numerous footfalls. Holston punctuates this difference as he reflects on how the sounds of “childlike delight” and youthful nativity “who in their minds were not buried” are “incongruous with…his decision and determination to die.” And we ask ourselves, why is he so determined to die? Holston’s ponderings about what the “untold years had done, the ablation of molecules and lives, layer and layer ground to fine dust” help us empathize with Holston’s resignation borne of desperation.
Questions, pulled from reader with incongruities like laughing children and death, are marvelous tools for writers and Howey uses them well. We are engaged with Holston and this generationally buried society enough to read the entire account. We learn about the importance of cleaning the outside camera lenses, which needs to done every couple of years because toxic soot builds up and clouds the exterior view. We also learn that the job is fatal. The toxins in the air are still so powerful they deteriorate the chemical safety suits in a matter of minutes and kill the “cleaner.” Criminals are sometimes used to clean the lens, but at other times there are those who actually volunteer for the job, like Holston does now…like his deceased wife did a year ago.
Sheriff Holston was married to Allison, one of the few IT workers in the silo. In this limited space, controlled environment procreation is only permitted for couples who win the “lottery.” The lottery allows couples to attempt to produce offspring for one year, then that privilege goes to another winning couple. Holston and Allison won the lottery the year she volunteered for “cleaning.” The laughing children remind him of what might have been, of the child he and Allison might have had if not for the secret she learned while recovering deleted computer files. However, as Holston learns, the secret Allison thinks she discovered is not the real secret.
I highly recommend Wool by Hugh Howey because he builds his setting with rich details and his characters, though a bit stagnant, are engaging. You sympathize with the main characters and feel their pain. We don’t learn a lot about Deputy Marnes or Mayor Jahns in this first book, but we are deeply involved with Sheriff Holston, Allison and a society living in a silo. It’s not an action-packed, plot-driven escapism novella, but it does keeps moving with twists and turns you don’t see coming. And it does move quickly along, taking us into a dystopian world with rich texture and compelling traditions. We don’t get answers to questions like, “what happen to create this mess,” but we are sucked into the world of one man and his desperate reaction to the loss of a spouse and the loss of hope.
I’ve only seen one drawback to Wool. It’s a free standalone novella in the Wool Series of five separate books. (Wool, Proper Gauge, Casting Off, The Unraveling, The Stranded) It is part of the Silo Series which includes the Shift Series (First Shift Legacy, Second Shift Order, Third Shift Pact), plus the final novel, Dust. It was free, so I can’t complain too much. And it did pull me in enough to read the second book in the series, Proper Gauge. FYI enjoyed it too, and now I’m working on the third book, Casting Off. More to come about those books later. My only regret is that I bought the books individually and didn’t go ahead and purchase the Wool Omnibus Edition, which contains those first five books. Don’t make the same mistake I did!