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Metro 2033 Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Dmitry Glukhovsky (Author), Rupert Degas (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)
4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 7,203 ratings
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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.

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  1. Listening Length
    20 hours and 1 minute
  2. Author
    Dmitry Glukhovsky
  3. Narrator
    Rupert Degas
  4. Audible release date
    November 19, 2013
  5. Language
    English
  6. Publisher
    Audible Studios
  7. ASIN
    B00GLXWFUS
  8. Version
    Unabridged
  9. Program Type
    Audiobook
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Listening Length 20 hours and 1 minute
Author Dmitry Glukhovsky
Narrator Rupert Degas
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Audible.com Release Date November 19, 2013
Publisher Audible Studios
Program Type Audiobook
Version Unabridged
Language English
ASIN B00GLXWFUS
Best Sellers Rank #2,809 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals)
#302 in Science Fiction (Audible Books & Originals)
#876 in Science Fiction (Books)

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it a book.. lol very Good book.
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it a book.. lol very Good book.
If you loved playing the game Metro 2033 you'll love this book there's a lot of behind the scenes stuff in the game that was never mentioned out of the book The book goes into more detail into the back end of the metro I'm loving reading it not all the way done at this point in time...
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NH
5.0 out of 5 stars Deeply impressed by the world the author created
Reviewed in the United States on November 7, 2016
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I first discovered Dmitry Glukhovsky’s METRO series through a video game play on youtube. My son, knowing my love for all things apocalyptic, showed me Let's Play Metro Last Light - Part 1 - In The Beginning… by Christopher Odd. I loved the first video and decided to look into the game. The game was based on a series of novels by Dmitry Glukhovsky. The first two novels were available in English and had audio book versions. The novella which links the first and second book is available in English but has no audio book version. Absolutely no debate on purchasing the audio books.

The universe METRO builds begins in our world. The cold war is over. The USSR is a thing of the past although it’s shadow lingers over modern day Russia. The main character, Artyom, is a young adult. He was born before the event but only has very few and fragmented memories of it. On the day of the event, he and his mother were visiting a park close to a metro station. That is why they survived. The metro stations could be sealed to stop contaminants from coming in (the metro was designed and built during the USSR period). Artyom and his mother make it into the metro and past the doors before they are sealed.

The metro develops into a new society. As time goes on, the different lines or branches develop different political ideologies. Some stations are more desirable than others, some have more resources, some have ways to grow food underground, some have access to uncontaminated water. Before long treaties are made, broken and fighting begins. The metro is no longer one system but a collection of city states that are connected by dark tunnels.

What is in the tunnels is the mystery that lies at the heart of the METRO 2033 book. Traveling even a few hundred meters into the tunnels can be dangerous. Some of the dangers are defined; hordes of rats, mutated life forms that got into the tunnels from above, marauding humans who prey on their own kind. Some of the dangers are undefined. People, groups of people and caravans, evenly armed ones disappear without a trace, without a sound and no sign of struggles. The tunnel dwellers have dubbed the cause of these disappearances as the “Dark Ones”.

The website [...] has a virtual tour of all the stations mentioned in the book. It is a wonderful way to connect the descriptions of severely damaged places with what they looked like in reality. Since the story begins in our reality, the photos are showing the reality of the Metro universe before the nuclear event.

METRO 2033 is the quest Artyom undertakes to save the entire Metro system. He is tasked with this by a mysterious man who is only referred to as “Hunter”. There is a time element to the quest. As in life in 2016, life in post-apocalypse 2033 does not go as planned. Artyom tours, sometimes unwillingly, many of the various city-states that make up the Metro. It is a fascinating trip. The characters are real. The various ideologies of the city-states are believable. The unknowns in the dark tunnels ratchet up the suspense to terrifying levels. By the end of the book, I was deeply impressed by the world the author created and how much I came to care about the characters in it.

METRO 2033: The Gospel According to Artyom is a bridge to METRO 2034. It is only twenty-seven pages but well worth the $2.99 price. Artyom illustrates the consequences of the events the ended METRO 2033. But this short piece also gives significant background into his life before and during the apocalyptic event. It really is worth the price.

