Island of the Sequined Love Nun | Christopher Moore

Island of the Sequined Love Nun | Christopher Moore | Fun, fresh, and absolutely fantastic

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	Island of the Sequined Love Nun Christopher Moore Harper Paperbacks, 2004 - 336 pages average customer review:based on 136 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Good & Funny. . .Funny & Good

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 good time from the moment I started reading, right up until I finished the last page. Moore has a great gift of getting inside the heads of his characters, making them react to stuff they don't want to react to, and putting them in situations they don't want to be in. . .and he pulls it off with supreme comedic flair. I won't go into the plot (there are already hundreds of reviews here doing that), but suffice it to say Tucker Case is one likeable, funny bad boy. His adventures (or, more accurately, misadventures) make for a delightful read--a read augmented by the supernatural (a Moore staple), good and evil, and some compelling moments.

But I'm thinking too much (and once again, for me that's saying something); ISLAND OF THE SEQUINED LOVE NUN is a darn funny book. Not only that, it's a good book, a very good book, brilliantly written. I'm definitely looking forward to reading more of this author's work.
--D. Mikels, Author, WALK-0N

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Fun, fresh, and absolutely fantastic

Save for a bit too much of the f-word for my tastes, this book is perfect. Totally, utterly, perfect. It's hilarious with just enough poignancy to keep it from being trite, and presents fairly heavy themes (medical ethics, religious evangelism, and the concept of a savior/messiah) in an easily accesible, but still smart, fashion.
I would highly recommend this book, but be warned, there's a goodish amount of sex. That said, it's not at all pornographic or gross, and well written. The story is great - I couldn't put the book down - and I cannot wait to get my hands on some more Christopher Moore.
One last thing - he makes is very easy to contact him, with an email address in his author bio, which I think is really nice. Any author who makes it that easy for people to send him critique has to really want feedback, which means he wants to improve, which is excellent.

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Loved it! Huge Christopher Moore fan

Reading this book was like going on a whacked-out vacation. I've read almost all of Christopher Moore's books and this is my favorite. So fun...with such rich and unexpected character development. That's what I love about Mr. Moore's novels - they transport me from the world of technology into a world of hilarious yet plausible impossibilities (oxymoron?) - what a rush for a corporate IT drone like me who dreams of weird beach-related fantasies. (Don't we all?)

Christopher Moore goes to the Tropics

Some books have nice generic titles. For example, I recently read a book by Ridley Pearson called Cut and Run. An Amazon search shows that there are several other books with the same title. On the other hand, I doubt there will ever be another book called Island of the Sequined Love Nun.

Christopher Moore's tropical adventure follows Tucker Case, hard-partying pilot whose job as the private pilot for a cosmetics company comes to a sudden end with an incident that involves alcohol, a prostitute and a crash that leaves Tucker with an unpleasant (but fortunately, not permanent) injury and a need to leave the country.

An opportunity is presented to him by Sebastian and Beth Curtis who operate a medical clinic on an isolated Micronesian island called Alualu. Based on the money they are offering (a lot), the plane he'll be flying (a Lear jet) and his own bad reputation, Tucker is pretty sure that something shady is going on (most likely drug smuggling) but he doesn't have many other choices. The people of Alualu, known as the Shark People, have developed a cult around Vincent, a pilot who visited the island during World War II, and the Sky Priestess, the beautiful woman painted on Vincent's plane. The Curtises have exploited this cult with Beth taking on the role of the Sky Priestess and delivering the word of Vincent to the tribe. As a result, they do pretty much whatever she wishes.

It isn't drugs, but Beth and Sebastian do have a scheme that involves big bucks. Tucker gets to Alualu after some misadventures and becomes entangled in their plot. Tucker, whose life story reads something like Hamlet (quite literally), also has something of the Danish Prince's reputation for indecision and hesitancy, a habit he needs to break to either embrace the Curtises' evil plan or fight it. Along the way, he'll acquire some interesting allies, including a male prostitute, a fruit bat and the ghost of Vincent himself.

This is an off-beat Christopher Moore novel; actually all his novels are off-beat, but this one is a departure from his other works. The tropical island setting and the much smaller role of the supernatural make this a change of pace from the other Moore novels I've read (Bloodsucking Fiends, Practical Demonkeeping and Coyote Blue); it does however have his standard eccentric characters and effective humor. Overall, this is another fun, fast read in the Moore canon.

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