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Book Babble: A Time To Kill

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A Time to Kill is 1989 novel by John Grisham. Under normal conditions, a legal suspense thriller is not really my genre for books, way to serious and often makes my head throbbing try to apprehending it but still just this one moment I challenge myself to read this book. Just think that I need to upgrade my reading material from children-and-young-adult-books - easy-difficulty to another, thriller-and-classic-hard-difficulty kind of book. We need to level up right?. Set in 1984, the story takes place in the fictional town of Clanton, Mississippi. It begins when two drunken white men rape a young black girl. The girl’s father, Carl Lee drank in revenge, vows to kill those rapist despite the fact that both men being put on charge for their crime. While being lead into holding from their bond hearing, he kills both men with an M-16.  Carl Lee is charge with capital murder. After all, he did it in the open and in the full view of the town. A young white lawyer, Jake Brigance,

Book Babble: 2001 The Space Odyssey

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Ini summary sebenarnya untuk nambahin point CPD system di kantor gw, makanya pake bahasa inggris. Tapi ditolak karena buku yang dibaca novel padahal kan maksud gw, english-nya itu poinnya. *sedih* Jadi ya udah, gw masukin kesini aja. 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY is a 1968 science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke. This novel is a joined project between Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke. Clarke wrote the novel, while Kubrick made the film and both became extremely popular. The interesting part that caught my attention at first is the word “Odyssey” on the title. It reminds me of a hero in Greek mythology, Odysseus. The resemblance between those two words is quite striking for me. Later it’s become explainable, as I found out that the word “Odyssey” is originally from the ancient Greek poem which tell the story about Odysseus’s home journey after Trojan War. Then the word Odyssey has come to refer to an epic voyage.  The book starts in the prehistoric age (3 million years B.C) wh