{"id":3211,"date":"2023-11-27T21:17:58","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T05:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=3211"},"modified":"2023-11-27T21:17:58","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T05:17:58","slug":"review-wool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=3211","title":{"rendered":"Review: Wool"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A friend suggested taking a bite of the Silo series, so I read Hugh Howey&#8217;s first book, <em>Wool<\/em>.  I confess I was somewhat underwhelmed.  It seemed a lot like reading Michael Crichton circa <em>Jurassic Park<\/em>. The work seemed like the outline for a movie or TV series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On those terms, it&#8217;s pretty good.  Howey has a mastery of plot and the clockwork ticks well here.  You can see the cliffhangers that would mark advertising breaks, episode transitions, and maybe season caps.  I respect the ability to control pace that way.  The work of constructing the set-up and pay-offs of those plot beats is considerable and he did it well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I didn&#8217;t get drawn into the characters or setting much, though.  He does drop you into a mostly unfamiliar world that seems connected to ours, but exactly how gets slowly and incompletely revealed.  Unfortunately, I didn&#8217;t fully buy the world as it&#8217;s revealed.  I feel like I might have been more forgiving if the characters were more fleshed out.  They seemed more like sketches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Again, as a candidate for adaptation, those are opportunities for actors and directors to breathe life into it.  Depending on how that happens, the series (Apple TV+ seems to be doing one) could be quite fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend suggested taking a bite of the Silo series, so I read Hugh Howey&#8217;s first book, Wool. I confess I was somewhat underwhelmed. It seemed a lot like reading Michael Crichton circa Jurassic Park. The work seemed like the outline for a movie or TV series. On those terms, it&#8217;s pretty good. Howey has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3212,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3211\/revisions\/3212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}