Metro 2033

I went into this book wanting some action set in an underground where the surface of the planet was the most dangerous place to be. In all fairness, we did get quite a bit of that but not quite in a way that made me truly terrified.

Due to the nature in the way that the book is written, I kept expecting all the monsters and such to be or have metaphorical meanings but they didn't. This book more discusses how different cultures, religions and mini civilisations might spurt up in a world where there's no guidance from the outside world. The main character had absolutely no personality despite the many long pieces of internal monologues. However, I have come out of this book feeling quite satisfied and intrigued by a lot of the hypothetical religions and mini-cultures that Dmitry Glukhovsky explored in this book

I've been wanting to read this book for a long time. It is good, I like it and find it very interesting but I think it is a philosophical introspection wrapped in a science fiction book. It goes through many different life philosophies and discussed them from a first person point of view, I think the spectrum is far from complete and the book portraits not the best aspects of each doctrine. The book is about the journey of discovery of a human being framed in a post-apocalyptic underground world and is a very interesting approach to the comfort versus knowledge dilemma.

I would definitely recommend it but I doubt I will ever read the following books in the series.