I have not read the book, but it must be better than the movie because I could get to the end of every Arthur C. Clarke book I ever started, but I was not able to finish watching the first TV installment. The best part of the show was the opening scene that drew me in, and then it went downhill from there. I could not take it anymore and stopped watching when the alien pod takes the charismatic farmer back to Earth: as soon as the pod lands, the fiancée walks up to it and knocks on the door; then it cuts to a vignette of them discussing his encounter with the aliens as if they were discussing a PTA meeting. Ridiculous!
This mini-series reminds me a bit of Steven Spielberg's Taken, but at least Taken didn't take itself as seriously.
This mini-series reminds me a bit of Steven Spielberg's Taken, but at least Taken didn't take itself as seriously.