Don't Tell Mom I Work on the Rigs: She Thinks I'm a Piano Player in a Whorehouse
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.82 (585 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1600940250 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 206 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-12-30 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Paul Carter, an avid motorcycle enthusiast and artist, lives in Sydney, Australia, when he's not working on oil rigs.
"Interesting reading about something that I knew very very little" according to Amazon Customer. Interesting reading about something that I knew very very little about. The honest, down-to-earth writing style is very entertaining. Enough so that I read his other books too. "Five Stars" according to S.M.GILL. very funny lifts you up and makes you take stock of your life. looking forward to reading more escapades.. "Would recommend it." according to Joan Dowling. Really very enjoyable book and style of writing. Would recommend it.
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.. 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. 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's anecdotes are told with great good humor and perfect timing." . "Great two-fisted writing from the far side of hell." -- John Birmingham"ÝCarter's¨ struck literary black gold with these stories, which are both horrifying and hilarious.""What you have here is that rare situation of somebody who not only has a story to tell but the ability to tell it