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 ❤️

I think I'm developing a love for Roald Dahl's books at 23 years old. I never read any of his books when I was younger, so I decided that I want to read more iconic children's books. These books are so fun to read! Never would I have though to like these children's books so much. Also, I believe this book was adapted into a movie(s) in such a great way. A bit literally though, when I compare the book with the movie(s). Can't wait to read more of Roald Dahl.

When I read this book as a child I was so immersed in the story my imagination was broadened. How exciting to find a golden ticket and gain access as a VIP in Willy Wanka's mysterious chocolate factory. Brilliant. The original film with Gene Wilder is a classic. In my opinion far better than the remake with Johnny Depp. I like Johnny Depp he is an amazing actor but Gene Wilder was Willy Wanka in my book. I often wonder about the names of these characters. Did Roald Dahl have a twinkle in his eye when he named him Willy Wanka? Over here in the UK it sounds like the word Wanker which, really means a long Walker. To have a wank is to go for a long walk. However we all know what a Wanker is in colloquial terms...and his name is Willy! Lol! Did Dahl have a smirk when he created him? Over here in the UK we had a cartoon that used to be on in the afternoon called Captain Pugwash. I used to watch it when I came home from school, it was great. Some of the characters names were 'master bates'. And 'seaman stains'. The show ran for years before the dark suits cottoned on to the hidden pun. So funny that hundreds of thousands of children were laughing about it at school, the show inevitability got cancelled. Also the cartoon Magic Roundabout. Dylan was always stoned and played the banjo. Lol! Dougal who was addicted to sugar cubes; LSD springs to mind; and he used to run around in circles. Ermintrude if I remember was a cow that flew. It was hilarious and as children we lapped it up. The creaters were university graduates and they basically took the piss out of the powers that be. Anyhow Roald Dahl books are fantastic and Charlie And The Chocolate Factory is up there with his best. The original film is well worth the watch too.

This is a middle grade, and this is the first book in the Charlie Bucket series. I listen to the audiobook with my daughter. This was a re-read for me. I love this book. I read this book when I was in sixth grade, and I remember loving it when I read it then. (*)

انتهت الرحلة
وياااالها من رحلة
من أمتع واسلى واظرف الجولات في اجمل أماكن العالم " مصنع الشوكولا " ويا ليتني كنت مكانه
بقدر ما شعرت بالسعادة لأجل تشارلي بقدر ما شعرت بالغيرة منه وتمنيت ان اكون انا مكانه
اجرب واتذوق وامتع ناظري ّ بكل تلك النكهات والأشكال
وقد شعرت وكأن الكاتب يجاكرني بهذه الرحلة ، رحلة ادفع من أجلها كل ما أملك ، ولو كلفني الأمر أن ابيع سيارتي والتي لا اطيق ان تطأها قداما اي شخص آخر

Oompa Loompa Doompety Doo
Movie's better but the book is great too

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'll consider myself successful only when I'll have the same spirit as Grandpa Joe at ninety-six and a half.

I really wish classics like this would have aged better. This one has plenty of great ideas, though it relies on Roald Dahl's usual lazy writing: way too much dialogue, tons of exposition and action all jammed into the dialogue, a boringly wandering point of view, not enough focus on the main character. Plus, there are so many weird glossed-over racist depictions of the Oomaloompas and how they're treated as test subjects for Wonka's experiments (a few of them die!!) but they're supposedly somehow grateful to live in factory hell. What a bummer. Once again, I had to skip over all kinds of nasty sentences about evil fat people so I wouldn't accidentally poison the kids during storytime.

Hey but there are the great moments you remember. There are some great descriptions of terrible things happening to these kids that Roald Dahl hates ("Violet, you're turning violet, Violet!"). And there are a lot of little things that the movie clearly improved. In the book, Wonka snaps his fingers to summon the Oomaloompas. Boring. That strange little flute in the movie was way better. In the book, they skip right by the floating soda room. Way better to have Charlie and Grandpa Joe go in and almost die before they figure out how to burp themselves to safety. In the book, the Oompaloompas sing WAY too long boring judgey moralistic songs without any tune or meter. The movie song was iconic (though still unnecessarily judgey.)

