Customer Reviews
Fact or Fiction ? - By: Bob Landy, 13 Aug 2008 
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 workin the oil industry & was able to second guess the outcome of many escapades.
Okay if your a rigger... for the rest of humanity....Yawnsville! - By: Daddio C., 02 Jun 2008 Yeah yeah Mr Carter, now take it home & write something that we haven't heard a million times before. SHEEZE!
A collection of riotous stories for boys who should know better - By: Petrolhead, 19 Apr 2008 
This is longer, denser & more mature than the first book, still stuffed full of gross-out humour & stories for grown up boys about drunkenness, pranks, motorbikes & 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 & his Air Force mates, Paul goes on an interesting but unexplained trip through Afghanistan, & 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 & bad behaviour, you won't go far wrong.
One of the BEST books I have EVER read! - By: D. Beckett, 18 Feb 2008 
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 & his fellow buddies whilstin various countries. There is a serious side to him though, which is displayed when he visits Afghanistan & moreover the hospital there with all children in. It is a great compliment to his first & also outrageously funny book 'Dont tell mum I work on the rigs'. I read ALL the time & 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 & I would highly recommend them to anyone, who likes adventure, humour, & can appreciate a great practical joke... even when it goes wrong! Brilliant read PLEASE WRITE MORE!!!
Not quite as good as the first one - By: N. Brett, 11 Feb 2008 Really enjoyed the author's first book & read this one straight after.
The first book was very original & contained some great tales & escapades & I suppose I was looking for more here. In this one Carter tells a few more tales but mixesin some serious stuff & some views on the way of the world. Obviously the best tales got usedin the first book & here is is looking to do something slightly different.
This is still very entertaining & readable but does not hit the highs of the first one.
