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Jan 16, 2012

Mieczyslaw rated it:

The Russians have a skill in writing apocalyptic, nightmarish stories. You only have to read the Strugatsky Brothers' "Roadside Picnic" (or watch the film version, "Stalker"), Gansovsky's "A Day of Wrath" or watch Lopushansky's amazing "Letters From A Dead Man" to realise that they understand what it is to live on the edge of the abyss.
Claustrophobic, dark cul-de-sacs of danger and terror, "Metro 2033" is a world of uncertainties and fear, More...

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Sep 18, 2011

Lilla rated it:

I really wanted to like this book. Everything about it promised so much! The setting is the Moscow metro system in the year 2033. Above ground, it appears that humanity has been wiped out by nuclear war. The survivors live entirely in the underground tunnel system; stations have evolved into microcosms of the old social and political systems of Russia. The inhabitants are now into the second generation, and Glukhovsky touches on some of the adaptive changes humans have undergone as a result of l More...

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Feb 10, 2012

Jorgen rated it:

Just finished Metro 2033 (the book). Very nice, recommended reading.

The story is about post-apocalyptic Moscow. A nuclear war has destroyed the city, but a few thousand people survived by seeking shelter in the underground metro. They do not know whether anyone else survived, or if there are any humans left on earth - for decades, they had no contact.

The book describes the social situation really nicely with a lot of interesting ideas. It does play with the supernatural in in More...

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Jan 10, 2012

Guillaume rated it:

Dans le métro, personne ne vous entendra crier...

Après la troisième guerre mondiale, les survivants de Moscou se sont réfugiés dans le métro, pour échapper aux radiations, aux gaz empoisonnés, et aux mutants. Mais comme va s'en rendre compte un jeune homme, Artyom, le refuge est illusoire, le danger partout, et les menaces abondent, que ce soit les mutants (dont les redoutables Bibliothécaires), les néo-nazis, les néo-communistes, les néo-marchands, les cannibales adorateurs du Grand V More...

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Dec 11, 2011

Ali rated it:

Don't let my less than perfect score for this book discourage you, purchase it now. If givcing it 5 stars would have made you lust for it more, then imagine I gave it 5. It deserves that. I only give it a 4 in hopes that it may improve from my slight criticism, to create one of the best books of all time. Now, on to the review. This book's many drawbacks don't actually dereriorate the overall experience. The author is amazingly creative and he invokes many images. Dmitri knows how to take the re More...

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Oct 01, 2011

Marie rated it:

I grew up a scifi addict and can get through nearly anything just because it is SciFi, this skill was needed because this book is diabolically bad. I am pretty sure that the writing is crap in Russian along the level of a talented 17 year old with a big imagination. I am unsure because it seems that the translator used Google translate to do her work meaning that the translation is crap too. Where the hell was the editor who should have noticed that some of the words where so obviously incorrect More...

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Sep 17, 2011

Inktrap rated it:

Fantastic worldbuilding. I find the characters fascinating, but nothing is as interesting as the post apocalyptic world Dmitry Glukhovsky has created. It's a terribly bleak story, though, so I suppose it doesn't fit everyone's tastes. Artyom is a very passive "hero" that shows who the main character of the story truly is: the Moscow Metro. It's a perfect reflection of the dark labyrinth that is the human nature - or at least in the book's point of view, which would make Nietzsche proud More...

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Jul 03, 2011

Matti rated it:

"Sanokaahan, toveri komissaari, mitä marxismi-leninismi sanoo päättömistä mutanteista?"

Ydinasein käyty kolmas maailmansota on pistänyt paikat Venäjällä pahemman kerran remonttiin ja tappava säteily on pakottanut ihmiskunnan viimeiset rippeet pakenemaan Moskovan metroverkostoon, jonka asemille on rakentunut erilaisten uskonnollisten kulttien ja poliittisten yhteisöjen muodostama pienoismaailma.

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Apr 04, 2011

Ksenia rated it:

As some people pointed out, the book indeed have some too long, tedious parts that sometimes you just feel like skipping.

Only sometimes. Because some of the descriptive parts are actually key to the book. The story takes place in a post-atomic world, a situation completely new both for humanity (or the remains of it) pictured in the book and the reader. People dominion has been reduced to the dark and often dangerous tunnels of the underground and its stations. They had been forced t More...

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Jan 05, 2011

Will rated it:

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Jul 24, 2010

Eric rated it:

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 o More...

