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

Really interesting story but slow at times.

Over all I really enjoyed this book, the characters were nice the voice acting for this particular read was really well done. the hardest thing for me was that there were, a few points in this book, where it's slowed down a lot. It seemed like the chapters dragged along and weren't really doing anything. however I would still suggest this book to anybody who wants a post-apocalyptic not zombie book.

The most beautifully somber book I have ever heard

The single most beautifully somber, dark, depressing, yet hopeful book I have ever partook in. Dmitry Glukhovsky has blown me away with the depth of this magnificently somber tale.

A Dark Journey

If you could sum up Metro 2033 in three words, what would they be?

Dark as Hell

Which character – as performed by Rupert Degas – was your favorite?

He did a superb job with all of them, so it's difficult to choose just one.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Absolutely.

Any additional comments?

Philosophy, action, and sci-fi wrapped up in a nice Russian flavored wrapper. You really feel the heaviness throughout Artyom's journey. The world feels lived in and abused. The flow is pitch perfect and the narrator does a FANTASIC job of giving each character a personality of their own. I literally can't say enough good things about this audio book.

Get This Book

I went into this with no previous knowledge or expectation, and it blew me away! Probably the best narration and performance I've heard on any story, the story itself was better than anything I could've hoped for, I had all 20 hours done in a week and just bought the next two books. If you're reading this, seriously just get it and give it a listen, fully recommended!

A slow philosophical, psychological horror

I loved the accents the narrator delivers and i love the story for its slow pace and high tension. Its a coming of age tale that feels far more vivid and real than most other books, and explores many philosophies of man's purpose in the world, and ultimately the things which mankind will forever struggle with

Fantastic

I can here from playing the games. I thought the games were extremely well done and scary in there own right but this book just added soo much more meaning to the story. Anyone who is remotely a fan of the post apocalyptic genre MUST read/listen to this book!

better than the game

book was great, I enjoyed it much more than the video game. going to listen to the other metro books now

A post apocalyptic wonder.

A fantastic look into post nuclear war Russia. A must listen for any post apocalyptic fan or any fan of the metro video games. Highly recommend 9/10

Great dark story of a young man's adventure

I've played the video game adaptation of Metro 2033 and since I enjoyed it so much I decided to read(or listen to in this case) the book that inspired it. Needless to say I was not disappointed. The Metro 2033 novel was leaps and bounds better than the game and also answered questions the game didn't. Rupert Degas did an excellent job reading the book giving great voices for each of the novels characters. I would highly recommend this.

a true journey.

the voice actor in this book was phenomenal if there was an award for voice actors he needs all of them.

the story was so good a couple of times I stopped it just because I didn't want to finish it. I can easily see this book replacing dune for my once a month reread.