Wool is about the only thing I read when Kindle ebooks were free. It's a good story. Some people don't like the wrap up because it's a big switch loop back that explains how everything got where it was

It probably helps that page 2 of Wool is basically the hook of the story.

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I've had it on my list of books to read, but everyone's comments here made me pull the trigger and get it. Seems like everyone seriously loves Wool.

I do sometimes if I know what kind of book somebody really likes. Especially to children.

Yes. I give my nieces, nephews, and child books every year for Christmas. I've been doing classics since they were born, nice hardbound copies. Building their libraries. Occasionally I'll also order some off Amazon- more "fun" ones like Pokémon or minecraft novels. Or ones like "Then Again, Maybe I won't," or similar "coming of age" novels.

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I give books as gifts to relatives who like to read, and to my niblings who I want to encourage to read. I tend to suggest names of books to friends, but don't purchase them as gifts for them.

I do, and I actually have a really good hit rate with them, what's weird is that no one ever tells me about it.

For instance, I have a few friends who all live in the same house, so I sent them a copy of Good Omens, and got radio silence. A few years later I sent American Gods, radio silence. I gave it one more shot with the first Bobiverse book, and heard nothing.

I finally asked one afternoon, and it turned out that everyone in the house had read all the books and talked about them incessantly while reading them, but I was just never there for the conversations.

Needless to say, this is not a crowd that is long on sending "thank you" cards...

As a Fallout fan I'm good with stories from a vault, this one just has that "must find out what happens next" thing going in spades.

Early on I was thinking, "this is silly, I know what's going to happen," and of course... I was wrong.

Sooo.... When are these scumbags getting called the right term? Terrorists.

Books are my go-to present for people unless I know they don’t like reading. I love going into a bookshop and trying to find a book I think someone will enjoy.

You're fine, I'm just having fun because that is one of the more divisive books out there and gets discussed here a lot because of it.

People either find it simple, beautiful and moving or they find it trite, facile garbage and there isn't a lot of room in the middle.

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Not at all: I love finding out things like this

Let me show you how dangerous these books can be to children by threatening to destroy a building with children.

I just want to know what "inonnence" is

“The message, replete with spelling and grammatical errors, read as follows . . .”

Well at least we can rule out people who actually use libraries or read books

hopefully the terrorists are caught and locked up

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Only when they specifically ask me to gift them a title. For my niece and nephew, I need to run the book with their mom first.

I loved the first book but remember having a hard time getting into the second one, may have to revisit it though. Thanks for this reminder!

I have and I will.

If you keep going I think it starts to come back around. And Acceptance is a lot more like Annihilation than Authority, as the setting returns to Area X. Again, it’s your decision, but I highly recommend continuing.

Sometimes, yeah, if I can be absolutely certain it's something the person wants. I recently bought my husband a biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer I saw mentioned in another sub, and many gift-giving occasions involve me buying him books off his wish list. I bought a book for my best friend that Amazon advertised to me. I've bought my oldest kid books I've read that I think she will enjoy (spoiler: she basically never does).