{"id":746,"date":"2013-09-01T11:55:19","date_gmt":"2013-09-01T19:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/?p=746"},"modified":"2017-12-18T13:27:35","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T21:27:35","slug":"review-the-westing-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/01\/review-the-westing-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: The Westing Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/902\" style=\"float: left;padding-right: 20px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net\/books\/1356850909m\/902.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"The Westing Game\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/902\">The Westing Game<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/10074\">Ellen Raskin<\/a><br \/>\n      My rating: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/106491624\">5 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      I\u2019m not sure how many times I\u2019ve read <i>The Westing Game<\/i> now. Half a dozen or so. Probably read it a half-dozen times or more again, eventually. This time around I was reminded of it by a TV show. My wife was watching the summer-running reality show \u201cWhodunnit.\u201d I was reluctant to join in, but was eventually hooked. It\u2019s cheesy, over produced, over edited, and not quality television at all. But it was fun, and it reminded me of the excellent novel by Raskin, so I\u2019m not going to knock it too much.<\/p>\n<p>The great thing about <i>The Westing Game<\/i> is, of course, it\u2019s re-readability, which is really saying something for a mystery novel based on a very specific sort of puzzle. It\u2019s the minor characters I always forget about. Like Doctor Deere, who turns out to be a decent guy. And Mrs Hoo, supplying the necessary red-herring moments. <\/p>\n<p>This is a novel to give to someone who you like a lot, a young person from whom you expect great things. Someone curious. Not just a reader\u2014a re-reader. Someone with whom you want to share the joys of mystery and discovery. Me, as soon as I got hooked on &#8220;Whodunnit,&#8221; I knew I wanted my wife to read this book. I\u2019ll let you know what she thinks.<\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/106491624\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin My rating: 5 of 5 stars I\u2019m not sure how many times I\u2019ve read The Westing Game now. Half a dozen or so. Probably read it a half-dozen times or more again, eventually. This time around I was reminded of it by a TV show. My wife was watching &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/01\/review-the-westing-game\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Review: The Westing Game&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p24y52-c2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":747,"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions\/747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}