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Buku ini cocok banget buat jadi bacaan ringan di sore hari sambil nyeruput kopi sambil ngemil gorengan. Eh jangan gorengan deh, nanti minyaknya kemana-mana trus nempel di buku :(
Btw buku ini ditulis oleh si surayah alias Pidi Baiq sebagai lanjutan dari dua buku laris sebelumnya yaitu seri Dilan. Tapi kayaknya biar gak bosen, jadi plot di buku Milea ini agak rada di-twist sama si surayah. Cukup menarik kalau kamu ngikutin dua buku Dilan sebelumnya, karena kalau enggak maka ceritanya gak akan nyambung dan kamu gak bakalan ngerti semua jalan ceritanya. Jadi kalau mau baca buku ini, beli dulu gih dua buku Dilan sebelumnya ^^ (promosiin bukunya si surayah, emang si surayah paling pinter deh bikin buku buat jualannya dan kayanya sengaja dibikin ceritanya bolak-balik dua versi biar bukunya manjang :))

I bought this book just before I took-off from Bandung to Singapore this year. My first solo trip abroad. I already brought The Little Prince book inside my backpack but I read it for several times I need a new book to accompany me during this trip. The snippet synopsis on the back cover was attracted me, so I bought this book at the airport. Turned out then it was a mistake but I still glad I bought this book since it was my first time to read Paulo Coelho book.

Sinopsis:

Rachel Sexton, analisis intelijen Gedung Putih, menghadapi dilema ketika Presiden Amerika Serikat memintanya menyelidiki penemuan ganjil NASA di Kutub Utara. Apalagi Senator Sexton, ayah Rachel, hendak menantang sang Presiden dalam pemilihan mendatang. Rachel curiga bahwa Presiden hanya ingin memanfaatkannya dalam sebuah intrik politik.

Kecurigaan Rachel berubah menjadi teror ketika sebuah pasukan misterius mengincarnya. Penemuan NASA yang terkubur jauh di dalam es Kutub Utara itu ternyata memakan korban. Dua ilmuwan terbunuh. Rachel dan akademisi Michael Tolland diburu dalam keganasan cuaca kutub karena mengetahui muslihat luar biasa yang dirancang untuk menipu seluruh dunia.

Ajahn Brahm – Si Cacing dan Kotoran Kesayangannya 3!

ISBN: 978-602-8194-62-4
Price: Rp 44.000,- (20% Off at BukaBuku.com)
Total Halaman: 308 Halaman
Genre: Non-Fiksi
Tahun Terbit: Cetakan I, Maret 2012
Penerbit: Awareness Publication

Dan Brown – The Lost Symbol
ISBN: 978-979-1227-87-2
Price: Rp 110.000,-
Total Halaman: 705
Genre: Fiksi Ilmiah
Tahun Terbit: 2010 (Versi Bahasa Indonesia)
Penerbit: Bentang Pustaka

Dan Brown – Angels & Demons
ISBN: 978-1-4165-2479-3
Price: Rp 132.000 (Periplus)
Total Pages: 710
Genre: Science Fiction
Released Year: 2000
Publisher: Pocket Books

Synopsis:
An ancient secret brotherhood. A devastating new weapon of destruction. An unthinkable target.
World-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a cryptic symbol seared into the chest of a murdered physicist. What he discovers is unimaginable: a deadly vendetta against the Catholic Church by a centuries-old underground organization-the Illuminati. Desperate to save the Vatican from a powerful time bomb, Langdon joins forces in Rome with the beautiful and mysterious scientist Vittoria Vetra. Together they embark on a frantic hunt through sealed crypts, dangerous catacombs, deserted cathedrals, and the most secretive vault on earth... the long-forgotten Illuminati lair.

Dewi ‘Dee’ Lestari – SUPERNOVA #5 Gelombang

ISBN : 9786-02291-0572
Harga : Rp 79.000,-
Total Halaman : 492 halaman
Genre : Novel Fiksi
Tahun Terbit : 2014
Penerbit : Bentang Pustaka

1. Penelusuran Benang Merah (A Study in Scarlet)
2. Empat Pemburu Harta (The Sign of The Four)
3. Anjing Setan (The Hound of the Baskervilles)
4. Lembah Ketakutan (The Valley of Fear)
5. Petualangan Sherlock Holmes (The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes)
6. Memoar Sherlock Holmes (The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes)
7. Kembalinya Sherlock Holmes (The Return of Sherlock Holmes)
8. Salam Terakhir Sherlock Holmes (His Last Bow)
9. Koleksi Kasus Sherlock Holmes (The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes)

Pidi Baiq – Dilan (Dia Adalah Pilihanku) 1990
ISBN: 978-602-7870-41-3
Harga: - (pinjam teman)
Total Halaman: 330 pages
Genre: Fiksi (Novel Remaja)
Tahun Terbit: 2014

Dapat buku ini hasil rekomendasi dari teman baik. Waktu saya liburan ke Bali dan menginap di kamar kosnya, dia kasih saya pinjam buku ini. Kata dia "coba baca buku ini deh, bagus, lucu ceritanya". Saya belum pernah melihat buku ini sebelumnya, tapi saya tahu sekilas tentang pengarangnya. Pidi Baiq memang dikenal sebagai pribadi yang humoris. Celotehan-celotehannya di media sosial banyak menuai tawa dan tak sedikit banyak orang men-share kembali tulisannya di media sosial sambil tak lupa memanggilnya 'surayah' ^^. Bahkan sampai dibuatkan bukunya tentang tweet-tweets Pidi Baiq. Pidi Baiq juga ternyata adalah seorang musisi yang sampai sekarang masih aktif di band-nya 'The Panasdalam'. Hampir semua orang tahu siapa The Panasdalam dan siapa Pidi Baiq. Tapi inilah pertama kalinya saya membaca novel yang ditulisnya sendiri. Tak banyak berharap. Saya hanya ingin tertawa ketika membaca isi novel ini. Dan ternyata benar, tertawalah saya.

