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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Book Review: Christopher Moore goes to the Tropics
Summary: 4 Stars
Some books have nice generic titles. For example, I recently read a book by Ridley Pearson called Cut and Run. An Amazon search shows that there are several other books with the same title. On the other hand, I doubt there will ever be another book called Island of the Sequined Love Nun.
Christopher Moore's tropical adventure follows Tucker Case, hard-partying pilot whose job as the private pilot for a cosmetics company comes to a sudden end with an incident that involves alcohol, a prostitute and a crash that leaves Tucker with an unpleasant (but fortunately, not permanent) injury and a need to leave the country.
An opportunity is presented to him by Sebastian and Beth Curtis who operate a medical clinic on an isolated Micronesian island called Alualu. Based on the money they are offering (a lot), the plane he'll be flying (a Lear jet) and his own bad reputation, Tucker is pretty sure that something shady is going on (most likely drug smuggling) but he doesn't have many other choices. The people of Alualu, known as the Shark People, have developed a cult around Vincent, a pilot who visited the island during World War II, and the Sky Priestess, the beautiful woman painted on Vincent's plane. The Curtises have exploited this cult with Beth taking on the role of the Sky Priestess and delivering the word of Vincent to the tribe. As a result, they do pretty much whatever she wishes.
It isn't drugs, but Beth and Sebastian do have a scheme that involves big bucks. Tucker gets to Alualu after some misadventures and becomes entangled in their plot. Tucker, whose life story reads something like Hamlet (quite literally), also has something of the Danish Prince's reputation for indecision and hesitancy, a habit he needs to break to either embrace the Curtises' evil plan or fight it. Along the way, he'll acquire some interesting allies, including a male prostitute, a fruit bat and the ghost of Vincent himself.
This is an off-beat Christopher Moore novel; actually all his novels are off-beat, but this one is a departure from his other works. The tropical island setting and the much smaller role of the supernatural make this a change of pace from the other Moore novels I've read (Bloodsucking Fiends, Practical Demonkeeping and Coyote Blue); it does however have his standard eccentric characters and effective humor. Overall, this is another fun, fast read in the Moore canon.
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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