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appropos

Originally posted by Hamyhaireen at 8-9-2005 03:25 PM
buku bored of the rings tu macam best jer...you dah baca ke?

i read halfway a then i lost the book , its a bit obscene la. tend to finish it but belum lagi

Hamyhaireen

Originally posted by appropos at 8-9-2005 03:35 PM

i read halfway a then i lost the book , its a bit obscene la. tend to finish it but belum lagi

he he he... i tought funny books so its under obscene n funny la....:cak:

Hamyhaireen

ADA APA DENGAN BUKU (2004) adalah hasil tulisan Shaharom TM Sulaiman bersama Suriati Shamsuddin. Sebelum ini, Shaharom TM Sulaiman juga telah menulis sebuah buku yang membicarakan tentang buku dan dunianya, bertajuk KEANEHAN DAN KEUNGGULAN BUKU (2002).

ADA APA DENGAN BUKU adalah himpunan artikel kedua-dua penulis di dalam media massa seperti di akhbar Utusan Malaysia, majalah MINDA dan MASSA. Buku ini mempunyai 7 bahagian iaitu:

Dunia buku dan daya pikatnya

Buku memaknakan dunia penulisan

Simpang-siur industri pembukuan

Cetusan memoir dan biografi

Daya buku memperkasakan budaya membaca

Buku dan skandal perang

Buku dan wacana pembangunan di Malaysia


Secara keseluruhan buku ini mempunyai 42 artikel yang ditulis dengan begitu teliti mengenai topik-topik yang dipilih. Pengalaman Shaharom sebagai seorang bekas pustakawan selama 10 tahun di Perpustakaan Negara Malaysia sememangnya amat membantu. Begitu juga dengan Suriati yang berlatarbelakangkan Information Studies Records Management banyak membantu mereka menghasilkan karya yang amat bermakna di dalam membicarakan hal-hal berkaitan buku.

Sesungguhnya buku ini perlu dijadikan teks wajib kepada mereka yang mencintai buku. Kerana untuk 憁encintai

appropos

Originally posted by Hamyhaireen at 8-9-2005 04:05 PM


he he he... i tought funny books so its under obscene n funny la....:cak:

you can say  its obscenely funnylol

Hamyhaireen

Originally posted by appropos at 8-9-2005 09:28 PM

you can say  its obscenely funnylol

oh thanks...I try to figure out what the correct word....

appropos

Originally posted by Hamyhaireen at 9-9-2005 09:28 AM


oh thanks...I try to figure out what the correct word....

hmm not quite sure , you being sarcastic or not:bgrin::bgrin:

Hamyhaireen

why sarcastic?

appropos

Originally posted by Hamyhaireen at 9-9-2005 01:32 PM
why sarcastic?

nevermind .. sometimes written words can come across differently than intended..  and i meant it in good way

appropos

wonder what book on review today...

Hamyhaireen

Originally posted by appropos at 9-9-2005 01:45 PM

nevermind .. sometimes written words can come across differently than intended..  and i meant it in good way

doesnt matter...actly im not sarcastic :no:
Because im not very good in english, sometimes (ops everytime)I need refer to dictionary
and sometimes hard to get the correct word. (c how poor my grammar) :cry:

Hamyhaireen

Originally posted by appropos at 9-9-2005 01:46 PM
wonder what book on review today...

any request? from morning couldnt find....  goggle'ing :cak:

appropos

Originally posted by Hamyhaireen at 9-9-2005 01:52 PM


doesnt matter...actly im not sarcastic :no:
Because im not very good in english, sometimes (ops everytime)I need refer to dictionary
and sometimes hard to get the correct word. (c how poor m ...

well keep on writing and it will improve , mine pun tak la bagus sangat..

appropos

Originally posted by Hamyhaireen at 9-9-2005 01:55 PM


any request? from morning couldnt find....  goggle'ing :cak:

not really la , thats the best thing about your author of the week and your book reviews you keep coming up with something new..

Hamyhaireen

Originally posted by appropos at 9-9-2005 01:55 PM

well keep on writing and it will improve , mine pun tak la bagus sangat..

