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This was bad. I remember reading it as a kid and thinking it was surprising. But no. It's a random and bad sequel.
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator: The Further Adventures of Charlie Bucket and Willy Wonka, Chocolate-Maker Extraordinaire (Charlie Bucket, #2), Roald Dahl Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator is a children's book by British author Roald Dahl. It is the sequel to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, continuing the story of young Charlie Bucket and chocolatier Willy Wonka as they travel in the Great Glass Elevator. The story picks up immediately where the previous book left off, with Charlie an...
Having always been a fan of Wonka, it occurred to me that I was a very, very bad man for never having read the sequel.Was I slightly afraid? Maybe. I mean, the story was all kinds of perfect all by itself. Leaving in that great glass elevator was rather a perfect ending.And when this book begins, exactly where the other left off, I WAS slightly disappointed. The whole SF aspect was... ahem. Fortunately, it got back to speed once we returned to the factory. I enjoyed the rest just fine. :)Ah, gre...
[Preflight Announcement]Good day, ladies and gentlemen! Welcome aboard Wonka Air Flight SOS-911, a non-stop Glass Elevator service from The Chocolate Factory to the Space Hotel - USA. We are currently the first in line for take-off (and most likely, we'll be the only one). We are expected to punch through the Factory's roof in approximately 5 minutes. We suggest that you keep your nightshirts, knickers, dentures, other personal belongings fastened and your emesis bags close throughout the flight...
Neo's class has been reading Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, which led us to watching both versions of the film. When he learned of this sequel, he wanted us to give it a try. Not one he highly recommends, but here is a slightly updated version of my original review:After the hair-raising adventure that Charlie Bucket underwent in the opening novel, Dahl is ready to entertain young readers again. When last we spoke of Charlie, he was loading his entire family into the glass elevator from his
Unlike it's predecessor, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, this book is probably a bit too far-fetched for it to grab the same amount of attention. It's an odd little book-it has some good moments and is written much in the same way as the first book-and his many others-but it definitely has it's faults.Of-the-time-racism was probably the biggest one. It's difficult to critique something that was "okay" at the time of the book being published, but I can't help but think that perhaps that, along...
I didn't like this book very much, in fact it is probably one of my least favourite Roal Dahl's books. I am in the process of re-reading all his books, but this one was a first for me. Like everybody else, I loved Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, but aside from the joy or reading about my beloved characters again, I didn't get any additional quality content from this one. The story was incoherent and episodic, the jokes trite, and it felt more like a sequel made just because than an actual, w
As we last seen the mighty, marvelous, wizard , Willy Wonka and his sidekick Charlie floating high in the sky, ( blue in color if you are curious, what else? ) in the stupendous... the Great Glass Elevator of the previous book, we wonder where in the world are they going? Not exactly there, someplace better for certain, but first, on board the magical contraption are of course...Willy...Charlie... the boy's parents Mr.and Mrs. Bucket ( not important enough to be given their proper names) and the...
I am currently trying to read through all of Roald Dahl's books because growing up I loved the ones that I read. I originally read Charlie and the Chocolate factory when I was in middle school. I thought it was about time to finally read the second book.Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator was a very interesting book. It was not what I expected (for the first half of the book) and I was very disappointed by that. I felt like this book was two short stories combined. More than half of the book ta...
"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men."Ok, the recipe for Wonka-vite is darling and cleverAll-in-all i did not enjoy this novelette as much as his others. I felt the pieces were slightly disjointed. Although Wonka's sarcastic comments are much appreciated, Grandma Georgina was not an enjoyable character. And not enough Charlie! The president was just ridiculous. I'm interested in reading all of Dahl's pieces, so at least I got this one out of the way.2017 Reading Challeng...
English (Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator) / ItalianoThe Charlie and the Chocolate Factory's sequel starts exactly frome where we were at the end of the previous adventure, that is in the glass elevator that should bring Charlie Bucket and all his family (and Mr. Wonka of course), to the chocolate factory. But something goes wrong...A series of amazing adventures and catastrophic events will keep all the children with bated breath. Who has loved Charlie and the Chocolate Factory will probabl...
“Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator” picks up where “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” left of, but if “’Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ is Dahl at his best…” then “Charlie and the great Glass Elevator is Dahl at his worst. However, children will still love the silliness of it all.The best way to describe “…the Great Glass Elevator” is clumsy and inane. The Big differences between “Chocolate Factory” and “…Glass Elevator” is that former is silly with a point and congruent within itself, an...
At the end of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, we left Charlie and his family and Willy Wonka sky high in the Great Glass Elevator. Charlie had only just been informed that he had won the right to take over the factory, as his own, once Mr. Wonka retired in a few years. So I was hoping for more adventures in the magical chocolate factory as Charlie was beginning to learn the ropes but that is not how this book pans out. This book takes a bizarre turn as the Glass Elevator is propelled too high...
This is the sequel to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. My heavens, this was not good. This is the only Dahl book I have read to date that did not interest me in the least. It was contrived . . . and contrived badly.The first half of the book placed our hero and Mr. Wonka in space. Yes, it was a bad Miss Frizzle episode. Horrid, I say. The premise of that part was that the elevator had gone into orbit accidentally and they had no control over returning. After bouncing around with knids and othe...
I really think Wonka needs to stick with his Chocolate Factory...Maybe it's just me...but this one just didn't have the same spark as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. “Hooray!" said the Chief of the Army. "Let's blow everyone up! Bang-bang! Bang-bang!” We last left Charlie and his family soaring up into the sky in the great glass elevator. They're about to start their next big adventure, with their feet firmly planted in the sky.Physics aside, the Bucket Family and Willy Wonka putter aroun...
who the hell told roald dahl the thing we liked from charlie and the chocolate factory was...the elevator?like, here is a definitive ranking for me, personally, of everything i liked in order:- the sweets (obviously)- orange guys singing mean songs about children- someone turning into a blueberry, as a concept- the idea that a chocolate bar could be life-changing (this was a great life lesson)- wallpaper you can lick (now this gives me the heebie-jeebies, but then it seemed rad)- swimming in cho...
When I read this as a kid: 5 StarsReread as an adult: 2 StarsCharlie and the Chocolate Factory is a classic. I enjoyed it as a kid and I enjoyed it as an adult when I reread it with my kids a few months ago. Next logical step was to reread the sequel to my kids which was another book that I had fond memories of from my childhood.However, this book has not aged well . . .Generally, I really enjoy Dahl’s work, but I may have found one that might be best left skipped. I guess the incoherent goofine...
I just discovered Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator was written the year I was born. Apparently a lot of my favorite childhood kids' books were written that year. 1972 seemed to be the year of the fanciful, magical and/or pastoral, nature-oriented kids' book: Watership Down, All Creatures Great and Small, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, Frog and Toad #2, Earthsea Cycle #3.This might explain a few things about me...but then again it more likely has a whole lot more to say about where the Amer...
I remember as a kid being quite disappointed by this book, having so thoroughly loved Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Now I can see why I wasn't that thrilled with this second one. I wasn't into anything smacking of sci-fi or space travel as a kid. There were probably a few exceptions, but I mostly steered clear of those books. This book is weird. It's almost two books merged into one. The first 92 pages or so is somewhat of a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy for kids. It's that weird and off...
A direct sequel to Chocolate Factory, part space adventure part goofy antics this follow up is enjoyable enough for those who enjoy Wonka’s character.I practically enjoyed the Vermicious Knids and the rejuvenation pills in the second half of the book.I couldn’t imagine this story working with any other characters.