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Hi Guys,
Carol here! This month we will be reading Wool Omnibus (Silo, #1) by Hugh Howey. So.....
Schedule

Week 1: Chapter 1-20 (pages 1-142)
Week 2: Chapter 20-42 (pages 143-282)
Week 3: Chapter 42-65 (pages 283-423)
Week 4: Chapter 65-end (pages 424-end)

Summary
In a ruined and hostile landscape, in a future few have been unlucky enough to survive, a community exists in a giant underground silo.

Inside, men and women live an enclosed life full of rules and regulations.

But some people choose not to conform.

These are the people who dare to hope and dream.

These are the dangerous ones.

Jules is one of those people.

She may well be the last.




**Please feel free to share your thoughts as you read.

**Please remember to mark your spoilers.

This is only a 2 week borrow for me, so I'm reading ahead. It isn't hard for me to do though. It's grabbed me.

I find it hard not to read right through these books myself so I understand!

I won't comment at this point, but I finished the book.

Cheryl wrote: "I won't comment at this point, but I finished the book."Fair play Cheryl, I'm actually finding it a bit hard to read so I'm hoping it picks up soon.

I think this is one that if it doesn't grab you fairly early on, it probably won't. It doesn't change a lot as far as pace, etc.

Cheryl wrote: "I think this is one that if it doesn't grab you fairly early on, it probably won't. It doesn't change a lot as far as pace, etc."
Oh dear!!!

Hi guys,

Spoilers Ahead, do not read if your not reading along with the group/haven't read the book.***

So section one down, what did we all think??
I loved the first section (Holston's story) I was fascinated by the idea of the Silo and Holston's struggle with the death of his wife. I was genuinely hoping the world outside wasn't destroyed and was a bit heartbroken when it was uninhabitable. I'm not sure where they are going to go if there is nowhere to go but up and down the Silo, anyway, that's just me.
Because of this I found the next section really hard to read, I'll admit I lost interest and only kept going coz I'm the moderator for this chat. But then!! The poisoning!! Things have picked up and I might even be looking forward to the next quarter.
So, that's after getting a lot rambling! :)
What I meant to ask was:
1) Were you gripped by the story and characters??
2) Do you find the world building believable??
3) Speculations about what has happened to the outside world?? And is there more than one Silo or is it the last bastion of man kind??
Personally, I'm assuming that the bombs got dropped. (Picture Charlton Heston at the end of Planet of the Apes)

I definately felt for Holston and when he put together the way the cleaning worked...I got weepy. I have been pulled in to the world and the people in it. I can see how the concept of living in an enclosed world required rules for the common good but corruption can twist perception of what is best for the society. As for the world building, I confess that I had to suspend disbelief. It helps that I don't know enough about the science that would actually work, but I had to set aside my, "this could never happen" frame of mind or I wouldn't have enjoyed the story.

Cheryl wrote: "I definately felt for Holston and when he put together the way the cleaning worked...I got weepy. I have been pulled in to the world and the people in it. I can see how the concept of living in a..."
I got weepy too!!

Happy Monday!!
So, last quarter of the book started and we still have more questions then answers! Though I believe the second book is a prequel so I'm not expecting to much in the way of answer about why everybody is living in the silos and what happened to the world.
So what have we learned so far?? That the Silo is not a thing alone but part of at least 18 other silos that are being kept apart and secret from each other (apart from the select few who know what the situation is and can communicate between each other). That the cleaners suits are rigged to fail so that no one has a chance to work out that they are not alone. And that not all of the silos have made it.
Now, is it just me or would it have made more sense for the people in the silos to know why they were there?? I would have thought that if they were explaining to their kids what had happened and why they were never to leave the silo that maybe they could have come to some sort of peace about it. Is it just me??
I think it that situation I would have liked to have known and maybe it could have stopped what happened to silo 17.
Do you think Jules will be able to reconnect with her silo??
Do you think that the mechanics were right to revolt or that the IT people have the right idea about keeping everything secret and preventing communication across the levels of the silo??

I hope everyone is enjoying the read so far and at this point is anyone considering reading Shift??

So month is nearly over, what did people think??