The Flood-Playschool

Finished with this book 2 days ago.

This is the the first Colin Thompson's book I read. The book is short, easy, full with fantasy. Recommended for children.

I should have not skipped to the second of the Flood. The first Flood story is "The Flood-Neighbour". Will try to get this one later.

The story is all about witch family, Flood family.

Get over with other witch and wizard stories, cause this one is totally different. The story is about Flood's children activities at school, hey it's not just a school, it can't be just an ordinary school, it is Quicklime College.

Quicklime College is the strangest, weirdest, most unbelievable school, yet fun, interesting, and lots of adventure (the way I read it). Of course they have dragons, but not just like a dragon.

Really changed my whole perspective of witch and magic.

Start with the first page, and have the wondrous journey in seven hundreds and fifty years old school of magic.

Happy reading ^_^

Skulduggery Pleasant - Playing with Fire

Selesai juga deh baca nih buku. Buat temen-temen karyawan, liburan panjang hari raya udah berakhir, tapi buat gue, liburan masih berlanjut (positive thinking seorang pengangguran, hehe). So, masih akan ada beberapa buku-buku lainnya yang udah antri untuk dibaca.

Buku ini simple banget, definitely bukan untuk serious reader. Tema, alur, tokoh-tokohnya, biasa bangetlah. Ga bisa dibandingkan dengan cerita-cerita detektif ala Conan Doyle. Cocok buat killing time doank.

Bagian yang menarik adalah karakter pemeran utama dan gaya penuturan si penulis. Karena 2 hal ini, buku ini layak dibaca di waktu senggang, atau sambil main game (that's what I did).

Resensinya:

Dunia kembali terselamatkan setelah kematian Serpine. Setidaknya itu menurut Valkyrie dan Skulduggery, sampai mereka mengetahui Baron Vengeous yang tersohor melarikan diri dari penjara. Bersamaan dengan itu vampir dan para Yang Tertular bermunculan di seluruh Irlandia.

Valkyrie dan Skulduggery tahu Vengeous mengincar baju besi Lord Vile. Baju besi itu akan memberikan kekuatan bagi Baron untuk membangkitkan Grotesquery dan memanggil kembali para Sosok Tanpa Wajah.

Namun masih ada satu bahan yang kurang: darah Tetua yang dimiliki Valkyrie. Tentu saja Skuldeggery tidak membiarkan sahabatnya menjadi bulan-bulanan sang Baron. Hanya saja mereka tidak menyangka ancaman yang mereka hadapi kali jauh lebih berbahaya.

Happy Reading ^_^

Tales of Mystery and Terror

Book identity:

Kisah-Kisah Tengah Malam

Alih Bahasa: Maggie Tiojakin

GM 402 01 10 0081

Desain dan ilustrasi sampul : Staven Anderson

Editor: Hetih Rusli

Hak Cipta terjemahan Indonesia: PT Gramedia Pustaka Indonesia

Cetakan kedua : Juli 2011

248 hlm; 18 cm

ISBN : 978-979-22-6537-8

Just done with this book. Great book, very interesting. Highly recommended ^_^

The author is Edgar Allan Poe, includes 13 stories of Poe's most famous tales:

1. The Tell-Tale Heart (like this)
2. MS. Found in a Bottle (like this, need to read it again)
3. Hop-Frog (like this)
4. The Oval Portrait (like this alot)
5. A Descent into the Maelstrom (like this alot)
6. The Oblong Box (like this alot)
7. Some Words with a Mummy (like this)
8. The Masque of the Red Death (like this, need to read it again)
9. The Black Cat (like this alot) - a bit rude for cat lovers, I think.
10. The Pit and the Pendulum (like this alot, my favourite of all thirteen)
11. The Sphnix (like this alot)
12. William Wilson (like this alot)
13. The Fall of the House of Usher (like this, need to read it again)

Some tales with note "need to read it again" means I don't really get the stories yet. Poe can be very straight, plain, and easy to understand, but in other tales can be so hard to.

If any of you would like to read the tales, be prepared, cause the tales (at least how Poe tell his tales) can brought me into a depression moment, with the horror and terror. Really master of mystery and macabre.

Science Horror

Book I read yesterday. Sooo funny ... ^_^
My Brother bought this book.
The story is really for children. But we can get scienctific facts about horor and fear. Nice !!!


 

Diary of a Wimpy Kid

These books are just soooo hilarious. Can't stop laughing, and I have read these more than twice :D
Funny thing is these two books, translated to Bahasa are a lot cheaper than the original English ones. Wonder why ???? The original cost me more than triple of the translated one.