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Robert Tine – Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey | Review

Title: Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey

Author: Robert Tine

Type: Fiction

Page Count/Review Word Count: 202

Rating: 6/10

Robert Tine – Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey

This book is pretty much what you might expect – a novelisation of the Bill & Ted movie. And I feel like I’m being kind of harsh on Robert Tine here – I didn’t think much of the film, and so the book didn’t stand much of a chance. He does an okay job, but it doesn’t exactly shine – unfortunately for Tine, the source material wasn’t great.

That said, I still read it through from start to finish – I feel a bit like a Star Wars fan who always complains about the sequels but who still watches them anyway, just because they’re still Star Wars. And if you are a fan of the films (personally, I only liked the first one, as you can probably tell), then maybe you’ll enjoy it. It expands on a few of the subplots, but I’m still not convinced that they needed to be expanded upon.

Either way, it’s worth keeping a copy of this in storage somewhere, just in case one day it becomes collectible. I can’t imagine that they’re still printing more of these, somewhere.

Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey

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Paul Carter – Don’t Tell Mum I Work On The Rigs | Review

Title: Don’t Tell Mum I Work On The Rigs

Author: Paul Carter

Type: Non-Fiction

Page Count/Review Word Count: 210

Rating: 7/10

Paul Carter – Don’t Tell Mum I Work On The Rigs

First off, let’s do this book a favour by giving you its full title – Don’t Tell Mum I Work On The Rigs, She Thinks I’m A Piano Player In A Whorehouse. I couldn’t use the full title because it breaks WordPress – I don’t think much of it as a title, purely because of its length, but I do appreciate the reasoning behind it. It is indeed a memoir about life on the oil rigs, and the slogan in the title is taken from a popular sticker for bikers.

It was interesting enough, if a little unbelievable at times, but too bloke-ish for me. That said, it was still well-written, and the friends that Paul has met throughout his travels seemed to spring out of the pages to land fully formed in front of you. Carter has worked on a couple of sequels, too – I probably won’t read them, unless I see them in a charity shop, but it’s worth knowing that they’re there. That way, if you do enjoy this book, you’ve got something to move on to afterwards.