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Cambodia: A Book For People Who Find Television Too Slow Paperback – February 18, 1986

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In this disturbing collection of investigative fictions, Brian Fawcett asserts that the informational white noise of the Global Village is creating a cultural and intellectual breakdown that will eventually lead to the disappearance of local and individual identity. He argues that under the glitzy surfaces of television and the information “revolution” lie the same intentions that ran amok in Khmer Rouge Cambodia: the extermination of memory and imagination.

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"Cambodia is urgent, blunt, difficult--and vitally necessary."

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Born in 1944 in Prince George, B.C., Brian Fawcett has written poetry, fiction and non-fiction. He has been an urban planner and a journalist. Talonbooks has published My Career With the Leafs & Other Stories (1992), The Secret Journal of Alexander MacKenzie (1985), Capital Tales (1984) and Cambodia: A Book for People Who Find Television Too Slow (1986) by Brian Fawcett.

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February 18, 1986
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5.98 x 0.51 x 9 inches
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0889222371
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978-0889222373
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Talonbooks; Reprint edition (February 18, 1986)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 208 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0889222371
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0889222373
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.4 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.98 x 0.51 x 9 inches

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J Rankin

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Reviewed in the United States on January 18, 2014

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If you haven't read it, you're too slow. ((P = NP iff NP ~ = P) -&- (P ~= NP iff NP = P).) Logically, this conclusion follows from, 1) "A true statement cannot imply a false one." and, 2) "A true statement is always (in) a (form of) tautology." with, "2" being the corollary, (of a new and different kind,) of, "1." (btw, this non-equivalence/equivalence is 'true' for God and Man.))

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Michael

A compelling read

Reviewed in the United States on May 16, 2013

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I picked it up and found it immediately absorbing. The problems of violence, death and duplicity are so well discussed I consider it a reference book on the worse aspects of our social lives.

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Gary

... the book 12 years ago or so it seemed amazing. In 2014 having survived the Bush Dark Ages

Reviewed in the United States on December 22, 2014

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Somehow when I read the book 12 years ago or so it seemed amazing. In 2014 having survived the Bush Dark Ages, The Obama: Change You Can Shove Up Your.... Dachshund, two endless wars and continuous Media Monotony, the luster of everything including the book and perhaps Brian Fawcett himself have been diminished greatly

Reviewed in the United States on October 7, 2013

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Just what I was looking for, good condition, no writing or marks, good book, very thoughtful, Fawcett is a great author

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Googie Aldredge

A brilliant book which should not be overlooked.

Reviewed in the United States on September 10, 2014

This book is amazing. I first read it over twenty years ago and it has resonated for me since then. His central thesis, that the Khmer Rouge drive to destroy memory and imagination is not, in it's result, substantively different from the mind-deadening effect of ubiquitous media in our time, while initially perhaps a bit insulting to those who suffered at the hands of the Khmer Rouge, will grow on your vision of the world in an uncanny way. I wish every person who aspires to political office had to read this book. I cant help but wonder what Mr. Fawcett thinks about phenomena like 'reality' television and Facebook.

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P. Oski

Wow, still in print!!! A Masterpiece!

Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2007

I read this book when it first came out and have revisited it several times since. Each time, there is a special resonance between the ideas in the book and the events of the times in which I read it. This is an important, passionate book that is that rarest of rare finds: surgically precise intellectually without being pretentious or opaque.

The parallel construction of the two stories, the Cambodian genocide and the assault on communication and community by our homogenizing consumer culture and thought-deadening media is audacious and brilliant.

This book is a disturbing, inspiring and challenging. For those who would like to follow the workings of an eclectic passionate intellect grappling with the deepest roots of the disease eating away modern North American culture, this is the book for you.

Way ahead of his time and tuned into visions of the future that were intimated by the state of the world in the 1980's, Fawcett's vision anticipates the rise of George W. Bush, with his renditions, his suspension of habeus corpus, Guantanamo and the primary role of his maintream media to erase history in service of the fantasies of those who would seek to dehumanize all who deviate from the True Path.

Brian Fawcett warned us about it twenty years ago. This book is perhaps more relevant now than when it was written.

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Northwest

Excellent

Reviewed in the United States on May 25, 2008

One of the most thought provoking books of our time. This book will awake the curiosity, not just about Cambodia, but the way we should live in this world. And, especially, how everything is connected, especially media to the way we live.

What happened in Cambodia, unfortunately, did not matter as much as it should have at the time. And this is the crux of what this book is about, for it mattered then, and it matters now, and will always matter. Books like this remind us.

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alex jager

a very important, very understandable, very brilliant book

Reviewed in the United States on March 10, 1999

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.

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