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What are readers saying about Island of the Sequined Love Nun?
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Rick posted a review at 2010-08-04 07:14:58.
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A great vacation read. Light, funny and typical Moore.
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-01-21 08:33:44.
(Language: English)
I liked this book. Quite entertaining and enjoyable. Nothing to brainy. Fun read.
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-12-03 07:57:52.
(Language: English)
Tucker Case is my Hero. a must read for C. Moore fans and for people who havent read any thing of his before.
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-09-05 12:36:03.
(Language: English)
Moore's raunchy, bawdy humor, as usual on a tropical island.
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-06-30 02:56:54.
(Language: English)
This book is really fun, an easy read, twisted and entertaining. Absolutely loved the ending!
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-09-08 02:05:52.
(Language: English)
My first one. I will never forget it. I enjoyed it remendously and I have kept on reading his books.
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-07-06 08:28:14.
(Language: English)
Not only is this book funny and engaging, it is also educational and fascinating for anyone who has the slightest interest in social anthropology. Not often you can say that about half naked women, armed men and cannibals with talking fruit bats. But then that is Christopher Moore for you.
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A Reader posted a review at 2007-10-23 08:21:38.
(Language: English)
Started off slowly, but got better and better. I read The Stupidest Angel first, so it was interesting to see where the character Tucker Case got his beginnings. Another funny and twisted novel from Christopher Moore. He has the zanniest ideas, it's a wonder where he comes up with them. I seriously thought he was making up Yap, Truk and Micronesia, but they really do exist! Aluahu doesn't though. Beth was scary. Sarapul was hilarious. Roberto, need I say more? Read it and laugh!
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-10-27 06:50:07.
(Language: English)
crazy, funny, and interesting!
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-06-15 07:30:08.
(Language: English)
A book with a punch line. :)
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-08-28 09:11:02.
(Language: English)
Like much of Moore, I can't recommend it. Not surprisingly, it's far too profane and crude. The blatant sexuality of the characters and the plot are frustrating, because otherwise the situations are entertaining in themselves. But this doesn't stop it from being funny, loudly funny at times. The book is meant to speak about the futility and absurdity of religion. In addition it speaks of the human (as in humanistic) capacity for change. By Moore's light, it is the inner drives of a man that cause himto change, not his belief or lack thereof. That change can be for the better like Tuck Case, or it can be for the worse as in the case of Sebastian. then, of course, there is always just the person who uses their power for evil, like Beth who is the namesake of the book. Since she also represents the protagonist's primary weakness, her failure is representative of his progress. Love Nun is ok to read if you can stand the smut, otherwise, steer clear.
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-08-05 05:55:49.
(Language: English)
One of his more hilarious books...
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-07-29 11:42:53.
(Language: English)
I've read many Christopher Moore books and they are all quirky and wonderful. Some more so than others....and this was one of his BEST - next only to Coyote Blue which is my all-time favorite. Slacker pilot crashes a Mary Jean (Mary Kay?) pink jet while having sex in the cockpit with a hooker. Flash forward to an island of canibals and organ brokers. Throw in a transvestite navigator named Kimi and a talking bat who has a sunglass wardrobe (Roberto). Oh yeah, did I mention a ghost and Jesus playing poker? Through it all, our boy Tucker Case makes good and saves the day.
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-06-04 12:33:59.
(Language: English)
Great book. Funny and weird.
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Michael posted a review at 2009-10-02 09:10:16.
(Language: English)
This book was hysterical! Classic Christopher Moore - taking the absurd to the sublime. Highly recommend for those that are looking for a break from ultra-serious non-fiction or stressed-out modern living. Definitely a LOL book!
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-02-08 02:08:30.
(Language: English)
I thought it was an ok book. It was alittle slower than most of his books. But over all I liked it.
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A Reader posted a review at 2007-07-02 09:36:57.
