Read the book, but don't watch Verhoeven's 1997 translation. He said then and has made it abundantly clear in interviews over the past 25 years he didn't like the original book and wasn't going to follow the novel more closely.
Problem is, Verhoeven's Starship adaptation is a great example of Poe's Law--where an artist, filmmaker's attempts at mocking or satirizing major socio-economic, political issue seems more authentic, genuine in supporting these institutions then seriously mocking or criticizing them. In other words, he did a terrible job of making/creating satire.