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Island of the Sequined Love Nun: A Novel (Paperback)

by Christopher Moore (Author)
4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (36 customer reviews)

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  • Paperback: 416 pages
  • Publisher: Orbit (5 Jun 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1841497193
  • ISBN-13: 978-1841497198
  • Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.6 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (36 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 367,898 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Praise for Christopher Moore: 'Wickedly funny' Waterstone's Books Quarterly, 'Christopher Moore is a very sick man, in the very best sense of the word' Carl Hiaasen, 'Humour that seamlessly blends lunacy with larceny ... habit forming zaniness' USA Today, 'Moore is endlessly inventive ... This cetacean picaresque is no fluke - it is a sure winner' Publishers Weekly

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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.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Wierd is an understatement, 18 Sep 1999
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This review is from: Island of the Sequined Love Nun (Mass Market Paperback)
I'd never heard of Christopher Moore before and bought 'Love Nun' on a whim. I laughed out loud which can be embarrasing on a London tube. It can be difficult for the English to relate to American authors but this is so far off the wall it may as well have been written by a martian! A great escape!
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Unique style and plot make great reading., 3 Dec 2006
By Mr. G. Battle (Essex, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Island of the Sequined Love Nun (Paperback)
In a world full of books which make us smile, here's a twisted tale that had me chuckling, suppressing giggles and admiring a level of wit and wackiness rarely seen. Christopher Moore has a talent for taking a normal guy, albeit one with low moral values, and bending bad luck around them. Love Nun, although bordering on farce at times, is so slick you are tugged along with the story, the lunacy is so integral to the tale it could be misplaced for normalcy. It centres around a cargo cult and a mysterious missionary doctor who needs a pilot for his brand new Lear jet. Curious how a missionary doctor has a Lear jet... Even more curious is why he wants our central character, since he's banned from flying for having relations with a hooker, whilst flying, and then whilst crashing. So, if you want a mystery book, that is cleverly plotted, filled with sharp humour, which is bold and shows no fear, then grab Love Nun now. A masterpiece.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Tropical island breeze., 9 July 2001
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This review is from: Island of the Sequinned Love Nun (Paperback)
This is the first book that I've ever read by Christopher Moore and I must say that I was impressed. I enjoyed his narratives - intense, exuberant, earthly, passionate, dense with metaphor and antics - this novel was a new trail through the ancient therapy of "laughter" - a journey of a warped humorous stark beauty, but with a refreshing comedic style.

The characters in "Island of the Sequined Love Nun" are bizarre and outlandish, to be sure -- but they seem more like slightly embellished "people from real life". I've certainly met a few of these people during my lifetime.

The story follows the trail of Tucker Chase, reprobate pilot whose penchant for strong drink and exotic women leads him into involuntary employment in Micronesia for a doctor whose "practice" involves the harvesting of human organs from unwitting "donors." Tucker's road to realization, redemption and ruin is an entertaining whirlwind involving Moore's very unusual cast of memorable, zany characters. This novel is somewhat less reliant on the supernatural as a mainstay of the plot mechanism, as this story includes the presence of a talking fruitbat and the ghost of a World War II bomber pilot, while providing a broader cast of significant, meaty characters you'll enjoy getting to know.

I have a personal passion for the Pacific Region and of Micronesia, so the setting of this novel was particularly enjoyable. So why not enjoy a rum and coke "with ice" and "escape" into the warm tropic islands with adventure, cool breezes, humor and plenty of sunshine.

Needless to say, that I "laughed" a lot, while reading this novel (yum). So go on and enjoy!

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4.0 out of 5 stars subversive, wacky south pacific adventures
This is the second Christopher Moore book I have read after Coyote Blue and there are some similarities. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Andrew Dalby

3.0 out of 5 stars not his best
Like Moore's other books, this one sports a mindless loser as hero, and places him in a situation where he reacts rather than acts, until the final chapter. Read more
Published on 17 Aug 1999

5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful nonsensical mishmash of Pacific cultures.
I was given a copy of the book because I live in Yap, where the action supposedly took place. By the time he got to Truk, I was laughing out loud (especially the cockroach on the... Read more
Published on 9 Aug 1999

3.0 out of 5 stars Some good, some not so good
This was my first Moore novel. I enjoyed it enough to give Moore another chance. The plot was tight and interesting and the characters were generally believable, but some of the... Read more
Published on 8 July 1999

5.0 out of 5 stars Seriously bizarre!
I have a personalized autographed copy of Lust Lizard. But I haven't started to read it yet. The first four books were so outrageously wonderful. Read more
Published on 17 May 1999

5.0 out of 5 stars The best of the best.
When I first picked up this book to start reading it I had no idea what to expect. It was recommended by a friend, and I thought, "what the hey". Read more
Published on 25 Jan 1999

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent
I have lived in Micronesia and Polynesia for the past 8 years, and always enjoy reading some satyrical fiction about the islands. Read more
Published on 29 Sep 1998

5.0 out of 5 stars Some Enchanted Reading in a different South Pacific...
While convalescing from surgery recently, I had the sheer pleasure and joy to read Christopher Moore's whacked out tale of a South Seas cargo cult, a downed pilot -in several... Read more
Published on 10 Aug 1998

5.0 out of 5 stars This guy is something
I'm a newcomer to C.Moore..1st was "Bloodsuckig Fiends"..then "Practical Demon-keeping"..now this! I still don't know how this guy does it!? Read more
Published on 24 July 1998

5.0 out of 5 stars Hysterical!
The funniest book I have ever read. I had to restrain myself from laughing out loud on several occasions. Perfect as a break between more serious works.
Published on 27 Jun 1998

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