if you make the mistake of see the movie before read the book and please do not give up on the series . i buy my first copy of any of the book in may of this year and and already i be almost finish with book 10. i dare say the movie be a piece of trash that doesn not do the series even a sniff of justice . while leave behind represent the movie only vaguely follow the story of the left behind ( the book ) and the character aren not even close to accurate . a few example represent rayford never act on his feeling for hattie ( he be about to when he inform of the vanishing ) while buck williams be a blonde haired and magazine writer and not a tv reporter while chloe be at stanford and and a lot of the book detail rayford wonder if she urvived while buck and chloe do not meet until much late and at a meeting in new york and set up by hattie while irene and raymie be never in the book and rather just in rayford flashback thought while the road be so jam pack with wreck follow the rapture that rayford and hattie have to helicopter back to the suburb . etc and etc and etc . and that just from the first movie while theyre about to release the third . please and even if you do not like the movie and give the book series a chance .