The Westing Game: The Biggest Ripper In Sunset Towers

The book The Westing Game was a slow book to read. In my opinion this book was very boring. The author wrote in a view of multiple groups and often in the view for a single person. The author had extra fluff that was not relevant to the story. For example, “J.J. Ford was the biggest tipper in Sunset Towers… “I saw someb-b-b…” Chris Theodorakis was too excited to stutter out the news to his brother.” (page 14) The constant switching of characters and character groups without a well written transition made it hard for me to keep track of the storyline like in the example. I feel like I was reading a narration of different view but very few clues were given that a transition was happening.
I feel that author could mend some of the unclear transitions so the story could flow smoother. Phrases like “later that night.” or “meanwhile…” or “in the room across the hall” could help the story transition and become more interesting to the reader.
In addition to being bored I was slightly curious as well. Being curious and bored …show more content…
She does thing the most difficult way possible to get attention but ends up being ignored. I learned that the bolder characters got what they wanted and were independent unlike Ms. Pulaski who tried to be passive-aggressive to get attention and sympathy. The saying the “early bird gets the worm” best describes what I learned from Sydelle Pulaski.
This book was a slow for me but I did enjoy when it was over because I found out “who dunnit!” I didn’t really like this book because I believe that this book was poorly written. In a mystery book I’d expect suspense and action. I think were too many things happening in this so that in the end it wasn’t exciting. There wasn’t any build up when they revealed the mystery.
The author went into too much detail about things that really didn’t matter in the long run. I think the detail was good it gave me some good imagery. I feel like I was there