This is not a drill - Rambling Readers

242 pages

English language

Published Jan. 31, 2007 by Nicholas Brealey.

ISBN:: 978-1-85788-500-2
OCLC Number:: 165411728

(1 review)

Adrenaline junkie, oil rigger, motorbike fanatic, madman... Paul Carter, author of Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs, She Thinks I'm A Piano Player in a Whorehouse is back with more (mostly) good clean stories of life on the rigs.Carter writes as if he has ADD, careering through his life on oil rigs in exotic locations. He won't win the Booker, but his yarns burn with anarchic energy... in a word, irrepressible.' -Herald SunHe's back on the rigs and back in trouble. Picking up right where he left off, Paul Carter pulls out more tall tales of a mad, bad and dangerous life in the international oil trade. Strating with action and mayhem galore This is Not A Drill sets an unrelenting pace that just doesn't let up, as Paul almost drowns when the Russian rig he's working on begins to capsize; is reunited with his Dad-another adrenaline junkie; …

Adrenaline junkie, oil rigger, motorbike fanatic, madman... Paul Carter, author of Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs, She Thinks I'm A Piano Player in a Whorehouse is back with more (mostly) good clean stories of life on the rigs.Carter writes as if he has ADD, careering through his life on oil rigs in exotic locations. He won't win the Booker, but his yarns burn with anarchic energy... in a word, irrepressible.' -Herald SunHe's back on the rigs and back in trouble. Picking up right where he left off, Paul Carter pulls out more tall tales of a mad, bad and dangerous life in the international oil trade. Strating with action and mayhem galore This is Not A Drill sets an unrelenting pace that just doesn't let up, as Paul almost drowns when the Russian rig he's working on begins to capsize; is reunited with his Dad-another adrenaline junkie; gets married; hangs out with his rig pig buddies in exotic locations; gets hammered on vodka in Sakhalin; and spends a couple of interesting weeks in Afghanistan with some mates who run an outfit that just happens to contract out mercenaries for hire...This is the next fast, furious and very funny book from Paul Carter, the author of the bestselling Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs, She Thinks I'm a Piano Player in a Whorehouse.

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Review of 'This is not a drill' on 'Goodreads'

2 stars

I am surprised this book was published. It was fairly disappointing compared with his first and that has nothing to do with the number of laughs. First, it comes across as though only half of the book is about life on the rigs and the other half is not all that interesting. I guess that is why I'm giving it 2.5 stars. I also didn't find his rants about how horrible the oil industry is to be convincing, if not ridiculously hypocritical. If he really thinks it to be that evil, then leave the industry already! Spending a quarter of the book winning about yourself with no conclusion at the end doesn't make for a good read. With that said, Paul seems like a good guy and I wish him the best. I certainly hope I don't see a third book come out detailing his struggle to leave the industry.

Subjects

Offshore oil industry
Employees
Biography