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Wool (Wool Trilogy 1) [Kindle Edition]

Hugh Howey
4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (330 customer reviews)

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"Spoken about in the same breath as The Hunger Games and The Passage." (Independent on Sunday)

"Howey can really write ... frightening, intriguing, and mysterious ... it's easy to see why Wool captured readers so quickly." (Guardian)

"The massive underground hit ... Just don't read it in the dark." (Sunday Telegraph)

"Frightening yet completely believable ... I can't wait to see how Howey develops Wool into his prequel and sequel." (Sunday Express)

"Exhilarating, intense, addictive. A novel you will never forget." (SJ Watson, author of Before I Go to Sleep)

"A small and zippy vehicle with impressive narrative force...[Howey's] plot twists like a thrashing serpent in a fisherman's net." (Sunday Business Post)

"With Wool Hugh Howey has created a new science fiction classic! The riveting storyline and detailed prose sucks you in immediately and makes you feel like you're right there in the silo with his characters. But unlike them, you'll be in no hurry to leave." (Ernie Cline, bestselling author of Ready Player One)

"The characters are well-drawn, and even the villains have a sympathetic side. Secrets unfold with just the right pacing, and I had to set the book down several times and say, 'Wow,' when a major twist was revealed ... If you're looking for a good read, you can't do much better than Wool." (Rick Riordan, #1 New York Times bestselling author)

"In Wool, Hugh Howey delivers the key elements of great science fiction: an authentic and detailed future-world; realistic, relatable characters to live in it; and a taut, thoughtful story. Howey's supple, muscular writing is the icing on the cake." (Jonathan Hayes, author of Precious Blood)

"Written in a warm style that never attempts to get too clever, this is the kind of terrific read that's both respectful towards and transcendent of its own genre." (Sydney Morning Herald)

"The other reason to have an early night. A must-read." (Glamour)

"If I read anything better in 2013 in any genre I'll be very, very surprised." (Rick O'Shea)

"Wool is incredible ... the best science fiction series I've read in years." (Douglas Preston)

"Perhaps the biggest commercial hit so far to have started life as a self-published e-book." (A N Wilson, Reader's Digest)

"A compulsive, accessible journey into a sharply realised and well-crafter dystopian world." (SFX)

"A warm old-fashioned sort of yarn" (The Sunday Times)

"I took a chance on Wool, and found myself engrossed." (Huffington Post)

"This is one of those rare occasions where not only does the book live up to the hype, it exceeds it." (Bit the Book Blog, Australia)

"One of the most hotly-anticipated books of 2013." (Irish Times)

"Thrilling, thought-provoking and memorable ... one of dystopian fiction's masterpieces alongside the likes of 1984 and Brave New World." (Daily Express)

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An epic story of survival at all odds and one of the most anticipated books of the year.

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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 764 KB
  • Print Length: 576 pages
  • Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1476735115
  • Publisher: Cornerstone Digital (31 May 2012)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B00873GRU4
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  • X-Ray: Enabled
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (330 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #183 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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44 of 47 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Wool has been an amazing experience, 2 Feb 2013
By Parm TOP 500 REVIEWER
Format:Hardcover
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Wool has been an amazing experience, the book started out for me as one mans emotional turmoil in a desolate world. It then led me to see and then feel the inner workings of the power structure of the Silo. All of this was engaging as a story, but it wasnt until the screen was peeled back that you began to see and experience the true 1984 style control surrounding the lives of everyone in the silo.

The Silo is one huge air tight world, an organism that functions only as long as every part functions properly, as long as there is a back up ready to take its place or to fix a problem. Disease cannot be allowed to fester and ideas are a disease. This is a world of do your job, live your life and don't question the world at large. This is how the end of the world looks and it's a scary sight.

This story is high tension, high stress and a bloody scary look at humanity in a confined space. It's not a book I can say I loved, but its a book I can say made me think and think and think, its a book you experience as much as you read it. I would highly recommend this book to all readers

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15 of 17 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Good World, Good Story, OK Book 10 Mar 2013
Format:Kindle Edition
Wool is set in a post-apocalyptic world where what is left of the human race live in an underground silo. The story, or stories - remember this is an omnibus of five novellas - concern the way in which life in such an environment is structured - how people work, eat, live, politics, law and order. It's part crime story, part scifi, part action thriller.

It definitely has its moments and I did enjoy it. I did think that there were some things that are revealed at the end of part 1 that the author might have chosen to hold back if he'd known at the time he were writing a longer piece. And giving away a major piece of information about how the world of Wool works so early on didn't help it I thought.

Also whilst there are a few main characters who go throughout most of the piece, there are others who feature mainly in one section or another. So if you pick the wrong character to follow you might not get to track them through the whole five parts (if you see what I mean).

