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Metro 2033
- Narrated by: Rupert Degas
- Length: 20 hrs and 1 min
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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.
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- PatM
- 30-10-12
Of two minds
First off, download a map of the moscow metro in English and have a look at some photographs of the Metro Stations. This is the only way to get an understanding of how vast the Moscow metro is and a feel for what the stations are like. However without being able to see the writtten names of the stations that our protagonist passes through, it is very difficult to follow his quest on the map. Due to the Russian pronunciation, It took me ages of pause & rewind to figure out which was his home station. Something sounding like Veedee En Kah turned out to be the station called VDNKH and so it went with many of the station names.
The premise of this book is fascinating, a nuclear war has wiped out humanity and the survivors of Moscow have fled under ground to the tunnels of the metro system. Above ground, strange mutations have occured due to the nuclear devastation and in some areas of the metro these frightening creatures are getting through, threatening life in the tunnel systems and a young hero is drawn into a quest through the vast tunnels in order to save the last of humanity. Unfortunately this turns out to be a surprisingly monotonous listen, no fault of Rupert Degas though, who does a stellar job. The writing style is just incredibly repetitive. Enter a new tunnel, strange things happen, arrive at a station, meet some inhabitants, long, drawn out converstions that rarely add to the plot, move on to the next tunnel and more of the same .A very linear story, with very surprisingly little action and one dimensional characters. Xbox 101, The twist at the end however, is brilliant and throws the novel into a whole new light. It stayed with me for a long time after.
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- Edward Holtom
- 07-05-19
Great work
Loved every second. Amazing performance, even better story. Definitely worth every penny! A must listen!
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- Anonymous User
- 24-08-20
Excellent
Loved this book, its only when I went back to relisten that it hit me how good it is. Narrator does such an amazing job with the accents and pronouncing names and places. 5 stars for that alone.
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- The Great Dazman
- 15-09-18
recommended read. Great atmosphere and setting
Good but on occasion I had to rewind a bit to catch what the reader was saying. This may be just me though or the translation from Russian
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- Brandon Bloc
- 15-05-20
An original story
Get lost for 19hrs in Moscow's metro. Great characters but a confusing ending at the
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- Bradley kurn
- 21-08-18
one of the best book out there
one of the best book out there amazing attention to detail really help get into the scene
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- Anonymous User
- 22-02-20
really good
really good story
good nice voice
easy to go true
everyone must have this one
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- Daryl Smith
- 02-12-14
I didn't know a book could actually scare me!
I began listening to this book after seeing that both Metro games were coming to Xbox One. I wanted to read the books before I played the great looking games so the story was not ruined for me.
This was a hugely enjoyable book to listen to, best done so at night in the dark. Rupert Degas does a brilliant job of coming across as genuinely terrifying and combining this with Dmitry Glukhovsky's writing skills gives you have a fantastic book to listen to.
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- Anonymous User
- 27-02-21
Phenomenal
Couldn't recommend more if you are a fan of post apocalyotic fiction. My first audio book actually and i came here looking for more after the games. Best listened in English although its not my primary language, Rupert Degas absolutely nails it with his narrative and impersination of the various characters. Life is desperate in the Metro and Rupert delivers that sensation admirably, well done!
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- Liam McKinney
- 12-09-21
amazing book with an amazing narration from Rupert
Mr Degas does a brilliant job of making the characters believable with his narration of them and the story of metro is just fantastic and I most definitely recommend this book to everyone
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