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Mar 07, 2011

slayra rated it:

RATING: 3.5 stars.

Num futuro não muito distante, no seguimento de uma guerra desastrosa que destruiu o mundo, o que resta da Humanidade vive no subsolo para se proteger da radiação e de criaturas de pesadelo que substituíram o Homem no topo da cadeia alimentar. Alguns milhares de pessoas sobrevivem, a custo, no metro de Moscovo sem saberem se são os últimos da sua raça. Quando a estação de VDNKh se vê ameaçada por estranhas criaturas mutantes, um jovem, Artyom, é mandado através dos More...

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Jul 03, 2011

Nikola rated it:

Metro 2033 prati ustaljeni tok fantastičnog romana. Mlad, neiskusan glavni junak, putovanje zarad izvršenja važnog, presudnog zadatka o kojem ni sam ne zna dovoljno, usputno spoznavanje spoljnog ali i unutrašnjeg sveta, te suočavanje sa zlim bićem koje izjeda prirodnu ravnotežu. Sve je tu.

Knjiga je to o ljudima. O životnom putu, sukobu filozofija i pogleda na svet, svetlosti i tami, te naposletku surovoj istini. Priča o ljudskoj prirodi vešto skrivena iza maske fantastike, koja će č More...

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Aug 27, 2011

Sammet rated it:

This is another of those futuristic, science-fiction apocalypse novels. Yet, it definitely isn't. Dmitry Glukhovsky adds and extracts many elements that makes it so different from our ordinary sci-fi that I just couldn't do anything but read along. Because truth be told - if this isn't a page-turner, I don't know what it is. Sadly, my Russian is non-existent and I had to resort to reading a Swedish translation, however the prose in the book satisfied my lust for an extremely well-written book.
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Feb 04, 2012

Jan rated it:

Jag måste erkänna att jag var skeptisk till en början. Den kändes tafflig och banal, och inte alls som den utmärkta sci/fi-thriller jag fått mig rekommenderad.

Men redan i andra kaptitlet fastnade jag i det rappa tempot och effektiva berättandet. Även om grundstrukturen är enkel, där huvudkaraktären i princip färdas mellan olika tunnelbanestationer och så är det lite obehagligt och mystiskt däremellan - och ibland även på stationerna - så fängslar den mig som läsare. Det egentligen lö More...

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Dec 24, 2011

Melyssa rated it:

Niveau immersion, ce roman se pose là. Ca ne prendra que quelques pages pour qu'on se sente nous aussi enfermés dans les couloirs du métro et pour ne pas mentir j'ai une ou deux fois frôlé la crise de claustrophobie.

Parce que la situation est extrême les péripéties ont parfois un goût de "too-much"; mais d'un autre côté quand tout s'empile dans aussi peu d'espace, tout est forcément exacerbé et on comprend assez bien cette façon qu'a le métro de tout amplifier. Ce qui perme More...

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Oct 05, 2011

Christopher rated it:

I have to admit that I bought this book after looking at the video game and therefore my preconception was that it was going to be a mindless post apocalyptic mutant killer book. This book was not at all close to this. It read like a travelogue/adventure story and was essentially a journey around a future Moscow subway system where survivors of a nuclear apocalypse on the surface try to survive underground and the myriad types of societies that result. Each station or group of stations acts as a More...

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Feb 08, 2011

Kan rated it:

Just finished Metro 2033 having purchased from Amazon. The novel is set in a nightmarish dystopian future where human survivors of a nuclear war live like starving tunnel rats in what's left of the Moscow subway system. Each chapter is full of visual references to dark tunnels, strange sounds and occasional violent interactions with mutants and other abominations.

Giving credit to the author (and the translator), it would ordinarily be a very difficult subject to write about given the l More...

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Sep 05, 2010

TJ rated it:

I almost gave Metro 2033 three stars. There are definitely some great parts in the novel, parts that are frightening and riveting to read. Nonetheless, the book is also really weighed down with some awfully long and tedious parts that appear to be there to carry the plot forward from event to event. They get long after awhile, and some of the more philosophical and introspective of these can be downright boring.

Also, the more “action” and exciting parts do get very repetitive after More...

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May 01, 2011

Sooz rated it:

man. this book started off s00000 well. a quest! who doesn't love a story about a quest. it is one of our oldest and most popular frameworks for stories be it opera, film, poem or story. and what a premise. the last of the Moscow population living (ala Beneath the Planets of the Apes) in the metro stations and tunnels beneath the bombed out radio-active remains of the city. so what went wrong on me? warning there be spoilers ahead. not completely give the ending away and ruin the whol More...

