Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator: The Further Adventures of Charlie Bucket and Willy Wonka, Chocolate-Maker Extraordinary (A Bantam Skylark Book)
by Roald Dahl
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I think that this book " Charlie and The Great Glass Elevator" is a science fictional interesting book that i really enjoyed. The main characters in this story are Charlie, Willy Wonka and Charlie's whole family.
When we last saw Charlie, at the end of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, he was sailing through the sky with his family in Willy Wonka's Great Glass Elevator. At the beginning of this sequel, the flying Elevator accidentally hurtles into outer space, where a Commuter Caps...more
When we last saw Charlie, at the end of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, he was sailing through the sky with his family in Willy Wonka's Great Glass Elevator. At the beginning of this sequel, the flying Elevator accidentally hurtles into outer space, where a Commuter Caps...more
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Read in August, 2005
A childhood favorite which was even wackier than I remember it being. The plot is all over the place and takes the characters into outer space to fight an alien race intent on eating humans, back to the chocolate factory, and into Minusland. A fun romp, though not as good as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory because of the randomness of the plot. The humor was also much punnier, which is not something I enjoy, and it outdated itself with some racial slurs in the beginning that would have been fi...more
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Read in August, 2008
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As a child I did what most of us are expected to do. Explore. I soon realized it required much more than fingers and feet. I saw in it creativity. Primitive at first. Like cave people must have carried fire. Weird ideas like that ... ... indeed entering the space hotel with a disguised weapon to blow up the space hotel before the astronauts arrive having a chance to get to the space hotel.
(This was far better than I anticipated as I begun read...more
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As a child I did what most of us are expected to do. Explore. I soon realized it required much more than fingers and feet. I saw in it creativity. Primitive at first. Like cave people must have carried fire. Weird ideas like that ... ... indeed entering the space hotel with a disguised weapon to blow up the space hotel before the astronauts arrive having a chance to get to the space hotel.
(This was far better than I anticipated as I begun read...more
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Read in January, 2008
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After charlie won Wonka's chocolate factory, his family and Mr Wonka travel through the skies in a giant glass elevator. when the elevator picks up speed, the gang are sent hurtling through space and time.First, they visit the world's first space hotel, and fooled everybody on Earth that they came from space.Suddenly, the dreaded Vermious Knids appear in the lifts and started attacking Charlie and his gang.Luckily, they escaped through the elevator, which was knid-proof, but unfortunately, the s...more
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recommends it for:
anyone who saw or read charlie and the chocolate factory and want a good laugh
it's a funny companion to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I never actually read that book, but I saw the movie. It turns out they changed the ending in the movie... charlie and the chocolate factory ends with the gang flying up in the elevator, not able to control it. charlie and the great glass elevator continues that story, starting where everyone in the glass elevator go up into space. This book is extremely hilarious-you won't stop laughing until the end.
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Read in January, 2005
After we read the Chocolate Factory, we naturally wanted to know, what was next.
But... it was a bit too much to take for my little boy with his over active fantasy. After the arrival on the planet in space, his imagination worked overtime. Therefore we stopped for a while.
One year later we read it again, and now he also saw / heard the humor instead of only the alien things in the book.
We both liked it less than the first novel.
But... it was a bit too much to take for my little boy with his over active fantasy. After the arrival on the planet in space, his imagination worked overtime. Therefore we stopped for a while.
One year later we read it again, and now he also saw / heard the humor instead of only the alien things in the book.
We both liked it less than the first novel.
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Read in January, 1971
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This is the tepid sequel.
I read it when it came out. I was about eleven. One of my friends got the book at the same time and was dismayed that I was in denial over the fact that this was as nothing to CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY. I pretended this one had merit.
Poor old Roald Dahl. I wonder if the contract he signed for the first book short-changed him. The second CHARLIE book just doesn't have the comic edge of the first one.
I read it when it came out. I was about eleven. One of my friends got the book at the same time and was dismayed that I was in denial over the fact that this was as nothing to CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY. I pretended this one had merit.
Poor old Roald Dahl. I wonder if the contract he signed for the first book short-changed him. The second CHARLIE book just doesn't have the comic edge of the first one.
