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Metro 2033
Metro 2033 | Dmitrii Glukhovskii
2033. The world has been reduced to rubble. Humanity is nearly extinct. A few thousand live on in the Moscow Metro, not knowing if they are the only survivors. It is a world without a tomorrow, with no room for dreams, plans, hopes. Feelings have given way to instinct - the most important of which is survival. Survival at any price.
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Kryckett
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Pickpick

Snowpiercer meets Roadside Picnic meets The Hike. Don‘t think I will continue the series, but this was delightfully tense and weird and claustrophobic.

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JaqyLantern
Pickpick

This book is amazing but certainly a heavy read. Most books have one or two ideas/philosophies to it. This book, on the other hand, seems to discuss a different philosophy every chapter.
Poor Artyom suffers through so many intense things. I do recommend this book if youre looking for somerhing a bit more thought provoking but with an overall plot and amazing world .

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nosferatu
Metro 2033 | Dmitrii Glukhovskii
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Bailedbailed

Too much for right now, will return in the future.

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Dazen
Metro 2033 | Dmitrii Glukhovskii
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Wenn ich Metro 2033 bis 2035 besitze, lohnt es sich dann die Triologie zu kaufen?

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Buechersuechtling
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Pickpick

I admit that on 2 occasions I wasn‘t sure if this re-read is a “Pick” again – but: It is. The end is just so heartbreaking 💔. 😢 And I am still trying to figure out from which book that part is that I am sure to remember happening in here – but it never does. I‘d love to know which stories I mix up.

I once again fell for the world building. But I appreciated the philosophical parts about fate and sense of life now more than when I read it first.

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Buechersuechtling
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“The library breathed calmly for itself and rustled barely audibly with millions of pages.” (p. 488/489)

⬆️⬆️⬆️ ❤️❤️❤️

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Buechersuechtling
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👉🏼 https://bit.ly/3eIa7UU

Not in the end notes but on the Internet. The statue of the man in the armchair in front of the Russian State Library (p. 473) is Fjodor Dostoyevsky.

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Buechersuechtling
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https://bit.ly/36WhFRh

I think these might be the 4 skyscrapers described in the endnote about the “Kalinin-Prospekt”/“Nowy Arbat”.

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Buechersuechtling
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I think that‘s where chapter 11 takes place, @Jari-chan but that‘s just a guess – I did not – yet – turn back pages.

But I noticed that there is a slight difference between the map in my book and that online map whose link I posted earlier. The map behind that link says the marked station is “Poljanka”.

And my online research shows that the online map might be right: https://bit.ly/3eF2nEb. So it seems, I‘m now right where I began. 😂

Jari-chan Well, at least you know you're in the Metro 😆 😅 4y
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Buechersuechtling
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Gosh, what made me forget how much I love(d) the second part of that chapter. ❤️

Even though – like the first time round – I completely lost track at which station 🚉 this piece of plot takes place. @Jari-chan Any clue or do I need to go back to quite the beginning and/or to Michail Pofirjewitsch and Wanetschka to find out❓

Jari-chan I usually loose track of where they are, too 😁 Most of the time I find the station thanks to the map, but if I don't I don't mind and just keep reading. So I can't really give usefull advice 😅 4y
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Buechersuechtling
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Making good progress in here although I didn‘t manage to pick it up yesterday.

It‘s Pentecost Monday tomorrow, so if I make a haste today, I might finish this one tomorrow. 😄

@Jari-chan I was surprised that I had _completely_ forgotten about that 4.-Reich-episode, that execution and that Che-brigade. But as it all returned I remembered that already the first time round I didn‘t like that part much. 🤷🏽‍♀️

Jari-chan Maybe understandable that you tend to forget about the not so good chapters of a favourite book. Don't worry. I hope you still like the rest of the book! 4y
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Buechersuechtling
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I am pretty sure it‘s fake news but today felt like the first day in ages (🤥), okay in weeks, where I really had the time to unwind _and_ read.

