Island of the Sequined Love Nun | Christopher Moore | Please Sir, Can I Have Some Moore?

Island of the Sequined Love Nun | Christopher Moore | Love This Nun

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	Island of the Sequined Love Nun Christopher Moore Harper Paperbacks, 2004 - 336 pages average customer review:based on 134 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Please Sir, Can I Have Some Moore?

Christopher Moore is a great writer. I have said this before. He is not only a great writer in the snese that he is a hysterical writer, but the fact that he can pull it off without compromising the quality of the book. I have read Bloodsucking Fiends, Practical Demonkeeping, and Lamb, all of which were wonderful, my favorite being Lamb mainly because it deals with something a lot bigger, has a grander scale, and is the funniest of them all in my opinion. I went into this book expecting something a little different to tell the truth. I have to say that Moore gets funnier and funnier as he goes on, but I was expecting something completely different from this book. I don't know what though. It starts just like a Moore book would with Tucker Case hooking up with a prostitute in a pink jetplane then crashing to the ground and suffering a large wound to his, uh....you know. But from there it almost takes on a realism, not totally real considering the talking fruit bat and references to Oprah. But a realism that is sort of mellowing. That is why I took away a star. Because although the book is outrageously funny, there are times when it gets too sober, too unfit for its surroundings. Moore is a genius at mixing these two traits, reality and farcity, but it is a little weaker in this book. Make no mistake, that is no reason not to read it, everyone should. But if you want a better introduction to Moore, read Lamb or Practical Demonkeeping then read this, you will like it much better.

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Love This Nun

How do you describe a book that features a pink plane, a talking fruitbat, Shark People, a hurricane, missionaries (albeit not your average missionaries), a dead bomber pilot and Tucker Case? Hilarious.

If you need a laugh this is your book.

Clever. Original. Outrageously funny!

I read outloud to my husband every evening after dinner, and this book gave both of us laughing tears. He even did the dishes for me, so I could start reading sooner.

After we were done reading the book, we didn't want to read another book for awhile. We didn't want to crowd the after glow and joy of rehashing it.

We spent days trying to figure out how it could be filmed, and ended up laughing so hard again, we never did/could resolve it.

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Fantastic fun

This book is total zaniness and definitely not to be taken seriously. I needed a short break from romance and really enjoyed
Moore's novel "Bloodsucking Fiends" so I yanked "Island of the Sequined Love Nun" out and
settled in for a wild ride. There isn't much romance but there is
a talking fruit bat and a cannibal. Pretty good trade I thought.

My first Christopher Moore, but not my last.

***** I MEANT TO GIVE THIS 5 STARS, BUT CAN'T EDIT THE RATING, SO I'M ADDING THIS TO THE REVIEW. *****

OMG. It's hard to believe there's someone out flying under my reading radar that's writing such hysterical, irreverent, yet surprisingly touching and insightful work.

ISLAND OF THE SEQUINED LOVE NUN was my first Christopher Moore book, but it will NOT be my last.

I have a feeling Moore musta spent some time on the payroll of Mary Kay or BeautiControl. ;-) Otherwise, how could he have so much insight into the way a corporation like "Mary Jean Cosmetics" works. . .or the idea of a pink corporate jet?

Tucker Case, pilot and self-described "a geek in cool guy's body," is in a world of trouble AND hurt when he crashes Mary Jean's jet during a "delicate" moment with a lady of ill repute. He loses his pilot's license, but finds a job custom-made for him on a secluded island in the south Pacific.

How Tucker gets to the island is a story in and of itself. What he does when he gets there is the icing on the cake.

Moore's twisted humor and irony is not for everyone. But, if you've ever "puffed, puffed, passed," this is your guy. His plot line is not as simple as it might appear and things are never as they seem.

World War II pilot Vincent, cross-dressing Kimmi, the old cannibal and a talking bat named Roberto are fresh voices and belong in a completely new genre of fiction. In fact, I'd like to know more about Roberto . . . and I'd like to see how Vincent's card game is coming and if Kimmi is teaching "the guys" how to navigate.

This is one of the best reads I've had in years.

Enjoy!

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