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Send Me 🤏 And I Will Compare Our Muse's Heights!

'Howey' is 5'11"--- to Oryn?

( @multiemuse )

#oryn #howey #ask #multiemuse #ty for the ask!#I love it!

Send 💿 for my muse to choose a song that matches your muse's vibe~ 'Howey'

Send 💿 for my muse to choose a song that matches your muse's vibe

(Accepting! Since they haven't interacted, I'm going bassed of your description of him.)

Riot - Hollywood Undead

Fuck that shit, let's start a riot! Let's start a riot! Tear shit up, fuck peace and quiet! Fuck that shit, let's start a riot! Tear shit up, fuck peace and quiet!

( @multiemuse )

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Review: Wool (2011)

"We get no credit for being sane, do we? I get no credit. Even from me, from myself. I hold it together and hold it together and I make it another day, another year, and there's no reward. Nothing great about me being normal. About not being crazy." - Solo (Jimmy)

More of a curiosity than anything else, Howey's self-published Wool (with a big assist from Amazon, btw) will probably be more remembered for the role it played in shaking up the publishing industry in the early 2010s than it will as a worthwhile sci-fi novel.

A slightly interesting post-apocalyptic/dystopian premise about the last of humanity living in a tightly regulated underground silo can't save this collection of five novellas and short stories from Howey's powerfully unremarkable and annoyingly workshoppish writing. Seriously did he only learn what a metaphor was immediately prior to writing these stories? Honestly, I felt like I had just read a 600 page-long padded sentence by the time I had finished this collection.

Poorly drawn characters, plotting that vacillates between boringly turgid and at times vaguely nonsensical, an overall lack of credible world-building, as well as Howey's already mentioned tendency towards annoying, 'creative writing 101' prose, all combine to what amounts to a pretty tedious, nearly six hundred page story.

Why Howey left these stories in their original form and didn't go back and do some serious editing once they were a success is beyond me. Some judicious cuts and changes here and there could have made this collection much more consistent and readable.

I guess he could have used an editor after all.