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Island of the Sequined Love Nun |  | Author: Christopher Moore
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Category: Book
List Price: $13.99
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Rating:  155 reviews
Sales Rank: 51112
Media: Paperback
Edition: Reprint
Pages: 336
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.4 x 0.8
ISBN: 0060735449
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780060735449
ASIN: 0060735449
Publication Date: June 1, 2004
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Amazon.com Review
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.
Product Description
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.
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 Did not disappoint August 6, 2010
S. Fisher (WI)
Big fan of Christopher Moore. I read about the main character in a different book, so it was nice to back track and get his whole story.
 Another of Chris Moore's mad stories July 31, 2010
Hank Quense (Bergenfield, NJ USA)
This book was released several years ago and is a typical Chris Moore novel filled with zany characters. It tells an excellent story. The hero of the book, Tucker Case, is a small plane pilot who takes off in a Learjet while drunk. He flies all right, but his landing wrecks the plane and him. Disgraced, jobless and broke, he accepts a strange job offer to fly for a missionary doctor on a tiny island in the South Pacific, but he misses his connecting boat to the island from Truk. A transvestite native named Kimi agrees to take him across hundreds of miles of ocean in a open boat. Kimi is accompanied by a fruit bat called Roberto. THe bat wears a variety of stylish sunglasses to keep the sun of his eyes and occasional talks.
When they finally reach the island, they are captured by the island's last remaining cannibal and things rapidly go downhill after that. The missionary doctor and his beautiful wife/nurse run a nefarious business and are guarded by a half-dozen Japanese thugs armed with Uzi's.
I won't give away the plot, because it's a good one with many twists and surprises. After the first few chapters, the humor dies away, but by then the reader is immersed in the plot and the characters.
An enjoyable story: four stars
Tales From Gundarland: Eight humorous stories from the land of the incongruous
A zany masterpiece!! July 21, 2010
S. Penrose (Small Town, OH)
Only Christopher Moore could come up with this wacky masterpiece about tropical island cultures, organ theft, airline pilots, and cargo cults. Somehow Moore, once again, creates a world that is equal parts ridiculous and believable. I don't know if any other writer could even do something like this. Its twisted in such a perfect way. I would it if Moore revisited the Shark people in a future novel. Great stuff!!
Island fever and a cargo cult June 14, 2010
John Hauer (Hawaii)
OK, I am loving this guy. This book is no exception. It is a fun and fast summer read. It takes place in the pacific somewhere near Guam? Sure, why not. It's got planes, natives, drugs, and adventure. what more do you want? Just ry it, soon you will be reading all of Moore's books. I'm half way through them right now.
Christopher Moore is brilliant!! May 5, 2010
Book Cat (Texas)
When you're the staff pilot for a black market organ ring you don't need to worry about small details like having lost your pilot's license. The smart (but not apparently obvious) thing to do would be to watch your back!
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