The Things - Peter Watts

So when I started reading this I thought it was deliberately opaque, but interesting, some large alien thing crashed on a planet, turns out to be Earth. Antarctica. Monster. Hold on... Yes I was being slow. This is the story of the monster from The Thing. At which point I lost interest. I don't think I've ever seen The Thing. I've seen The Thing From Another World, which is really funny, but not the John Carpenter version.

So no doubt it's clever, and great if you're a The Thing geek, but I was a bit bored. Monster, yes, shape shift, yes, humans going crazy, yes. Endless Monster introspection. Yes.

The film's probably better.

EDIT

I should also point out, though it is entirely obvious, that I have never read the John W. Campbell novella upon which the films are based.