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PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
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: 2004-06-01
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Release Date: 2004-05-25
Studio: Harper Paperbacks
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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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Summary: funny, but not as great as other moore books
Comment: 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.
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Summary: Highly enjoyable, but not his best
Comment: 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.
Certainly, Moore explores a few topics concerning ethical dilemmas, deception and false gods, and the thought processes behind the creation of a religion, but "Island of the Sequined Love Nun" still felt like a "popcorn novel" to me the whole time.
But that's certainly not a bad thing. I do like popcorn.
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Summary: Pure Christopher Moore!
Comment: 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.
This book isn't for everybody. It has a steamy side, an adventurous side, and a philosophical side. After those three dimensions, what else is left but the multiverse!
This is probably my third favorite Moore book so far, with Lamb and Fluke rated higher on my funny-bone scale. Enjoy.
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Summary: Moore is always a refreshingly original read
Comment: "`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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Summary: Christopher Moore
Comment: 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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