Wednesday, January 13, 2010

The Westing Game (audio)


When the wealthy neighbor of an apartment complex dies, he leaves behind a will naming sixteen people as his heirs.  All they have to do is find out who murdered him to collect the inheritance by playing his game.

Written in 1978, The Westing Game won a Newbery in 1979. So this book is as almost as old as I am and yet this is the first time I've ever read it.  I liked it.  I was very interested in the outcome of the book.  It reminded me of It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World except not with a car race or anything.  The heirs each get clues and they are suppose to figure out who took the life of the millionaire.  I expected the ending I got, but I loved the characters.  Some of them turned out to be different than I expected.  The only thing was that some of the language was pretty un-PC, which is to be expected from a book written in the 70's.  I thought the solution was pretty clever though and I'm glad there was an epilogue.  I like knowing what happens to the characters.

7 comments:

  1. This wasn't made into a movie was it? It sounds like a movie with John Cleese and a bunch of others that came out a few years ago. I can't remember the name of it.

    I like the premise though!

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  2. Jenners - There have been two movies: The Westing Game and Get a Clue but they aren't available on DVD sadly.

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  3. I'm going to be reading this one soon!

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  4. Such a great book!
    I had no idea it was a movie, that's fascinating.
    Thanks for the review :)

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  5. Thanks for the review. I've had this in my classroom library for a long time and never read it. I've had many kids who have, and enjoyed it but I just never got around to it!

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  6. My dad just brought me 4 huge boxes of books from when I was growing up and this was in there. Makes me want to go back and read it!

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  7. This was a favorite of mine as a kid and I still like to flip through it every now and then. Can't wait until my son is old enough to enjoy it.

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