Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl


Isn't everyone familiar with the famous Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory? After all, it is the most famous candy factory of all time! And it's been closed for a long, long time. But not anymore- the factory is opening at last! Only five lucky children will be allowed inside of the grand, famous building. With the combination of an enormously fat boy with the hobby of stuffing his face, a spoiled-rotten brat whose parents are wrapped around her little pinky, a dim-witted gum-chewer with the fastest jaws around, a toy pistol-totting gangster-in-training who is obsessed with television, a poor boy with a kind heart, and a crazy senile but filthy rich man, Charlie's adventure in the huge factory is bound to be the wildest time of his life!

It all starts with five Golden Tickets- five Golden Tickets, five Golden Children to enter Mr. Wonka's chocolate factory. But Charlie is not rich- he's poor. With little to eat, and even less money to spend, Charlie doesn't seem to have any chance to get his hands on a Golden Ticket.  So when he actually gets it, it's more than a small surprise, it's more of something like a miracle. With Charlie's honest to goodness, kind, brave, and truthful personality, he's one boy that is definitely hard to hate. But leave that to the four other Golden Ticket finders. Charlie is an amazing boy with an amazing tale of his day in the Chocolate Factory with Willy Wonka- the slightly insane and off-his-rockers owner of the Factory. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl is a must-read and it is also a major motion-picture, so if you don't wish to read it, I would at least recommend the movie! However, I do recommend the book before the movie (my motto- mostly for every single movie that was based from a book, I had to say that the book was indefinitely better!). I personally like reading the book before watching the movie because it gives you a lot more space to think about what the characters look like in your mind, rather than having a specific person the character looks like. I believe that reading a book gives you much more space to be creative than a movie. Therefore, I recommend that you read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory before watching it!

I recommend this book to candy-lovers, adventure-lovers, and fantasy-lovers all alike! Roald Dahl is an amazing writer and some of his other titles are:

James and the Giant Peach

The B.F.G

The Twits

The Witches

Matilda

and a lot more. Check out his site: http://www.roalddahl.com/ or just go on google, type in Roald Dahl, and his site will be the first site! Good reading!

*** I give this book a 9.45 out of 10!****

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