{"id":13520,"date":"2010-12-26T07:58:30","date_gmt":"2010-12-26T12:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2010\/12\/26\/13520.html"},"modified":"2018-03-13T18:58:31","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T23:58:31","slug":"book-report-the-mysterious-ben-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2010\/12\/26\/book-report-the-mysterious-ben-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner\u2019s Dilemma"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So. Having read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2010\/12\/23\/13519.html\">the second book<\/a> back in March, I finally remembered to nab <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hachettebookgroup.com\/kids_books_9780316045506.htm\">The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner&#8217;s Dilemma<\/a> from our local public library. It was&#8230; OK. Not great. The clever idea of having the Bad Guy come up with clever puzzles for the kids to think they were solving in order to lure them into a trap was a good one, but the puzzles weren&#8217;t very good, and frankly it was crazy that the kids didn&#8217;t spot the trap from the moment they found the first scrap of paper. Hmph.\n<p>Still, there were fun bits, and funny bits, and I must say I was very pleased to have the whole three-book arc pretty much wrapped up. Mr. Stewart didn&#8217;t preclude another book, but he provided closure if there isn&#8217;t going to be another book. Although I should add that my Perfect Non-Reader wants there to be another book, and she is presumably the intended audience, the one likely to spend her Chanukah Gelt at that part of the bookstore.\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Which Your Humble Blogger is hoping it&#8217;s the old-fashioned kind of trilogy, the kind with three books in it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19267,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13520\/revisions\/19267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}