Metro 2033
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Metro 2033
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Narrated by:
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Rupert Degas
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Written by:
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Dmitry Glukhovsky
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The year is 2033. The world has been reduced to rubble. Humanity is nearly extinct and the half-destroyed cities have become uninhabitable through radiation. Beyond their boundaries, they say, lie endless burned-out deserts and the remains of splintered forests. Survivors still remember the past greatness of humankind, but the last remains of civilisation have already become a distant memory.
Man has handed over stewardship of the earth to new life-forms. Mutated by radiation, they are better adapted to the new world. A few score thousand survivors live on, not knowing whether they are the only ones left on earth, living in the Moscow Metro - the biggest air-raid shelter ever built. Stations have become mini-statelets, their people uniting around ideas, religions, water-filters, or the need to repulse enemy incursion.
VDNKh is the northernmost inhabited station on its line, one of the Metro's best stations and secure. But a new and terrible threat has appeared. Artyom, a young man living in VDNKh, is given the task of penetrating to the heart of the Metro to alert everyone to the danger and to get help. He holds the future of his station in his hands, the whole Metro - and maybe the whole of humanity.
©2007 Dmitry Glukhovsky (P)2012 Orion Publishing GroupWhat listeners say about Metro 2033
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- Hammy
- 2020-04-08
Great! Even the second time
I really enjoy the voice actor reading the book, he had good accents and the story is wonderfully done. I really liked the different adventures and if you like post-apocalyptic fiction, give it a listen, you will love it!
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- Trevor Stockdale
- 2025-01-30
played the games first but love this setting
it's very moody and depressing. some say it's a mixed bag I love the setting of the dark hostile life of the Metro. one problem I have is I felt it ended very abruptly like it was building up to something and it just ends.
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- Candace
- 2019-01-12
A lesson to be learned from this book.
Being that I can't read Russian, I have no idea how exact is the translation of Metro 2033 into English, but I can only presume this version is reminiscent of the original text... because it is exceptional. Dmitry Glukhovsky is a fantastic writer and his imaginative journey through the subway tunnels under the devastated ruin of Moscow is a disturbing and perilous lesson in the irony of the human race. Decades after nuclear bombs blasted the city's infrastructure, its atmosphere, its flora, its fauna and most of its population, survivors who struggle for a semblance of life in the underground haven't learned anything as they stubbornly cling to the political, religious and social upheaval that forced them into the darkness in the first place. Their lust for power remains, their bigotry continues, their myopic view of their own self importance keeps them literally and figuratively in the dark. Rupert Degas is a brilliant narrator who captures the essence of each character with aplomb.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2020-04-18
wonderful!!!
What does it mean to be human? this story show us the different facets of the human. both the best and worst.
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- Anonymous User
- 2020-10-06
loved it
really good from start to finish best book I have read in a long time cant wait for the next one
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- Amazon Customer
- 2020-06-07
Great as a one-shot, don't bother with the sequels
This first book in the series is an incredible ride! So much atmosphere, a different kind of danger in every tunnel, supernatural and monstrous beings everywhere!
The sequels takes every last bit of what makes this book so good and tosses it all out the window. To sum it up, the second back has literally only three instances of supernatural events right at the start and drops everything else for a love story. The final book retcons the love story but still has zero, zilch, none, nada, not even one instance of the supernatural.
Just get this one and stop. Make up your own ending in your head. You may think you want an ending from the actual author, but trust me. You really don't want the supremely boring, whiny mundane continuation and ending that the sequels give you.
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- George
- 2023-08-23
it's truly a classic and will
It is truly a classic, and will survive the test of time. you should buy it.
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- Waste of money and time.
- 2023-10-30
Amazing
Please please read this man’s work it’s perfect. And also perfectly narrated. It’s worth your time believe me.
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- Sameer Lutchman
- 2019-09-25
Very well read!
Fantastic performance. Built some really great atmosphere and added a lot to the story telling.
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- Ratpack1
- 2021-06-08
Slightly Biased Review
I got into the metro series from the release of the Metro Exodus video game title. Having played it front to back twice now, I figured I should give a listen to where it all started in 2033. The narrator does a fantastic job of differentiating the characters with unique voices that make you believe these characters are really speaking. If you're into tense thrillers with only portions of relief upon making it to the next population center, this is your book.
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