The one place that this book absolutely works is in the opening chapters. The opening of this book is HARROWING. Charlie and his family are starving to death. Charlie only gets one bar of chocolate a year on his birthday but he tries to share it with his family because he loves them so much. There's a closeness we get to him as he slowly walks to school, trying to save energy in the winter, even as he only eats half a boiled potato a day... Then that all changes when he finds the golden ticket and we lose focus on Charlie almost completely in favor of the large group of people following Wonka. I mean, I get it. The factory itself is super interesting, and I wanted to know what was in each room. But it would've been better if we had stuck with Charlie.

Anyway, yeah, the classics haven't aged well. It's really too bad. There are some glimmers of greatness here, but overall, I am disappointed by Roald Dahl yet again.

Read for Reading Sprint 2019 in Buddy Reads.



After going through one-third of incredibly boring The Magic Toyshop, this was a treasure! I remember being in school and seeing kids watching the movie in our special video classes and wondering when will I be big enough to understand it. I have loved this ever since I watched it and I did have a physical copy of it which I treasured and with the help of which I learned all the songs, but it got lost in shifting 9 years ago. So I felt right at home when I read it now.

I love Charlie. He is the sweetest and the most caring little boy. I love the connection and the love the family had in spite of no money and growling stomachs. I finished it in one sitting. I think the morals in here are very good and children should definitely read this! The fact that it focuses on spoiled children makes it even better/ The end was different from the movie. I loved the movie’s version and here, I was like: That’s it? But amazing read :)



Now excuse me, my mouth is definitely watery and I need some chocolate ;)

If you ever want to cheer yourself up, go back and read a book you loved and read over and over as a child. For me, this is one book that will always be better than any movie they make from it. Nothing Hollywood does with special effects will ever be as magical as what Roald Dahl did with just plain old words.

It has been MANY long years since I last looked at this book, but it all came back to me as soon as I turned to the first page and saw the illustrations. I was immediately carried away by the story. Even though I already knew how everything would turn out, I found myself rooting for Charlie Bucket to find one of the five Golden Tickets. And yes, I watched gleefully as the naughty kids paid for their bad behavior.

I love the chants the Oompa-Loompas do after each bad kid gets his or her comeuppance. These guys are the original rappers! My mind was showing me hundreds of itty-bitty Oompa-Loompas in the background doing wild synchronized hip-hop moves while chanting to a rapper rhythm:
"Augustus Gloop! Augustus Gloop!
The great big greedy nincompoop!
How long could we allow this beast
To gorge and guzzle, feed and feast
On everything he wanted to?
Great Scott! It simply wouldn't do!"

I've always loved to play with our English words that have more than one meaning, so passages like the one below tickle me pink (or pickle me tink, if you are The BFG):

They streaked past a black door. STOREROOM NUMBER 71, it said on it. WHIPS--ALL SHAPES AND SIZES.
"Whips!" cried Veruca Salt. "What on earth do you use whips for?"
"For whipping cream, of course," said Mr. Wonka. "How can you whip cream without whips? Whipped cream isn't whipped cream at all unless it's been whipped with whips. Just as a poached egg isn't a poached egg unless it's been stolen from the woods in the dead of night!"

There's a sinister undercurrent in the book that I missed completely when I was a kid. I can just see Mr. Dahl chortling to himself when he wrote some of this stuff. Heh heh, that little bit about the whips oughta give the grownups a little hitch in their ho-hum.
But everything comes out happy in the end. Even the naughty kids still get their lifetime supply of Willy Wonka's DELICIOUS EATABLES. Not to mention a nasty case of diabetes after a few years of indulgence.

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.