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Summary: Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
Review: Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator is a sequel to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Willy Wonka takes Charlie and his family on a trip through space in a glass elevator that launches off from the Chocolate factory. Along the way Charlie experiences more excitement and adventure in the Wacky Willy Wonka way. He encounters some Vermicious Knids that stretch their bodies to spell out mean messages. Wonka gives Charlies grandparents a Wonka-Vite pill that makes them twenty years younger. They mistakenly take too many and Grandpa George and Grandma Josephine become babies. ...I enjoyed this book because it is funny and at times it is very touching. This book and all the characters in it are unique and wacky. Especially Willy Wonka himself. It makes you use your imagination. Can you imagine The Vermicious Knids in outer space spelling the words like SCRAM by stretching and curving their bodies? I could.My favorite part of this story was when they were flying through space on the glass elevator. When they encountered the Space Hotel U.S.A. how excited Charlie must have felt. I know how excited I felt when I went on a vacation and stayed at a hotel for the first time. I'm still not over it.
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Summary: Don't read this book!!
Review: Much unlike the wonderful first book,Charlie and the chocolate factory, this book was horribly boring, and I had trouble not falling asleep while reading it.This book is definitely not one you'd want to read.
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Summary: Exceptionally Disappointing
Review: After having read Charlie and Chocolate Factory after seeing the movie based upon it, I was happy to discover that there was a sequel. I immediately checked this book from the library and started reading it right away. Needless to say - I was very disappointed. The plot of book is, truthfully and bluntly, quite stupid. It was sequel made for the purpose of having sequel. Don't waste your time reading this book.
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Summary: A treat for lovers of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Review: This book lacks some of the focus and the sheer joy of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, but it is a delight nonetheless -- Charlie, Mr. Wonka and Charlie's family take the Great Glass Elevator around for some wild adventures. It's a sequel, folks. And, frankly, when you are the sequel to the greatest children's book ever written, that's a hard act to live up to. Dahl does a decent job, so I give him 4 stars.
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Summary: An interesting follow-up to a classic
Review: I remember in 2nd grade when our teacher read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to the class. It had such an effect on us that when we spotted Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator in the school library, we were all scrambling over each other to get it (I got it first). Looking back, while this book is still good, it lacks the central focus and charm that the original had. I did not expect the focus to be on the chocolate factory, since the title clearly says 'Great Glass Elevator'. However, the elevator only features in the first-half the book when everyone gets launched into space. This might have been a good idea for another book, but here it seems odd and rather dragged-out. With the second part of the book, the gang returns to Earth and mess around with Wonka-vite, an age-restoring miracle drug that gets badly abused. This part is much better, since we get to learn a bit more about the factory. Overall, I would have been much more pleased if Dahl had made the book longer and divided it into several seperate short stories. Together, the two seperate plots don't connect at all. Grandma Georgina also proved to be a bitter character and not sympathetic at all. Also, I hope that there is a version out there that still contains the original drawings in the book. Nothing against Quentin Blake, but the original sketches were classic.
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Summary: It was okay...
Review: I agree with some reviewers in that mostly all of what the book talks about is the glass elevator and Charlie's grandparents. It does state nothing about what Charlie did after all of this with his new chocolate factory, but I disagree with those who say that book was awful. I enjoyed reading it, despite the above complaints. It was very well written, and interesting to read, althought I would have liked to read about what Charlie did with his inheritance.
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Summary: Could be better.....
Review: It's not as good as the orginal book.And it had phases used in the movie,that were never used int he first book.And it takes place right after they arrive at Charlie's home to go back to the factory.There is no Veruca,Violet,Mike or Augustes in this book.Violet is mentioned a couple times though.There are aliens trying to take oer the world,and Willy Wonka and company stop them.It has explores Charlie's family,unlike the book.
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Summary: Charlie and the Glass Elevator is Extraordinarily Great
Review: I am reading this book, and I haven't finished it but, it's great! It's amazing the mind of Roald Dahl...The characters are so realistic! You must pick up this book. But I think that if you read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, or just watch the movie Willy Wonka and the Chocolate factory, it will be a bit clearer.
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Summary: Excitingly fun
Review: Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator is a very exciting book. Charlie and Mr. Wonka, his grandmas and his grandpas, his mom and dad, get into lots of troubles. You'll have to read the book to find out what happens to them. It has a great beginning and ending.
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Summary: Did they make a movie of the sequel????
Review: hello, i dont have a review of this book, i haven't read it. i just have a question for anyone out there who can answer me. was a movie of the sequel made? i have been told that there is a movie of it, but i cannot find it. if you know for sure one way or the other, PLEASE e mail me. thank you moog006@aol.com
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