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This is Not a Drill: Just Another Glorious Day in the Oilfield | 
| Author: Paul Carter
Publisher: Nicholas Brealey Publishing
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 8635
Media: Paperback
Pages: 224
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Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.3 x 0.9
ISBN: 1857885007
EAN: 9781857885002
ASIN: 1857885007
Publication Date: November 8, 2007
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 Fact or Fiction ? August 13, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Casing hands have a reputation for embellishing the truth.
They also enjoy macho posturing - hence the side trip to Afghanistan, a country that has nothing to do with the oil industry.
Don't believe every word of it. I work in the oil industry and was able to second guess the outcome of many escapades.
Okay if your a rigger... for the rest of humanity....Yawnsville! June 2, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Yeah yeah Mr Carter, now take it home and write something that we haven't heard a million times before. SHEEZE!
 A collection of riotous stories for boys who should know better April 19, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is longer, denser and more mature than the first book, still stuffed full of gross-out humour and stories for grown up boys about drunkenness, pranks, motorbikes and dangerous situations.
Paul Carter's style is very readable, but this sequel has even less of an oilfield theme than the first book. Here we hear flying stories from Paul's dad and his Air Force mates, Paul goes on an interesting but unexplained trip through Afghanistan, and we stray so far off track that much of it has hardly got anything to do with the drilling of the title.
So anyone expecting to read something with any connection to the oil industry will be disappointed, or at least confused.
Still, if you're looking for a rip-roaring, rollicking roster of drunken antics, tropical diseases and bad behaviour, you won't go far wrong.
 One of the BEST books I have EVER read! February 18, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Paulie has done it again with another blockbuster of a hit! This is Not a Drill, is a great insight to his life on the rigs. Forever the crap magnet for situations, he writes hilariously about the antics that have happened to him and his fellow buddies whilst in various countries. There is a serious side to him though, which is displayed when he visits Afghanistan and moreover the hospital there with all children in. It is a great compliment to his first and also outrageously funny book 'Dont tell mum I work on the rigs'. I read ALL the time and I love books of humour. I have NEVER cried with laughter while reading ANY book. Now I have. Twice. I have read both these books and I would highly recommend them to anyone, who likes adventure, humour, and can appreciate a great practical joke... even when it goes wrong! Brilliant read PLEASE WRITE MORE!!!
Not quite as good as the first one February 11, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Really enjoyed the author's first book and read this one straight after.
The first book was very original and contained some great tales and escapades and I suppose I was looking for more here. In this one Carter tells a few more tales but mixes in some serious stuff and some views on the way of the world. Obviously the best tales got used in the first book and here is is looking to do something slightly different.
This is still very entertaining and readable but does not hit the highs of the first one.
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