Island of the Sequined Love Nun
by Christopher Moore
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Read in October, 2007
recommends it for:
Christoper Moore fans/humor lovers
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 f...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 f...more
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Read in November, 2007
Fiction. Tucker Case is a pilot and a fuck-up, and because of the latter he can no longer do the former. Until he gets a job offer from a Methodist missionary; suddenly Tuck's on his way to Micronesia to fly a brand new Lear Jet. Of course it's too good to be true. And of course there are ghosts, cannibals, talking fruit bats, a transgendered hooker, and a Mary Kay analogue. Because this is Moore, and that's how he rolls.
Before I reread this, I said this was second-favorite Moore book. I'm n...more
Before I reread this, I said this was second-favorite Moore book. I'm n...more
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Read in April, 2007
recommends it for:
Anyone who likes an easy, funny read
Strange but entertaining. Cannibals, a sky priestess, sorcerer, tranvestite, taking bats and ninjas...what more can you ask for.
From Library Journal
Here's a recipe for one very funny book: Take Tucker Case, a disgraced airline pilot whose unseemly in-flight behavior has destroyed his career (along with a pink Lear jet) and damaged what's politely called his manhood. Add Kimi, a Filipino transvestite navigator, and a talking fruit bat named Roberto and send the three off in a typhoon to ...more
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Here's a recipe for one very funny book: Take Tucker Case, a disgraced airline pilot whose unseemly in-flight behavior has destroyed his career (along with a pink Lear jet) and damaged what's politely called his manhood. Add Kimi, a Filipino transvestite navigator, and a talking fruit bat named Roberto and send the three off in a typhoon to ...more
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Read in March, 2007
We chose this book for one of my book clubs and I read it in a weekend (though our meeting wasn't for about three weeks - oops!). I think the main motivation of the person who suggested the book was the amusing title, but I think it turned out to be a good pick. This novel is an example of quite serious subject matter treated in a darkly comedic way, and I couldn't help but laughing and being horrified at the same time. Moore's style reminded me of John Irving, to some extent. The writing is a r...more
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Read in January, 2002
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I read the first 30 pages of this book crying. Why you ask, because I'm blind. Christopher Moore's genius transcended my physical ailment. I ask you now will you join, nay I implore you, join the brothers and sisters in the battle to save the human race, to save the earth, and to save your love, purchase this book and be Moore-alized. He does with language what no person can, which we ask only of the greatest Gods, and that is love. I predict his novels will one day cure cancer, stop world hunge...more
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Read in April, 2008
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 ...more
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 ...more
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Read in October, 2007
Enjoyed this book. This book is a sort of prequel to The Stupidest Angel and has nothing really to do with A Dirty Job (those are the only other 2 books by Moore that I've read so far). Again, Moore is wacky and unpredictable, he takes real life and mixes it with just plain weird, random, fantasy situations. But, not as funny as the previously mentioned two books. This is slower to start, but at least the ending is more fleshed out that A Dirty Job. Much more sexually graphic and involved t...more
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Read in January, 2008
I read this book from start to finish and I still have no idea what it was about. There was something about a pilot, an island in Micronesia, a cannibal, some natives that hunt sharks, and a couple of people out to steal organs and sell them. Also, unlike Moore's other novels, I couldn't find any humor in this book if I'd had a map and a compass. All in all, I'd say this book is very skippable. If you want to read anything by Christopher Moore, Dirty Job, Lamb, and You Suck and much better p...more
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Read in January, 2008
I find long airplane flights to be sheer torture. On the way home from Germany, the airline man was baffled and skeptical when I told him I'd rather take a middle seat in the 21st row than an aisle seat in the 42nd. I did not regret my choice, especially at the end of the flight, when I got off the plane five minutes more quickly than I would have if I hadn't switched.
Fortunately, I had this fun and fluffy piece of brain-candy to keep me distracted during the nine hours in between.
Fortunately, I had this fun and fluffy piece of brain-candy to keep me distracted during the nine hours in between.
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Read in January, 2008
recommends it for:
those who like the humorous and bizarre
Almost the quality of Lamb and Fluke. I really liked the minor characters Kimi, Sarapul, and Sepie even though it took a while to like the main character Tuck, who,as the book accurately describes, is a cowardly geek in a cool guy's body. The ending was a lot to swallow, but I liked the main premise of the "cargo cults" where these isolated islands in the Pacific came to worship American WWII pilots because they flew in and delivered goods like gods. An overall fun read.