I‘m happy to be back into the story. And into the Russian 🇷🇺. (I struggled.)
It‘s still nicely dark but not as creepy and threatening as it was when I read it for the first time. But: What to expect if I read in spring-daylight instead of autumn-afternoon❓🤷🏽‍♀️
Anyway: I “re-love” my re-read. 🖤

Freespirit Sounds interesting..I haven‘t read many Russian books! Dr Zhivargo is a favourite💕 4y
Jari-chan "To re-love a re-read" - that's a lovely expression ❤️ 4y
Buechersuechtling @Freespirit I only watched the movie – while recovering from a severe medical surgery. So, I don‘t remember a second of it. 🤭 4y
Buechersuechtling @Jari-chan It‘s nice isn‘t it❓I dreamt it up and had to share it. 4y
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Buechersuechtling
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Hey @RamsFan1963 – nice to meet someone else who‘s barely watching TV. 👋🏼

So, thanks @DannyHattan for this #WhatWouldYouDo.

1) Books. Watching TV more seldom than Netflix. And I rarely stream.

2) Coffee. ☕️ Always.

3) Both❓ I always start with chocolate and then when the evening passes by I might turn to savoury snacks and a beer or a long drink – or to red wine and cheese.

4) Tagging @Enchantedbibliophile @ju.ca.no @Soff @bromeliad

RamsFan1963 @Buechersuechtling During football season I watch more TV, but the rest of the time it's much much less 4y
Buechersuechtling @RamsFan1963 Let me correct that to fit me. 😉 Strike out “football”, replace it by “Snooker”. 4y
RamsFan1963 @Buechersuechtling Snooker? As in billiards or, as Americans say, pool? I used to be a pretty good pool player, won a few tournaments, until one night in a beer brawl, between bikers and rednecks, my hand got stomped on and broken. Never played as well after that. 4y
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Buechersuechtling
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Converting #Two4Tuesday into Two4Friday, ‘kay ❓😊 @TheSpineView

1️⃣ Looking forward to nice warm sunny time period to enjoy some days off together with my significant other. 🍹

2️⃣ Uhm, excuse me, I‘m surely the owner of the act/habit of outside reading. 😂 I‘m only going back in for • the loo • cool drinks • food (sometimes) and • night sleep.

Perfect tag from @RamsFan1963 – passing the baton on to @DaveGreen7777 @bibliophilea @ameliashley

TheSpineView Two 4 Friday works! Thanks for playing! 😊 4y
DaveGreen7777 Thank you for the tag! 😁 4y
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Buechersuechtling
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Sorry for being late @MariaW and @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

I‘m taking this as opportunity to announce that throughout the next weeks my visits will still be regular but less frequent – for reasons. ?

So 3 of my book-#favs … ? (Trying not to mention my usual suspects.)

• Mängelexemplar by Sarah Kuttner
• The Time-Traveller‘s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
• Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky (the obvious choice, I know, but ?)

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Of course now we are all curious!! 4y
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Buechersuechtling
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👉🏼 https://metro2033.org/popup/map_metro2033_overview.html

Chunkster-reader‘s delight – a map 🗺‼️🥰

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Buechersuechtling
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👉🏼 https://litsy.com/p/bGZwZEt1dnli

@Jari-chan As I said … 😇

Jari-chan That sounds like a plan 😁😁😁 4y
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Buechersuechtling
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Quoting @Jari-chan :
I‘m going all in.💰
I‘m doing it.

I‘m S T A R T I N G this re-read within the next minutes. The biggest re-read I‘ve ever done – 764 pages. Did I mention yet that actually I‘m no re-reading person❓🤔😉

The screenshot above shall flag where I started.

@Litsy Have you ever considered implementing a feature to mark re-reads or to implement a kind of “re-read-counter”❓ I‘m sure some of us would love/appreciate that.

Jari-chan Well, THAT'S what I call a great idea! Enjoy it! 🤩❤️Also, the Re-read option for #Litsy would be great 👍 4y
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Buechersuechtling
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Years ago, I knew pretty soon that I‘d want to re-read “Metro 2033” before continuing with the rest. Well now, “Metro 2034” is already sitting for quite a while on my shelf – unread. And _I_am_ curious how Artjom‘s story will continue. I loved the first book so much. The world building 🚇. 😍

So the best time is _now_‼️

But you know … The thing is: If I only were a re-reader – at least to a certain degree … 🙈

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Dazen
Metro 2033 | Dmitrii Glukhovskii
Pickpick

Sehr gut und spannend 👍

Buechersuechtling Yepp. Kann ich unterschreiben. Habe es gerade zum zweiten Mal gelesen, damit ich die Reihe mit „Metro 2034“ endlich fortsetzen kann. Das liegt schon lange in meinem Regal, ich habe es bisher nur noch nicht angefangen. Ich wusste, dass ich Teil eins dafür noch mal lesen wollte, aber ich bin halt keine große Bücher-mehrmals-Leserin. 4y
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Erofan
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#7days7covers #covercrush Day 2

