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Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs: (She Thinks I'm a Piano Player in a Whorehouse) (Paperback)

by Paul Carter (Author)
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  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Nicholas Brealey Publishing Ltd; 2Rev Ed edition (8 Nov 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1857883772
  • ISBN-13: 978-1857883770
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (30 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 26,412 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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    #7 in  Books > Science & Nature > Engineering & Technology > Chemical > Petroleum
    #8 in  Books > Science & Nature > Engineering & Technology > Petroleum, Mining & Geological

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"This is Carter's romper-stomper tour of hte world's oil rights where he has worked for some fifteen years. Its a highly enjoyable tale. "A boy's own yarn from the front line of the oil industry." Men's Style "A torrent of tall tales from a life less ordinary." The Press and Journal, Aberdeen, 22 July 2006 "A fascinating and funny life story well worth the read." Sportsladsmag.com, 10 July 2006 "Full of colourful stories and well-worn anecdotes accumulated over almost two decades working the oil rigs" TNT Magazine, 17th July 2006 "Carter's tales are always entertaining and offer a few unblinking apercus about Big Oil seen from the inside." Scotland on Sunday, 9th July 2006 "Paul Carter Spins a good yarn. The disburbing thing is that the yarns are all real." Lucire Men "Here's one book you probably can judge by its cover. Paul Carter's memoir of his life as an oil man in some of the freakiest, most lawless locations in the world is not for the faint-hearted, as the nam e- borrowed from an old bumper sticker and now possibly my favourite book title ever - suggests. But if you've got the stomach for exploding monkeys, explosive dysentry, gunfights, hijacks and brothels staffed entirely by dwarves, you're in for a treat. Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs takes the reader on a white-knuckle ride around the oilfields of Nigeria, Russia, Asia, the Middle East and South America, barely stopping for breath as it scrambles from one audacious adventure to the next, skipping from near death experience to side-splitting hilarity so fast you hope he's kept a few anecdotes up his sleeve


Phillip Noyce, director of The Quiet American and Clear and Present Danger

"A unique look at a gritty game. Relentlessly funny and obsessively readable." --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Does what it says on the tin, 22 Mar 2007
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The "blurb" on the cover was spot on. It was hilarious and I couldn't put it down. I embarrassed my kids on the plane to Spain by continually giggling to myself. One of the funniest books I read certainly in non-fiction.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars I laughed out loud on the Tube, 23 Jan 2007
By SW "SW" (London, England) - See all my reviews
I laughed at this book so much. Its well written and pacey and easy to pick up and put down. The monkey story on the fan was about the funniest thing I'd read in a long time. The book is now doing the rounds at work with similar feedback. Definitely worth getting!
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Oil Industry ...must read, 14 Dec 2006
Having worked on the rigs for thirty years, i found this book outstanding!
all the guys i work with have read it and loved it. It's a wild ride, can't wait for the next one.
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