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Read in July, 2007
Gotta love Christopher Moore.
This is one of my favorites of his. As usual, the premise is great, his characters are amazingly shaped, it's laugh-out-loud-in-public funny, and you can't help but think "where does he come up with this stuff?"
This book hooked me into that "what happens next!?" phase a bit quicker than most of his others that I've read (not counting Lamb which had me from Page 1).
Just read the book, ya fuc
This is one of my favorites of his. As usual, the premise is great, his characters are amazingly shaped, it's laugh-out-loud-in-public funny, and you can't help but think "where does he come up with this stuff?"
This book hooked me into that "what happens next!?" phase a bit quicker than most of his others that I've read (not counting Lamb which had me from Page 1).
Just read the book, ya fuc
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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.
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Read in November, 2007
recommends it for:
people who enjoy humor
Wow. This book was crazy, funny, loopy and well - I just plain liked it! The plot was fast-paced and the writing was even - the humor, though, was what sold it to me.
From Meadow the 'mile-high prostitute' all the way down the line, this was a fun read. It wasn't super-deep, but not all books have to be. It was entertaining. And that makes it better than, say, Tolstoy or depressing love poetry.
And that's good enough for me. ;)
From Meadow the 'mile-high prostitute' all the way down the line, this was a fun read. It wasn't super-deep, but not all books have to be. It was entertaining. And that makes it better than, say, Tolstoy or depressing love poetry.
And that's good enough for me. ;)
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recommends it for:
the special people
I love Chris Moore. I actually wrote him a fan letter telling him so - from my own remote island. Believing a less than honest ad put in my local paper, I accepted a teaching position on a very remote island. Sequined Love Nun might be a bit over the top, but honestly, not by too much.
Anyway, Mr. Moore was kind enough to write me back and we exchanged a few emails. A great guy and a very funny (albeit disturbed) writer.
Anyway, Mr. Moore was kind enough to write me back and we exchanged a few emails. A great guy and a very funny (albeit disturbed) writer.
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Read in May, 2006
recommends it for:
cargo cult researchers and cannibals
If you compute the arithmetic mean of Christopher Moore's work, you will arrive at this book. (I mean that in the best possible way.) The cargo cult aspect of it is what makes this novel memorable and I like to compare it as the complete opposite take on that phenomenon (i.e., cargo cults) as Gibson's approach in "Hinterlands".
Anyway: good beach read. Or for on the plane. (Well, maybe not the plane.)
Anyway: good beach read. Or for on the plane. (Well, maybe not the plane.)
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Read in January, 2003
recommends it for:
people that like to laugh
While this book was not as good as Lamb, I still enjoyed it. Basically a wayward pilot finds himself working on a primitive island being controlled by a crazy couple that has convinced the locals that the female is a god. The pilot is guided by a talking fruit-bat that enjoys wearing flashy sunglasses. A little distrubing, but funny nontheless.
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Read in February, 2008
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i'm nearly done with this one. it's bleakly hilarious, and i have a vision of this book unspooling in my mind as a movie by wes anderson, with luke wilson as tucker case. kooky, jaded, hopeless. good stuff.
i told someone last week that reading moore is like reading palahniuk, but you don't feel like you need to shower afterward.
i told someone last week that reading moore is like reading palahniuk, but you don't feel like you need to shower afterward.
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Read in November, 2003
I was going to stick to books that I have read since joining the site, but this is one of my favorites. I actually laughed out loud from the first chapter on.
Horny out of work pilots. Cargo cults, smart mouthed talking bats, japanese ninja guys with AK-47's, illegal organ harvesting, cannibals, SPAM, this book has everything.
Horny out of work pilots. Cargo cults, smart mouthed talking bats, japanese ninja guys with AK-47's, illegal organ harvesting, cannibals, SPAM, this book has everything.
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Read in April, 2007
Crazy and wacky, sometimes too much so, but enjoyable. The first I read of his books so I didn't quite know what to expect. I wasn't sure if the characters were carry over from other books to satart with, but I thought it was good and a lot of 'serious' issues tackled funnily yet still respectfully-that's a tough balance.
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Read in January, 2008
I am really liking Christoper Moore's work! This novel tells the tale of a disgraced pilot and his adventures with a shark-hunting cargo cult located on a dinky island in the Pacific. How can you not laugh. The scene where the male warriors read about Prince Charles wanting to be a tampon...pure comedy gold!
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