Listmania
Useless but fun, I decided to keep a list of the books I read, and DVDs and CDs I bought and/or watched and/or listened to, since I’ve come to Cambodia – last added items first.
Books: Books
CDs
DVDs: film/TV music
Books I read
Books
- Cory Doctorow, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
- John Updike, A Month of Sundays
- Paulo Coelho, eleven minutes
- Stephen Davis, Hammer of the Gods, Led Zeppelin Unauthorized
- John Milton, Paradise Lost & Paradise Regained
- Joanne Harris, Blackberry Wine
- Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
- Frank McCourt, Angela’s Ashes
- John Keegan, The Second World War
- Van Jones, The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems
- Philip K Dick, Our Friends From Frolix 8
- Henry D. Thoreau, Walden – 150th Anniversary Edition
- Kazuo Ishiguro, When We Were Orphans
- Frédéric Lepage, Sunny et l’éléphant
- Neil Gaiman, Death: The Time Of Your Life
- Neil Gaiman, The Sandman Vol. 3: Dream Country
- Patricia Duncker, Seven Tales Of Sex And Death
- RECOMMENDED William Shawcross, Sideshow, Revised Edition: Kissinger, Nixon, and the Destruction of Cambodia
- Mathieu Guerin, Andrew Hardy, Stan Tan Boon Hwee, Nguyen Van Chinh, Des Montagnards Aux Minorités Ethniques – Quelle intégration nationale pour les habitants des hautes terres du Viêt Nam et du Cambodge?
- Cyril Pedrosa, Trois ombres
- Cory Doctorow, Little Brother
- Daniel J. Levitin, This is your Brain on Music – The Science of a Human Obsession
- Maxwell MacKenzie, Abandonings, Photographs of Otter Tail County, Minnesota
- Benedictine Sisters of Peking, The Art of Chinese Cooking
- Pressley, M. & McCormick, C. B., Educational Psychology: Learning, Instruction, Assessment
- Collectif, Japon
- RECOMMENDED Mizuki Shigeru, NonNonBâ
- Klaus Honnef, Pop Art
- Fodor’s 2001 Washington, D.C.
- Britannica Atlas
- Seanglim Bit, The Warrior Heritage: A Psychological Perspective of Cambodian Trauma
- Gene Callahan, Economics for Real People: An Introduction to the Austrian School
- Benoît Sokal, Gérard Lemarié, Syberia : Esthétique du jeu
- Marguerite Abouet, Clément Oubrerie, Aya de Yopougon
- Magdalena Droste, Bauhaus
- Jean-Francois Charles, Maryse Charles, India Dreams – L’Integrale
- Pierre Wazem, Tom Tirabosco, La Fin du monde
- Enki Bilal, Pierre Christin, Les Phalanges de l’Ordre noir
- RECOMMENDED Alain de Botton, The Art of Travel
- Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
- Rithy Panh, Louise Lorentz, Le papier ne peut pas envelopper la braise
- Osamu Tezuka, La vie de Bouddha Vol. 1 – Kapilavastu
- Osamu Tezuka, Ayako Vol. 1, 2
- Frank McCourt, ‘Tis: A Memoir
- Xavier Brau De Saint-Paul Lias, Phnom Penh
- Sumeragi Natsuki, Pékin, années folles 2. La Comédie des Sentiments
- Philip Roth, The Great American Novel
- F. Richaudeau, O. Binisti, Typographie et mise en page : du papier vers l’écran
- Somaly Mam, Le silence de l’innocence
- RECOMMENDED Shaun Tan, Là où vont nos pères
- -, Corée : la Corée vue par 12 auteurs
- Jean-Michel Filippi, Recherches préliminaires sur les langues des minorités du Cambodge
- Philip Roth, The Ghost Writer
- Bastien Vivès, Le Goût du chlore
- Séra, Lendemains de cendres : Cambodge 1979-1993
- Thaém Gnok (trad. Gérard Groussin), La Rose De Pailin
- Pierre Davy, Le sourire des Dieux – Cambodge 1941 – 1945
- RECOMMENDED Jirô Taniguchi, L’Homme qui marche
- Sumeragi Natsuki, Pékin, années folles 1. Les Coulisses de l’Opéra
- Michael Busselle, Mieux photographier en voyage
- Atelier parisien d’urbanisme, Phnom Penh: Developpement Urbain Et Patrimoine
- Sam Rainsy, Des racines dans la pierre – mon combat pour la renaissance du Cambodge
- Marc Reynebeau, Een kleine Geschiedenis van België
