Brokla is a brilliant satirical look at America’s breakup
Brokla: a story of things falling apart is the newest LOL satirical book in author Simon Plaster’s series of novels featuring a small-town Oklahoma reporter known as Henrietta. As with other books in the series written by Plaster, he doesn’t mince words and uses the actions and comments of his humorous and great characters to address various controversial issues that have been in the news in recent months and since the election. of President Donald Trump. No subject is sacred or immune to Plaster’s playful, satirical jabs, all having to do with the breakdown of the social fabric and very fabric of America. Plaster uses his wide and motley cast of humorous characters to focus on issues such as declining NFL television viewership, the resurgence of feminists, the continuing influence of the Antifa movement, poor irrigation practices by Oklahoma farmers, the possible California secession. of the United States, the intense college football rivalry between Texas and Oklahoma and much, much more.
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The author’s female lead, the former reporter Henrietta, started out in the earlier novels of the series with high ambitions, and still has them in Brokla. She longs for the day when she is assigned to write the kind of newsworthy story that could win her a Pulitzer. At the start of Brokla, he thinks that maybe he’s finally found a story big and important enough to win him fame, and the Pulitzer, he feels he deserves it, when his boss at the local weekly, SCENE, Nigel Fleetwood, he assigns her to cover a series of town hall lectures where a certain Top Secret Colonel, an expert in a foreign government think tank, with a paper bag over his head, speaks and prophesies about the future of the United States. A man Plaster calls “Agent X” sits at the same table as Colonel Top Secret, helping interpret the foreign military leader’s dire predictions.
Colonel Top Secret, according to Agent X, believes that many things point to the inevitable disintegration of the United States, including “too much government spending and too much debt.” He points to America’s “inflated national pride” and that the country’s government spends three times as much on national defense as China and almost ten times as much as Russia. But what worries the public the most is not that, but what Colonel Top Secret says about soccer.
Agent X says that Colonel Top Secret believes that the United States “now faces the cruelest cut of all.” It’s just that, because African-American NFL football players refuse to stand for the National Anthem, game attendance is down, as is TV viewership. Agent X continues, stating that Colonel Top Secret also feels that “college football, high school football, and peewee football are destined to follow the so-called NFL to the dustbin of history.”
This comment elicits groans and groans from the audience. The Oklahoma Sooner fans present seem to find that prophecy the most perplexing and troubling of all Agent X recounts. College football and the prestige of being in a major football conference and a great football program are paramount. for many of Sooner’s ardent fans in the conference, they are dismayed by the prospect of college football going the NFL route.
In Brokla, Simon Plaster lampoons far more controversial topics and issues than the exaggerated importance of soccer to both the United States and Oklahoma and the possibility that the diminishing importance of soccer could lead to the disintegration of the country. One of the other characters Plaster writes about is Jane Burrows, the leader of the Feminists. “Calamity Jane,” as she’s been nicknamed, gains notoriety across the land by leading an uprising of progressive women who commit acts like burning thousands of acres of farmland and castrating pig farmers’ pigs.
They are protesting the excessive use of the limited water remaining in the Ogallala Aquafer deep in the Oklahoma Panhandle by farmers there, and they want to rid the Plains of the White Man’s idea of civilization. The aforementioned Antifas in Brokla, who are also interested in the goals of Calamity Jane and her gang of women, try to join them. They are told they can participate, if they sleep far enough away from the women Burrows leads.
brokla is a humorous and thought-provoking read that can be enjoyed as a stand-alone novel. The other books in the series that features the reporter Henrietta, such as Spot and BOO!They are also fantastic and fun books to read. If you like to read satirical books, I recommend you take a look. brokla and the other novels written by Simon Plaster, one of the genre’s foremost American authors.