Wool - by Hugh Howey

[Pedro Del Mar]

Dust sounds fantastic - it's the same characters that appeared in Wool

 

[Rodders]

Reading back through the thread, i see that it was self published? I wonder why publishers didn't go with it?

 

[biodroid]

Didnt he get published after they saw the sales from amazon?

 

[HareBrain]

It wasn't a novel to start with. The first part was self-published as a stand-alone novella, then a second followed, and then it was extended into a full-length story. I believe he then accepted a publishing deal so he could focus on writing rather than marketing.

 

[Spade]

I read and enjoyed the first story from Wool. It's some of the best fiction I've read in a while. I need to finish the book.

 

[williamjm]

I enjoyed Shift even more than Wool. There is a third book called Dust, but I can't get it in Canada yet.

It seems surprising that Dust is out in Canada yet, it's been out in the UK for about a year now.

I was disappointed by Shift, I thought Dust was an improvement on Shift but still not as good as Wool. One of the big attractions of Wool was the mystery about how the world had got into the situation and I think I'd have preferred some of those mysteries to be left to the imagination but Howey decided to write a prequel which seemed to set out to explain every detail of the original book, no matter how minor. I found that the more things were explained the less plausible the whole thing seemed. Dust was better because it did start to move the story forward again, I had mixed feelings about some of the plot developments along the way but I think the ending did work well.

 

[Brian G Turner]

I'm currently enjoying Wool and really enjoying it - the prose is very fluid, and some of the phrasing is brilliant. A good mystery behind a good pace.

 

[elvet]

I have finally got my hands on Dust, and am reading it now.

 

[Pedro Del Mar]

Haven't started Dust yet, been reading Scott Lynch. Be interested to hear how you get on with it Elvet

 

[elvet]

Haven't started Dust yet, been reading Scott Lynch. Be interested to hear how you get on with it Elvet

I thought it was a good ending to both intertwined stories. I thoroughly enjoyed the series.

 

[Pedro Del Mar]

Thanks elvet, I'm going travelling in Jan so will take it along

 

[althea]

I recently finished the Wool trilogy.I thought it was full of inventive ideas and very well written.
Although ,overall, it is a sad tale of human nature at it's best and worst,I couldn't put it down.
I think identifying with some of the characters kept me glued to see how it would all work out.

 

[Rodders]

I down loaded this last week after Brian posted that is was going for 99p on Amazon. I’ll look to read it once I’ve finished my current read.

I must confess that one of my main reasons for being interested in this is that the premise reminds me somewhat of the Amtrak Wars.

 

[althea]

I haven't read The Amtrak Wars,I'll have to put them on my LIST.
I am reading a historical murder mystery at the moment.It's a very good story,if a little gory.
It's The Thief Taker by CS Quinn. Sometimes it's nice to read about the past as a change from reading about the possibilities of the future.

 

[Rodders]

It turns out that it isn't similar at all.

Overall it enjoyed it, but I did find that the author tended to be a bit over descriptive. There was one bit near the beginning that took nearly three pages just for the character to walk down the stairs. I appreciate that the author has to set the scene and the environment, but three pages?