![]() An interesting take on survival horror, Metro 2033, the game, is a corridor shooter that takes place in a post-apocalyptic version of Moscow's underground metro system, where civilization has broken down into strange pockets of humanity and everyone is threatened by the omnipresent horrors of violence, mutant infestation, madness, and the supernatural. Like most Americans who know anything about it, my first exposure to Dmitry Glukhovsky's Metro 2033 was through the video game of the same name from a few years ago. ![]() (This apology extends to my father-in-law as well, who is, coincidentally enough, also a fan.) I'm sorry, Dad, but I've just never understood the appeal. Personally speaking-and I stress this is just my opinion and not presented here as any kind of objective fact-I find Russian literature to be dull, boring, obtuse, and exhausting, more concerned with mood than with character, plot, and poetry. I can appreciate their novels for what they are and recognize their importance, but truth be told, I don't enjoy them at all. As one of those sons who is constantly trying to impress his old man, I've tried dozens of times to find something to love about the great Russian novelists: Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Pushkin, Pasternak, Turgenev, etc. ![]() My father was a huge fan of Russian literature. ![]()
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