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The Stainless Steel Rat Wants You! (Stainless Steel Rat, #7)
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Juho Pohjalainen's review
Jun 01, 2020
Reading for the 2nd time. Most recently started June 1, 2020.
This series was never the epitome of sanity and serious literature, but even then this one's several magnitudes more insane than those so far. Jim's kids are now grown-up - and Jim himself has a nice 'stache, according to the cover - and they all go out together to fight first taxmen and then aliens. Hideous, smelly, revelling-in-their-ugliness aliens. And then the greys, those assholes.
There's time travel and dimension hopping before we're through, several obstructive bureaucracies on both counts, as well as - the real crazy part - halfway profound notions on morality and goodness. And more still. It's good stuff as all of them are.
There's time travel and dimension hopping before we're through, several obstructive bureaucracies on both counts, as well as - the real crazy part - halfway profound notions on morality and goodness. And more still. It's good stuff as all of them are.
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Reading Progress
May 27, 2020
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Started Reading
May 27, 2020
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May 28, 2020
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15.63%
"Fast-forward fifteen or so years of domestic life, then WIFE KIDNAPPED OUT OF BLOODY NOWHERE. As always, this series knows to skip all the boring bits and get straight to the point.
Though, I really would have liked to see more of them trying to raise the hellion twins of theirs, given from what little I hear of their intervening years."
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Though, I really would have liked to see more of them trying to raise the hellion twins of theirs, given from what little I hear of their intervening years."
May 31, 2020
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75.0%
"The absolute literal-mindedness of the greys serves as a welcome comic relief from an otherwise very tense situation."
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120
June 1, 2020
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Started Reading
June 1, 2020
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75.0%
"Usually I'd say that bringing in alternate timelines out of nowhere would be a bad case of deus ex machina, but in Harrison's case it's just another note on an already quite wacky book. It's obvious he could have come up with something else... and the alternate dimension wasn't very helpful anyway."
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120
June 1, 2020
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Finished Reading