- Taiyō Matsumoto, GOGO Monster
- Park Kun-woong & Chung Eun-yong, Massacre au Pont de No Gun Ri
- Helen Jarvis, Christiane Lalonde and Nhean Lakhena, Publishing in Cambodia, Revised and updated
- RECOMMENDED Jirô Taniguchi, Quartier lointain, l’Integrale
- RECOMMENDED Colin Poole & Eleanor Briggs, Tonle Sap: The heart of Cambodia’s natural heritage
- Arnaud D’Aunay, Au Fil Du Mékong – De Saigon À Angkor
- Ben Elton, The First Casualty
- David Macaulay, Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction
- Alberta Kelly, Lenses, Spectacles, Eyeglasses, and Contacts: The Story of Vision Aids
- John Berendt, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
- Francis Engelmann, L’Indochine à la Belle Epoque
- Benjamin G. Rader, American Ways: A Brief History of American Culture
- RECOMMENDED Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated
- Séra, L’Eau et la Terre
- E.P. Jacobs, Blake and Mortimer, La Marque Jaune
- RECOMMENDED Shel Silverstein, Runny Babbit
- Geneviève Marot, Cambodge. Dans les rues de Phnom Penh
- Pierre Loti, Un Pélerin d’Angkor
- Joe Sacco, Gorazde
- RECOMMENDED Philip Roth, The Human Stain
- Cormac McCarty, No Country for Old Men
- RECOMMENDED Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 1-2-3-4
- Stephan Polonsky & Sera, Secteur 7
- Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull
- AVOID Ira Levin, Rosemary’s Baby
- WORST BOOK I EVER READ Chetan Bhagat, Five Point Someone – What not to do at IIT!
- Séra, Impasse et Rouge (2ieme version)
- Séra, Impasse et Rouge
- Guy Nafilyan & Jacqueline Nafilyan, Peintures murales des monastères bouddhiques au Cambodge
- Charles Daney, Indochine
- Agha Shahid Ali, Call Me Ishmael Tonight: A Book of Ghazals
- Henry Grunwald, A Saint, More or Less
- RECOMMENDED Richard Hughes, A High Wind in Jamaica
- Robert E. Gamer (ed.), Understanding Contemporary China
- Beat Richner, Le Medecin au Violoncelle
- Chan Keu Tian, Lisa Mandel, Sylvain-Moizie, Lucie Albon, Sept mois au Cambodge
- Cory Doctorow, Content
- RECOMMENDED Jennifer Ackerman, Chance in the House of Fate: A Natural History of Heredity
- RECOMMENDED Kieran Mulvaney, At the Ends of the Earth: A History of the Polar Regions
- James Lincoln Collier, Duke Ellington
- Peter Louis Galison, Einstein’s Clocks, Poincare’s Maps: Empires of Time
- RECOMMENDED Greg Marinovich, Joao Silva, The Bang-Bang Club: Snapshots from a Hidden War
- (Collectif), Manga nouvelle vague
- Frederick F. Cartwright & Michael D. Biddiss, Disease and History
- Kieran Egan, Building My Zen Garden
- Richard Wolfson, Simply Einstein – Relativity Demystified
- RECOMMENDED Francois Ponchaud, Cambodge Annee Zero
- Yves Doutriaux & Maxime Lefebvre, Diplomacy, Motor of State Relations
- J. Patrick Wright, On a Clear Day You Can See General Motors: John Z. DeLorean’s Look Inside the Automotive Giant
- RECOMMENDED Numa Sadoul, Tintin et moi: Entretiens avec Hergé
- Denise & Jean-Pierre Le Dantec, Reading the French Garden: Story and History
- Stephen Molnar, Iva M. Molnar, Environmental Change and Human Survival: Some Dimensions of Human Ecology
- Ben Wicks, Born to Read, Write and Count
- Ben Wicks, Born to Read and Surf
- Helen Grant Ross, Battambang = Pâtṭaṃpaṅ = Bad Dambaung = Le bâton perdu : histoire d’une ville
- Helen Fisher, Why We Love: The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love
- Philippe Goddin, Comment naît une bande dessinée
- P. Duplan, R. Jauneau, J. Jauneau, Maquette et mise en page
- Chan Vitharin, Kbach, A Study of Khmer Ornament
- David A. Fennell, Ecotourism: An Introduction (2nd edition)
- Midas Dekkers, Rare Snuiters
- Dan & Steven Peters, Why Knock Rock? Is it bad? Is it good? Does it really matter?