The thing that's best about Wool is the world-building and the way tension is built in the plot. Definitely worth a look.
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10 of 12 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Good idea, poor execution 20 May 2013
By DP
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
I'd heard a lot of hype about this book and was looking forward to reading it as I'm a big fan of dystopian fiction. I enjoyed the early part of the book - the world is fascinating and I enjoyed discovering more about it - but when I hit the middle it just wasn't gripping me. After such a strong start (most of the exciting stuff happens at the beginning, and we spend a lot of the rest of the book waiting for people to *painfully slowly* discover what we already know) it was disappointing to feel it'd run out of steam only half way through.

It was the writing that let the book down. Revelations that should have been like a punch to the gut were more like limp lettuce, and emotional scenes felt empty of genuine feeling. I just didn't feel like the author got under the skin of any of the characters, so I ended up not caring much about any of them. Towards the end the book it became a Dan-Brown-esque thriller (which is NOT a compliment!), and pages and pages were spent detailing every second of a long, protracted battle. The overwhelming feeling was of reading a screenplay and not a fully-realised novel with living, breathing characters.

A promising premise sorely let down by a writer not yet at his prime.
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20 of 25 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Hell and Darn-nation 11 Nov 2012
By Quicksilver TOP 500 REVIEWER VINE™ VOICE
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Vine™ Review (What's this?)
This review contains mild spoilers. There are no specifics but I do hint at the direction the novel takes.

Wool by Hugh Howey is one self-publishings success stories. Having garnered rave reviews as an ebook, it has now been picked up by a major publisher and given a physical presence. It is a taut post-apocalyptic thriller set inside a sealed system. In essence, it's end-of-days in a tin can.

The novel's structure is slightly unusual, reflecting the story's genesis. The original tale was a short story. It's popularity led to demand for more stories, five in total. This novel is all five collected in a single volume, and it feels like it. Whilst there is continuity and an overreaching story arc, the overall effect is not as cohesive as one might expect from a traditional novel. Nevertheless, the first three stories are breathtaking in their elegance and, as a whole, Wool makes for compelling reading.

The action of Wool takes place inside a hermetically sealed Silo. The last survivors of the human race live inside a gargantuan storage container, safe from the hostile atmosphere outside. The Silo is over one hundred levels, a striated civilisation, with each function of society occupying one or more floor. So there are maintainence levels, infirmary levels, farming levels and IT, to name but four. Relations between the levels are harmonious; the entire Silo is governed by a democratically elected mayor, and law and order maintained by the Sherrif and his deputies. The levels are connected by a huge central spiral staircase; a metal double helix, essential for life.

The silo is a huge organism, each part relying on another to ensure its continual survival. Society's most heinous crime is to wonder what might be on the outside.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
4.0 out of 5 stars Great read
I thought this was a fantastic book. It has been likened to the hunger games but it is nothing like it apart from being post apocalyptic. Read more
Published 1 day ago by jaci
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book!
Excellent!
Well written, engrossing, couldn't put it down!
You just never know where this book is going to take you,
Published 1 day ago by Sandra Rowland
4.0 out of 5 stars Bit like a shopping Mall
So left field it hurts at times. Depressing, leaving a slight feeling of grubbiness, yet just cant put it down.
Published 1 day ago by Stephen Kaye
5.0 out of 5 stars Loved it!
Loved it... think my husband loved it less because I've been neglecting the rest of my life while I finished it. Heheh.

A great concept, a real page-turner. Read more
Published 3 days ago by dotvicky
4.0 out of 5 stars I got lost in the silo
Life is good in the silo. The people are friendly, food is plentiful, healthcare is readily available when needed. Read more
Published 4 days ago by Marie
3.0 out of 5 stars Different view of post-apocalyptic world.
Some interesting ideas but not fully developed. Characters are one-dimensional. The reader felt little sympathy with them or their problems.
Published 4 days ago by brian
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant read!
Despite other reviews saying that the story became a bit lackluster in the middle, I found it difficult to get into from the first few chapters (that probably says more about my... Read more
Published 5 days ago by E. Mcnerney
5.0 out of 5 stars Wool
OMG this book is so different to anything I've read recently. I immediately bought the second part. It seems like your typical 'apocalypse' story except how it happened and where... Read more
Published 6 days ago by Bookworm
3.0 out of 5 stars Too many unrelated strings
The idea is fantastic - but right at the start you follow the story of a couple that - as you will find out - are not the main protagonists. Read more
Published 7 days ago by barry desmond
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant
Got into this book very quickly and found the idea of the silo believable in the world we live in today . Read more
Published 7 days ago by mr vr snell
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