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Island of the Sequined Love Nun
by
Christopher Moore (Goodreads Author)
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 dru...more
Paperback, 336 pages
Published
May 25th 2004
by William Morrow Paperbacks
(first published August 1st 1997)
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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 t...more
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 t...more
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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 sort...more
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 sort...more
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Some of Moore's books I get into and others just don't do it for me. This one was kind of a middle of the road read. It started out slow, but I got into it by the end.
Tucker Case is a pilot for Mary Jean cosmetics out of Texas with a little bit of a drinking/girl problem. When the attentions of a prostitute and one too many drinks cause him to crash, his career looks to be at an end, with his boss threatening bodily harm for the bad publicity and the prostiture talking lawsuit. So an offer from...more
Tucker Case is a pilot for Mary Jean cosmetics out of Texas with a little bit of a drinking/girl problem. When the attentions of a prostitute and one too many drinks cause him to crash, his career looks to be at an end, with his boss threatening bodily harm for the bad publicity and the prostiture talking lawsuit. So an offer from...more
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pub 1997
boy humour
autumn 2012
madcap adventure
fraudio
Not sure I will get to the end of this but it's enjoyable enough in the background for the moment.
3* Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
2* Island of the Sequined Love Nun
TR A Dirty Job
2* Practical Demon Keeping
4* The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove
boy humour
autumn 2012
madcap adventure
fraudio
Not sure I will get to the end of this but it's enjoyable enough in the background for the moment.
3* Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
2* Island of the Sequined Love Nun
TR A Dirty Job
2* Practical Demon Keeping
4* The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove
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Harmless and occasionally funny. Island plays havoc with cargo cults and organ harvesting, allowing the absurd romp of social satire to run its predictable course. A comfortable and quick diversion, but little more.
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When you read the first chapter of this book you will say to yourself, what the He**? Only not in a bad way. I could not stop reading and actually had read halfway through by the end of the day. It is about a washed up pilot who is an alchoholic and is asked to fly a jet for a Mary Kay type person. Needless to say, the jet is bright pink. The opening chapter sums the main character up pretty much in a nut shell, his luck with flying, booze and women. It only gets better from there. I hope I didn...more
The third Moore book I've read, Island of the Sequined Love Nun was alright. I wasn't so into the penis humor, but I did like the island culture references. I also enjoyed Roberto, the talking bat. It seems that in most Moore books, some animal can talk, and I appreciate that.
Filled with cannibals, pink planes, cargo cults, and sex, The Island of the Sequined Love Nun, is typical Christopher Moore. Everything is over the top, and while you think the book is going to rely heavily on stereotypes...more
Filled with cannibals, pink planes, cargo cults, and sex, The Island of the Sequined Love Nun, is typical Christopher Moore. Everything is over the top, and while you think the book is going to rely heavily on stereotypes...more
Like any good book will do, this one is going to change me, I just know it. And I'm scared.
I had to track this sucker DOWN, okay? I usually read books that are available at my local library, and this one was on a back shelf in a distant annex across town, which boded something, right off the bat. And when I finally arrived at said location I proceeded to confuse the hell out of the librarian--either that or she just enjoyed hearing me repeat the title over and over again out loud.
Here's the deal...more
I had to track this sucker DOWN, okay? I usually read books that are available at my local library, and this one was on a back shelf in a distant annex across town, which boded something, right off the bat. And when I finally arrived at said location I proceeded to confuse the hell out of the librarian--either that or she just enjoyed hearing me repeat the title over and over again out loud.
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Absolutely hilarious! The title may make some not want to read this, but if you love a book with plenty of humor and a rather outlandish plot, this is an excellent choice. There are some graphic scenes that may not appeal to readers, to be warned.
After crashing the company plane, Tucker Case is given a second chance to do something with his life: fly medical supplies between Micronesian islands for a doctor and his wife, who claim to be missionaries doing God's work. When Tucker arrives however,...more
After crashing the company plane, Tucker Case is given a second chance to do something with his life: fly medical supplies between Micronesian islands for a doctor and his wife, who claim to be missionaries doing God's work. When Tucker arrives however,...more
A quirky romp through religion and organ theft with Christopher Moore. Is it wrong that the bat was my favorite character?
