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Don't Tell Mom I Work on the Rigs: She Thinks I'm a Piano Player in a Whorehouse | 
| Author: Paul Carter
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Category: Book
List Price: $14.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 154207
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.3 x 0.7
ISBN: 1600940250
Dewey Decimal Number: 622.3381092
EAN: 9781600940255
ASIN: 1600940250
Publication Date: May 21, 2007
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Condition: bought but never read
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Product Description
Since age 18, Paul Carter has worked on oil rigs in locations as far flung as the Middle East, Columbia, the North Sea, Borneo, Tunisia, Sumatra, Vietnam, Nigeria, Russia, and many others — and he's survived (so far!) to tell stories from the edge of civilization (places, as it happens, upon which most of our lives rely). Carter has been shot at, hijacked and held hostage, almost died of dysentery in Asia and toothache in Russia, watched a Texan lose his mind in the jungles of Asia, lost a lot of money backing a scorpion against a mouse in a fight to the death, and served cocktails by an orangutan on an ocean freighter. Taking postings in some of the world's wildest and most remote regions — not to mention some of the roughest rigs on the planet — Carter has worked and gotten into trouble with some of the maddest, baddest and strangest people you could ever hope not to meet.
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 You won't put the book down until its finished! August 19, 2008
By far the funniest, on the edge of your seat book I have ever read. Paul's amazing stories will keep you laughing for hours. Unbelievably funny and an incredible insight into the oil industry. A must read book!
 Don't Tell Mom I Work on the Rigs: She Thinks I'm a Piano Player in a Whorehouse July 22, 2008
A honest story about a boy who is growing up in a contrasting world.
He ends up in the world of drilling for oil and shows in his stories the bleak and funny sides of this sub universe.
A very readable book which tells about places and people that most people don't know exist, let alone visit.
Written uncensored and straight forward although not for the faint of heart.
I enjoyed it very much and it reminded me about my time in the oil.
John van Ekris. Sydney Australia.
The second book is called "this is not a drill" also very good.
best book i've ever read June 22, 2008
This is the best book I've ever read- as it is laugh-out-loud funny, jaw dropping some times and very insightful. After reading this book, I realize that there is a whole mass of people working around us that don't mess about with the standard social concerns that society imparts on us-that the rest of us blindly abide by-and that those that depart from the path of school, family, home; sometimes have the most amazing, adventurous and highly lovely lifestyles. You'll want to change your life after reading this. I love it!
 A roustabout read June 13, 2008
Carter's tales of his adventures on various oil rigs around the world make for entertaining and undemanding reading. The book is ideal for an aeroplane trip. The oil industry is a mix of high anxiety and stultifying boredom, and the people who inhabit its odd world are fairly weird as well. Carter seems to have met most of them at one time or another, as they let off steam in numerous unsalubrious watering holes in seedy parts of the planet.
Carter offers some unflattering but humorous depictions of the locals living near oil drilling operations (oil always seems to be found in the most remote and hostile locations, with inhabitants of a similar nature) and brings to life the multinational professional roughnecks who share his world.
His impressions of places are naturally affected by the strange nature of the oil business, which doesn't afford its workers anything resembling a normal lifestyle, and he emphasises colour over factual accuracy at times.
It is an entertaining and knockabout read.
Entertaining war stories May 4, 2008
Working the rigs myself I found this book particularly interesting. Life on land rigs in the jungles of Borneo is definetely something different from the sanitary and well(over?) legislated conditions of the north sea where I work.
The stories have the same feel as the ones I hear from the old guys in the field here although probably even a few notches more hardcore. Really good war stories from the oil field will be my best description. Extremely entertaining read, also for someone not in the oil business. Well reccomended !!
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