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Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs

By: Paul Carter
Narrated by: uncredited
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About this listen

 Strap yourself in for an exhilarating, crazed, sometimes terrifying, usually bloody funny ride through one man's adventures in the oil trade.

Best seller in Australia with extensive media coverage.

A 'take no prisoners' approach to life has seen Paul Carter heading to some of the world's most remote, wild and dangerous places as a contractor in the oil business. Amazingly, he's survived (so far) to tell these stories from the edge of civilization, and reason. Taking postings in some of the world's wildest and most remote regions, not to mention some of the roughest oil rigs on the planet, Paul has worked, gotten into trouble and been given serious talkings to in locations as far-flung as the North Sea, Middle East, Borneo and Tunisia, as exotic as Sumatera, Vietnam and Thailand, and as flat out dangerous as Columbia, Nigeria and Russia, with some of the maddest, baddest and strangest people you could ever hope not to meet.

©2007 Paul Carter (P)2007 Bolinda Publishing Funny Witty Feel-Good Africa
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Great unique story, enjoyed the narration, easy to listen too & took me on a crazy journey that I’d never experience 😂 I’m in my 60’s & laughed way too much 👍

Very enjoyable & ironic

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The way Paul tells his autobiography is gold! He has me laughing out loud at his stories. Its a great listen and am looking forward to listening to his follow up book.

Awesome

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loved it, very amusing. paul is a great writer and has lived a very interesting life!

fantastic!

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Have been want to read this for some time now. Good story telling enjoyed the listen.

Recommend this book

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I read this years ago and followed up with his other books. This came up as a daily deal and I couldn’t resist having a listen. It is a great experience hearing the book read by the author. Highly recommended.

Awesome

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Simply a brilliant book. Purchased the hard copy 15 years ago and enjoyed it so much, I searched for it in audio form. Very entertaining!

Brilliant!!!

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This book is a great insight into what I imagine it would be like working on a rig. Very real and frank in his description of the locations he has worked, which makes it quite funny and very entertaining.

Great story and quite funny!

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This was a great listen after already reading Ride like hell. Great tails and when you're travelling through WA it makes more sense.

Funny as.

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What made the experience of listening to Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs the most enjoyable?

All the stories are either crazy or funny its a short read but glade i read it.

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they were all good

Good for a laugh.

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I thoroughly enjoyed this book many years ago and was delighted to see it on Audible. Having it narrated by the author made it even funnier - if that is possible! Great stuff!

Hilarious and entertaining

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