Metro 2033 (Striving for Greatness)

My thoughts on Metro 2033!

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[BigHeavyLove]

I honestly loved this book so much. I think the "overly detailed" problem comes from the fact it is translated from Russian. Russian is a very rich language, meaning you can convey tons of information with just one or two sentences (using cases and sentence order). In English we don't have this, so to compensate you have to write a bunch of long winded sentences to get across your meaning.

[crisnice]

i love the idea of adding a "time to read" in the reviews. helps me organize my schedule and what i can buy/read at the moment

[TheScarvig]

i think the books feel different once you realize that you can pretty much travel the route artyom makes in the books yourself and the metroplan on the cover is actually accurate.
i got the chance to get a guided tour through the stations of the book when we visited relatives in moscow... their daughter happened to know the books and took me through all of the stations and the highlight was getting up onto the tv tower for real and visiting the bunker that got converted into a museum
the games are really close to the original metro and it really felt like ive been there before when i stood in the metro stations for real (minus the destruction and post apocalypse of course)

[iraklisuladze]

One of my favorite books. I was still student in University, when I first read it. Then I've started a translation job, and with the help of my friend who was a publisher, I had a chance to read Metro 2035 pdf version before its publication, and furthermore I could translate the epilogue of 2033 which is thrilling on its hand. Later, Dmitry was visiting this publisher friend in my city - Tbilisi, but I was abroad by that time, however, with the help of my friends I managed to get his signed copy of Metro 2033 and even had skype call for some secondsn with him. He's a great writer and a very fine person.

[TaRatTinCan]

Can’t say the book itself is my favorite, but the world of metro 2033 gripped my imagination as a teenager. Growing up in Moscow I couldn’t help imagining it while traveling throughout the metro stations. Also only after reading it I started to notice massive blast doors in the older stations.

[bethanygreenwood]

"Wow this (not written by Robert Jordan) book is overly detailed in it's descriptions" - Said no WoT reader, ever.🤣

[joldomort]

The way Daniel reviews i love so much, I’ve never read metro 2033 but it’s always so nice when he understands that certain parts can be good and others bad and that you can not like a book but still think it was pretty good - compared to the classic:
“it’s trash”
* doesn’t elaborate *
* leaves *

[johnnymcjohnson]

The thing about the very uninteresting main character actually works really well for the video game since it allows the player to just insert themselves into the main character. It's less about Artyom's story and more about witnessing the world, the monsters and the other characters and their stories, Artyom is sort of just the camera lens that allows us to enter the world

[thebgrey]

Mr. Goblin do you have any plans to talk deeper about Russian literature in general? Would love to know what else you have read))

[christianblair]

I remember really enjoying this book back when I was a little kid. Like many, I met it thanks to the fantastic game, and was quite surprised that the book was so good! I used to read it with the AC on, covered in blankets, with ambient rain drops and even eating hard bread to immerse myself in the story lol I pretend I was one of the Metro residents.

[IAmQwerty]

I think I can honestly say that the Metro series is one I'll always love. The atmosphere and the detail brings such a new take on existential horror, and I love it so much. Even the points you bring up as negatives, for me, only made me empathize with statements made by previous characters. In the later installments of this series, there's these heartbreaking moments that I still think about today. The games are great, but I wish they had that element of existential horror that the books did. It makes me sad that the author wants to continue the story in the games and that he plans on not writing any more books. The games are great though, but they're just two different genres.

[Cass_Collects]

I’m right in the middle of reading this after having struggled to finish it 4 times in the past, the beginning was a bit of a drag as well as the middle point that i have reached rn, however, i’m deeply in love with the setting and am a sucker for dystopian stories so I’m enjoying finally getting a lot further in the book than with any previous attempt - but yes, play the games, they are fantastic

[quinnsahler]

Daniel I consume so much of your content that my girlfriend now calls you my boyfriend

[milestrombley]

I played all the games, and I enjoyed their lore from the novels.

[Scientist]

It's great to see your review of he novel. I've been a longtime fan of the series since I played all the Metro games and read only the first book. So it's nice to see an outside perspective from another. It is quite unfortunate that it's drawbacks leave much to be desired, but the setting is fascinating enough to bring me back in despite character arcs lacking in the same regard.

[billyalarie]

i genuinely appreciate you taking the time to tell us how long you suspect this will take to read, for the average reader.

seriously. thank you.

[AlexanderMakarovVed]

Gluhovsky succeeded in creating a vast atmospheric world in which other writers wanted to play. He made something mundane like metro systems fun to see in a different ways.

But yeah, his main characters weren’t alive enough for me to feel like their stories mattered.

[JRBeast-nwxg]

I just started reading Metro 2033 and I’m glad I did because I freaking love it so far. The writing is some of my favorite and one of my favorite Authors already.
Update: the book is better than the game

[CNStanza]

I read the book when I was about 20. I remember when I was in the second half of the book I could not bring myself read it at night because how scared it made me feel. I lent the book to a friend and he was also too scared to read sometimes, so kudos for writing suspence to the author. I think worldbuilding was very interesting I really liked how every metro station had it's own personality and the whole metro system can be a microcosm of of our society. There are also a political nuances that the protagonist does not understand because he does not know actual society as we do, as we see it from Artyom's POV who was raised in this new world and knows little about how things used to be before the "apocalypse." As a reader it is fun to find those references to our modern day society. I have to mention that this book has a map and I am a sucker for books with maps LOL. You can very much enhance the reading experience by googling pictures of the actual stations of the Moscow metro.

[PixelHunter]

Read Metro 2033 long ago, probably somewhere around first game release. As a ~13 years old boy I liked it sooo much. Never gave it a re-read tho.
Than you Daniel! Hope for more fellow Russian scifi author to be reviewed.