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Summary: Hysterical!
Review: The funniest book I have ever read. I had to restrain myself from laughing out loud on several occasions. Perfect as a break between more serious works.
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Summary: Entertaining and consistent
Review: I just finished reading this book and am hungry for more Moore! I picked it up because the title was kooky and the writing didn't miss a beat with that description. It has wit and humor in an intelligent way only special people can appreciate. I hope everyone will enjoy this book, it has substance and has landed in my all-time ejoyable list. The kind of book I want to keep around and read over and over just for the sheer pleasure.
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Summary: A totally quirky and original page turner
Review: I really enjoyed reading this book. I bought it from the rack on the strength of the title alone (I was in a strange mood!), and I didn't put it down until I had finished it. Great characters, smooth action flow, and unexpected plot twists made this book an easy read. I love to stumble upon a new author with a really offbeat sense if humor, and I plan to read all that Mr. Moore has to offer (and then some)
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Summary: A rollicking, hilarious story w/ marvelous characters.
Review: Christopher Moore ranks among the freshest, hippest, inventively comic literary voices around today. In this, his 4th novel, we follow the trvails 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 umwitting "donars". Tucker's road to ruin, realization and redemption is an entertaining whirlwind involving Moore's usual cast of memorable, zany characters. This book is somewhat less reliant on the supernatural as a mainstay of the plot mechanism (though this might seem an untenable statement to those not familiar with Moore's books as this story includes the presence of a talking fruitbat and the ghost of a WWII bomber pilot as central characters)while providing a broader cast of significan't, meaty characters to enjoy getting to know. On the whole I'd rate this effort just behind "Bloodsucking Fiends" but solidly ahead of his other two books. This represents the perfect vacation and/or beach read so long as you don't mind people looking at you while you laugh out loud while reading!
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Summary: ...and the love keeps rolling in....
Review: Love Nun is the fourth of a wonderful collection of perfectly-written, always funny, skip-work-the-day-you-buy-the-book reads. When I try to explain the story lines, words tend to fail me...so I just buy copies of the books for friends instead. I stayed up all night reading this book when it arrived in the mail...and then read it again. Scenes with Roberto are not to be glossed over, and keep an eye out for Tuck's family history!
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Summary: Twisted, demented, and ... realistic???
Review: I love Christopher Moore's books, and "Love Nun" is yet another testimony to one of the most refreshing literary talents in recent years. While lots of readers are expressing appreciation for the zany and perverse elements of Moore's characters and plots, I'm not so sure they've got it exactly right. The characters in "Love Nun" are bizarre and outlandish, to be sure -- but they seem more like slightly embellished "people from real life". That's why Moore is so damn funny -- you get the feeling that, at least in smaller doses, you've run into these kooky and schmoozy types before. Another thing I like here is, as with his previous novels, Moore somehow manages to work in a moral point of view. Losers find redemption. Creeps get their comeuppance. Values of compassion and caring gently rise above all the hullabaloo -- like smoke over a raging fire. So is Moore really the loose cannon everyone seems to think he is? Seems to me like he's a pillar of sanity who just happens to know how demented the world is getting. And of course, how to find our way through it all with laughter! As if this isn't the proverbial 'nuff said -- where else can you read about a talking fruit bat? (And hey, not so many "10s" -- we don't want our guy to get complacent, do we?)
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Summary: You deserve a treat today!
Review: Do yourself a favor. You deserve it, don't you? You must start reading Christopher Moore's books. Moore is not only SO-O-O funny, but he injects a note of the mystical in each of his reads. Delve into shapechangers in "Coyote Blue," vampires in "Bloodsucking Fiends," and the ghost of a WWII pilot mingled with a talking bat who wears glasses! Those tears you are shedding are both from laughter and pathos. If you are a devotee of Kotzwinkle, Tom Robbins, and Carl Hiassen, you will love Moore. His way with words is magical. Please check out the reviews on amazon. Does anyone else get all 10's? p.s. I have honestly laughed uncontrollably and wept tears in all of his books. He is so special!
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Summary: Ho sa hachegcheg, Christopher Moore!
Review: This is another boonie dog book review by Wolfie and Kansas. We are reviewing Christopher Moore's "Island of the Sequined Love Nun" from a regional perspective, rather than our usual canine perspective, even though the book contains one vignette portraying the suffering of our boonie brethren on Chuuk. We began this book with the preconception that we would be offended by a stereotypical story of supposedly ignorant "natives" who need to be rescued by a heroic haole (or "repsech", since most of the action takes place on a Yap outer island.) We were happy to find that this novel satirizes the genre as much as it adheres to it. While Mr. Moore took a lot of artistic license, as he acknowledges in an afterword, the reader will nonetheless gain more insights into Chuuk, Yap and travel on the Micro Spirit than one would get from a typical travelogue. Moore's fictional island of Alualu is a hodgepodge. The map of Alualu looks a good deal like Falalop, Ulithi, although Alualu is an isolated single island like Satawal. The mixed Yapese/outer island culture may be based on Ngulu. The Alualuans have a Faisian appetite for shark, a Pohnpeian thirst for sakau (kava), and a Melanesian cargo cult. Moore fully develops the characters of several of the Alualuans, and gives a plausible explanation for their susceptability to a cargo cult. Our willing suspension of disbelief was strained only by one premise. One reason given for the islander's gullibility as to one scam was their supposed ignorance of internal human anatomy. The Alualuans were stated to be only a generation removed from cannabalism, with at least one ex-cannibal still living. Micronesians have a tradition of oral history, and they enjoy talking about food. Surely the Alualuans would have more knowledge of human anatomy than average Americans. Nitpicking aside, "Island of the Sequined Love Nun" is a rollicking, funny yet suspenseful tale that should please all readers. It is a special treat for any but the most politically correct readers out here in the Western Pacific. In the languages of various characters in the novel, with apologies if we are not up to date on the latest orthographies, we can only say, "Christopher Moore, ho sa hachegcheg, kamaagar, kiniso chapur, and salamat."
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Summary: CHRISTOPHER MOORE - BEST SELLER WAITING TO HAPPEN!
Review: This author is definitely a keeper! Chris is hilariously funny, quite romantic, oozing with personality and it shows in his writing. I'm giving copies of 'Love Nun' to three friends for Christmas. I'm also squirreling away all of my copies for the day he becomes even more famous, and I can say - "I've got them all, signed, first editions!"
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Summary: LOVE CHRIS MOORE'S BOOKS - ALL OF THEM!
Review: I have finally just completed my set of Chris Moore First Editions - (Thanks to Amazon). I have just a few author's that I KNOW are destined to become collectable. I have met Mr. Moore at a book signing - he is quite charming - and I can't wait until his fifth book comes out next year. I'm taking my unsigned copies along the next time he tours for signatures! He is definitely a best seller waiting to happen, and I'm going to squirrel away my copies now!! - - Christina Lorentzen
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