Comments on: The Banquet Bug by Geling Yan

By: jdubdewitt@gmail.com

jdubdewitt@gmail.com — Mon, 09 May 2011 15:56:13 +0000

Read this book, and certainly recommend it as well! Read the Uk edition, that is.

By: Saturday Review of Books: September 6, 2008 at Semicolon

Saturday Review of Books: September 6, 2008 at Semicolon — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 00:38:03 +0000

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By: wordlily

wordlily — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 02:50:27 +0000

Maybe. Amazon doesn’t label the edition I have as mass-market, and the size isn’t what I think of as mass-market, at: 7.8 x 5.1 x 0.7 inches. I thought having a date in there was important for copyright notification to the buyer.

Thanks for the original publication date!

By: Lawrence Walker

Lawrence Walker — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 02:27:54 +0000

Hello, and thank you for your kind comments on author Geling Yan’s website, which I created for the author with the help of Red Room’s easy-to-use format. The original publication date of The Banquet Bug (U.S. hardback edition) was July 1, 2006. Given your description, including size of margins, etc., I suspect you may have been reading the mass-market paperback edition. I’m surprised it didn’t have publication data. That is either an odd policy on Hyperion’s part or else a real oversight.

I was in Beijing during the Olympics, and it was as if I had walked into the Banquet Bug story. I saw instances of what it described at every turn.