@JessClark78 , I know you have many beautiful covers! 😁

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LiljaPleasant
Metro 2033 | Dmitrii Glukhovskii
Pickpick

I heard quite a lot about this series. Some time ago I finally bought book one and now i read it...
And I LOOOVE it.
If I hadn't so many books on my tbr pile, I would run to the next book store and buy all the other books in the series amd metroverse.
Buuuut now it has to wait at least til november... 😥

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LiljaPleasant
Metro 2033 | Dmitrii Glukhovskii
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I love #audible
Audiobooks are just sooooo practical ☺
7 hours in the book and I enjoy it a lot!

#augusttbr #metro2033 #audiobook

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LiljaPleasant
Metro 2033 | Dmitrii Glukhovskii
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Do you plan your monthly reading?
I love writing lists! 😍
I still have to finish one of my books for this month. Let's see if my ducklings allow it 😅

LiljaPleasant @thereadingunicorn aaand after they were born 😊 4y
coffeewithbooks @LiljaPleasant this is really cute 4y
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Rubanite
Pickpick

While a slow read metro 2033 is a frightening imagination the post apocalypse not often seen in western writing brought to life by Glukovskys phenomenal world building and atmosphere.

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Frau_Sorge
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Pickpick

1069 pages of my beautiful, illustrated, hard cover edition. Pure joy.

michellelav Wow, thats so cool!! Beautiful art work. My boyfriend's read the series a few times so im going to be starting shortly! 📚 5y
Buechersuechtling Illu–what⁉️🥰 Where did you buy this❓ Was it a limited edition❓I feel the sudden and immediate necessity to right now own this‼️😍 @Jari-chan have you seen this❓Did you know about this❓ 4y
Jari-chan @Buechersuechtling Me so wants! 😍 4y
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BestDogDad
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Pickpick

Metro 2033 is post-apocalyptic goodness! I listened to the audio book and narrator Rupert Degas did a fantastic job with all the different voices and varying Russian accents. He perfectly sets the mood and differentiates the characters. Most of the action takes place in the Russian Metro subway after a war leaves the surface unlivable. It helped me to print a map of it to follow the journey of the protagonist Artyom.

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Librarian199509
Metro 2033 | Dmitrii Glukhovskii
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Pickpick

I'm not sure what I feel about this book. The translation is a little clunky but the narrative can be a bit info dumpy as well. Combined means there are entire chunks of just really boring passages. That said I can see why they made a video game out of it and how that video game is popular. #russianscifi #dystopian #barelyapick

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WeeWeegieBookworm
Metro 2033 | Dmitrii Glukhovskii
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Being friends with a bookworm means all my friends are getting books for Christmas 😁📚🎅

Buechersuechtling Uhm, yes I know, this post is three years old – but still, I am really wondering how it comes that your copy of “Metro 2033” is/seems/looks _way_ thinner than my one. And yes, it‘s both paperback. But: Mine is in German. It has 746 pages plus annex. Is yours abbreviated❓🙃 4y
WeeWeegieBookworm @Buechersuechtling I don't actually know as it was a gift for my brother. All I can really tell you was it was in English and 464 pages 🤔 I checked the publishers website and it doesn't give any more information. Still that's a pretty big jump in page numbers... 4y
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tricours
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Ugh, all big Russian novels turn into slow reads for me... and my Kindle keeps losing the current location in this one, so that hardly helps! #slowread #readjanuary

BookishTrish I DNF that one 7y
tricours @BookishTrish it is a bit boring, isn't it? 7y
Laalaleighh I once put this picture on my boyfriends fb wall with the caption "this is you". He still loves me. 7y
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Texreader Perfect pic for today's topic!!! 7y
tricours @Laalaleighh it's quite fitting for my bf too 😬 7y
Laalaleighh @tricours he's currently asleep after reading one page in the last 1/4 of sleeping giants. I read that book in one sitting. Idk how he does it. 7y
tricours @Laalaleighh Mine doesn't even read, unless it's related to Rolex or Patek Philippe watches... 7y
Laalaleighh @tricours 😂 maybe you could get him a book about a watchmaker haha 7y
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Lilitherat
Metro 2033 | Dmitrii Glukhovskii
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Finally organised my shelves, unfortunately couldn't fit everything in them

