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I just finished WOOL, and thoroughly enjoyed it! ^~^ This is actually my first book club, so I might need a little guidance to get me started on discussion, Eliza. But great kick-off! :D
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What did you think of the beginning, the MC's walk through the compound, were you confused or did you understand right away?
It WAS confusing, but it didn't bother me because I trusted the author would help me out soon to get a clearer picture of where they were living (which he did). I think the part that I still don't care for was him ascending the staircase. I thought he was going to die RIGHT THEN. He said things like 'the last few steps of his life'. I assumed he was going to...jump from a platform, or something? It's not that it was incorrect, it was just a bit misleading. Also, I never could place the staircase well.
Lastly, it surprised me that the characters DID trust a view that was not a true 'window' so unquestionably, and I never felt 100% on the uprisings (and what the uprisings meant--did a whole bunch of people storm the airlock?), but I just let it go, lol.
Interesting and super engaging read, all around, for me. :D
The way I saw it, the visor trick would suddenly shift "the condemned" into the position of "the freed". All sense of bitterness didn't matter anymore because "the freed" knew their lives were going to be unimaginably wonderful now--and everyone else they had ever known or cared about was indefinitely "condemned" to the dirt.Cleaning the sensors probably seemed token and trivial, the visor trick playing on high emotion and pity. Yes, they had been sent to cleaning, but in /their/ grander scheme, revenge and spite was no longer relevant.
The view of the depressing world is all they have outside of their stifling silo; I think it is precious and beautiful to them, in many ways. Generations of human beings were not made to live and die within the confines of 30 floors. That view...is everything.
As for how the visors worked, I assumed it was some sort of sophisticated virtual reality, likely using some of the same sort of tech as the sensors themselves did. :)
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I'm not sure why the "criminals" would clean the cameras, they are being sentenced to death, wouldn't they just flip the middle finger and walk away? See if they could find shelter? Besides, what would happen if they did just let the camera get gunked over, it didn't have enough of a negative consequence for me to want to help the living I guess.
What about the wife, what do you all think she found in her research? Was it worth risking her life over? Did she actually die?
Eliza wrote: "What about the wife, what do you all think she found in her research? Was it worth risking her life over? Did she actually die?"I meant to reply to this awhile ago, apologies! I think the wife DID find the simulation software, but made a mistake thinking that it was for the big screens that they saw in the silo (like the one in the cafeteria and prison cell), but it was actually for the visors.
Yes, the wife did definitely die. She made a catastrophic mistake about what the simulation program was for, and the narrator is telling the truth when he curls around her papery remains at the end of the story. *tear* lol
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I think the wife DID find the simulation software, but made a mistake thinking that it was for the big screens that they saw in the silo (like the one in the cafeteria and prison cell), but it was actually for the visors...."
I like it, I never went the direction that the visor projection was what she found in her research, but that totally works! :)
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