Island of the Sequined Love Nun | Christopher Moore

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

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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

Fun ride!

I liked Lamb and Bloodsucking Fiends the most, but this one was a fun ride!

Island of the Sequined Love Nun

Vivid and fast moving, I am thrilled by Christopher Moore. The characters are weird and well described. It is a premise I could never have imagined and each new revelation was unexpected and satisfying. I like that there are no "good" guys but people's characters range throught the gray areas, as in life. Some of them redeam themselves and some don't, also as in life. I'll be reading the rest of Christopher Moore' books soon.

Weird, but amusing

Island of the Sequined Love Nun is the wacky, entertaining tale of Tucker Case, a "hopeless geek trapped in a cool guy's body." On the run from his former employer's goons (he crashed the company jet while having sex with a hooker in the cockpit), he ends up as a pilot for a missionary on a small Micronesian island where all is not what it seems.

The best part of Island is the characters. They're delightfully crazy and include a cross-dressing navigator, a talking bat, an old cannibal who isn't allowed to eat humans anymore, and a tribe of native Micronesians that is obsessed with People magazine. They're all quirky and fun to read about and though most of them don't have too much depth, it's not really needed. They're caricatures and wonderful ones. That's all that they need to be for this story.

The best parts of the story are those that feature one or a few of the characters doing things that are only minimally related to the actual plot of the book. The little peaks into their lives enhanced the caricatures, gave a small peak into their motivations, and provided a lot of amusement for the reader. After all, where else can you find a High Priestess of a small island tribe who is obsessed with shoes and soap operas and isn't even a member of the tribe?

The plot of Island of the Sequined Love Nun is extremely far fetched and full of holes, but it somehow works. It's almost like those things that are so ridiculous that they have to be true...because nobody would actually make something like that up. This is so ridiculous that it's easy to suspend disbelief and just enjoy it. Nothing really fits, but when it's put together it somehow makes a coherent whole, one that's enjoyable in its own crazy way.

Really, the only way to describe Island of the Sequined Love Nun is that it's just crazy. It shouldn't' work, but it does, thanks to Moore's talent at pulling together stories that are as strange and amusing as his titles. Jibes and jokes abound in the story as Moore pokes fun at just about everything he can. Some are obvious, some are subtle and no reader will catch them all, but there are enough to keep almost anyone amused all the way through the book.

Island of the Sequined Love Nun is not great literature, but it is highly entertaining and I would recommend it to anyone looking for a few chuckles. Nothing was really laugh-out-loud funny, but the majority of the book was highly amusing and entertaining. Anyone who likes out-there humor will likely enjoy this book very much.

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Pure Entertainment

Being a long-time Carl Hiaasen fan, I was intrigued to see a recommendation from him on the cover of "Love Nun" that a friend loaned to me. From the beginning, I expected the same type of outrageous characters, observations, and situations found in Hiaasen's books. Never was I disappointed! I'm glad to have discovered a new set of books for light vacation reading.

Yum!

Despite the irritating typos in this edition, the story itself is a page-turner from the beginning until the end. It is an engaging account of a loser who lands himself (or is it fate?) in an extraordinary adventure. Mr. Moore captures his readers' interest by allowing his characters to be bizarre and nutty. Like all his other books, Mr. Moore injects utterly dry sense of humor everywhere possible in his conceptions. The creative talent and wacky imaginations of his, produce hilarious dialogues, out-of-this-world personalities, and a completely fictitious yarn with a twist of moral that every fairy tale seems to possess. Furthermore, a story that includes a wise cannibal with an eccentric drollness is always a treasure.

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