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Read in October, 2006
This is sillier, much less believable and contains more cranky old people than the original. But Graham loved it anyway, especially the vermiscious knids. It's just fun to say.
BTW reading books outloud has been a change for me -- I have to go slower to get the words out of my mouth and I've noticed the quality of the words more while reading out loud than I do when I read to myself.
BTW reading books outloud has been a change for me -- I have to go slower to get the words out of my mouth and I've noticed the quality of the words more while reading out loud than I do when I read to myself.
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These books, and others by Dahl, are great books to start reading to your children. The child should be interested from the very beginning of these books. If he/she isn't, they may not yet be ready to hear books without pictures read and may need more of the fantatic picture books available. Read to your child books you both enjoy and are anxious to get to every day.
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I expected a lot from this book - I didn't read it until I was 31. It just wasn't what I expected. At all. I wanted to know about Charlie in the chocolate factory - the new candy he would develop, the friendships he would make with the Oompa Loompas. Instead I got Willy, Charlie and his family twirling about in space. I have to admit, I was quite disappointed.
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Read in January, 2008
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I like this book. What a perfect follow up to Willie Wonka and the Chocolate factory.
The glass elevator shoots into space with the Willie Wonka, Charlie, his parents, the grandparents and the bed they sleep in.
Pretty bizarre and it only gets better.
I wish this was the Tim Burton movie, It's very visual and still a little mean.
The glass elevator shoots into space with the Willie Wonka, Charlie, his parents, the grandparents and the bed they sleep in.
Pretty bizarre and it only gets better.
I wish this was the Tim Burton movie, It's very visual and still a little mean.
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Read in January, 1997
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anybody of age?
When I read this book it was very apparent that it was going to be nothing like its prequel.
While I liked it, it got a little too strange for me at times and even gave me a fright now and then.
However, when I think of Roald Dahl I think of this book in particular (along with the Witches) because of its sheer brilliance in absurdity.
While I liked it, it got a little too strange for me at times and even gave me a fright now and then.
However, when I think of Roald Dahl I think of this book in particular (along with the Witches) because of its sheer brilliance in absurdity.
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I think I was a little disappointed when I first read this book back in elementary school. There's no chocolate, for one thing, and all the characters you love to hate have gone home. It's a weird book though, way stranger than any of the other children's books available at the time, so the story has definitely stuck with me.
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Even though this novel has Vermicious Knids, which is the best name for worm-shaped space aliens I can possibly imagine, it's not as good as the first novel, mostly because there's much less structure to the story and it begins to lose even a lover of nonsense like me at points. Still, it mocks the American government.
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I really enjoyed this book. (It is the sequel to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.) I liked it better than the first book, which is a first for me! It is full of imagination and original ideas. I really enjoyed it!
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Hey, this was an excellent sequel to one of the greatest books of all time. It is the (somewhat crazy) second book of hugely sucessful writer Roald Dahl. I think that this book made huge sales for it's quality and because it was a sequel. 4 stars because the "knids" go a bit out of rational imagination
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This is good for those that want more after the heartwarming story of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. This book delivers the same lovable characters and a bit more adventure, but it's clear why the first book is the more famous one. Still, worth your time because it doesn't take much. Great for kids.
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Read in February, 2008
He should have quit while he was ahead. It might still be somewhat enjoyable for children, who I know are his target audience, but after such a masterpiece like "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" this was just so disappointing and kind of ruins some of the magic of the first book.
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Read in January, 2004
What can I say, kalau itu Roald Dahl, aku pasti kasih rating 5. Ini sekuel dari Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Kita bertemu lagi dengan Willy Wonka, si eksentrik, dan keempat kakek-nenek Charlie yang masih saja berada di atas tempat tidur, kecuali Grandpa Joe, tentu saja.
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Read in January, 2005
Sillier than The Chocolate Factory but not as much fun. Charlie Bucket is even more of a cipher compared to the bubbly bouncing Mr. Wonka than in the first book. Lessons to be learned: the elderly are a hoot, the U.S. government is goofy, and beware of Vermicious Knids.
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