Wool - by Hugh Howey anyone else read that?

[Pipbin]

Anyone read the sequel?
Just this minute finished Wool and bought the sequel immediately!

[TheSecondOfHerName]

Yes, I really liked them.

[WhereTheFuckIsMyCunt]

Yes, I read all of them years ago and loved them.

[BlackAmericanoNoSugar]

Yes, I found it totally absorbing and also enjoyed the sequel and prequel. I liked quite a few of his books, except for the Molly Fyde books which started well but I (literally) lost the plot around book three or four and had no idea what was going on or why.

[Pipbin]

I've only just found them. Glad it sounds like the sequels are worth the effort.

[BlackAmericanoNoSugar]

There are also books that have been written by other authors set in the Wool universe. I've read a few of them, some were good, some not so great. I can't remember which were the good ones now.

[HappydaysArehere]

Is Wool science fiction? Got a feeling I looked at it and it seemed to be set in some imagined world.

[BlackAmericanoNoSugar]

It's post-apocalyptic sci-fi. It's set inside a huge silo that goes many floors down from ground level.

[ClashCityRocker]

I read it, but wasn't overly keen - found it a bit predictable and didn't warm to any of the characters.

[mizu]

Loved these books.

[PomBearWithAnOFRS]

I did try, but by the time I got so far through the first one, I realised that I didn't actually give a shit what happened to any of the characters. They can all die in their silo for all I cared and I gave up
I still can't understand why so many people seem to rave about the story!
It was trite, cliched, and unoriginal...

[maamalady]

Yes, I liked it. The next two books are okay too, but the first is probably the one I like best.

Howey's other book, Sand, I also enjoyed, though there are a few plot holes (even for me, I'm usually a bit hopeless at noticing such things).

[Trills]

You will find that the sequel is quite different.

I really enjoyed it but it's a different style of storytelling.

[iamdivergent]

Loved the Wool Trilogy and Sand was good too.

[FeliciaJollygoodfellow]

Yes I have, although there was a fairly huge plot hole that bothered me a lot.

[DesolateWaist]

What huge plot hole? I must have missed it.
I did find it rather 'obvious' but I still enjoyed it.

[DustOffYourHighestHopes]

TELL ME THE PLOT HOLE

Sand was a fun read too.

[DesolateWaist]

I didn't understand how she could swim given that she had most likely never seen much more than a bowl of water before.

I've just started on Sand but I might leave it until the summer when I can pay real attention, simply too busy now.

[FeliciaJollygoodfellow]

Ummm..... I can't quite remember

I think it was that the main character (I can't even remember if it was a man or a woman) got to the other silo, in the first book they'd mentioned that it was over a century or summat since they'd heard from them aside from the message to say they were all dead...yet there was first generation teens in there?

I dunno I'm probably misremembering it but it irked me at the time!

[TheCountessofFitzdotterel]

Loved the first book, liked the second, disappointed with the third because it was supposed to explain everything but the eventual explanation never seemed very believable.
Good point about plot hole re swimming.

[MrsSimonNeil]

I really enjoyed this series, in fact I started re reading it again recently. It's not the most well written book in the world but I really enjoyed the plot and found it quite tense in parts