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Aug 07, 2011

Nicole rated it:

WOW. Having descended the epically long escalators into the bowels of the Kiev metro, I find the reality of this world quite believable. The best dystopian fiction I've read in a long, long while. Intensely engaging. No lame love story. An ending that I didn't see coming from miles away. Not purely action driven - a good bit of philosophizing over mushroom tea. The station and city descriptions as well as inhabitants remembrances, accumulated to form an all-encompassing vision of this world - pa More...

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Apr 10, 2011

Chris rated it:

Hmmm. Strange book. Reads like a post-apox version of the Illiad. Yeah, you would think this is a good thing right. The world setting is absolutely amazing, but may have been a little over detailed in the beginning. The first half of the book is a grueling step-by-step across the metro, and it drraaaaggggeeedd, where the second half they seem to travel by skipping from place to place.. So many ideals of what was happening were presented, several being very interesting indeed, but they are cast a More...

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Sep 25, 2011

Христо rated it:

Глуховски и “Метро 2033” – сериозна, качествена фантастика
http://www.knigolandia.info/2010/08/2033...

Книголандия не е изцяло моя. Тя е също толкова ваша – на всички, които идвате да четете тук за хубави (и не чак толкова) книги. Аз невинаги съм прав и тогава вие, книголандците, сте тук, за да ме поправите. Затова сега се извинявам и ви благодаря – на всички, които буквално ме принудихте да седна и прочета “Метро 2033”, след като се бях разочаровал от продължението му. More...

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Jun 19, 2011

Ryan rated it:

I loved this book, the world is amazing and compelling, I just ate it up. I read this in only a few days. It was supposed to be my "work book" which I was only to read at work, but it went home with me and I'd read it instead of doing anything else (even during dinner - cooking and eating!)

I'm really looking forward to reading Metro 2034, if I can find an English version, and the London Metro book when it comes out.

I'm not sure if this was a world parallel to ou More...

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Apr 18, 2011

Moritz rated it:

Metro 2033 has a great start, a captivating atmosphere and some cool moments. The story is lacking, though. Many occurrences in the pearls-on-a-string-like story seem haphazard and very convenient (for the writer). The story tries to explain some of this in later parts of the book but the reader is left with a stale aftertaste.

A funny thing---that I got used to pretty quickly---are the strange-sounding dialogs. Dialogs often sound totally unnatural. I don't know if this is intended or More...

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Nov 08, 2010

Karin rated it:

I wanted so to like this book, but in the end it just didn't impress me at all.
What annoyed me the most was that the translation was flawed to the point where even I, whose first language isn't english, was bothered by it frequently. Also females were reduced to being whores, children or cooking dinner/making tables for the action men 50s style. The main character had no interesting personality. The philosophy was... blah.

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Nov 29, 2009

Elena rated it:

Very interesting reading I would say.
And pretty creepy. Creepy because I live in Moscow, and the subway in question is Moscow subway. And when you read about the stations, the tunnels, which you know, and which you pass by every day on your way to work... Creepy...
But I liked it a lot. Though in comparison to the second book, this one was a little slow for me, meaning the way the story progressed was slower than I usually like.
And frankly speaking, I started reading from the s More...

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Dec 10, 2011

Matan rated it:

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Oct 11, 2011

Kyle rated it:

Peering into the darkest hours of mankind, where the apocalypse rules over the serenity, Metro 2033 is a great post-apoc. novel. Great. I don't know what to say. The game's great, too.

Anyways, it tells the story of Artyom, a young man destined to save mankind. Now, it might sound kind of fairy-talish right now, but from the dark tunnels to the cloudy fallout of the hostile world above, you can see what desperation, longing, is waiting under every person's soul.

I liked th More...

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Sep 03, 2010

Claudiu rated it:

I will be plain in expressing my feelings about this books: I love it. I love it in fact so much that I can't give it full score, since it would be a lie to say it is flawless. And such a lie this work does not deserve smudged upon it.

'Metro 2033' reinforces my notion that Russian authors can write the best Sci-Fi, and the most imaginative. The reworking of the Metro system of Moscow, after the EndWar (as I enjoy calling it) is nothing short of a work of genius as far as creativity More...

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