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Metro 2033

Written by: Dmitry Glukhovsky
Narrated by: Rupert Degas
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Now including a new translation, this is a chilling piece of Russian dystopian fiction and the basis of three bestselling computer games Metro 2033 and Metro Last Light, and Metro: Exodus

The year is 2033. The world has been reduced to rubble. Humanity is nearly extinct. 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, the stuff of myth and legend.

More than 20 years have passed since the last plane took off from the earth. Rusted railways lead into emptiness. The ether is void and the airwaves echo to a soulless howling where previously the frequencies were full of news from Tokyo, New York, Buenos Aires. Man has handed over stewardship of the earth to new life-forms. Mutated by radiation, they are better adapted to the new world. Man's time is over.

A few score thousand survivors live on, not knowing whether they are the only ones left on earth. They live in the Moscow Metro - the biggest air-raid shelter ever built. It is humanity's last refuge. Stations have become mini-statelets, their people uniting around ideas, religions, water-filters - or the simple need to repulse an enemy incursion. It is a world without a tomorrow, with no room for dreams, plans, hopes. Feelings have given way to instinct - the most important of which is survival. Survival at any price.

VDNKh is the northernmost inhabited station on its line. It was one of the Metro's best stations and still remains secure. But now 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 the legendary Polis, to alert everyone to the awful danger and to get help. He holds the future of his native station in his hands, the whole Metro - and maybe the whole of humanity.

©2007 Dmitry Glukhovsky (P)2012 Orion Publishing Group
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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!

Great! Even the second time

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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.

played the games first but love this setting

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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.

A lesson to be learned from this book.

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What does it mean to be human? this story show us the different facets of the human. both the best and worst.

wonderful!!!

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really good from start to finish best book I have read in a long time cant wait for the next one

loved it

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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.

Great as a one-shot, don't bother with the sequels

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It is truly a classic, and will survive the test of time. you should buy it.

it's truly a classic and will

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Please please read this man’s work it’s perfect. And also perfectly narrated. It’s worth your time believe me.

Amazing

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I've listened to the metro series multiple times and I wish there was more than just 3 books in the series because they're perfect

Amazing series

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Love the book and the narrator it really gets amazing around 10 hours in definitely recommend if you love apocalyptic stories

Absolutely amazing

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