- Mark Lambert, John Williams, Animal Ecology
- Jennifer Cochrane, Air Ecology
- Jennifer Cochrane, Water Ecology
- Jennifer Cochrane, Plant Ecology
- Jennifer Cochrane, Land Ecology
- Adam Bellow, In Praise of Nepotism: A Natural History
- Le Robert Junior Illustré – dictionnaire scolaire
- RECOMMENDED Jared Diamond, The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
- Jonathan Spence, The Chan’s Great Continent: China in Western Minds
- Michela Wrong, I Didn’t Do It for You: How the World Betrayed a Small African Nation
- RECOMMENDED Alexander Laban Hinton, Why Did They Kill? Cambodia in the Shadow of Genocide
- De Souza, M. et al, Asian Perspectives. A Thematic Approach Across the Middle School Curriculum
- RECOMMENDED Hernando de Soto, The Mystery of Capitalism
- Joe Sacco, Palestine: A Nation Occupied
- RECOMMENDED Helen Grant Ross & Darry Leon Collins, Building Cambodia: ‘New Khmer Architecture’ 1953 – 1970
- King Norodom Sihanouk, Photos-Souvenirs du Cambodge Sangkum Reastr Niyum 1955-1969
- Neil Grant, Oxford Children’s History of the World
- Mark Kurlansky, The Basque History of the World: The Story of a Nation
- Vann Nath, A Prison Portrait: One Year in the Khmer Rouge’s S-21
- –, The Atlas of Cambodia – National Poverty and Environment Maps
- Mike Davis, Late Victorian Holocausts – El Niño Famines and the making of the Third World
- Umberto Eco, Serendipities – Language and Lunacy
- Paul Davies, Mind of God – Science and the Search for Ultimate Meaning
- David Landes, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations – Why Some are so Rich, and Some so Poor
- Graham Hancock, Lords of Poverty – The freewheeling lifestyles, power, prestige and corruption of the multibillion Dollar Aid Business
- David Barash, The Whisperings Within – Evolution and the Origin of Human Nature
- Åsne Seierstad, With their Backs to the World – Portraits from Serbia
- Dy Khamboly, A History of Democratic Kampuchea (1975-1979)
- David Chandler, A History of Cambodia (2nd edition)
- Chou Ta-Kuan (Zhou Daguan), The Customs of Cambodia
- RECOMMENDED Milton Osborne, The Mekong – Turbulent Past, Uncertain Future
- Hugo Pratt, Saint-Exupéry – le dernier vol
- Art Spiegelman, A l’Ombre des Tours Mortes
- Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
- Pierre Christin & Jean-Claude Mézières, Lady Polaris
- Séra & Yves H, Sur les traces de Dracula tome 2 – Bram Stoker
- Will Eisner, Mon dernier jour au Vietnam
- Séra, HKO: Menaces sur Hong Kong
- Séra & Saimbert, Les Processionnaires Tome 3 – Ici-bas
- Séra & Borderie, Lady Mage Kane
- Séra & Saimbert, Les Processionnaires Tome 2 – Le Jour du Jugement
- Frédéric Boilet & Benoît Peeters, Tokyo est mon jardin
- Romain Slocombe, La nuit de Saigon
- Séra, Antichambre de la Nuit
- Séra & Saimbert, Les Processionnaires Tome 1 – Le Grand Passage
- Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country
- Jean-Philippe Stassen & Denis Lapière, Le Bar du vieux Français – Tome 1
- Gerald Gorridge, Les fantômes d’Hanoi
- RECOMMENDED John McPhee, The Survival of the Bark Canoe
- Jean-Phillipe Stassen, Thérèse
- Romain Slocombe, La nuit de Saïgon
- RECOMMENDED Jean-Phillipe Stassen, Déogratias
- Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
- Elisabeth Harvor, All Times Have Been Modern
- Italo Calvino, Beautiful Loves
- RECOMMENDED Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day
- Carson McCullers, The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, and other stories
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
- AVOID Bill Bryson, Mother Tongue
- RECOMMENDED Graham Greene, The End Of The Affair
- RECOMMENDED W.G. Sebald, Austerlitz
- Candace Ward (ed.), World War One British Poets: Brooke, Owen, Sassoon, Rosenberg and Others
- Herge, Quick & Flupke: Pardon, Madame
