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Loading... The Stainless Steel Rat Goes to Hellby Harry HarrisonSeries: The Stainless Steel Rat (book 9), The Stainless Steel Rat - Chronological (book 9)
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. This is only my second Stainless Steel Rat novel, but I think I need to go back to the beginning and check out the first few in the series. Not only were there loads of characters and references to past events with which I was unfamiliar, this SSR story felt tired and forced. I felt like the author was just throwing in new twists and calamities for the heroes in order to boost his pagecount to novel length. There was no real flow to the plot and many of the events that either saved the day or ruined it seemed too convenient to be believable, even given a wide suspension of disbelief. Don't get me wrong - I still enjoyed the SSR's witty banter and sarcastic commentary, but overall I felt like the story was a little too aimless and random. (  ) melydia | Oct 28, 2009 |  This book is weak compared to some of the best Stainless Steel Rat books. It suffers from the same almost-impossible-to-believe plot lines as The Stainless Steel Rat Saves The World and The Stainless Steel Rat Wants You. Frankly, the book also jumps around a lot, and I found it hard to follow. http://www.stillhq.com/book/Harry_Har... (  ) mikal | Nov 15, 2008 | This is clearly the weakest Stainless Steel Rat Novel The Rat most of the time treats this investigation as an extended family holiday. He was really bored anyway on the stultifying planet of rich people getting rejuvenated. He has plenty of backup. "As head of the Special Corps, the most secret of secret forces that defended the peace and protected the galaxy, his powers were awesome." Jim is pretty confident in dealing with the alternature universe crossing, Hell creating, self-duplicating madman. "One super-agent of superlative talent and experiment, a lone wolf, he who slinks by night, lithe, hand-some, unbeatable--the galaxy's best agent." http://superprose.blogspot.com/2007/0... (  ) bluetyson | Apr 6, 2007 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 0752817191, Paperback)Brand new adventure of slippery Jim DiGriz, the SF superhero the TLS compared to James Bond and Flash Gordon and the Daily Telegraph, called the Monty Python of the spaceways. While our anti-hero is taking it easy on the resort planet Lussouso, his wife Angelina and her cavorting pals are at the temple ofEternal Truth, being bamboozled into believing that at last they can buy their way into heaven. When Angelina asks 1 pertinent question too many, Slippery Jim suddenly finds himself without a wife. Within the Temple of Eternal Truth lie the doors to Heaven and Hell - to find Angelina, Jim and his twin sons will have to break down those doors and explore the worlds behind them. In outer space, the devil makes work for idle hands.(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:12 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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