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Island of the Sequined Love Nun
by: Christopher Moore

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Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780060735449
ISBN: 0060735449
Label: Harper Paperbacks
Manufacturer: Harper Paperbacks
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: June 01, 2004
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Release Date: May 25, 2004
Studio: Harper Paperbacks
Sales Rank: 24513

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Product Description:

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.

Amazon.com Review:
Pilot Tucker Case has a weakness--well, Tuck really has two--and the combination of drinking and sex in the cockpit of the pink Mary Jean Cosmetics Learjet puts him on the front page of papers all over the planet. But he finds another job with a mysterious employer--someone with a brand-new Lear 45-- who's willing to pay Tuck generously and ask no questions about his record. The jet and job are on Alualu, a speck in the Pacific Ocean, and Tucker has nowhere else to go. But first he has to get to Alualu, and once there, he faces a hurricane, Shark People, atypical missionaries, and boredom ... and the responsibilities assigned to him by Capt. Vincent Bennidetti, U.S. Air Force, deceased bomber pilot and present-day deity of the Shark People.

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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- funny, but not as great as other moore books
well, shoot.

christopher moore has risen to being favorite humorous fiction writer. i started with lamb, still in my list of favorite books. then i ventured into some of this other stuff (i've read fluke, the stupidest angel, you suck, and a dirty job, and loved them all).

this one was funny, to be sure. and no writer out there can match moore's absolute wackiness in characters and storylines.

but this one, unfortunately, was just too raunchy, over and over, for my enjoyment. maybe i'm puritanical; but it just didn't seem the raunchiness was necessary to the extent it was present.

this is one of his older books; so maybe i just need to stick to newer christopher moore books.

Rating:

- Highly enjoyable, but not his best
A sex- and alcohol-soaked pilot gets crashes a plane, gets a job on a remote island working for a secretive and bizarre group, and makes friends with a cannibal, a tranny hooker and a talking fruit bat along the way. What's not to like about this book? It has just about everything one can think of.

What I loved so much about some of Moore's other books, particularly my two favorites, were that they seemed to say something bigger underneath all of the ridiculousness. Lamb offered some insights into friendship, belief, and a new perspective on an age-old story. Fluke... well, I don't really remember what profundities that offered, but I remember feeling like I had read something with depth. And that feeling didn't happen after finishing this book.

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- Pure Christopher Moore!
Christopher Moore has a style. Read Lamb for a double-barreled dose of it! Island of the Sequined Love Nun follows the same pattern: irreverent, sexy, containing threads of reality mixed with obvious fantasy, and those unique characters.

In Island of the Sequined Love Nun, Learjet pilot Tucker Case has a hormone itch that he scratches while trying to land, with disastrous results. Banished from his job flying the CEO of "Mary Jean Cosmetics", he gets a second chance, flying the Learjet of a... missionary outfit on a speck of an island in the Pacific Ocean (Alualu). On the island, the Shark People have a bad case of Cargo Cult, and the "missionaries" exploit this to the benefit of their bank accounts. What they want from the Shark People is both ingenious and nefarious.
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Rating:

- Moore is always a refreshingly original read
"`Boy, I'm glad all that supernatural stuff is over,' the bat said."

Our hero is Tucker Case, a dork in the body of a cool guy, who--after crashing the plane of a make-up CEO--is hired as a pilot for a mysterious Ozzie and Harriet missionary couple that double as a sorcerer and Sky Priestess for the local Shark People on a Caribbean island. Haunted by a dude in a gray jumpsuit that speaks in 1940s slang and accompanied by a transvestite navigator with a talking fruit bat, Tucker starts to unravel the mystery of the "cargo cult" and possibly obtain some sort of redemption. Fantastic, outrageous, clever, hilarious, and full of intriguing twists and turns; Christopher Moore is always refreshingly original. Grade: A-

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- Christopher Moore
The author hasn't written a bad book yet. Completely amusing and the characters are well developed as normal everyday people. Very relatable. If a regular person ended up in the situations the characters do, they would react the same.

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