I-read-and-eat Pretty 😍 7y
Kalalalatja Looks great! 👌 7y
kspenmoll 👏😊 7y
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LauraBeth Looks good! 👏👍 7y
ephemeralwaltz 😍😍 7y
stacybmartin Those are gorgeous! 😍 7y
jessdean 😍📚😍📚😍📚 7y
LauraBrook Looks lovely! 7y
MyNamesParadise Omg it's beautiful!! I want it!! 7y
Gissy So pretty!!! ❤👍 7y
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BookishTrish
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#ReadingGoals Tackle the bedside table TBR

Buechersuechtling That‘s just posing for the picture isn‘t it❓It‘s not been your real bedside-sub from at the time where you made that photo, is it❓😯 4y
BookishTrish @Buechersuechtling Not posing that‘s really what my bedside table looks like all the time. 4y
Buechersuechtling @BookishTrish I‘m an avid reader and I love libraries and bookshops – but _that_ would make me slightly nervous. 😬 4y
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MatteInk
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I enjoyed the story, but in the Italian version there were several problems with translation; that made the reading less fluent and pleasant

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betta_c1309
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Eight day of the #photoadaychallenge for #AllHallowsRead --today is #recommendsday.
It's hard to choose just one book... So I've picked two.
The most famous one is Stephen King's The Shining; the other is a Russian sci-fi book I loved when I read it earlier this year, set in a future where the population of Moscow lives underground inside the city's metro tunnels and stations because the surface has become too dangerous for human life.

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tricours
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My new reading view from the sofa in our new house. I've finally settled down enough to read a bit!

RanaElizabeth Congrats on the new digs! Finally feeling settled is so good. 7y
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tricours
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tricours
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This book is actually creepy, way more creepy than some books that pass as "horror", so I think this one is also a part of #scaretober! Also, look at the length of this thing!

ValerieAndBooks I love the looks of the Cyrillic alphabet even though I only know about 5 words (my daughter is a ballet dancer and thus was always surrounded by Russian teachers who display show posters in Cyrillic in their studios) 7y
ErickaS_Flyleafunfurled Will look for a translation! I read Russian like a toddler and understand nothing 😳 7y
tricours @ErickaS_Flyleafunfurled.com I think it shouldn't be very difficult to track down in English, it's quite famous! Have you studied Russian? 7y
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tricours @ValerieAndBooks I like how even and level it is, but printed Russian books can also end up looking a bit childish if the print is too big 😉 7y
ErickaS_Flyleafunfurled I think "studied" is too gracious. I tried to learn on my own with textbooks and audio classes. The best I can still retain is "Two beers, please!" I had lofty ambitions but very little skill! 7y
tricours @ErickaS_Flyleafunfurled.com oh, so you're a language learner? I also started with Russian on my own (ages ago), but I was pretty tenacious and stuck with it 😁 7y
ErickaS_Flyleafunfurled Youre my new hero. Maybe I should try again?! Knowing it's actually possible . . . 🤔🤓 7y
tricours @ErickaS_Flyleafunfurled.com 😃 Plus it opens so many doors! I've read books in Ukrainian (and lived in Kiev), Bulgarian and Polish. Very slowly, but still. And I worked with medieval Slavic and Russian manuscripts for two years. So it was a hobby that paid off! 7y
ErickaS_Flyleafunfurled 😮 THAT'S SO COOL!! 7y
Buechersuechtling @tricours Even if this conversation is four years old: Yes, that‘s _really_cool_‼️ 😍👏🏼 If I will ever identify a similar coincidence in my life like that one you had with learning Cyrillic/Russian I will think of you. @ErickaS_Flyleafunfurled 4y
ErickaS_Flyleafunfurled @Buechersuechtling Ha! I also remember how to say, “I do not speak Russian,” and that seems just as important as “Two beers, please” 👍 That‘s about all I‘ve retained! 🤦‍♀️ 4y
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tricours
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I've been looking forward to reading this for a while now, at the same time being a bit reluctant since 1) this is LONG and 2) my reading speed in Russian is that of a five year old, but it seems very promising! It really helps being familiar with the Moscow and St Petersburg metro systems since especially the Scandinavian but also most European ones just can't be compared to them, neither in depth nor fanciness.

Aleida Let us know how it is. Has it been translated to English? 7y
tricours @Aleida oh yes! It has been translated to lots of languages! 7y
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BookishTrish
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These bad boys #somethingforseptember

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