Island of the Sequined Love Nun

Posted on 02 May 2019 by Christopher Moore

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. Free Read Island of the Sequined Love Nun [ by ] Christopher Moore [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr Island of the Sequined Love Nun by Christopher Moore tells the story of Tucker Case, a neer do well corporate pilot who, after a hilarious allusion to Shakespeare, winds up in a chaotic Moore created bad trip in Micronesia Somewhere along the way we meet reformed cannibals, a transvestite Filipino navigator, some wacky Pacific Ocean cargo cults, and the ghost of a WWII fighter pilot Not one of his best novels, all the same, Christopher Moore novels join the ranks of pizza and sex where a good Island of the Sequined Love Nun by Christopher Moore t...Christopher Moore is a popular writer and satirist in the vein of Terry Pratchett and Kurt Vonnegut with titles like Lamb The Gospel According to Biff, Christ s Childhood Pal You Suck A Love Story and many Moore how could I resist Island of the Sequined Love Nun was actually my first foray into his work, but what got methan anything else, eventhan Moore s popularity and humor, was the title itself It says it all And after having read it, it s actually an extremely fitting Christopher Moore is a popular writer and satirist in the vein of Terry Pratchett and Kurt Vonnegut with titles like Lamb The Gospel According to Biff, Christ s Childhood Pal You Suck A Love Story and many Moore how could I resist Island of the Sequined Love Nun was actually my first foray into his work, but what got methan anything else, eventhan Moore s popularity and humor, was the title itself It says it all And after having read it, it s actually an extremely fitting title.Tucker Case skates by in life, nearly everything has been handed to him, not the least of which is his job fl...Meet cannibal Pacific islanders who really believe in the Cargo Cult religion,worship a real life Sky Princess,who gives them Hollywood magazines and coffee.Meet her colleague, who is also worshiped as the Sorcerer, who harvests organs from the cannibals.Follow the wild adventures of an American pilot, a cross dressing Filipino navigator and a multi lingual fruit bat as they land on the island of the Sequined Love Nun They don t know it yet, but they will attempt to save all the islanders.A Meet cannibal Pacific islanders who really believe in the Cargo Cult religion,worship a real life Sky Princess,who gives them Holly...I have read and really enjoyed quite a few of Moore s books, but this wasn t one of them It just didn t do it for me I didn t find it funny or quirky or even interesting I didn t care what happened to any of the characters, and honestly, it just felt too try hard to be all of the things that one expects from Moore Kimi, the male cross dressing...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 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...This book reminded me of Meet the Parents, a movie that I stopped watching after the main character s name was revealed to be Gaylord Focker his first name has gay in it and his last name sounds like fucker That is hilarious So when Moore presented the character Zoophilia Gold, I knew that the book could safely be added to my trade in pile.Granted, my simple lady mind is ill equipped to recognize and appreciate humor In the 30 or so pages before Zoophilia s entrance, nothing struck me This book reminded me of Meet the Parents, a movie that I stopped watching after the main character s name was revealed to be Gaylord Focker his first name has gay in it and his last name sounds like fucker That is hilar...I m pretty sure it s impossible not to enjoy Christopher Moore s books His awesome imagination creates these terrifically preposterous scenarios and his killer combo of wit and humor turn every story into such a fun read About the only author to consistently have me laugh out loud during reading Tucker Case is a disgraced pilot with a quite literally Shakespearean Hamletian to be specific past and a revoked license When he gets an offer he simply can t refuse to be a private pilot for a I m pretty sure it s impossible not to enjoy Christopher Moore s books His awesome imagination creates these terrifically preposterous scenarios and his killer combo of wit and humor turn...When you read the first chapter of this book you will say to yourself, what the He Only not in a bad way I could not stop reading and actually had read halfway through by the end of the day It is about a washed up pilot who is an alchoholic and is asked to fly a jet for a Mary Kay type person Needless to say, the jet is bright p...Does Christopher Moore know how to write a bad novel Does he even know how to write an average novel While Island of The Sequined Love Nun is not the equal of Lamb and A Dirty Job, it is still a total delight with Moore s cast of insane characters and tightly woven if outlandish plots And of course It is frigging hilarious Cargo Cults, talking bats, stripper bimbo masquerading as goddess, pink Lear jets, transvestites All the sort of t...Since reading Dream Park by Larry Niven as a young lad, I ve always had an interest in Cargo Cult stories This was a lot of fun, but not as engaging as I m used to from a Christopher Moore book I didn t connect...

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02 May 2019

Christopher Moore