A direct sequel to Chocolate Factory, part space adventure part goofy antics this follow up is enjoyable enough for those who enjoy Wonka’s character.

I practically enjoyed the Vermicious Knids and the rejuvenation pills in the second half of the book.

I couldn’t imagine this story working with any other characters.

Con todo el respeto, pero que mierda ha sido esto. XD

It was a fun side story but wasn't as good as the first book. The storyline was a bit weird and out of place.

I was kinf of bored with it and just wanted it to finish. I'm glad I've read it but it's not a great story.

Aslında bu kitap Charlie'nin Çikolata Fabrikasının devamı. Ben de Charlie'nin Çikolata Fabrikasını çok severek okuduğum için hemen 2. kitabını aldım ve sanırım 1. kitabından daha çok sevdim. Bunun sebebinin de 1. kitabının filmini seyretmek olduğunu düşünüyorum

While I can admit that Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was definitely the better book, that doesn't diminish the enjoyment I got from the sequel. This story was hysterically silly from beginning to end at the expense of the adults. The United States president was the funniest of the bunch. There was outer space, monsters, oompa loompas, and chocolate factory hijinks. The story pointed to a possible part 3, but sadly that never came to fruition.

A childhood favorite which was even wackier than I remember it being. The plot is all over the place and takes the characters into outer space to fight an alien race intent on eating humans, back to the chocolate factory, and into Minusland. A fun romp, though not as good as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory because of the randomness of the plot. The humor was also much punnier, which is not something I enjoy, and it outdated itself with some racial slurs in the beginning that would have been fine in the 70s when the book was written, but make readers cringe now. Interesting commentary on politics, though.

Awful. Stopped reading this to my child after the part where the President makes a phone call to China...the “humor” is so derogatory. It’s not even a well-written political satire OR children’s story, whichever the aim was meant to be.

Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator: The Further Adventures of Charlie Bucket and Willy Wonka, Chocolate-Maker Extraordinaire (Charlie Bucket, #2), Roald Dahl

Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator is a children's book by British author Roald Dahl.

It is the sequel to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, continuing the story of young Charlie Bucket and chocolatier Willy Wonka as they travel in the Great Glass Elevator.

The story picks up immediately where the previous book left off, with Charlie and his whole family aboard the flying Great Glass Elevator.

The Elevator goes into orbit by accident, where Mr Wonka docks them at the U.S. Space Hotel.

Shortly after their arrival, the hotel's elevators open, revealing man-eating monsters, known as Vermicious Knids, which form a letter of the word 'SCRAM'. Recognising the danger, Mr Wonka orders everybody off the Space Hotel.

Upon the Elevator's departure, the monsters consumed some people aboard.

Charlie suggests towing the shuttle back to Earth. Whereupon Willy Wonka returns the Elevator with the shuttle to Earth, the monsters are incinerated in the atmosphere.

Mr Wonka releases the shuttle, and the Elevator then crashes down through the roof of the chocolate factory.

Back in the chocolate factory, three of Charlie's grandparents refuse to leave their bed. Mr Wonka gives them a rejuvenation formula.

They take much more than they need, and they each lose eighty years. 78-year-old Grandma Georgina vanishes, having become "-2".

Charlie and Mr Wonka journey to 'Minusland', then Mr. Wonka restores her with a sprayable compound that makes people older.

Grandma Georgina has become 358 years old. Using a cautious dose, the three are restored to their original age.

Finally, the President of the U.S. invites the family and Mr Wonka to the White House, as a thank you for their space rescue.

تاریخ نخستین خوانش: سال2001میلادی

عنوان: چارلی و آسانسور بزرگ شیشه‌ ای کتاب دوم از سری چارلی باکت؛ نویسنده: رولد دال؛ مترجم شهلا طهماسبی؛ تهران، نشر مرکز، کتابهای مریم، سال1377؛ در160ص؛ شابک9643053784؛ چاپ دوم سال1380؛ چاپ سوم سال1381؛ چاپ هفتم سال1388؛ شابک9789643053789؛ موضوع داستانهای کودکان از نویسندگان بریتانیا - سده 20م

مترجم: محبوبه نجف حانی؛ تهران، افق، سال1386؛ در234ص؛ چاپ سوم سال1388؛ شابک9789643693985؛چاپ دیگر تهران، افق، چاپ پنجم سال1392؛ در238ص؛ شابک9789643698430؛