- Ouida (Marie Louise de la Ramée), A Dog of Flanders
- Bud E Weyser, Tintin in Thailand (Tintin pastiche)
- Sen Sondara, Neang Rum Saysok
- Chea Savann, The Fallen Areca-flower
- ?, Women’s Wile
- ?, Neang Kakey – Kampuchean Tale
- Men-Riem, A Collection of Cambodian Folk Tales in Simple English
- Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- Paul Theroux, My Secret History
- Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep
- RECOMMENDED Allen Mandelbaum (transl.), The Odyssey of Homer
- Terry Pratchett, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
- China Miéville, Iron Council
- China Miéville, The Scar
- John Fowles, The French Lieutenant’s Woman
- Bernhard Schlink, The Reader
- RECOMMENDED Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five
- Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
- Roald Dahl, The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me
- Roald Dahl, The Magic Finger
- Roald Dahl, Esio Trot
- Roald Dahl, The BFG
- Roald Dahl, George’s Marvelous Medicine
- Roald Dahl, The Twits
- Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Glass Elevator
- Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
- Shel Silverstein, The Giving Tree
- Shel Silverstein, Where the Sidewalk Ends
- Shel Silverstein, A Light in the Attic
- Shel Silverstein, Falling Up
- Shel Silverstein, The Missing Piece
- Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
- Sharon Creech, Love That Dog
- Ludwig Bemelmans, Madeline and the Gypsies
- Ian Falconer, Olivia Saves the Circus
- Jon Scieszka & Lane Smith, Math Curse
- Phyllis Krasilovsky & Peter Spier (ill.), The Cow Who Fell in the Canal
- Kimsum Sotheary, The Magical Nosed Boy
- James Walters, Srey Bondol & Tor Vutha (ill.), The Little White Elephant
- Andrea Davis Pinkney, Brian Pinkney (ill.), Duke Ellington – The Piano Prince and his Orchestra
- Margaret Cuyler, Skeleton Hiccups
- –, Walt Disney’s Winnie-the-Pooh and the Honey Patch
- John Stadler, Three Cheers for Hippo!
- Sandra Boynton, But not the Hippopotamus
- Terri Cohlene, Charles Reasoner (ill.), Ka Ha Si & The Loon (Native American Legends)
And several books about teaching (in general/English), organizational reports, etc.
- Iron Maiden, Flight 666 – The Original Soundtrack
- Scorpions, No. 1s
- Starsailor, All The Plans
- Dream Theater, Greatest Hit (…and 21 Other Pretty Cool Songs)
- Ayreon, Timeline
- Blaze Bayley, The Man Who Would Not Die
- Matt Costa, Unfamiliar Faces
- Extreme, Saudades de Rock
- Diana Krall, Quiet Nights
- Gary Moore, Bad for You Baby
- Slipknot, All Hope Is Gone
- Metallica, Death Magnetic
- Judas Priest, Metalogy
- Ayreon, 01011001 LE
- Deadsoul Tribe, A Lullaby For The Devil
- Riverside, Rapid Eye Movement
- Gary Moore, Close As You Get
- Diana Krall, The Very Best Of
- Led Zeppelin, Mothership (1 CD version)
- Jack Johnson, Sleep Through The Static
- BBM, Around The Next Dream (Jack Bruce, Ginger Baker & Gary Moore)
- Stan Getz, Focus
- Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, Ella and Louis
- Stan Getz & Charlie Byrd, Jazz Samba
- Prince, 3121
- Aren Sahlén, Home Brew
- Sin Sisamuth, Ros Sereisothea, Meas Saman, Pen Ran, Houy Meas, Pouv Vannary, Chlangden Production 62
- Xavier Rudd, Solace
- Jack Johnson, The September Sessions
- The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Band
- The Beatles, 1
- OSI, Office of Strategic Influence
- Spock’s Beard
- Diana Krall, From This Moment On
- Bing Crosby, The Very Best Of
- Nat King Cole, The Very Best Of
- Pain of Salvation, Scarsick
- Symphony X, Paradise Lost Special Edition
- Threshold, Dead Reckoning Special Edition
- Dream Theater, Systematic Chaos Special Edition
DVDs
Film-TV
- Kim Ki-Duk, 3-iron
- Kim Ki-Duk, The Isle
- Kim Ki-Duk, AKA Samaritan Girl
- Andrew Stanton, WALL-E
