Christopher Moore
Paperback | Pages: 325 pages Rating: 3.8 | 29315 Users | 1407 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Island of the Sequined Love Nun |
| ISBN: | 0060735449 (ISBN13: 9780060735449) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://www.chrismoore.com/love_nun.html |
| Characters: | Tucker Case, Kimi, Roberto the fruitbat from Guam, Beth Curtis, Sebastian Curtis |
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Take a wonderfully crazed excursion into the demented heart of a tropical paradise—a world of cargo cults, cannibals, mad scientists, ninjas, and talking fruit bats. Our bumbling hero is Tucker Case, a hopeless geek trapped in a cool guy's body, who makes a living as a pilot for the Mary Jean Cosmetics Corporation. But when he demolishes his boss's pink plane during a drunken airborne liaison, Tuck must run for his life from Mary Jean's goons. Now there's only one employment opportunity left for him: piloting shady secret missions for an unscrupulous medical missionary and a sexy blond high priestess on the remotest of Micronesian hells. Here is a brazen, ingenious, irreverent, and wickedly funny novel from a modern master of the outrageous.Identify Of Books Island of the Sequined Love Nun
| Title | : | Island of the Sequined Love Nun |
| Author | : | Christopher Moore |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 325 pages |
| Published | : | May 25th 2004 by Harper Perennial (first published August 1st 1997) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Humor. Fantasy. Comedy |
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Ratings: 3.8 From 29315 Users | 1407 ReviewsColumn Of Books Island of the Sequined Love Nun
somewhere between 3 and 4 stars...but definitely closer to 4. very different from the previous christopher moore i've read. i guess i've stuck to the "supernatural" moore (except for "lamb" which is in a genre of its own), so this is the first "normal" novel of his that i've read.(and yes, i use the term "normal" very loosely) "island..." was reminiscent of carl hiaasen (one of my favorite authors), so overall i really enjoyed it.i was slightly disappointed with the ending...i felt it just sortOkay. I like humor. Some people tell me, based on my looks, it's darn good I like humor, 'cause I sure need a sense of it. I like funny movies, funny stories, dirty jokes; what I don't see a whole lot of, are funny books. I mean, laugh-out-loud funny books. ISLAND OF THE SEQUINED LOVE NUN is a witty exception. I had read Christopher Moore before ("Coyote Blue"), and while I enjoyed his work, his humor was just a tad too quirky (and for me, that's saying something). But with this book, I had a
Meet cannibal Pacific islanders who; really believe in the Cargo Cult religion,worship a real life Sky Princess,who gives them Hollywood magazines and coffee.Meet her colleague, who is also worshiped as the Sorcerer, who harvests organs from the cannibals.Follow the wild adventures of an American pilot, a cross-dressing Filipino navigator and a multi-lingual fruit bat as they land on the island of the Sequined Love Nun. They don't know it yet, but they will attempt to save all the islanders.A
Island of the Sequined Love Nun by Christopher Moore tells the story of Tucker Case, a neer do well corporate pilot who, after a hilarious allusion to Shakespeare, winds up in a chaotic Moore created bad trip in Micronesia. Somewhere along the way we meet reformed cannibals, a transvestite Filipino navigator, some wacky Pacific Ocean cargo cults, and the ghost of a WWII fighter pilot. Not one of his best novels, all the same, Christopher Moore novels join the ranks of pizza and sex where a good
Christopher Moore is a popular writer and satirist in the vein of Terry Pratchett and Kurt Vonnegut with titles like Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal; You Suck: A Love Story; and many Moore (how could I resist?). Island of the Sequined Love Nun was actually my first foray into his work, but what got me more than anything else, even more than Moore's popularity and humor, was the title itself. It says it all. And after having read it, it's actually an extremely fitting
Island of the Sequined Love Nun by Christopher Moore tells the story of Tucker Case, a neer do well corporate pilot who, after a hilarious allusion to Shakespeare, winds up in a chaotic Moore created bad trip in Micronesia. Somewhere along the way we meet reformed cannibals, a transvestite Filipino navigator, some wacky Pacific Ocean cargo cults, and the ghost of a WWII fighter pilot. Not one of his best novels, all the same, Christopher Moore novels join the ranks of pizza and sex where a good
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