The Stainless Steel Rat Sings the Blues

Alas, this Stainless Steel Rat, following up the early adventures of Jimmy, didn't hold up quite as well on the re-read. I docked it a star for being slightly incomprehensible in a later part. Mostly it was fun, but it got a bit too wacky in its commentary. Not horribly, but it wasn't all that enjoy......more

Fun story with the always likeable Stainless Steel Rat. There's a sense that it's parodying something in the middle section of the book, but I don't know what that is. It doesn't spoil it for me, but I wasn't sure what it was getting at. Also I think it could have gone further with the premise of th......more

I read several of the Stainless Steel Rat books back in the day, and was unsure how they would hold up. I remember thinking the series went on past where it should have stopped, especially in the ones written by authors other than Harrison. I listened to the well-produced and performed audio version......more

Young Slippery Jim diGriz, aka The Stainless Steel Rat, is blackmailed into leading a miitary exercise to recover an artifact, thought to be millions of years old, and alien. Told that a 30-day drug had been introduced into his body and he will die unless he gets the antidote, Jim is under time pres......more

This again was a fun book to read but was the least stainless Steel Ratish of the book series I have read so far., or at least it felt that way to me. While many of the others feel like capers this wandered into the adventure survival territory. Jim feels more vulnerable in this book and there is a......more