Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780380816545ISBN:0380816547
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Worn cover, some bent pages, but solid. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 336 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: S Trade Paperback
Publisher: Perennial Library, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780060735449ISBN:0060735449
Description: As New. Mint condition, good as new book. Evidently never been read. Clean, glossy cover, perfect spine and binding. You'll squeal with glee on receipt! ! ! read more
Edition: Brand New Not a Remainder
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Perennial Library, New York, New York, U.S. A
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780060735449ISBN:0060735449
Description: New. 0060735449 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 ... read more
"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.
The book is essentially beach trash, but I liked it because it doesn't try to be anything more than that. It is Tom Robbins without the obnoxious self-important moralizing. It is a fun, fast, tightly written, campy tale of island adventure with surprisingly few plot holes and lots of boozy humping. I'm not hooked on Moore, but wouldn't rule out another one of his books when in need of brain candy."
"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 from ever flying again.
When a mysterious doctor from a mysterious third world island mails him a letter to come work for him, what has Tucker got to lose? (Not to mention a little help from his buddy Jake Skye) he's on the first flight out to Alualu. On his way he meets people he considers friends, one being a cross dressing Filipino named Kimi who is a Navigator and gets Tucker to his island after missing his boat.
But things do not go well on the island and Tucker soon finds himself in a situation where he needs to choose between right and wrong. The natives on the island worship a man named Vincent who died many years before, but not before telling them (The Shark People) he would be back with Cargo. Vincent plays his role well as a ghost who has his hand in helping Tucker get through the danger of the doctor and his crazy wife and save the natives from impending doom.
I only give it a 3 because even though it was twisted and humorous, it didn't keep my attention as previous books have. But anyone who is a Moore fan has to read Tucker's story at least once to know more about him in other stories!"
"Island of the Sequined Love Nun was a fun and quick fluff read by Moore. While certainly not his best, I also do not think he intended it to be. I would recommend this to anyone looking for a short leisure read who also enjoys Moore's vain of lighthearted, rough humor and sarcastic tone.
Characters were well written and each had a quirkiness that made them unique. The main character and anti hero, Tuck, was like a guy we all know or have known at some point. He is just absolutely skating through life until the day that something happens and he realizes that he can no longer be the waste skin that he has happily been until life forces him to wake up. From talking bats to drunken cannibals to a naked, sequined, megalomaniacal women/deity, this book will likely make you laugh out loud more than once."
"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."
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