Metro 2033

By: Dmitry Glukhovsky

Narrated by: Rupert Degas

Length: 20 hrs and 1 min

Publisher's summary

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 Group

Different from the Game

it is different from the game, but In a good and different way. the book is more of a psychological look at life as well as a host of other ideas as well as the cruelty of life In the metro, all In all it's a good read.. I enjoyed much more then I thought. Just don't expect it to be like the game.

Awesome book and narration!

This book was an intriguing description of apocalyptic Moscow. The story is well written and easy to follow. The main character has many harrowing experiences and has many different philosophical revelations throughout the book. The narration was also spot on. The narrator was able to have different voices for each character and did a great job. Overall a great listen and I look forward to listening to the sequels!

this is an absolute treasure

CONSTANTLY assaulting your sense of reality and moral truths.i LOVE this book. There are grim scenes and the protagonist is questionable at times. production value on this title is great.

Hey Artyom!

A harrowing journey through a supernatural subway tunnels populated by a city-worth of people that survived a nuclear war.

The story can be a little slow at times, especially when people are giving a speech to the Artyom. However, exploring the metro with artyom and figuring how people not only survive day to day, but cope with living underground is fascinating. Every character has their own problems and their own way they see the world.

For those who have played the game, the story is essentially the same, except less action and more horror. There is only a handful of great action scenes, but the book is more focused on the horror elements and the philosophical / political outlook of each character. The episodes on the surface are especially good.

Fantastic book and production

This book is fantastic. Glukhovsky does a remarkable job creating something that I would consider completely new. Yes it is a post apocalyptic world, and there are many books in that realm. But this is something new. Glukhovsky manages to capture sensations of horror that go much deeper than what I'm used to. He manages to tap into such a wide variety of minds and thoughts that the fractured and divided Metro seems filled with real people, and you even begin to understand what drives them into their corners of thought and idiology. I found it all brilliantly done and masterfully portrayed by an excellent narrator, Rupert Degas.

Life can be hard but...

We humans make it harder.. I thoroughly enjoyed this window at the minds eye of the writer and the subtle exposures to the perceptions of so many different cultures frames written into perspective on coming to my US experience. It was a good lesson with valleys.

Really good

Really good story that feels a lot like it could be set in the same universe as Fallout. The reader was excellent.
I was going to take my time listening to this series, but I got hooked and now it's 4AM and I couldn't get to sleep because I got so into it.

favorite

favorite book ever love the games to hopefully a tv show or movie trilogy can be made.

One of my favorites.

Dmitry is one of my favorite authors. The Metro series is amazing and dark. If you liked the book I highly suggest playing the game! The game tells the story just as well and plays like a movie, and follows the story so close. Highly suggest reading the book. 10/10 plus the narrator does an amazing job with all the different voices.

Unlike anything I've read.

Imagine spending the post-apocalypse in the city metro. Growing up underground is all you know. You can't go to the surface. Resources are limited. The older generation remembers what the surface was like, but all you know are the tunnels. The tunnels and the connecting stations are the world. Communication is limited, but rumors still make there way around. It's dark. It's always dark.

This was really a unique read. I played the video games and the book is not a direct representation. The world in this book is well constructed the stories and string of events kept me hooked.

If you are on the fence pick this audio book up. It's good. Can't wait to read the other 2 books.