Lang Leav series

Lang Leav – Love & Misadventure
ISBN: 978-1-4494-5614-6
Price: USD 16.99
Total Page: 155 pages
Genre: Fiction – Poems
Published Year: 2013

the back cover

"It was a clear spring day, Monday, March 20, 1995, when five members of the religious cult Aum Shinrikyo conducted chemical warfare on the Tokyo subway system using sarin, a poison gas twenty-six times as deadly as cyanide. The unthinkable had happened, a major urban transit system had become the target of a terrorist attack.

In an attempt to discover why, Haruki Murakami, internationally acclaimed author of 'The Wind-up Bird Chronicle' and arguably Japan's most important contemporary novelist, talked to the people who lived through the catastrophe--from a Subway Authority employee with survivor guilt, to a fashion salesman with more venom for the media than for the perpetrators, to a young cult member who vehemently condemns the attack though he has not quit Aum. Through these and many other voices, Murakami exposes intriguing aspects of the Japanese psyche. And as he discerns the fundamental issues leading to the attack, we achieve a clear vision of an event that could occur anytime, anywhere. Hauntingly compelling and inescapably important, 'Underground' is a powerful work of journalistic literature from one of the world's most perceptive writers.

In superbly crafted writing that burn with intensity, award-winning author Markus Zusak has given us one of the most enduring stories of our time.”

"Tsukuru Tazaki had four best friends at school. By chance all of their names contained a colour. The two boys were called Akamatsu, meaning ‘red pine', and Oumi, ‘blue sea', while the girls' names were Shirane, ‘white root', and Kurono, ‘black field'. Tazaki was the only last name with no colour in it.

One day Tsukuru Tazaki’s friends announced that they didn’t want to see him, or talk to him, ever again.

Since that day Tsukuru has been floating through life, unable to form intimate connections with anyone. But then he meets Sara, who tells him that the time has come to find out what happened all those years ago."

The second edition of a useful guide for the discerning business traveler, be it planning conferences, incentive programs, corporate events or exhibitions in West Java.

For the 1st edition, you can read it here.
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Setelah sukses meluncurkan sebuah buku direktori berjudul West Java MICE Planner di tahun 2013, kami Global Tourism Info berkomitmen untuk melajutkan buku direktori khusus Jawa Barat ini dengan menerbitkan edisi lanjutan West Java MICE Planner 2014-2015.

Buku direktori ini dibuat berdasarkan kebutuhan pasar akan informasi wisata mengenai Jawa Barat khususnya dalam bidang MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conferences, and Exhibitions). Didistribusikan secara gratis kepada para instansi pariwisata dan perusahaan-perusahaan besar (para pelaku MICE) di seluruh Indonesia.

The 1st (first) offline and online tourism book of West Java.

Ed Kennedy is an underage cabdriver without much of a future. He's pathetic at playing cards, hopelessly in love with his best friend, Audrey, and utterly devoted to his coffee-drinking dog, The Doorman. His life is one of peaceful routine and incompetence until he inadvertently stops a bank robbery.

That's when the first ace arrives in the mail.
That's when Ed becomes the messenger.
Chosen to care, he makes his way through town helping and hurting (when necessary) until only one question remains: Who's behind Ed's mission.

Haruki Murakami - After The Quake (Vintage International Edition)

Synopsis:

The Six stories in Haruki Murakami's mesmerizing collection are set at the time of the catastrophic 1995 Kobe earthquake, when Japan became brutally aware of the fragility of its daily existence. But the upheavals that afflict Murakami's characters are even deeper and more mysterious, emanating from a place where the human meets the inhuman.

An electronics salesman who has been abruptly deserted by his wife agrees to deliver an enigmatic package - and is rewarded with a glimpse of his true nature. A man who has been raised to view himself as the son of God pursues a stranger who may or may not be his human father. A mild-mannered collection agent receives a visit from a giant talking frog who enlists his help in saving Tokyo from destruction. As haunting as dreams, as potent as oracles, the stories in after the quake are further proof that Murakami is one of the most visionary writers at work today.

the front cover (vintage international edition)

Synopsis:

In this propulsive novel, one of the most idiosyncratically brilliant writers at work in any language fuses science fiction, the hard-boiled thriller, and white-hot satire into a new element of the library periodic table.

As he searches for a mysteriously vanished girlfriend, Haruki Murakami's protagonist plunges into a wind tunnel of sexual violence and metaphysical dread in which he collides with call girls; plays chaperon to a lovely teenage psychic; and receives cryptic instructions from a shabby but oracular Sheep Man.

Dance Dance Dance is a tense, poignant, and often hilarious ride through the cultural Cuisinart that is contemporary Japan, a place where everything that is not up for sale is up for grabs.