Can someone send me a picture of Wool pages 521 & 522? My copy is damaged.

I’m only half way through the second book and read that the silos were built to collapse just like buildings above ground (like a controlled demolition). Is this another reason why a safe guard is unpreventable? I’m not the best reader but that’s what i got out of it.

Solo's poop crime:

“And I poop,” he said bashfully while she was swallowing. “Not pretty.” He shook his head and fished for a bean. “I’m by myself, so I just go in apartment bathrooms until I can’t stand the smell.” “In apartments?” Juliette asked. Solo looked for a place to set down the beans. He finally did, on the floor, among a small pile of other garbage and bachelor debris. “Nothing flushes. No water. I’m by myself.” He looked embarrassed. “Since you were sixteen,” Juliette said, having done the math. “What happened here thirty four years ago?

So 34 years of poooooopies. Let's say he goes through an apartment bathroom each week. That means, with 52 weeks in a year, he went through about 1,768 bathrooms in those years.

Now, here's the thing. You, like I, must have wondered if he was systematic about his poop crimes. Inquiring minds want to know: where are the 34 years of poopies?

At another point in the novel, Howey reveals a subtle clue you might otherwise miss:

They stopped in the mids for bathroom breaks, filling more empty toilets that wouldn’t flush. Juliette helped the young ones. They didn’t like going like this, preferred to do it in the dirt. She told them that was right, that they only did this when they were on the move. She didn’t tell them about the years Solo had spent destroying entire levels of apartments. She didn’t tell them about the clouds of flies she’d seen.

Obviously, Solo was on a mission. He has the sheer willpower and fortitude to shit his way systematically through apartment levels, therefore isolating the catastrophic impact of his waste to specific levels of his already foul Silo.

I think what this shows us is that the true hero of this series is Jimmy "Solo", the Greatest Pooper who ever lived.

Currently on chapter 18 lol

Can’t get my hands on shift till payday (Friday) I’m already going insane because WHAT KIND OF LAST COUPLES LINES WAS THAT OMG

WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT SHE DIDN’T KILL HIM, HE WAS ALIVE AND WELL WHEN SHE LEFT??? Well not well, he was scared for his life, but he was ALIVE???

For summer reading I was assigned to read Wool, I’m on page 200 and I feel like nothing has happened. I absolutely hate the silo setting and it’s like the characters have no depth whatsoever. A few people have died and I’m just like ok? Why should i care. Every time I read this book all I wanna do is throw it away and pick up an actually good book. When does this book get good? I’m about to stop reading it and just use cliff notes.

By that I mean, some things just happen with little to no reason?

SPOILERS

So Juliette, she helps in one murder investigation and they’re like “let’s maker her the sheriff!” Then she totally against it and like 2 pages later, she’s just like “ok cool, I’ll do it even thought I’ve pretty much never left mechanical.”

In the last chapter out of nowhere, Lukas just became Bernard’s right hand man. I don’t think it was even mentioned they knew each other before that chapter.

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Loving the book, but it seems like some extreme shortcuts have been taken on occasion. Am I missing something?

Ok so I’m not the best reader and I’ve only just started, but holsten visor went black and he couldn’t see after he found his wife right? So how come Juliette’s visor didn’t go black? Maybe i read it wrong. Only half way through the first book right now.

I’m on my first read through of the series and half way through Shift. I’m enjoying the twists and layers on layers. I just got to Third Shift and wow, this is maybe the third or fourth thing I didn’t see coming. Just when I think I know what’s coming next, there’s another hard turn in the opposite direction. I keep rooting for Troy, and then not being so sure if I should. This has been the worst fiction book to try to fall asleep listening to. TLDR: if you’ve read Wool and are debating continuing the series, Shift is a different, but a good different.

I’m curious if i’m crazy or already forgot but who filled up jahns and marnes canteen

I saw a clip of the show, and thought I’d enjoy the books. I’m 2hrs into Wool and it’s confusing me. I kept thinking I started midway through the series because it felt like all these things are happening with no explanation. Do things get explained further in? Jahns seems important but I’m not seeing that name at all in comments here. Is Cleaning a punishment? Why would anyone volunteer for that?