About this title: Darkly humorous, slightly creepy, and ultimately the tale of a nice guy who just might finish first, CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY is one of the prolific Roald Dahl's most popular works. Life changes for a poor but kindhearted boy named Charlie Bucket when he manages to win one of five golden tickets that allows him and a guest of his choice to tour the chocolate factory of an eccentric and reclusive candy inventor named Willy Wonka. On the big day, Charlie and the other visitors are warned to obey all of Mr. Wonka's strict, but rather strange, rules for behavior. What will happen if ...
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Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Puffin Books, New York
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780141301150ISBN:0141301155
Description: Blake, Quentin. covers lightly shelfworn & scuffed from storage, fairly large chip in upper spine, pages yellowing due to age, good reading copy. Trade PB (US), glued binding, 155 pp, Illustrated read more
Description: Very Good. 0140328696 Great condition Soft Cover book, clean pages, mild creases to spine, light edge/corner rubs, this book is GREAT! Shop & Save With US. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred A Knopf
Date Published: 1973
Description: Good. Copyright@1973. hardback(navy blue-yellow board) book without dust jacket. clear text. tight binding. covers have corner wear. has small daage to the back(near spine). both ends of spine has wear. read more
"The book is about a mysterious chocolate factory owned by Mr Willy Wonka that has been closed to the public for years. Mr Wonka is opening his factory to five lucky children who find a golden ticket in one of his chocolate bars. Then there's Charlie, a child from a poor home where they struggle to have enough money to buy food.
The first part of this book focuses on the golden tickets being found, and whether Charlie Bucket will find one, when he can afford to get very few bars, and there are others all around the world buying boxes full of chocolates. The second part of the book is about the adventures in the chocolate factory and what happens to the naughty children who misbehave in the factory.
I've watched the film version of this book, many times before (The Gene Wilder version), and it was a childhood favourite. The book version and film version do have some differences, but I still enjoyed the book."
"To put my review into perspective, it's important to note that I am probably obsessed with the original movie. I've seen it more than any other movie in existence and could probably recite every word in the script. I was then properly horrified by the second movie, which everyone told me was "closer to the book" in its defense. So I imagined I'd encounter this demented Wonka in the novel with the weird dentist father, but now I have come to realize just how many people pretend to have read books when they know that someone else has not read them. So the second movie is just demented and ineffective, and it's not Dahl's fault one bit.
The book bored me after my initial delight with Dahl's humorous writing style. Perhaps it's because I spent the entire time categorizing all of the information in terms of movie 1 & 2, but I have to say that the book pales in comparison to movie 1. All of the elements of the movie that make me a fan do not exist in the novel (themes especially). Also, the 3-page long songs of the oompa-loompas annoyed me.
I do have to admit that I chuckled at some of Wonka's ideas and comments, but he's no Gene Wilder.
Apparently, it's a hit with 9-year-old boys, especially since it said "ass", but not worth reading in my opinion. It served its purpose to inspire a brilliant movie, and that's its legacy for me."
"Charlie lives in a poor family. He gets a chocolate bar for his present which lasts him over half a year. Everyday he walks to school passing the great chocolate factory, he loves chocolate. One day Willy the chocolate factory owner decides to put gold tickets in his chocolate if you get one you get to go to his factory.
I liked the part when Charlie found money on the street and spent it on chocolate. Luckily he found the gold ticket and the town knew about him and told him to keep the ticket. He goes into factory with his grandfather and its amazing reading about it.
It was surprising to me that on the end Willy gave his factory away to Charlie. He is a good honest boy and deserved the factory. One day he was poor the next day he was rich. Its quite amazing if you tell me."
"charlie bucket and his family are really poor and his dad just lost his job at the toothpaste factory but they are still willing to buy him some chocolate bars for a chance at the golden ticket. 5 people can find tickets and the tickets will let them go to the mysterious wonka chocolate factory no one has been in since it closed years ago, when it reopened the only thing that came out was the chocolate boxes. charlies garndpa tells him stories of the factory as he sits on a bed with him and his other 3 grandparents.it sounds like heaven to charlies rumbling stomach. and when he finds a coin on the ground and buys a candy bar and it has the golden ticket he gets to go to the fatory.it tells the strange and bizarre journey of his trip in side."
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