"Slippery Jim" Di Griz is one of the best anti-hero characters i have ever read. I picked it up not too long ago and as soon as i read i immediately ordered the whole set! I found reading them chronologically was the best way for me, but you can find both orders on the wikipedia page and how ever you do it they are well worth a read. You will find it very hard with any of Harry Harrision's books, but especially with the rat series to stop reading and i must admit to making my way through all twelve novels in about two weeks. They are serious at times but behind everything there is a dark humor and sarcasm that even if you don't like at the beginning you ...  Read the complete review

I must confess I haven't read this complete series, mainly because I won't buy them and the library seems to be missing a few, but I've read the majority. The difficulty (and to a certain extent attraction) I have found for Harrison books is that he strikes me as a fantasy writer who kind of wishes he wasn't. He does at times write out-and out fantasy/sci-fi but this un-fantasy preference manifests itself in ridiculously fantastical stories which parody the genre by twisting the knob as far as it goes (see Bill the Galatic Hero and some of his short stories (the version of Hornblower is magnificent by-the-by)), or sometimes by setting them in a ...  Read the complete review