I read wool, greatly enjoyed it, and swiftly bought the sequels. However quit about a third of the way through the second book. The dystopian start with all the backdoor political government deals just felt a little too much like real life to continue. Maybe someday I'll pick it back up again.

And queer people are the crazy ones?! Fuck that noise — a bisexual that self-identifies as a goldfish is saner than whatever nutsack bigot pulled this crap.

Yes alllll the time

Book 1 is amazing. Book 2 is 90% boring investigation that leads nowhere, followed by 10 pages of crazy action and interesting sci-fi when it abruptly ends unresolved. Book 3 is weird but almost a rehash of how book 3 was laid out, and you still won't be satisfied if you wanted to learn a lot about what's happening.

I have no idea about the blurriness, but the price of paper has gone up a lot since the pandemic. If the paper is of worse quality maybe that is affecting the pictures?

I loved Wool. Half Way Home is another one of his I really liked.

Read them late because they were cheap when I first got a Kindle and ended up also buying the graphic novel adaptation. It actually got me back into reading for fun and explicitly sci-fi fantasy dystopian type stuff that I hadn't read in years. Thanks wool

no because none of my friends read books lol but if they did then i think a book would be a cute gift idea

These “peaceful” Christians.

The level of excitement I have for this to be a series!! Y’all just made my day. These books are amazing. They have all stuck with me. Wish I could re-read them all for the first time. Also finished all three in a couple days!

I’ve gotten both of those books as gifts, and have given the alchemist as a gift too! Glad I’m not the only one :)

Unfortunately those terrorists are winning the battle in rural and small city school systems.

I could very easily picture a Philomena Cunk interview on this

" so did the books make the bomb threats, did they leave some sort of letter?"

Interviewee: " no they were made because of the books"

" well then who made them"

" a group of people people who didn't like the books"

" well that's odd isn't it"

I am not sure what the government is currently putting in jet contrails, but they need to swap over to aerosolized Xanax.

I do and I love the analogy. I get that there is nothing new under the sun and I'm sure Howey was trying to put season that chicken.

So pro-life they’ll blow up a school full of kids and faculty because of a book.

Rarely but if I do it's either Siddhartha or Tao of Poo. Generally to friends and family already interested in eastern philosophy.

I have given a Vonnegut here and there as well.

Springer seems have maintained their paper and binding quality but (for mathematics, the field I know about) their typesetting is all done in LaTeX with its standard thin and spidery fonts.

Come to think of it, just to add fuel to the fire, Stargate SG-1's, which released in 1997, entire premise of the show was that the main antagonists (the Goa'uld) had enslaved most of the galaxy by keeping education low and using advanced Tech to make planets think they were literal gods.

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It's... it's just such an old idea that it's kinda like seasoning a chicken with just salt and expecting me to be impressed.

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That's maybe too harsh but you get my point I think.

I did this one Christmas. My family politely left all the books stacked by the tree. We never spoke of it again. All of the books were personally chosen for them.

I haven’t done it since. I now give them Starbucks or target gift cards (they are big on local coffee shops, before you ask). I’m a book reader in a family of movie people.

Ok, this reply helped. Haha. The twist was meh for me. You said it. Inwas struggling to verbalize this.

Ahhhh more examples of christofascist love, as a recovering catholic I remember very well who were the abusers.

It's them damn violent libruls again, ain't it?

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Sci-fi is my thing, but I still kinda had the same opinion. I saw the "twist" coming from miles and miles away.

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Like with much sci-fi that hits the mainstream, it tends to be an idea that fans have been playing around with for a long time. "The Outside isn't what the claimed it to be! We've been deceived by technology we don't understand!"

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Pretty sure that's the plot of more than one Trek episode.

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I also just... couldn't get into the world building. I tried. Silos = Vault Tech Vaults, super secret IT group, dystopian government for reasons....

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On paper I should've adored this series, and it's difficult for me to find good reasons it didn't grip me. It just... didn't.

Only if I know they'd like it, or if it's of particular importance to me.

As a librarian, I'm better at picking out books for people than most, but still it's never perfect.