- Kim Ki-Duk, Birdcage Inn
- Kim Ki-Duk, The Bow
- -, Red Dwarf Seasons I-VIII
- - , Fawlty Towers Series 1 & 2
- Zhang Yimou, Curse of the Golden Flower
- Gus Van Sant, To Die For
- ?, Shui Hu, The Soccer Heroes : Revenge Of The Handicapped
- Mat Whitecross, Michael Winterbottom, The Road to Guantanamo
- Andrew Niccol, Lord Of War
- Dino Montiel, A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
- Alan Parker, The Life of David Gale
- David Cronenberg, A History Of Violence
- My Name Is Earl, Seasons 1-4
- Hubert, Sauper, Darwin’s Nightmare
- Hayao Miyazaki, Mon Voisin Totoro
- Sam Mendes, Revolutionary Road
- Marc Abraham, Flash of Genius
- Trần Anh Hùng, Mua he chieu thang dung (À la verticale de l’été)
- Aki Kaurismäki, Mies vailla menneisyyttä (L’Homme sans passé)
- Fabrice Du Welz, Calvaire
- Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton, The General
- Im Kwon Taek, Le chant de la fidèle Chung Yang
- Carol Reed, The Third Man
- Akira Kurasawa, Rashomon
- Frank Capra, It’s a Wonderful Life
- Elia Kazan, On the Waterfront
- Gustave de Kervern, Benoît Delépine, Aaltra
- RUPP Department of Media and Communication students, Looking Back, Looking Ahead: 10 Mini-Documentaries on Khmer Rouge History and Reconciliation
- Viet Linh, Mê thao, il fut un temps
- Viet Linh, Troupe de cirque ambulant (ganh xiec rong)
- Jacques Perrin, Le Peuple Migrateur
- Rithy Panh, Souleymane Cissé
- Rithy Panh, Les Gens de la Rizière
- Rithy Panh, S-21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine
- Gore Verbinski, The Weather Man
- Isao Takahata, Omohide Poro Poro (Only Yesterday)
- Bruno Dumont, Flandres
- Pierre Salvadori, Hors de Prix
- Hamilton Luske & Ben Sharpsteen, Pinocchio
- Hayao Miyazaki, Mononoke-hime (Princess Mononoke)
- Rob Marshall, Memoirs Of A Geisha
- Michael Caton-Jones, Shooting Dogs
- Edward Dmytryk, Walk on the Wild Side
- Erik Van Looy, The Memory of a Killer (The Zaak Alzheimer)
- John Huston, The African Queen
- Anh Hung Tran, Xich Lo (Cyclo)
- Patrice Leconte, Dogora – Ouvrons les yeux
- Kaige Chen, Ba wang bie ji (Farewell My Concubine)
- Kar Wai Wong, Fa yeung nin wa (In the Mood for Love)
- Akira Kurosawa, Shichinin no samurai (Seven Samurai)
- Jim Davis, Garfield and Friends Vol. 1
- Matthew O’Callaghan, Curious George
- Hayao Miyazaki, Hauru no ugoku shiro (Howl’s Moving Castle)
- Katsuhiro Ôtomo, Akira Special Edition
- Hayao Miyazaki, Kaze no tani no Naushika (Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind)
- Isao Takahata, Heisei tanuki gassen pompoko (Pom Poko)
- Rob Grant & Doug Naylor, Red Dwarf VII
- Rob Grant & Doug Naylor, Red Dwarf VI
- Iron Maiden, Flight 666
- Pain of Salvation, Ending Themes (On the Two Deaths of Pain of Salvation)
- Dream Theater, Chaos in Motion 2007–2008
- Dream Theater, Score
- Iron Maiden, Live After Death 2-disc set
- Gary Moore, Live at Monsters of Rock
- Starsailor, Love Is Here (live)
- – , The American Folk Blues Festival 1962-1966, Vol. 2
- Queensryche, The Art of Live
- Queensryche, Operation: LIVEcrime
- Transatlantic, Live across Europe
- Fates Warning, Live in Athens
- Hammer of the Gods (featuring Paul Gilbert, Daniel Gildenlow, Dave LaRue and Mike Portnoy), Two Nights In North America (A Tribute to Led Zeppelin)
- Diana Krall, Live at the Montreal Jazz Festival
Cars I’ve driven… an even more pointless list!
Chevrolet Impala, Citroen Berlingo, Citroen CX, Citroen Xantia, Citroen Xsara, Citroen Xsara Picasso, Ford Escort, Ford Fiesta Mk. II-III-IV-V, Mazda 323F, Mazda 626, Mercedes-Benz 190, Mercedes-Benz A-class, Opel Combo, Opel Astra, Peugeot 307, Peugeot 406, Renault 9, Renault Trafic, Saab 9-3, Toyota Camry (JDM), Toyota Celica, Toyota Corolla, Toyota Crown, Toyota Hiace Stretch, Volkswagen Caddy, Volkswagen Golf Variant
