Harry's tormentor? Or, Charlie's mother? Or, Marla Sanger?

Qual è il segreto per condurre una vita piena e soddisfacente? Quella dei quattro bambini giunti a visitare la fabbrica di cioccolato, personificazione di vizi o di curiose omologazioni sociali? Quella del piccolo Charlie, forse persino troppo maturo per la sua candida età? Forse, invece, quella del buon Wonka, sufficientemente adulto da mandare avanti un'intera fabbrica, ma anche sufficientemente bambino da mantener nel cuore lo spensierato entusiasmo e la straordinaria creatività della giovinezza. Tesori preziosi dinanzi a una vita che spesso tende a render tristi, spenti, dimentichi dei tanti sogni concepiti... Piacevolissimo e spassoso.

I can't decide what to rate this!!! It seems odd rating it, because even though I didn't read it as a child I still know the story so well since the movies (well, the first one) is adapted so nicely. It's a great story. Really dark, actually, darker when you read it, but it still feels weird rating a story I already know so well. It didn't feel new, just nice and comforting because it was familiar.

I had this as 3 stars when I was writing but now I'm changing to 4, I don't know why, they aren't that important, but it feels better.

بأنصح أي واحد أو واحدة بيفكروا يعملوا رچيم ، لا يتفرجوا على الفيلم ولا يقرأوا الرواية :)

I was ten years old and already the magic was gone from the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny, leprechauns, Santa Claus and his buddy the Krampus. All was stripped of its power to enthrall. Heck, even sex had been demystified years prior.

Then along came Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. It gloried in candy, my number one passion of the day. But not only that, eating candy was the means to getting even MORE candy!



Ah, the golden ticket. How, oh, how I longed for it to be a real thing! I would've traded in a half dozen Christmasses for that.

For those few who haven't read the book or seen one of the movies, finding a golden ticket in a candy bar meant you got to visit Willy Wonka's mysterious chocolate factory, which had been closed to the public and rumored to be run by a madman.

Once poor-and-ever-so-grateful Charlie makes it inside the factory everything comes alive! The amazing sights, sounds, smells and tastes! The sky's the limit (quite literally we discover in the second book). Wonka's childlike imagination seems to know no bounds!

But then things turn a bit queer. One by one, the children invited into the factory start dropping off and in the most interesting of ways. This is a fight to the finish and it becomes clear that there can be only one!

I don't know what was better, the candy or the killing off of brats. Ah but to be serious, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory brought back the wonder and excitement of my earliest memories. Thank you Roald Dahl for giving me back magic, the sweetest gift of all.

Read this as a kid, wonderful book. Roald Dahl really is a great writer of children's stories, big fantasy mind!

في الحقيقة عشقي لروايات الأدب الإنجليزي خصوصا الكلاسيكية منها عشق لا ينتهي ورواية Charlie and the Chocolate Factory واحدة من الروايات الأقرب إلي قلبي جايز علشان وانا صغير اتفرجت علي الفيلم وكنت بحلم اني اكون مكان البطل الطفل تشارلي و افوز بتذكرة لزيارة أكبر مصنع شوكولاتة في العالم.. مصنع السيد ويلي ونكا ❤️

this would be one of very few books i just wished i could jump into ( god those mouth watering treats!) this was my first roald dahl books[which got me into reading his books} and so far my favorite. its such cute and sweet[literally sweet XD} book every kid out there would love to read!

Five children are chosen at random to attend the greatest candy factory in the entire world, a wonderful opportunity that most children could only dream of. Out of the five kids gifted with golden tickets to attend a tour of Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory, only one of them seems worthy of being chosen. Charlie Bucket comes from a poor family on the verge of becoming homeless and losing everything they have, so the opportunity to earn a lifetime supply of riches and goodies for his family may be the miracle he didn't know he needed.

A fun adventure book with enough tasty visuals to make any sweet tooth hungry for a sugary snack. I enjoyed the immersion of the factory tour, making you see, smell and taste everything that's described to you. I liked the morbid humor and the surprisingly dismissive attitude of Mr. Wonka towards the possible brutal deaths of children being killed in his factory because of their constant misbehavior. This book could've easily been a gruesome horror novel in the hands of another author.

There's a bit of content that hasn't aged all that well, but the ultimate moral of the story remains relevant. Kindness, modesty and virtue usually goes a longer way than being selfish, greedy and arrogant. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has a similar tone and message as the old tale of Hansel and Gretel.

My favorite part of the whole book was Grandpa Joe's unapologetic love of life and his unstoppably whimsical spirit. He's hilarious.

{3.75 stars}

n  “But there was one other thing that the grown-ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there.”n

Random scenes from the 2005 movie adaption (that I watched as a child) keep popping in my head with absolutely zero context--kid sinking and screaming, weird guy in a hat with a creepy smile, and lots of gum-chewing. I had no idea what this was about.

It's actually a pretty sweet story. I can't believe I'm only now reading this.

I like the optimistic nature of Dahl's books--that things will work out happily ever after for nice children. This may set children up to be delusional... but there are worse things to be.

This is actually 4.5 stars.

I never read Roald Dahl as a child, not sure why, I’m sure I’d have enjoyed them. As a teenager I read (and watched the TV show) Tales of the Unexpected with their twisted endings, just my sort of tales! I read a few of his books with my son when he was little, I definitely remember The Twits but I think this is the first time I’ve read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Of course I already knew the story, the golden ticket etc is part of popular culture but I was still surprised how much I enjoyed it and how fresh it seemed. My first laugh was at Mr Bucket’s job at the toothpaste factory, he screws the caps on after the tubes have been filled; and there’s lots of wordplay and jokes at the expense of the other horrible children. Great fun!