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Emily
I started reading this book in its serialized form back in 2012 and loved it then. I finally read the rest of it and love it even more. I hope to not go 7 more years before reading the next one, which seems to be a prequel. Really good, well-thought-out post-apocalyptic, dystopian science fiction.
Tam Linsey
Aug 29, 2012 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: keeper-shelf
WOOL is an unhesitating 5 star read. Hugh has set up a world which is completely believable where a man-made disaster ruined the earth, forcing humanity to move into massive underground silos. The setting in WOOL is so well described, I can smell the grease in the mechanical rooms, and hear the whir of the servers in IT without even being aware I am sitting in my own home. Climbing up and down those silo stairs, my legs and lungs burned with sympathy (now if only I'd been able to put the book do ...more
Nuno Ribeiro
Nov 22, 2013 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: own, scifi, distopia
Este é um daqueles livros que marcam - o autor imaginou uma história muito original que despertou o meu interesse logo desde o início e vai desenvolvendo a narrativa, desvendando pormenores e aumentando o suspense à medida que, em cada capítulo, nos relata a história vista pelo personagem que protagoniza esse capítulo. O livro está muito bem escrito e também bem traduzido (apenas deparei com uma ou duas situações em que a palavra mais adequada em Português não foi a utilizada, transparecendo a t ...more
Trice
love!
and I was a bit worried, getting close to the end, about where our characters will be left, but, wow, that was a satisfying ending
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Nov 13, 2022 marked it as to-read