All in all, it's kind of hard to sum this book up, because Moore writes some seriously random moments. A pilot loses his chances of flying in the US after a colossal fuck up involving a hooker, a near castration, and copious amounts of alcohol--all while crashing his boss' plane. He ends up on the run and finds himself on a tiny island in micronesia, flying covert missions fo...more
All in all, it's kind of hard to sum this book up, because Moore writes some seriously random moments. A pilot loses his chances of flying in the US after a colossal fuck up involving a hooker, a near castration, and copious amounts of alcohol--all while crashing his boss' plane. He ends up on the run and finds himself on a tiny island in micronesia, flying covert missions fo...more
This book was released several years ago and is a typical Chris Moore novel filled with zany characters. It tells an excellent story. The hero of the book, Tucker Case, is a small plane pilot who takes off in a Learjet while drunk. He flies all right, but his landing wrecks the plane and him. Disgraced, jobless and broke, he accepts a strange job offer to fly for a missionary doctor on a tiny island in the South Pacific, but he misses his connecting boat to the island from Truk. A transvestite n...more
This was better than the last few Christopher Moore books we’ve listened to. In this book, we meet Tucker Case, who also appears in Moore’s later book, The Stupidest Angel. Tucker gets himself in a bit of trouble when he takes a drunken joyride in one of his employers jets with a beautiful lady. About $2 million in damages later, Tucker’s lost his pilot’s license. When he’s approached by some supposed missionaries wanting to hire him to pilot their jet back and forth from their Micronesian islan...more
Island of the Sequined Love Nun
is absolutely hilarious. Christopher Moore
has a style akin to Tom Robbins, of whom I am a big fan. Sardonic and clever. Excellently ridiculous story line, completely engaging. If done right, could be made into an excellent movie. I highly recommend this read.
has a style akin to Tom Robbins, of whom I am a big fan. Sardonic and clever. Excellently ridiculous story line, completely engaging. If done right, could be made into an excellent movie. I highly recommend this read.
Okay. 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 go...more
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 go...more
I've now read several of Christopher Moore's novels, and each one leaves me more impressed with his skill as a novelist than the previous one. Island of the Sequined Love Nun is no exception. The story of Tucker Case, a totally hopeless geek trapped in the body of a gorgeous jock, Island of the Sequined Love Nun is an epic journey into a world of cargo cults, cannibals, mad scientists, ninjas, and one talking fruit bat.
After Tucker Case manages to demolish his boss's pink executive jet during a...more
After Tucker Case manages to demolish his boss's pink executive jet during a...more
Feb 01, 2013
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Island of the Sequined Love Nun is the second stand-alone novel by American author Christopher Moore. When pilot Tucker Case, flying jets for the (very conservative) cosmetic baroness, Mary Jean Dobbins, disgraces himself with a prostitute on one of her pink jets, he finds himself unemployed, infamous and facing possible prosecution. His best friend Jake Skye manages to scuttle him out of the country to accept a job flying for a missionary doctor in Micronesia, but it isn’t until he gets to the...more
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Not nearly as clever as it was clearly trying to be, Island if the Sequined Love Nun suffers from the worst problem a comedic novel can have: it's not funny. There are a myriad of reasons for this, but it seems that the major faults are the distinct lack of wit in the prose and an awkward narrative. Furthermore, these two major flaws interact with one another to create a bigger problem than the constituent components would suggest. The attempted zaniness of the plot and characters falls complete...more
My sixth Moore book, but Moore’s fourth book chronologically. I liked Lamb and Stupidest Angel (two of his more recent works), but found his first two books chronologically somewhat disappointing as Moore struggled to find his voice. His third book (Bloodsucking Fiends) was more of what I was expecting from a Moore book, but it wasn’t until this book that I knew Moore was fully in control of his style. The protagonist is Tucker Case, a pilot for a cosmetics company (a parody of Mary Kay) who cra...more
I noticed this author had a lot of funny-sounding names for his book so i tried one out. Miserable time slogging through it, turned me off Moore forever. It started off promising enough, with a guy accidentally impaling his weiner on some airplane cockpit instrument, but that was the lone highlight. He ends up on some island with some natives and some girl and guy who are using them for something and then... it sucked so bad.
Island of the Sequined Love Nun, by humor writer Christopher Moore, begins with a ne’er-do-well pilot named Tucker Case, hanging upside down from a breadfruit tree, about to be a cannibal’s next meal. After crashing a plane belonging to the Mary Jean Cosmetic Corporation, he gets a job offer from a missionary doctor on a tiny island in the Western Pacific ocean. An adventurous trip just trying to get to the island ends with him in the tree and begins the mysterious story of the island itself.
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I suspect that if I was the type of person who found the very idea of naughty spanking unbearably hilarious, I would have loved this book. Moore seems to write for the kinds of people who consider the phrase "fur handcuffs" to be a laff-riot punchline, deserving of its own paragraph. Sorry -- I've read enough shocking filth that sex on a plane doesn't strike me as all that titillating.
