Cambodia: A Book For People Who Find Television Too Slow (Paperback)

by Brian Fawcett (Author) "On a sunny morning at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, militiamen of the Ohio National Guard open fire on a crowd of students protesting..." (more)
Key Phrases: Khmer Rouge, Global Village, Reggie Jackson (more...)

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From Publishers Weekly
The title essay--a rambling meditation on the U.S., Cambodia and Southeast Asia--runs across the bottom third of each page of this "peculiar collection." Sitting astride this text are 13 offbeat essays and stories, which PW found "slight," adding that "the odd layout is pointless and annoying."
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"Cambodia is urgent, blunt, difficult--and vitally necessary." --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Touchstone; 1st Collier Books Ed edition (June 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0020321503
• ISBN-13: 978-0020321507
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,378,186 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The End Of Human Existence and Thought, November 24, 2000

By A Customer

Do you have a sense that national governments are just one level above the slave populations they are trying to delude. That there is a hierarchy to all pervasive control. Fawcett writes one of the most important books of our time as we enter into the next phase of on-line/media dominated mania. As humanity, freedom and sanity gradual slip away Fawcett chart the course of our demise.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Universal chicken, January 18, 2003

By	E. B Rush (cranston, rhode island United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I am an avid reader of books about Cambodia. This book, altough not a direct work on Cambodia, made me realize the inter-connectedness of our post-modern world. I had never hear of Brian Fawcett before buying this book. He rekindled my rebellious spirit against where-ever it is that we are headed! His insightfulness about the inter-connectedness of our modern times is witty and disheartening. I would recommend this book to all global thinkers.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a very important, very understandable, very brilliant book, March 10, 1999

By	alex jager (Rome, NY USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cambodia: A Book For People Who Find Television Too Slow (Paperback)

If you're ever haunted by the countless examples of mans inhumanity to man, please read this book. It explores a writers struggles to become an artist in a worldful of atrocities. Fawcett explores the creative process, the global village, the mass man and Cambodia. He convincingly links the global village to Cambodia: the kamer Rough killed anyone with knowledge of the 20th century world just as the computer chip, albeit more subtley, erradicates the need for memory and ultimately for any kind of genuine human contact....well, anyways that's how I interpret Fawcetts message. His brilliant essay on Cambodia runs through the bottom half of the book, as subtext. I would recomend you read the essay first and then read the short stories which are on the top. This is such an important book it should be required reading at the universities...or at least be stocked in every library. Written in 1985,86, it's short term fate may be oblivion but in the long run it'll find an audience. Lastly, when Orwell wrote of a totalitarian regime in his book 1984 he made it appear too bleak...fawcett shows how that regime can exist at Disney World withn a happy face on it. Once more this book gets my highest praise.