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3.72 AVERAGE
3.72 AVERAGE
As someone who thoroughly enjoyed the first and second novels in this series, I just couldn’t quite get into this one. It’s nice to see the end of the story for Artyom, but honestly most of the time I found myself either confused or just bored. At around the 400 page mark the story began to pick up, but fell flat on its face shortly after. In all honesty, I’d completely recommend the first and second books to everyone, and I’d honestly just omit this one and leave the story open ended.
я разрываюсь между единицей и пятеркой... это безумно странная книга, и я не понимаю, как отвратительные, мозговыносящие, тошнотворные, мерзкие, наполненые нецензурщиной, оскорблениями части были вставлены в книгу с хорошим сюжетом, а главное - мыслью, которая действительно заставила меня переживать и задуматься.
артем, ты сегодня не умрешь, ты умрешь не сегодня, хотя бы в моей голове.
артем, ты сегодня не умрешь, ты умрешь не сегодня, хотя бы в моей голове.
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
FINALLY I FINISHED THIS AMAZING SERIES!!!>...<
I'm sooo happy that I needed to buy a gift for a colleague as a Christmas present, because I found Metro 2033 that way!(It's been 2 years since that fateful day and I'm besides myself with joy! >..
Now, back to the review...
I took me some time to get back into it, mostly because I waited for the Romanian release.
The pandemic,financial instability, lack of a job, made me reluctant to pick up books, not to mention finish them.
Regardless, the final page came at the exact moment...I got a job...and now I can truly say that Metro is GREAT and life can stop you from enjoying things for as long as she pleases, but it will come a time when everything will get better.Have faith!
Artyom is very complex character in this one...we move forward from the naive "hero" used to present the world of the metro, to a jaded and traumatized man, that doesn't see more than his goal of finding survivors. His wife, Anya, his father figure, his comrades and friends, try to downplay his obsession and, even go as far as ignore it, all for the sake of normalcy, of hope and future. But Artyom is stubborn, and in true russian style, goes to the ends of the metro to find justice, and I guess...he finds a version of it...at least for his loved ones.
"Metro 2035" has the unique factor of presenting the metro through a bird's eye view to the reader. We get the Red Line, The 3rd Reich, Hansa, the Order, Homer, Miller, Lioka-a manure dealer, Savelii- a stalker to old to have courage, and others.
We learn that people don't care about fair, about freedom, about each other. We care about power and the now. We need an enemy, a system, ideologies, fractions, reasons to fight, to shoot, so save, and we learn that we don't deserve the truth.
I must say that I agree with Besolov and with Artyom. They are equally right and wrong. It's human nature to seek freedom and slavery, so sell everything and fight for nothing. I especially liked the celebration at the end of the book with the feast...the pig dies as all people do...right in front of you with no help, no understand why this is the way it must be, and no mercy from other pigs or the human-his God.
There are perspectives that irked me..like a certain heroine...>...>..I'm looking at you Homer...and I guess I'm as foolish as the next sheep for taking Artyom's side.
After all, a worm is a worm because it lives under the earth and minds it's own business there, and a worm outside of earth..maybe is not even an worm...just food for a bird. I don't know....I still need time to accept life and it's cruelty.
What you'll read in this book will leave you depressed and with no hope for people...But I believe we need to see this, in order to learn compassion!
I truly believe Dmitry Gluhovsky is talented and has the power to write humans and about humans. A must read for someone interested in a life were war is constant and peace is not a desired outcome!
Forever a fan...I highly recommend!
Enjoy!
I'm sooo happy that I needed to buy a gift for a colleague as a Christmas present, because I found Metro 2033 that way!(It's been 2 years since that fateful day and I'm besides myself with joy! >..
Now, back to the review...
I took me some time to get back into it, mostly because I waited for the Romanian release.
The pandemic,financial instability, lack of a job, made me reluctant to pick up books, not to mention finish them.
Regardless, the final page came at the exact moment...I got a job...and now I can truly say that Metro is GREAT and life can stop you from enjoying things for as long as she pleases, but it will come a time when everything will get better.Have faith!
