Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Agatha Christie 'Murder is Easy'

I read this book because of my book report task (again). Well, I enjoy it. For your information, I love a fantasy story. This book is about mystery and when I read the title I just not interested. But after I read it, I like mystery I guess. ( Please don’t think that I am a labile person). 


This book is very interesting. Although Agatha Christie is a famous mystery author, but the one and the only one of her book that I have ever read is this book. Once more, I was not interested in mystery story so I do not ever think to try to read Agatha Christie’s books. Now I know that she is a genius author.


This book tells about a murder case in England. There were a policeman (Luke Fitzwilliam) who met a woman (Lavinia Pinkerton), one day, and the woman told him that there has been a murder in her town.  Several days later, he read a newspaper and learned that the woman whom he met yesterday had passed away because an accident nears her destination. Then, the police try to solve the case until the murderer was found. This book also has romantic atmosphere between Luke Fitzwilliam and Bridget Conway. 


Some interesting point of this book is:
1. The policeman had high integrity. Although he just knew the woman in that time, but he wanted to help her to solve the case.
2. The murderer was unpredictable. This makes me like this book.
3. The moral value of this book is very interesting, that nothing impossible in murder. Everyone can be a murderer even a child in kinder garden.


I got one quote from this book : .LIKING IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN LOVING. IT LASTS.


So, I just want to say Beware! Murder is easy!


Saturday, June 7, 2014

Antoine de Saint-Exupery " the Little Prince"




        I read this book because of my book report task but finally I fall in love with this book. Honestly, in my opinion, the story of this book is flat like fairy tale in general (because I don't really like fairy tale). But, what makes me fall in love with this book is because there are so many quotes that make me think that I do not give a meaning for my life. The story tells about a life in an innocent man sight. There are many little things that we do not know if they are important in life.  This story tells us that sometime we have to think like a child to know the meaning of our life.This is some example of the quotes: 


It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge to others. If you succeed in judging to yourself, it’s because you are truly a wise man.

“But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.”


“It’s good to have had a friend, even if you’re going to die. Myself, I’m very glad to have had a fox for a friend.”

         The more that makes me love this book is because the main character (the Little Prince) had a rose in his planet and he very loved his rose. For your information, I am a rose-lover. And I was very interested in one part of the book.

But my rose, all on her own, is more important than all of you together, since she’s the one I’ve watered. Since she’s the one I put under glass. Since she’s the one I sheltered behind a screen. Since the one for whom I killed the caterpillars (except the two or three for butterflies). Since she’s the one I listened to when she complained, or when she boasted, or even sometimes when she said nothing at all. Since she’s my rose.

That has knifed me exactly on my heart. LOL

           Well, the original name of this book is Le Petit Prince. Actually, I have seen this book in a bookstore with that title but I did not buy it because the book is very thin (for a novel) but it is very expensive. But now, I know why it is very expensive. The wonderful book ^^