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_luckycats_ 's review for:
Metro 2033
by Dmitry Glukhovsky
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 - past, present, and a bit of what could have been. I also loved having the metro map and continuously flipping to it throughout, actively involving me in speculation like our main protagonist as to where best to go on the next leg of his journey. Also, I love the embedded reverence for books and knowledge in Artyom, and the 'librarians' just sealed the deal for me while reading.