Artyom is very complex character in this one...we move forward from the naive "hero" used to present the world of the metro, to a jaded and traumatized man, that doesn't see more than his goal of finding survivors. His wife, Anya, his father figure, his comrades and friends, try to downplay his obsession and, even go as far as ignore it, all for the sake of normalcy, of hope and future. But Artyom is stubborn, and in true russian style, goes to the ends of the metro to find justice, and I guess...he finds a version of it...at least for his loved ones.
"Metro 2035" has the unique factor of presenting the metro through a bird's eye view to the reader. We get the Red Line, The 3rd Reich, Hansa, the Order, Homer, Miller, Lioka-a manure dealer, Savelii- a stalker to old to have courage, and others.
We learn that people don't care about fair, about freedom, about each other. We care about power and the now. We need an enemy, a system, ideologies, fractions, reasons to fight, to shoot, so save, and we learn that we don't deserve the truth.
I must say that I agree with Besolov and with Artyom. They are equally right and wrong. It's human nature to seek freedom and slavery, so sell everything and fight for nothing. I especially liked the celebration at the end of the book with the feast...the pig dies as all people do...right in front of you with no help, no understand why this is the way it must be, and no mercy from other pigs or the human-his God.
There are perspectives that irked me..like a certain heroine...>...>..I'm looking at you Homer...and I guess I'm as foolish as the next sheep for taking Artyom's side.
After all, a worm is a worm because it lives under the earth and minds it's own business there, and a worm outside of earth..maybe is not even an worm...just food for a bird. I don't know....I still need time to accept life and it's cruelty.
What you'll read in this book will leave you depressed and with no hope for people...But I believe we need to see this, in order to learn compassion!
I truly believe Dmitry Gluhovsky is talented and has the power to write humans and about humans. A must read for someone interested in a life were war is constant and peace is not a desired outcome!
Forever a fan...I highly recommend!
Enjoy!
An enjoyable read with a good story and some great characters. What raises it to a 5 star is the final section of the book, the philosophy and political understanding woven into the fundamental essence of the story is just fabulous. Highly recommended.
Well, this took a forever to read. I remember liking the first book in this trilogy when I read it 5 years ago, and had quite high hopes that this would live up to it. It didn't. The basic idea of there being life outside the Moscow metro was great, and the quest to find it could have been good. But it just dragged on and on with episodes that did not bring any depth to any character and seemed to be written in just so that the author could present different ways to display atrocities. And those weren't necessarily the worst parts, because they at least told something about the society and hierarchy of the metro. Had they been a separate story without the annoying main character, I might have liked this novel more. Now it just fell flat with way too many characters and insignificant events. As a bonus annoyance the Finnish publisher had decided not to print the metro map on the inside cover, so keeping track of where the people were was impossible.
Este libro cierra a trilogía de Metro con casi todos los personajes principales de las primeras dos novelas. Es una historia de vuelta sobre vuelta sobre vuelta de tuerca que me deja un sabor amargo sobre la relevancia de un libre pensador viviendo entre borregos. En las últimas páginas sentí como si las hormigas se estuvieran llevando al último de los Buendía...
3.5. No monsters, no creepy tunnels, just stupid people everywhere.
Din păcate, acest roman este de necitit. Nici nu e roman, ci doar un haos de 600 de pagini, cu o nesfârșită inflație de cuvinte inutile, fără vreo noimă sau coerență. Cred că așa par visele unui drogat sau bețiv- mult prea prost chiar și pentru mine, întotdeauna exagerat de indulgent cu Gluhovski. Știam că e mult mai slab decât primele 2, din alte recenzii, dar nu mă așteptam să fie la un nivel inferior chiar si unui fan fiction. Nu mi-a plăcut nimic. Nici personajele - care personaje? - nici povestea - serios, care poveste? Efectiv nu are un fir narativ real - nici abjectul exagerat, nici fundalul care nu mai există...