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A review by bandralynn
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator by Roald Dahl
2.0
This is one of the Roald Dahl books I didn't read when I was a kid, and I'm pretty sure I would have liked it much more had I read it when I was younger. The first half of the book is a little weird. Willy Wonka takes the Great Glass Elevator up into space, where they run into some astronauts and the Vermicious Knids. It's cute, but it was pretty off the wall.
The second half of the book is much more what I would expect of a sequel to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. It included magic pills that can make you older or younger, and brief glimpses at more rooms of the factory. And Dahl's wordplay is fantastic, as usual, though I'm sure most kids would look right past it.
*Update 10/11/16* I really wasn't a fan of this the second time around. First of all, I had completely forgotten that I had read it in the first place; I thought I had stopped halfway through. And the whole going into space thing is so weird. I also didn't like how completely and utterly inept the American leaders are. Not to mention the absolutely not PC and borderline racist jokes thrown in. This was definitely not written recently.
In all, this just lacked the whimsy and fun of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
The second half of the book is much more what I would expect of a sequel to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. It included magic pills that can make you older or younger, and brief glimpses at more rooms of the factory. And Dahl's wordplay is fantastic, as usual, though I'm sure most kids would look right past it.
*Update 10/11/16* I really wasn't a fan of this the second time around. First of all, I had completely forgotten that I had read it in the first place; I thought I had stopped halfway through. And the whole going into space thing is so weird. I also didn't like how completely and utterly inept the American leaders are. Not to mention the absolutely not PC and borderline racist jokes thrown in. This was definitely not written recently.
In all, this just lacked the whimsy and fun of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.