Metro 2033

De: Dmitry Glukhovsky

Narrado por: Rupert Degas

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

Good book but heavy

This book took me a while to read because it is a very heavy book. Be narrator did an amazing job pronouncing everything. Usually a listen to her book sped up with us and I had to listen to a bit slower just because I'm not familiar with the oxen or names. Most blokes tend to have one philosophy that they really talk about while in this book it felt almost as if every single chapter had a new philosophy. It was amazing and gave me a lot to think about but there were times where I had to just put the book down to process everything that was trying to be discussed. This is a book that I would say have a physical copy to a reference to and take your time with it.

Seductive

This dark, brooding dystopian story slowly drew me in and then held my attention until the very end. Engaging and creative. I recommend it.

Love it!

The narrating and the tension the story brings you in their world. Can't wait for more!

Loved it

Loved the books, and games and this was the best so far!! The Narrators voice and the characters acting and the eerie music makes for a good experience.

Amazing!

Brings the book to life, literally got me through my work day!! I'm excited to start the next one!