مترجم: نوشین ملکی؛ تهران، گاج، سال1395؛ در165ص؛ شابک9786003593305؛

مترجم: مهناز ایلدرمی؛ تهران، گل آذین، سال1396؛ در180ص؛ شابک9789647703222؛

ادامه ی داستانِ «چارلی و کارخانه شکلات سازی» اثر «رولد دال» است؛ «چارلی» و پدر و مادر و مامان بزرگها و بابابزرگهایش، سوار آسانسور اسرارآمیز فضایی آقای «وانکا» میشوند؛ مامان بزرگها، و بابابزرگها، الم شنگه ای راه میاندازند، که آنسرش ناپیداست؛ آقای «وانکا» نیز، با آسانسورش پز میدهد، و مشغول هنرنمایی است؛ «چارلی» و «بابابزرگ جو»، دست به هر کاری میزنند، تا در رکاب آقای «وانکا»، سر و سامانی به آشفته بازار، و شله قلمکاری که پخته شده، بدهند؛ ناگهان، سر و کله ی یک سفینه ی فضایی بزرگ، سبز میشود؛ که میخواهد مسافرانش را، به نخستین هتل فضایی تاریخ برساند؛ گل بود، به سبزه نیز آراسته شد...؛ سر و کله ی کرمهای غولی هم، پیدا میشود؛ آقای «وانکا» و دوستانش، در کهکشان شیری، توی دل خطر میروند؛ عسلهای گلم، خوانشگران نوجوان، لباسهای فضاییتان را بپوشید؛ شما هم به آسانسور فضایی آقای «وانکا»، دعوت هستید!؛

تاریخ بهنگام رسانی 22/01/1400هجری خورشیدی؛ 21/08/1400هجری خورشیدی؛ ا. شربیانی

bueno, qué decir. me divertí muchísimo con este libro, más cosas geniales del gran Willy Wonka con nuevas aventuras, esta vez con toda la familia de Charlie. a pesar de ser una secuela no deja de ser divertida y entretenida de leer. sólo quiero decir esto: ¡quiero una vita-wonka! jajaja. la verdad que es un genio. se imaginan que todo el mundo de chocolate que ha hecho este hombre existiera? por un lado, súper. por el otro, los diabéticos y los intolerantes al dulce, habrá que hacer un esfuerzo enorme por abstenerse.

Part of my personal reading challenge (reading through the New York Public Library's "Top 100 Kids' Books). Like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Great Glass Elevator was whacky and zany. But I personally had more fun with the first one. While the chocolate factory was magical, this book spent a lot time zooming through space with Charlie's insufferable grandparents that are too lazy to get out of bed. But the last third of the book is spent on getting his insufferably greedy grandparents back to their proper age when they take too much youth medicine to change their age.

Still classic Dahl. Still fun. But not as fun as exploring the magical world of the factory.

I'd rate this book a G.

This book should not have been written. I thought it was a pointless book, where it could be an add on to the end of the first book.

Pretty Silly
15 December 2019

tYou know when an author writes a book that becomes so popular that they make a movie out of it, and the movie also becomes an absolute classic as well. Well, this isn’t that book, this is the sequal to that book, and needless to say that this book blows, and it blows incredibly hard. I guess there is a really good reason why they never actually made a movie out of this book, and stared Gene Wilder in it either.

tHonestly, it is actually one of those books that I would rather just forget and a part of me wonders why I even bothered to get my hands on it and read it. Actually, that is a pretty stupid question because I know the answer – I remember reading it a really long time ago, and I didn’t want to write a review without actually giving the book another chance. Well, the fact that the first book is a classic lead me to believe that this book is the same.

tWell, you could say that in this book they end up in orbit after playing around with the elevator, and while they are in orbit they discover that the universe is ruled by these vicious monsters that pretty much destroy anything that attempts to leave Earth’s atmosphere, but they can’t land on Earth because they burn up on reentry. Oh, and they also end up on a space station, and start playing games with the Amercian President, whose Nanny happens to be his Vice-President (my eyes honestly rolled at that concept).

tMind you, some people claim that we have a man-boy currently in the White House, though I would hardly suggest that the current VP would come anywhere close to being his Nanny (and I suspect that maybe he wouldn’t listen to her anyway even if he happened to have one). Still, this isn’t a political commentary, though one might suggest that Dahl was quite insightful at times where he suggests that the Vice President actually turns out to be much more influential than the actual president, and the president that ends up getting elected is, well, just a figure head.

tThen the second half of the book has them return to the chocolate factory and some disaster over anti-aging drugs that Wonka has discovered (in fact they are drugs that basically reduce your age by something like 20 years, and in a rush to become younger, Charlie’s grandparents end up scoffing a head of them). Yeah, as I said, this book ended up being pretty silly, and in fact, it was bordering on nonsense. Sure, there are people that are likely to protest, but in the end, I would recommend passing on this book – just stick with the first one.