(Language: English)
Very funny like all of the Christopher Moore books I've read. Not he best one to date but fairly high up on the list so far. One of the funniest parts was: "Inside Tuck's head sounded like this: I have to catch a plane. I'm pissing fire. I need a shower. Check the stitches. No water. It looks infected. Probably leprosy. I hate this place. I'm sure it's infected. When does the water come on? It's going to turn black and fall off. Whoever heard of a place with satellite TV but no running water? I'll never fly again. I'm thirty years old and I have no job. And no dick. And who the hell was the guy in the pakring lot last night? I smell like rancid goat meat. Probably the infection. Gangrene. I can't believe there's no running water. I'm going to die. Die, die, die. Not a pleasant place to be: inside Tuck's head. "
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-01-03 09:37:26.
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funny
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-06-10 05:54:15.
(Language: English)
Hilarious! If you're looking for warped humor, Christopher Moore always delivers. (Not for young readers.)
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-01-17 11:14:14.
(Language: English)
Unfortunately, not his best work. There are some good parts and some amusing bits toward the end but overall too boring. I almost didn't get through it...had to take a break part way through and read something else.
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Kat posted a review at 2009-10-02 07:51:04.
(Language: English)
quirky
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-12-24 08:52:40.
(Language: English)
Another super fun book..
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-12-15 06:09:24.
(Language: English)
Great book made me into a new fan bought the rest and havent stopped reading them
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-06-11 08:57:34.
(Language: English)
Must read, funny laugh out loud! Strange sense of humor, not your typical author! Love it!
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A Reader posted a review at 2007-06-26 06:40:30.
(Language: English)
The book centers around a wayward pilot named Tucker Case, who flies cargo for a Mary Kay-like cosmetics line. Tucker's inability to make decisions on his own and his penchant for chasing women leads him to end up on a fictional Micronesian island. He begins flying cargo for a missionary doctor and his beautiful wife, all the while wondering how a missionary can own a Lear jet and sustain his wife's fine tastes while living on the tiny, isolated island. Tucker makes friends with a Yapenese transvestite named Kimi, who has a fruitbat that he carries around like a sugar glider named Roberto. The threesome begins to interact with the islanders, who are part of a strange tribe called Shark Hunters. The Shark Hunters live segregated from the missionary and his wife, and worship all things American, reading about Cher and John Travolta in discarded People magazines that the missionary's wife has flown in from Japan. The book discusses the topic of cargo cults, a real-life post-WWII phenom that still exists on some islands today. During World War II, when the Americans and Japanese would be flying over Micronesia, sometimes their cargo planes would be forced down by enemy fire onto the islands. The airmen would then pass out goods to the locals, who were so isolated that many of them had lived their entire lives unaware that some of these goods even existed. They began to see the cargo as divine goods, brought by gods to save them. Their worship led them to build air strips in order to attract more cargo planes and have a sort of "return of the messiah." The cargo cult on the island worships an American and his plane, which as you can imagine causes some issues when Tucker Case shows up, an American pilot with a jet. Tucker begins to realize that the missionary doctor and his wife aren't as kind-hearted as they seem, and starts to sort out fact from fiction, belief from reality, faith from lies. Humor is threaded throughout this book, a sort of dry, self-deprecating type which caused me to chuckle out loud a few times. The characters are sordid and flawed, from the local cannibal, banned to the outer edges of the island, to the "mispel," a woman whose job it is to essentially be the town prostitute and spends the rest of her time dreaming of deodorant and other American goods. The locals gather around to talk about what they've read in the latest People, while at the same time not knowing anything about how their demigods live in reality compared to them. The zaniness of Moore's characters and tone makes it a fast and interesting read, sort of like people-watching on a beach. I definitely will track down some of his other novels (there's one called Fluke [Or, I Know Why The Winged Whale Sings] that sounds hilarious). Don't begin to read this book with any sort of discretion -- typos litter the first twenty pages or so, but after that you're too busy laughing at the thought of Tucker clubbing a gaggle of roosters living outside his window to care. If you're headed to the beach, or just wish you were, this book will pluck you from whatever grayscale daily grind you're stuck in and quickly drop you in a canoe with a transvestite and a talking fruitbat. http://meanrachel.blogspot.com/2007/05/im-believer.html for more!
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