{"id":169,"date":"2006-10-09T20:39:18","date_gmt":"2006-10-10T01:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/wordpress\/?p=169"},"modified":"2006-10-09T20:39:18","modified_gmt":"2006-10-10T01:39:18","slug":"christopher-moore-island-of-the-sequined-love-nun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2006\/10\/09\/christopher-moore-island-of-the-sequined-love-nun\/","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Moore &ndash; &ldquo;Island of the Sequined Love Nun&rdquo;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nThis book can be summarised in a single word: <b>funny<\/b>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIt was written to be funny (and not much else) and it is funny (and not much else). I mean that in a good way: it is outrageously, hilariously funny and made me laugh out loud, and I enjoyed reading it. How can you not enjoy a book that counts among its characters a transvestite Filipino canoe navigator, a talking fruit bat called Roberto, a cannibal, ninjas, and a whole tribe of shark-hunting ex-cannibals? Where the story includes a cargo cult, plane crashes, and shady doctors on a tropical island?\n<\/p>\n<p>\n(Well, you could not enjoy it if it was badly written, but it isn&rsquo;t.)\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWhere does a writer get ideas like that? How do you come up with a title like &#8220;Island of the Sequined Love Nun&#8221;? Christopher Moore must be a seriously disturbed person.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This book can be summarised in a single word: funny. It was written to be funny (and not much else) and it is funny (and not much else). I mean that in a good way: it is outrageously, hilariously funny and made me laugh out loud, and I enjoyed reading it. How can you not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}