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Title: Glad I found it at the Library
Review: I couldn't imagine spending money for this barrel of dung.This is the first Harry Harrison novel I've ever read. It will be the last. Is this typically how he writes? I've read hints that the Stainless Steel Rat novels are parodies of sci-fi pulp, which is fine. In that case, I got the joke. I got the joke five pages in; the rest was just extraneous. If it was a joke, it was spread awfully thin. A tattered plot filled with guys constantly "growling menacingly" and dames "husking seductively" (sorry, tossed it and am writing from memory)? Full of people otherwise otherwise engaging in all sorts of off-putting and utterly unverisimilitudinous behavior and speaking dialogue that would make Isaac Asimov blush? Sure, that might be funny in a short story. A whole novel full of it makes the reader feel cheated.Sorry, the Stainless Steel Rat Goes To Hell is less mature and thought-provoking than crud I used to write in elementary school.