METRO 2034 begins not long after the end of METRO 2033. The main characters are the “Hunter” from the first book, a man called Homer who believes it is his vocation to write a history and chronicle of the Metro, and a teenage girl named Sasha who has been recently orphaned. Sasha’s father used to be one of the dictator’s of a Metro city-state until he and the girl were banished to an area that had little to no hope of survival. They did survive. Her father managed to live long enough for her to mature and learn to defend herself before his death. Hunter, Homer and Sasha come together in a collision of missions, Sasha’s to survive, Hunter and Homer to find out what happened to a station that no longer broadcasts or sends runners with news. Artyom does not have a large part in this story. He does not make an appearance until Chapter 10. Yet everything that is happening is a consequence of his actions in METRO 2033. The threat this time is not the Dark Ones. It is something much worse and something almost impossible to stop. As with the first book, the characters are fantastic and I grew to care about them. The action is non-stop.

The audiobooks of METRO 2033 and METRO 2034 are narrated by Rupert Degas. He is fantastic. His accent for the Russian speakers if marvelous. When simply narrating, not the dialogue, he has a very clear voice with an English accent. His female voices are very well done. I have since added several of his titles to my wish list.

The last book in the series METRO 2035 has not been released in English yet. I wonder if a social media campaign of begging to the author could help facilitate that happening.
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James C Girasa
5.0 out of 5 stars 5 stars - Comparison Guide to Video Game in this Review
Reviewed in the United States on December 18, 2017
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This review is for the novel Metro 2033 written by Dmitry Glukhovsky.

The video game based on this book is one of my three favorite video games of all time... the other two being Half-Life 2 series and the Stalker series. After many hours playing the video game I decided to read the novel. I was not sure what to expect. I am giving my impressions below.

I will also let you know how similar it is to the video game in a section below (COMPARISON OF BOOK AND VIDEO GAME.)

PLOT: The basic premise is that there has been a nuclear war and what's left of mankind is living in subways (probably throughout the world but nobody is quite sure.) Obviously it is the year 2033. This story takes place in the subways below Moscow.

Artyom, who was a young boy at the time of the nuclear war, is the main star of the story. He is grown up now and early on he relays the story to a mysterious stalker (stalker is a very loose translation, it real means more like guide/tracker/trail blazer/etc.), named Hunter, about how he opened up a way into the Metro as a young boy for whatever is out there. What's out there are mutants and/or animals that are mutated and maybe something else. Hunter, just back from his latest excursion, is getting prepared to go back out again when he gives Artyom a mission to complete. If he does not come back within a short period of time, he is to go to the Metro city of 'Polis' and seek out another Stalker, named Melnik, and give him a message. That's the basic premise but the story is much more involved than that. The story is about a journey, much the same way that Lord of the Rings is about a journey. You wouldn't summarize 'Lord of the Rings' by calling it a story about a group of halflings that take a trip across the continent to get to Mount Doom.

COMMENTS:
-Not all of the sentences make perfect sense. This novel is a translation from Russian and there are some inconsistencies. Occasionally something is lost in the translation.
-The book is fairly long, almost 500 pages in novel form. At times it does slow down but the story is always interesting. The characters spend a lot of time philosophizing about various aspects of life and life in the metro in general. While I find some of the discussions drag on at times, ultimately these discussions add to the story.

*****IMPORTANT***** A WORD ABOUT THE MAP OF THE METRO:
There are some good maps of the underground on the internet. Just use google. Some of them will show you the path. Others will give you the coordinates and alternate names of the stations. This is important because the map in the book does not always follow the names in the story. The map provided in the book is actually different than the current map of the Metro. In the story, Artyom carries with him an incomplete or dated map and discovers that there are other stations he doesn't know about. You will find yourself bewildered if you try to follow along with Artyom and the map provided in the book. So do yourself a favor and have one ready when you are ready to read this book!

COMPARISON OF BOOK AND VIDEO GAME: The main story is roughly the same in the book and game but in reality it is not the same at all. At it's very basic, it is the same story, but how you get to the main locations is very different.

Imagine... if you will... that two people were given the same outline of a story. They are then given a map of the Metro with the path that Artyom must take. They are also given the basic personalities of the characters in the story. Then those two people each write a story on the information given to them. What you would get would be two stories that would sound the same if you summarized them but the 'meat' of the story would be quite different. That's kind of like how I would describe the difference in the story between the book and video game.

The Summary: You start out at the same location in both the book and video game. The story starts the same and your mission is the same. Hunter arrives early on and tells Artyom that he is going back out. If he does not come back within a short period of time then Artyom is to leave his home and get to Polis, find Melnik and give him a message. The story of the Dark Ones, the secret underground railroad and the ending is also pretty close to the same (though not quite as adventurous as in the video game). But just about everything else in between is at the same time similar and very different.

