![]() ![]() Now, on to the next/first book in the series. ![]() and not in a good way.Īnyway, other than that, the book is fine more of the usual Stainless antics. I’m not sure how much stock I put in the old adage ‘write what you know’, as it would prevent a number of my favourite genres from even existing if taken literally, but I’m going to say that in the case of music, you should definitely avoid writing about it if you have no experience of it because, without fail, non-musicians writing about what it’s like to be a musician always ends up being completely laughable. ![]() Why? Well, it’s like this: in this volume, Slippery Jim comes up with the slightly dubious idea of forming a musical group as a cover to infiltrate a prison plant (yes, it makes as much sense in the book as it does in this sentence) and, while the rest of the book is mostly fine, the scenes about the band are painful to read, particularly if you’ve ever been in one (or, as in my case, several). and this third chapter wasn’t quite up to the standard of the first two, in my humble opinion. So ends the Stainless Steel Rat prequel trilogy (yes, Jim DiGriz had a prequel trilogy long before Star Wars did). ![]()
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