Island of the Sequined Love Nun
by Christopher Moore
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Author: Christopher MooreEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Published)
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 2004-06-01
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 336
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
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Book Review: Moore is always a refreshingly original read
Summary: 4 Stars
"`Boy, I'm glad all that supernatural stuff is over,' the bat said."
Our hero is Tucker Case, a dork in the body of a cool guy, who--after crashing the plane of a make-up CEO--is hired as a pilot for a mysterious Ozzie and Harriet missionary couple that double as a sorcerer and Sky Priestess for the local Shark People on a Caribbean island. Haunted by a dude in a gray jumpsuit that speaks in 1940s slang and accompanied by a transvestite navigator with a talking fruit bat, Tucker starts to unravel the mystery of the "cargo cult" and possibly obtain some sort of redemption. Fantastic, outrageous, clever, hilarious, and full of intriguing twists and turns; Christopher Moore is always refreshingly original. Grade: A-
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, 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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