The Metro Underground: It is the same as in the video game. The big difference is that you will visit more locations and spend more time at each of them. As I noted above, Artyom is carrying a map that is not up to date. This is the map that you see in your book. You will find the true map online by doing a simple search.

The Locations: You will visit most or all of the locations you visited in the video game and spend more time at each of them. In addition, you will visit more locations in the book. Obviously these locations are described in more detail.

The Characters: You will meet most, if not all, of the characters that you meet in the video game.
The characters personalities that you meet in the video game will have the same personalities as in the book. You will meet many more characters in the book. Some of the characters you meet will leave you wondering if they are real or imaginary. It's possible that some of these characters are products of the Underground's mysterious machinations.
-Be prepared for some lengthy discussions. Some of them are very philosophical.
-The discussions and/or experiences that Artyom has with the characters that he encounters will often be different than in the video game.

The Factions: If you have played the 'Metro 2033' video games, you will know that there are a bunch of different factions in the underground. In fact, there are quite a few more that actually exist. You don't see them all in the video games and some of the factions are only talked about in the books. Among those you will encounter will be mostly the same that you meet in the video game. Hansa (Leaders of the ring stations), the Fourth Reich and the Red Line are among those you will meet (but not the only ones).

The Dark Ones/The Creatures: The story of the Dark Ones is essentially the same in the novel as in the video game. Most of the creatures that you encounter are very similar to what is depicted in the video game. You may meet a few other unusual beings.

HOW ABOUT THE SEQUEL?:
After reading this you will be ready for the next book, 'Metro 2034'. Artyom is a very minor character in 'Metro 2034.' Instead, we have a new lead character, an old man who was a train engineer before the war. Hunter, even though he drives the story, is in reality, just a minor character in Metro '2033'. He is a major character in 'Metro 2034', however he will seem quite different. You will be seeing a lot of him and that is a good thing. Hunter has been badly disfigured but somehow seems almost superhuman in this novel. This story, as of yet, has not had a game made based on it. Neither, 'Metro: Last Light' or 'Metro: Exodus' are based on this novel.

'Metro 2035' is the book that the second 'Metro 2033' video game, 'Metro 2033: Last Light' is based on.

CONCLUSIONS/RECOMMENDATIONS: 5 stars. Definitely one of the best post-apocalyptic stories written.

I strongly recommend this book for fans of post-apocalyptic fiction. It is one of the best. I rarely read a book twice. I did so with this one.

If you are reading this because you are a fan of the video games and you are thinking of reading the book, I would strongly recommend you do so. I had the book on my shelf for quite some time before I finally read it. The dark, oppressive tone of the game is the same in the novel. It will draw you in the same way the game does.

Highly recommended for fans of the video game.
Highly recommended for fans of science fiction in general.

Aside from the two sequels as of the time of this review (Metro 2034 and Metro 2035), there are also numerous other novels by other authors that have been written that take place in different parts of the world based in the same universe. Also as of the time of this review, unfortunately, none of these have been released in English.
There has been one graphic novel that I know of based on the Metro Universe called 'The Outpost' and it takes place in the United States.
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Verónica Cortés Huerta
5.0 out of 5 stars Pasta gruesa !!
Reviewed in Mexico on February 6, 2024
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Llegó a tiempo, recomiendo al vendedor
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steven m.
5.0 out of 5 stars A must
Reviewed in Canada on January 26, 2024
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Great book
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Rudra Shankar Majumder
5.0 out of 5 stars Nice
Reviewed in India on September 27, 2023
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This is a good read. The translation and the occassional spelling mistakes could have been avoided. I finished it once and I will read it one more time.
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5.0 out of 5 stars 10/10
Reviewed in Italy on November 27, 2022
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purtroppo traduzione scarsa in molti casi ma libri ottimi
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5.0 out of 5 stars Best book I have ever read
Reviewed in Brazil on January 4, 2021
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Best book I ever Read! It's like a post apocalyptic lord of the rings, with a great tone of philosophy and horror, all in the same book. And I mean lord of the ring by the descriptions the author gives, you feel like reading a movie, you dive into the world of metro, the adventure in itself has a whole other tone, but it is brilliant in it's own way.
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