Thanks...u better. (once a while if you realised my mistake feel free to amend)

Hamyhaireen

Originally posted by appropos at 9-9-2005 01:57 PM

not really la , thats the best thing about your author of the week and your book reviews you keep coming up with something new..

Im blushing... he he he.....

appropos

Originally posted by Hamyhaireen at 9-9-2005 02:03 PM


Im blushing... he he he.....

something like this ke

Hamyhaireen

almost like that....cam lampu kelip2

Hamyhaireen

Title: Snakes and Earrings
Author: Kanehara Hitomi
Genre: Novel
Written: 2004 (Eng. 2005)
Length: 120 pages
Original in: Japanese

Snakes and Earrings is narrated by Lui -- "Lui for Louis Vuitton" she claims, though the truth is more prosaic --, not yet twenty and living on her own in Tokyo. She's distanced herself from her parents -- they aren't any sort of presence in her life, though she claims: "there was no trouble in our family." She's considered a 'Barbie-girl', but it's a label she rejects, and when she meets forked-tongued and tattooed Ama (who literally has a tongue with its tip split) she knows that this is the path she wants to go down.
       Lui has already gotten progressively larger-gauge earrings, making for big holes in her ears, but it's that split-tongue idea that really appeals to her, and so she gets her tongue pierced and begins the slow and painful process of enlarging the hole until it can be split. Ama and his similarly punkish tattoo-parlour pal, Shiba-san, are the kind of people she admires:

All I wanted was to be part of an underground world where the sun doesn't shine, there are no serenades, and the sound of children's laughter is never ever heard.
       So, she's on the nihilistic side, but her account is, surprisingly, not all that bleak. Ama is a pretty decent guy, even if his looks do scare everyone off, and Lui can still put on a kimono and transform herself into a demure 'companion' girl (getting good money for "pouring drinks and looking pretty at hotel parties for a couple of hours") if the opportunity arises, and for the most part they live a pretty simple, peaceful life (appearances notwithstanding).
       Violence does crop up: Ama really lays into someone who is rude to Lui (and offers her a love token that wouldn't be everybody's idea of romantic) and Shiba-san seems like he has a pretty dark side. There is an awful lot of (unnecessary) pain, mainly in the form of the tattoos and the tongue-piercings (this essentially self-inflicted pain is, perhaps, so prevalent because the characters can't feel very much otherwise). Eventually, one of the characters meets a particularly brutal end -- likely at the hands of one of the others -- and yet even that seems part of the process: Lui is terribly affected, but she doesn't take the consequences one might expect her to take.
       It's an odd life Kanehara describes, identity found in appearances (which change quite a bit in the novel) and labels ('Barbie-girl', punk, etc.) and not more conventional forms. Lui lives with Ama for months and has what she describes as an intimate and close relationship with him, yet never even learns his full name or where he works. Names and mundane matters such as wage-earning are of essentially no significance -- but it's not entirely clear what Lui seeks instead; indeed, her life -- especially her domestic life -- is remarkably conventional. She and the others just don't look the part, but beyond that (and a few little quirks) they're all remarkably ordinary. Lui's tongue-splitting endeavour -- a protracted affair -- is one ambition (one that would mark her in a way that made it impossible to, for example, be a companion-girl again), but it's a superficial change. Contemporary life doesn't appear to be quite as easy to escape.
       Snakes and Earrings is a short novella, and an odd mix of the sedate and simple and the brutal. Lui is a remarkably self-absorbed character, taking the world entirely on her own terms, showing almost no curiosity about anything. It doesn't make for a very interesting life (hence the need for some sordid and spectacular events to spice things up in the book), and her embrace of this lifestyle seems no more convincing than any other she might choose. She remains a cipher even at the end.

[ Last edited by Hamyhaireen at 9-9-2005 02:46 PM ]

appropos

Originally posted by Hamyhaireen at 9-9-2005 02:09 PM
almost like that....cam lampu kelip2

tak pe time raya blh jimat on electricity..

Hamyhaireen

till that time my face gonna be like this :agr: (shortcircuit)