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| Original Title: | Метро 2033 |
| ISBN: | 1481845705 (ISBN13: 9781481845700) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | МЕТРО #1 |
| Setting: | Moscow,2033(Russian Federation) Moscow,2034(Russian Federation) |
| Literary Awards: | Eurocon for Encouragement (2007) |
Dmitry Glukhovsky
Paperback | Pages: 458 pages Rating: 3.99 | 37379 Users | 2428 Reviews
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| Title | : | Metro 2033 (МЕТРО #1) |
| Author | : | Dmitry Glukhovsky |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First U.S. English Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 458 pages |
| Published | : | January 17th 2013 by Future Corp. (first published 2002) |
| Categories | : | Science Fiction. Fiction. Horror. Apocalyptic. Post Apocalyptic. Dystopia |
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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.Rating Out Of Books Metro 2033 (МЕТРО #1)
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I began reading this book several months ago, since I'm eager to play the video game that was recently adapted from it. I expected to get a standard post-apocalyptic adventure novel, and this is what I got -- for 80% of the book. The other 20% is filled with bleak philosophizing and clouds of uncertainty that creep around the main character, like the weird sounds and unsettling environs of the dessicated metro itself.Then, in the last ten pages, this wave of conceptualization leaps out of theDNF-ed after 100 pages, so I'm not going to give it a rating.It was 100% telling and no showing. Adding the Dostoyevsky-ish style... not for me. Which is a shame, cause I'm a fan of post apocalyptic, dystopian books. I loved the plot (even though I would have liked to know more about what happened), but the writing style is just bleah.My favourite parts where those where they talked about the outside world. About the radiations, about the sun etc.But this is a no from me.
Are you tired of stupid Young Adult books with stupid protagonists who are worried about who they should kiss rather than how to survive? Then this is for you.Real survival, real struggle, and a very elaborated setting take Metro 2033 to new levels of "things went wrong here".This book won't try to babysit you, so don't expect an easy read.
http://www.bookrantorrave.com/blog/me...I will begin with a bit of background for you, since the blurb on this book is pretty useless in explaining what this book is about. In 2013, there was a massive nuclear war. I read the entire book, and am still not 100% sure why or what exactly happened, but never mind that. So the world has gone to hell in a handcart. Everything was blasted with nuclear weapons and biological weapons. This caused evil radiation to spread all over and kill the people and
People, you say? No, my friend, they are beasts. They are a pack of jackals. They were preparing to tear us apart. And they would have. But they forgot one thing. They are jackals but I am a wolf. Most people who come to Metro 2033 probably do so after playing the excellent video game adaptation (you can see the trailer here). The game is an immersive first person shooter with great atmosphere, and has received very favorable reviews. I completed it once, and would like to do so again one day.
Bleh. No. Interesting concept that wasn't used to its fullest. Boring main character - don't care what happens to him or what he has to say and what he thinks. Awful, boring, unengaging language. The dialogue was laughable, the writing all in all was... meh. I don't know how much it is due to the translator but, didn't work at all. Info dumps. While it is necessary to present the metro and the stations and the like it was confusing and not done very well. Too much babbling and rambling of
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