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Cambodia: A Book for People Who Find Television Too Slow Paperback – Jan. 1 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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6th ed.
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Talonbooks
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Jan. 1 1986
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English
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15.2 x 1.3 x 22.86 cm
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208 pages
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Talonbooks; 6th ed. edition (Jan. 1 1986)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 208 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0889222371
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0889222373
Item weight ‏ : ‎ 294 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.2 x 1.3 x 22.86 cm

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Daffy Bibliophile

Past, Present, Future

Reviewed in Canada on August 11, 2010

Do you remember the Khmer Rouge?
Do you remember Srebrenica?
Do you remember Rwanda?

If you don't remember what these words mean don't worry, you've got lots of company. Brian Fawcett wrote this book in the mid-eighties and things haven't changed, things have just progressed further along the road to the Eternal Now - no past, no future.
Fawcett managed to lift the curtain for a peak behind the scenes and it isn't all that pretty: bureaucracy, religion, mass media and consumerism are destroying our sense of self-worth, our sense of the worth of our fellow Human Beings and our ability to stop the crazy merry-go-round that just keeps going faster and faster.

The stories in this book are a reflection of the subtext: the infantile idiocy of our consumer culture masks a deadly dehumanized reality of which we catch glimpses in between trips to the mall, news articles about celebrities suffering "dress malfunctions" and the latest greatest garbage on TV. We're like children mesmerized by shiny new toys; distracted by ephemeral nothings to the point that we lose our Humanity. And the real pity is that we don't even care.

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alex jager

a very important, very understandable, very brilliant book

Reviewed in Canada 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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J Rankin

pre(s)ci-en(t)ce

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

Natalie Yeck

Great condition

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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