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Island of the Sequined Love Nun

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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 dru

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Paperback, 336 pages
Published June 1st 2004 by William Morrow & Company (first published March 23rd 2000)
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Rachel
Rachel rated it 4 of 5 stars
Shelves: read-in-08, humor
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)...more
Amanda
Amanda rated it 3 of 5 stars
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...more
Jill
Jill rated it 3 of 5 stars
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Wendi
Wendi rated it 5 of 5 stars
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
Lisa
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 cov...more
Hank Quense
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 transvestit...more
Jaime
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 i...more
Twan
Twan rated it 4 of 5 stars
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.
Mick
Mick rated it 5 of 5 stars
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...more
Yael
Yael rated it 5 of 5 stars
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...more
Nicole705
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Patrick
Patrick rated it 1 of 5 stars
Shelves: 2002
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.
Reverend The Crawling Chaos Nyarkoleptek
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.
Matthew
Matthew rated it 3 of 5 stars
Recommended to Matthew by: Lindsay Graveley
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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Jamie
Jamie rated it 3 of 5 stars
Shelves: twisted-humor
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 fr...more
Nora
Nora rated it 5 of 5 stars
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 silenc...more
bookczuk
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 Stupid...more
Chris Smith
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 Ma...more
Emma705
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 wh...more
Damien
Damien rated it 2 of 5 stars
Damn- I was hoping I'd get through all the Christopher Moore books without giving any of them any thing lower than 3 stars. Whenever I tell people I'm reading Christopher Moore, they usually say "Island of the Sequined Love Nun" and start laughing. I assumed that it was because of the funny title. Ironically, the title was also very inaccurate- technically, there was no "love nun" and she only wore sequins twice in the book which she took off shortly after they were mentioned...more
Mitch
Mitch rated it 5 of 5 stars
This book was surprisingly hilarious and a fantastic and trippy ride! I've never read anything by Christiphor Moore before, but this book was so different from everything I ever read and so although it won't go into history like The Great Gatsby or Of Mice and Men, it is still a read that I think everyone should attempt!

I don't even want to give anything away by describing the plot so I'm just going to provide random snipets: a nerd trapped in a cool guys body who has his male parts ...more
Darlene
Christopher Moore books are not for everyone. He has been described as, “A very sick man, in the very best sense of the word.” His books are an escape for me, and I desperately needed one after reading A Child Called "It". He is zany, his humour is dark, and his books are totally off-beat.

My massage therapist recommended Moore to me because his books are easy to read, don’t take a lot of brain power to follow, and leave you entertained.

I have read four of his ot...more
Catten
Catten rated it 5 of 5 stars
This book title caught my eye (How fun! I thought), and dragged me happily into the world of Christopher Moore. I will never be the same again.

Carl Hiaasen is quoted on the book jacket: "Christopher Moore is a very sick man, in the very best sense of the word." Yeah, what he said. I mean it's that funny kind of sick, sort of like Hiaasen on a higher, weirder level. Let me tell you about Love Nun's characters, so you can see what I mean.

Tucker Case is your hero....more
Thee_ron_clark
Christopher Moore does it again. I have read nearly every novel I could find by Moore and have yet to be disappointed. Island of the Sequined Love Nun is about Tucker Case, a complete failure given the job opportunity of a lifetime: going to a tropical location with all expenses paid and a great check as well to simply run some flights for a missionary. Sound to good to be true? That's because it is.

Tucker finds himself dealing with a number of issues in a manner that only Moore coul...more
Robb
Robb rated it 4 of 5 stars
Typical Christopher Moore novel. Slovenly man child overcoming some sort of personal crisis while at the same time preventing some calamity in the world where it all works out in the end. I have not been impressed by the last few Moore novels I have read, however this is after reading A Dirty Job and Lamb The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal, which are arguably the two best Moore novels to date. It is still a great story and a funny read. Anyone who is a fan of Moore will en...more
Karissa
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Heather
This is my fourth Christopher Moore book, and it's interesting to see his development as an author. I first read Fool, which, as a Shakespeare nerd, I really liked. Then I went back a couple of years and read Lamb, which was also quite decent, but I loved distinctly less being far less of a Bible type.

Then I decided to kick it old school and read his first novel, Practical Demonkeeping, which was from 1992. Island of the Sequined Love Nun is actually his fourth, published in 1997, an...more
Ron Arden
This was a great book to read during these cold months. Most of it takes place on the made up Island of Alualu, which is somewhere in Micronesia. The story is that a pilot named Tucker Case who is a bit down on his luck, to say the least, gets hired to be a pilot for two missionaries on Alualu. Tuck takes a very round about way of getting there by going through the island of Truk and a very long boat ride. The boat is piloted by Kimi, man who cross dresses and Kimi's pet fruit bad Roberto.

Ou...more
Indrani
Usually I like Moore's stuff. Funny, a bit raunchy (okay, sometimes a lot raunchy), poking fun at the sacred and the mundane. This one though, took me a long while to get in to. I'm not sure why - perhaps because it took a long while to find a character that I cared at all about - the protagonist is neither nice enough to want to have survive, nor nasty enough to care about how he might die. (GRRM has this down to a fine art, by the by: Tyrion Lannister is not a nice man... but for some reason, ...more
Leah K
Leah K rated it 5 of 5 stars
Island of the Sequined Love Nun by Christopher Moore

★ ★ ★ ★ 1/2

This isn't the first Christopher Moore book that I've read this year and it definitely won't be the last. As usual, Moore delivered a hilarious, great story. While raunchy in some parts, this book had me laughing quite a bit. I enjoyed the characters. They were well written and described. I love how in many of his books, characters criss-cross so the main character I met in this book can also be found in his Stu...more
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