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Metro 2033

By: Dmitry Glukhovsky
Narrated by: Rupert Degas
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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.

©2007 Dmitry Glukhovsky (P)2012 Orion Publishing Group

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Incredible

Great story alongside a great narrator creates a phenomenal atmosphere. My only nitpick is that I had trouble keeping track of which station was which (all the russian names sound similar to my english ears lol).

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Amazing

Absolutely loved it. Fantastic performance.
Found the books because of the games. Really glad I did.

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the best audio book yet

Rupert Degas does a great reading of a fantastic text. How can you go wrong?

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an amazing experience with powerful meaning

it's a breathtaking look at the length humans will go to survive an apocalyptic world

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Thrilling story

Metro creates an amazing atmosphere that keeps the listener hooked into the story all the way to the end.

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amazing story! amazing writing!

loved this story. the setting is amazing the living world of the metro is so captivating.

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Perhaps a future Russian classic

A long well drawn story that could be in the realms of great Russian intelectual literature. Not for everyone, some may labour through it and I suspect a little may be lost in the english translation. Rupert Degas is the perfect voice to this book and his telling shows a great respect to the author.

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Terrific Book

I found this book because of Degas.
I am so happy I did.
what an incredible story.
I purchased Book 2 as soon as Book 1 finished.

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Genuinely fantastic

I never write reviews, but had to for this. I wish I had gotten this book earlier. Amazing story, atmosphere, and brilliant narration. A quality book that is miles ahead of much sci-fi post-apocalyptic fodder out there. Can't recommend highly enough.

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Degas, brilliant. Plot, well...

Degas is a captivating narrator. He made this story enjoyable. Whilst it is a unique and interesting idea, there isn't a lot of "thrill" and there is a LOT of pointless dialogue. I don't regret the purchase and I am glad to have heard the story.

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