Metro 2033 Audiobook by Dmitry Glukhovsky

Metro 2033 Audiobook Online Streaming (English version)

Metro 2033 Audiobook (Russian: Метро 2033) is a post-apocalyptic fiction novel by Russian author Dmitry Glukhovsky. It is set within the Moscow Metro, where the last survivors hide after a global nuclear holocaust.

Plot Summary

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 civilization 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 an 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.

Audiobook Review

Metro 2033 Audiobook Mp3 is very much a Russian tale with everything that implies. Post-nuclear survival tale within the metro tunnels, humanity becoming Morlocks and strange flying creatures preventing any egress.

Overall I am glad that I listened to this book. There were some points when I was second-guessing my selection and not enjoying the story due to some elements of the writing. As an example, the author at times rambles off into characters’ daydreams or deeper thoughts, which, while interesting, are not always particularly consistent or believable for the character in question.

There is one brief sortie to the surface that becomes an adrenalyn-packed nightmare. I never realized that you can read a book through your fingers as you wait for the horrors to leap out from the ruins and the dark.

Finally, I’d recommend this for fans of extremely well-developed post-apocalypse literature with a huge serving of what classic Russian literature is known for: shovels and ideas.

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By: Dmitry Glukhovsky
Narrated by: Rupert Degas
Series: Metro, Book 1
Length: 20 hrs and 1 min

Dmitry Glukhovsky – Metro 2033 is now available in audible format, mp3 is about 20 hrs and 1 min long, yet the narration by Rupert Degas is so enticing that you get hooked instantly and keep you up the whole way listening!