Review The Novel Of Manusia Setengah Salmon

“Manusia Setengah Salmon” is a book written by Raditya Dika. The genre of the book is nonfiction-comedy that most telling about the author’s own experience which consists of 264 pages. As usually, the author often uses slang languages as his typical style in many of his books, included “Manusia Setengah Salmon”. This book is only one example among many books that have been written by the author: Kambing Jantan, Marmut Merah Jambu, Cinta Brontosaurus, and etc. This book and the other books written by Raditya Dika are often intended for teenagers in junior and senior high school until young men of higher education students.

Well, when I see the book’s cover, I must say that it attracts my attention to know more about the story inside the book. The picture in the book’s cover showing a man with a half fish face matches the tittle of the book “Manusia Setengah Salmon”. Also, as a nonfiction-comedy book, the picture on the book’s cover shows us that the story brought by the author must be funny. It is proven by some parts of the book that always show funny thing.

There are a lot of funny stories in the book. Basically, “Manusia Setengah Salmon” is a book telling about the author’s himself and his family, start from his mother, father, his brothers, and his sisters. There are also some parts of the book that tell about author’s observation which sounds a little bit weird and also some writings collected from the author’s tweets in Twitter.

I must say that there are a lot of slang words that can be found in the book that sometimes are hard to be understood. I can understand that the use of those slangs is addressed to support the comedy value that the author wants to emphasize. However, the use of those words is sometimes too over. It makes the readers often face some difficulties to understand the meaning of the story. Perhaps the author wants to be closer to the readers by using those slang words, but it must be remembered that not everyone in this country knows well about a particular slang word.

Why this book worth to read because it's very entertaining and it contains a lot of moral message.

So, this novel very recommended and read it soon !!