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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #121600 in Books
• Published on: 2006-09-07
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 416 pages

From the Author
If want to get the flavor of a place, you have to go there.
I spent a month in Micronesia researching this book, and mostof the time I was chagrined, shocked and just plain uncomfortable. It's one thing to watch guys on National Geographic living with the natives, it's quite another to do it yourself. Living simply, on a tropical Island, with no running water, bathroom facilities, electricity, or, for that matter, chairs, might seem like a dream to a lot of people. My advice is to keep it in the dream realm -- don't try it. The first time you awake from your comfortable bed on the dirt to find hermit crabs crawling all over you, the dream tarnishes a bit. Still, the people there were very kind, and very funny, and I think the book reflects that.. The main character, Tucker Case, is a just a geek in a cool guy's body. He's attractive to women, but he doesn't quite get why. I thought, what better guy to put on a tropical island with a mad doctor, a crazed sex goddess, a Filipeno transvestite navigator and a talking fruit bat. Seemd perfectly logical to me.

About the Author
Christopher Moore began writing at the age of six and became the oldest known child prodigy when, in his early thirties, he published his first novel. Chris enjoys cheese crackers, acid jazz, and otter scrubbing and lives in an inaccessible island fortress in the Pacific.

Customer Reviews

Wierd is an understatement
I'd never heard of Christopher Moore before and bought 'Love Nun' on a whim. I laughed out loud which can be embarrasing on a London tube. It can be difficult for the English to relate to American authors but this is so far off the wall it may as well have been written by a martian! A great escape!

Unique style and plot make great reading.
In a world full of books which make us smile, here's a twisted tale that had me chuckling, suppressing giggles and admiring a level of wit and wackiness rarely seen. Christopher Moore has a talent for taking a normal guy, albeit one with low moral values, and bending bad luck around them. Love Nun, although bordering on farce at times, is so slick you are tugged along with the story, the lunacy is so integral to the tale it could be misplaced for normalcy. It centres around a cargo cult and a mysterious missionary doctor who needs a pilot for his brand new Lear jet. Curious how a missionary doctor has a Lear jet... Even more curious is why he wants our central character, since he's banned from flying for having relations with a hooker, whilst flying, and then whilst crashing. So, if you want a mystery book, that is cleverly plotted, filled with sharp humour, which is bold and shows no fear, then grab Love Nun now. A masterpiece.

Tropical island breeze.
This is the first book that I've ever read by Christopher Moore and I must say that I was impressed. I enjoyed his narratives - intense, exuberant, earthly, passionate, dense with metaphor and antics - this novel was a new trail through the ancient therapy of "laughter" - a journey of a warped humorous stark beauty, but with a refreshing comedic style.

The characters in "Island of the Sequined Love Nun" are bizarre and outlandish, to be sure -- but they seem more like slightly embellished "people from real life". I've certainly met a few of these people during my lifetime.

The story follows the trail of Tucker Chase, reprobate pilot whose penchant for strong drink and exotic women leads him into involuntary employment in Micronesia for a doctor whose "practice" involves the harvesting of human organs from unwitting "donors." Tucker's road to realization, redemption and ruin is an entertaining whirlwind involving Moore's very unusual cast of memorable, zany characters. This novel is somewhat less reliant on the supernatural as a mainstay of the plot mechanism, as this story includes the presence of a talking fruitbat and the ghost of a World War II bomber pilot, while providing a broader cast of significant, meaty characters you'll enjoy getting to know.

I have a personal passion for the Pacific Region and of Micronesia, so the setting of this novel was particularly enjoyable. So why not enjoy a rum and coke "with ice" and "escape" into the warm tropic islands with adventure, cool breezes, humor and plenty of sunshine.

Needless to say, that I "laughed" a lot, while reading this novel (yum). So go on and enjoy!