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Metro 2035
by Dmitry Glukhovsky
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!