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Tuesday, February 2, 2016

Book Review Script: Tuhan Bukan Manusia

So this is the script of the book review video that I made. You may watch it here: https://youtu.be/5JME-Nl8-u8

Assalamualaikum wbt dan salam sejahtera

Video ni ialah review buku pertama di channel ni, and I want to start out by stating the obvious.

Saya bukanlah seorang yang mengaku pakar dalam bidang pembacaan atau pengkritikan sastera.

Saya cumalah budak bodo tepi jalan yang nak berkongsi pandangan dan pendapat tentang apa yang saya baca.

Ada benda yang kita boleh setuju, which is great, and ada benda yang kita tak setuju, which is even better.

Hampa boleh lah kongsi pandangan hampasama dalam ruang komen video ni

Video review ni akan dibahagikan kepada empat bahagian dimana saya cuba jawab empat soalan berikut:

What is this book about?
What did I like about this book?
What were my least favourite things about the book?
Who would I recommend this book to?

And now on to the review!

1. Buku ni bertajuk Tuhan Bukan Manusia, ditulis oleh Zharif Zainuddin dan diterbitkan oleh ilhambooks.

This 195-page book tells the story of a guy who finds himself in a foreign land and stays at the house of a much older person named Rumi.

He stays there for a little over a month.

Within that month, our hero falls in love with a prostitute/murderer, gets involved in a trial, witnesses how awesomely Rumi deals with people and situations, learns what he was born to do, and defends Rumi’s village from being attacked by the military forces of the government of the day.

It’s a story with quite a bit of philosophical bits, where the author explores at length the questions of justice, God, heaven, hell, love, the past, life, death, and so on and so forth.

It reminded me of the works of Paulo Coelho and some Kahlil Gibran, especially at the end there where the villagers asked Rumi a whole bunch of questions and Rumi answered them one by one, The Prophet style.

2. I like that this book strays from what one would expect from a Malay piece of work. 

It’ certainly isn’t another one of your Suamiku Suamimu Jua kind of book. 

It made me the reader think and question certain things about life and how I see the world. 

A part of the book that I particularly liked was when the author questions why we do good deeds. Penulis bagi kita soalan: kita buat benda baik ni untuk pahala ka untuk Tuhan? 

Ikhlas ka kita punya amalan kalau kita nak masuk syurga tu pasai disitu ada kemewahan, dan kita tak letak berjumpa dengan Tuhan sebagai sebab utama untuk kita nak masuk syurga? 

Interesting points to ponder like these are spread quite generously throughout the book.

3. There were a couple of things that I didn’t particularly love about the book.

Dia punya bahasa sangat skema dalam buku ni, sampai rasa macam tak natural cara penyampaian dia. Mungkin untuk orang yang suka tatabahasa yang sempurna akan lebih suka buku ni berbanding saya lah, pasai saya jenih tak kisah sangat bab tatabahasa.

Keduanya, ada satu scene cheesy gila dekat-dekat ngan belakang, antara hero dia ngan cinta hati dia. Ayat jiwang dia sirius disaluti keju yang amat tebal sekali, sampai aku skip teruih part tu. Aku tak boleh sangat dengan benda-benda cheesy ni.

4. Buku ni saya rekemen kat sesiapa yang fasih berbahasa Melayu, 

yang nak cari kelainan dalam novel bahasa melayu yang dibaca, 

kepada sesiapa yang tak takut untuk berfikir,

yang mahukan a quick but impactful read.

Bolehla try baca buku Tuhan Bukan Manusia, karangan Zharif Zainuddin.

And that’s about it, really.


What did you think of this book? Did you love it? Did you hate it? Leave a comment down below sharing your thoughts. Anwar Hadi. Tuhan Bukan Manusia. Selamanya!

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