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Title: Charlie And The Great Glass Elevator
Author: Roald Dahl
Publisher: Puffin Books
Language: English
ISBN-13: 978-0-141-32269-8
Book Type: Fiction
Category: Children’s Book
Pages: 208
Format: Paperpack
Cover Price: £6.99
Publish Date: September 6, 2007
Rating: 3/5
Link: Puffin Books; Wikipedia
Synopsis: Charlie Bucket has won Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory and is on his way to take possession of it. In a great glass elevator! But when the elevator makes a fearful whooshing noise, Charlie and his family find themselves in splendid orbit around the Earth. A daring adventure has begun, with the one and only Mr. Willy Wonka leading the way.

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I knew of Roald Dahl when I first read Matilda a long time ago. I’ve loved him since. Then I watched the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory movie and I don’t like it. The wickedness has gone too far in that story I think. Later I read The Best of Roald Dahl and then The Witch and was determined to read his books as many as I could. So when I caught Charlie And The Great Glass Elevator and Boys and Going Solo at my local bookstore (for a bargain price) I didn’t hesitate to get both.

You get the same Roald Dahl flavors here: the characteristic vocabulary, the educational meaning, a bit of madness and cruelty. But, for some reasons, I didn’t enjoy this one. The story telling remind me too much of the dreadful experience I had with Alex Shearer’s (read The Hunted): I knew what was going to happen next, yet he was still dancing around and not moved forward. Also I don’t like either Willy Wonka or Charlie Bucket so I was impatient with both.

It was  still a decent Roald Dahl’s read, but not one of his strongest. If you like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory I think you’ll like this one. If not, maybe just skip it.