I read this to a computer several times trying to train it to recognize my voice: Dragon Naturally Speaking. I called it Dragon Naturally Failing because the program never worked as advertised, even though I bought several generations. To my knowledge, no speech to text works satisfactorily, except the one court (voice) reporters use.
The story is, as always, a basket full of nightmares, written by the master of Children's Dark Fantasy: Beelzebub, himself. Charlie Spitbucket and his bedridden grandparents get up to some flying monkey hi-jinx in space. Avoid.

At the end of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, we left Charlie and his family and Willy Wonka sky high in the Great Glass Elevator. Charlie had only just been informed that he had won the right to take over the factory, as his own, once Mr. Wonka retired in a few years.

So I was hoping for more adventures in the magical chocolate factory as Charlie was beginning to learn the ropes but that is not how this book pans out. This book takes a bizarre turn as the Glass Elevator is propelled too high and out into space. It takes half of the book for the family to return to earth and the Chocolate Factory.

Once inside there is revealed a little more of Wonka's magic but you will be disappointed if you, like me, want to continue the magical journey around the factory. Wonka himself declares that only a minute part of the factory was covered off in the original tour with the five golden ticket winners. The Oompa-Loompas again play a small part but it seems that not all of Wonka's discoveries are treat based and this story deals more with the others.

It feels almost like sacrilege to declare one of Roald Dahl's books has missed the mark but I would have to say I was a little disappointed in the direction this one took. It, in a little, way takes a bit of the gloss off the first book too. Still very much a good book for the young ones as they grow into their reading but doesn't have the excitement of the first. I would put most of Dahl's children's and adult's work ahead of this one.

اين كتاب اصلا در حد و اندازه ى چارلى و كارخانه ى شكلات سازى نبود!
اما باز هم ايده هاى رولد دال جالب بود و دوست داشتنى :)