The Stainless Steel Rat: Library Edition

from TadAD

Though this the fourth book chronologically, it's really the first one to read as it introduces the characters the best. I thought this was a very funny book. As the series goes on, the particular humor gets a bit old as it's pretty much just more of the same with each volume.

from fulner

The Stainless Steel Rat is a Sci-Fi crime thriller. It took me some time to realize that the protagonist is not, in fact, a rodent. Though that is never made completely clear, nor is it if the time line is some long time in our future, some other galaxy far away, or another universe altogether, b...

from bnielsen

James Bolivar diGriz alias Slippery Jim alias The Stainless Steel Rat, er en interplanetarisk tyveknægt med en anelse moralsk sans. Trængt op i en krog af The Special Corps accepterer han nødtvunget at blive en del af korpset og kommer på sporet af en hel skrupelløs bandit, der har fået bygget en...

from Andybaby

Harry Harrison sticks to the point in this novel "The Stainless Steel Rat". It is a good quick read, when most scifi today is bogged down and several hundred pages long, alot of it ultimately meaningless to the story, It is a good book to read between those. It gets the story out. with Minimal De...

from UnderMyAppleTree

Jim DiGriz is a likeable a con man, a smooth, slippery rat of a guy, a stainless steel rat. Crime is rare in his world and a criminal of DiGriz' skills is difficult catch. But eventually he does get caught and it's all over for him. Or is it? Soon he is recruited into the Special Corps, a law enf...