Review: Struggle.. just to live a normal life.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 13, 2013
Author Ken is a retired teacher who also had chance to work with Peace Corp in Guatemala in mid-seventies. In his book "Plundering the Till", the very first line that caught my attention was, from the dedications line, "To the billions of corruption victims world-wide." and the story remains true to this line through and through.When I first read the prologue of the book, before diving into the book, I thought it would be something along the lines of yet another World War and Fight and Action and all those stuffs.. But the book has totally another thing to offer.The book is about how social and political influence affects normal peoples. Story also shows another angle which shows the general lookout of peoples in critical times,  which shows it can be divided into two broad categories first, the ones who want to start from the scratch "a Clean slate" per say. While peoples from second category are the ones, who would rather mind their own business, and want to be happy in what they got.The thing to look forward to in this book is the way Brimhall, with his words painted a world which in so many ways is like our own world, that is, it's really hard to believe it's a fictional story. Ending of the book makes you think, if anything at all about this whole war-peace-revolution is worth the price normal person has to pay, and whether it justifies the means.Long story short, it deserves 4 out of 5 points for a brilliantly written novel that depicts life and its struggle just to live normal life.