Dmitry Glukhovsky

Lived Up to the Hype

I've been a fan of the games for a long time and had always meant to get around to reading the books, which can be a little unnerving in case they weren't as good. But this was phenomenal!

The worldbuilding, characters, interactions, and blending of myth and supernatural are all wonderful and I am extremely excited to check out the other books and the extended Metro universe.

It has the feel of a modern Odyssey mixed with the better parts of Stephen King's Dark Tower series, especially with many chapters being their own segment of the journey or experience. In this way it also feels less like a novel and more like many shirt stories and novellas seamlessly sewn together. This is not a criticism or downside from my point of view.

It leaves a lot of questions unanswered and has a lot you just have to go with, but that's genre fiction baybee and this is up there with some of the best.

I have a mighty need to replay the games and checkout the rest of the series.

Performance was brilliant.

Great stuff!… (mais)

This book has such a great setting, but the author does not seem to know what to do with it. The scope of the Metro universe is so vast, but the author seems to be afraid of any radical change to it. Despite all the discoveries and dramatic events, the state of the metro universe at the end of the second book is almost identical the beginning of the first book.

Instead, we get treated to more inexplicable "magic". More rebasing of how awful life in the Metro is. More big conflicts that miraculously brings us back to the status quo ante. Yawn.… (mais)

故事背景是核戰後，剩一小撮人在地鐵系統中生存
人們依意識形態各佔據不同站點，進站像入境，而地鐵站間有突變野獸、超自然現象阻礙通行
主角要在這樣的環境下展開冒險
我是很喜歡這樣的世界觀及氛圍，但劇情整體來看，走一步算一步的感覺很強烈，就像是角色扮演遊戲一樣（其實我就是因為改編遊戲才對這原著小說感興趣）
雖然能理解是因為資訊流通困難，但這樣的劇情發展感覺有點單調

只能在小說／遊戲二選一的話，我推薦遊戲，約10小時就能享受完有趣的沈浸式體驗。而且特價時比較便宜
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俄國人為啥把站名命為Kievskaya、Byelorusskaya、Smolenskaya啊，其他地名已經記不來了，還差點混淆我一切都只發生在莫斯科的理解… (mais)