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Island of the Sequined Love Nun is the story of Tucker Case who loses his pilot’s license and his manhood in a scandalous drunk-flying incident. He is banished to a small Micronesian island inhabited by a pilot-worshiping cargo cult and a missionary couple who offer to hire case to fly their jet. They are involved in secret dealings with a mysterious Japanese consortium that pays them lots of money. There is also a transvestite, a talking bat and spectral contact from beyond the grave.
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Ok, not one of my favorite C. Moore books, but it has all the humor and WTF was that you could ask for in one of his books.
We find the story of Tucker Case "Geek in a cool guy's body" Tucker is, well he's just that a geek. If it wasn't for his good looks he's just 1 Star Wars expo away from glasses and a pocket protector. Tucker is flying a jet for the make up queen (Mary Jean) when his not so intelligent act of initiating a hooker into the mile high club gets him canned from ever flying again....more
We find the story of Tucker Case "Geek in a cool guy's body" Tucker is, well he's just that a geek. If it wasn't for his good looks he's just 1 Star Wars expo away from glasses and a pocket protector. Tucker is flying a jet for the make up queen (Mary Jean) when his not so intelligent act of initiating a hooker into the mile high club gets him canned from ever flying again....more
Another masterpiece from Christopher Moore. How I love him. This one involves Chuuk, cargo cults, sharks, Pacific islands... Brought me back to Jaluit, to be honest with you.
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Tuck had been up since before dawn, awaken rudely and kept awake by what seemed like eight million roosters. It was now ten o'clock and they were still going strong. What joy to feel the thwack of a seven iron on red feathers, the satisfying impact of balanced metal on poultry (suddenly silenced and somewhat tenderized fo...more
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Tuck had been up since before dawn, awaken rudely and kept awake by what seemed like eight million roosters. It was now ten o'clock and they were still going strong. What joy to feel the thwack of a seven iron on red feathers, the satisfying impact of balanced metal on poultry (suddenly silenced and somewhat tenderized fo...more
I read this today-- the first third in the hours before my surgery (outpatient and minor but necessary), and the remaining part well after I was home, and liberally dosed with pain meds-- which seems am appropriate way to read Christopher Moore a times!
I will have to digest and contemplate for an appropriate journal entry, but in the meantime, I am utterly delighted to meet up with Roberto the talking fruit bat (who I have met in another Christopher Moore book-- was it maybe The Stupidest Angel....more
I will have to digest and contemplate for an appropriate journal entry, but in the meantime, I am utterly delighted to meet up with Roberto the talking fruit bat (who I have met in another Christopher Moore book-- was it maybe The Stupidest Angel....more
Here's another off-the-wall offering from Moore. I liked this one, but it's was a bit TOO much of an unusual premise to get the extra star. The writing was solid, and Moore's ability to straddle the humorous and the serious is in full effect, but overall it felt like a really bizarre sitcom episode (on premium cable).
The story follows the unfortunate exploits of Tucker Case, a pilot for Mary Jean, the stereotypical holy rolling CEO of a big-time cosmetics company (what you'd expect Mary Kay to...more
The story follows the unfortunate exploits of Tucker Case, a pilot for Mary Jean, the stereotypical holy rolling CEO of a big-time cosmetics company (what you'd expect Mary Kay to...more
Island of the Sequined Love Nun, in addition to having a killer title, was a delightful surprise.
I'm not sure what I expected, but it wasn't what I got.
Moore to the opportunity to take a departure from his Magic Realism in the modern world and took me on a little trip. And upon reading the afterword, I realized he did serious research for this yarn. Research we should all be so lucky to make one day.
It also proves to me that if you hang out with him, you'll probably make it into a story through...more
I'm not sure what I expected, but it wasn't what I got.
Moore to the opportunity to take a departure from his Magic Realism in the modern world and took me on a little trip. And upon reading the afterword, I realized he did serious research for this yarn. Research we should all be so lucky to make one day.
It also proves to me that if you hang out with him, you'll probably make it into a story through...more
I think the authors purposely trying to make a lot of the characters make stupid decisions. For example, he made Tuck go on this plane journey with out even knowing what exactly he was doing. Kimi also got taken away with a cannibal. And Beth and Sebastion are tricking everyone pretty much. It just seems like the characters don't even know what they got themselves into.
In the world it's like someone is the author of us. It is almost like someone is writing our lives. Telling us what to wear, h...more
In the world it's like someone is the author of us. It is almost like someone is writing our lives. Telling us what to wear, h...more
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Christopher Moore (born 1957 in Toledo, Ohio) is an American writer of absurdist fiction. He grew up in Mansfield, OH, and attended Ohio State University and Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, CA.
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Christopher Moore (born 1957 in Toledo, Ohio) is an American writer of absurdist fiction. He grew up in Mansfield, OH, and attended Ohio State University and Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, CA.
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