Island of the Sequined Love Nun
by Christopher Moore
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Author: Christopher MooreEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2004-05-25
ISBN: 0060735449
Number of pages: 336
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
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Summary: 5 Stars
Delightfully irreverent, featuring pilot Tucker Case, a "geek in a cool guy's body...but under that gin-painted exterior is a guy who sniffs his shorts to check their wearability." Through a series of errors, he becomes imprisoned on a Pacific island that is "little more than a coral cupcake with a guano frosting...covering the news there is akin to taking a penguin census on the Mojave desert."
The island's natives are a left over cargo cult from WWII. They worship Vincent, an American pilot and the painted girl on his bomber. Tucker doesn't understand religion. "It was like heroin. He knew a lot of people did it, but he didn't understand why...spiritually, he was a hamster."
Except for cannibal Sarapul, who claims people taste like spam, the islanders pay homage to Vincent's self-appointed missionaries, including a stand-in for the painted Sky Priestess - Beth, a former stripper. Whenever the emergency call comes from Japan, our "sequined love nun" performs a ritual strip tease for the worshippers as part of the ceremony where the "chosen" is officially selected for kidney donation. Tucker's job is to fly the Lear jet (along with Beth and her goons) to Japan - the organ in the cooler gets half a million dollars in American cash. On this island, missionary work pays well.
Unbelievably, minor and major characters reappear, and Moore weaves the diverse, schizophrenic parts of his story into a seamless conclusion. Rollicking, entertaining, and humorous; you will like it. Highly recommended.
Summary of Island of the Sequined Love Nun
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 opportunity left for him: piloting shady secret missions for an unscrupulous medical missionary and a sexy blond high priestess on the remotest of Micronesian hells. Here is a brazen, ingenious, irreverent, and wickedly funny novel from a modern master of the outrageous.
Pilot Tucker Case has a weakness--well, Tuck really has two--and the combination of drinking and sex in the cockpit of the pink Mary Jean Cosmetics Learjet puts him on the front page of papers all over the planet. But he finds another job with a mysterious employer--someone with a brand-new Lear 45-- who's willing to pay Tuck generously and ask no questions about his record. The jet and job are on Alualu, a speck in the Pacific Ocean, and Tucker has nowhere else to go. But first he has to get to Alualu, and once there, he faces a hurricane, Shark People, atypical missionaries, and boredom ... and the responsibilities assigned to him by Capt. Vincent Bennidetti, U.S. Air Force, deceased bomber pilot and present-day deity of the Shark People.
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