Really enjoyed the first book. Started questioning things in the second. By the third, I was hate reading it to get to the end.

Without spoiling it, the ending completely failed to land for me. Just a hodgepodge of incomplete ideas and loose ends… If it was just the first book they could’ve told other stories and built a Lovecraftian mythos around it, but instead they had to go for the 3 book deal and by the end it was just too much toast and not enough butter for me.

Reading all these comments sure does make me wish I liked it…

Nice, literally finished it yesterday. Surprised at how different the second book is so far.

I love how fuzzy and surreal everything is in annihilation.

I’m kind of interested in watching the film again, but I want to let the book settle in first, since the story and setting felt so different to me then what I remember from the film.

An initial scene with a boar basically had me reliving princess mononoke while reading, it was very surprising and wonderful.

I thoroughly enjoyed that one. A different take on the Roadside Picnic genre and thoroughly weird.

I loved these books. and actually I wasn’t turned off by the movie. For just 90 minutes they did a good job of touching on most of the key aspects. The visuals were pretty close to how I had imagined it from the reading, anyway. I was hoping they would make a sequel to touch on the rest of the series but I’ll take what I can get these days.

I loved the first book. I read it after seeing the film, which I also loved.

Both seemed like a dream of the other.

The sequels I enjoyed, but you have to enjoy the journey: there is no conclusion. Though that is a form of story telling that I quite like.

I dut this book so much. The kind of book you read in the dark for the good ol’ tinglies.

Great story

I haven’t read this, mostly because when I saw the trailer for the movie I started screaming with joy in the theater because I thought Chaga (Evolution’s Shore - oddly enough, by the author of the other November selection, Ian McDonald) had gotten a movie adaptation.

I did see and like the Annihilation movie OK.

So even if the book is not like the movie, I can’t go in without prejudice. I was just so disappointed.

I went into it hoping to capture the nostalgia of discovering and reading SCP when I first discovered them many years ago.

Unfortunately, Even though the premise looked really cool I found myself bored after the first book and never read the rest of the series.

Are the following books different? Is the film worth it?