Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator door Roald Dahl

Titel van het boek: Charlie And The Great Glass Elevator
Schrijver: Roald Dahl
Vertaler: geen
Plaats van uitgave: London
Jaar van uitgave: 1973
Uitgever: Allen & Unwin
Soort boek: Science Fiction

A. 1. Nee, ik zou het boek niet hebben gekozen als ik naar de omslag keek alleen. Het ziet er namelijk een beetje saai uit aan de buitenkant.

2. Ja, anders had ik hem niet gelezen. Het leek me een leuk boek toen ik naar de titel keek.

B. 1. Charlie en Mr. Willy Wonka
2. Er wordt gedacht dat de lift een ruimtevaartschip is. 3. Dat ze in de lift omhoog vliegen, door het dak van de fabriek heen. 4. De glazen lift is het onderwerp. Het heeft me niet aan het denken gezet. 5. In Amerika, in de fabriek en in de ruimte. 6. Het verhaal speelt zich in de toekomst af. 7. Nee, er vliegen niet zomaar liften door de lucht.

C. 1. Ja en nee, want Roald Dahl schrijft makkelijk. Maar nee omdat het in het Engels is. 2. Nee, want alles is wel leuk om te lezen.

D. 1. Spannend, lachwekkend, onbekend, onwerkelijk, fantastisch, laat me koud, kinderachtig, oninteressant, verrassend, doet me niets, niet herkenbaar. 2. Nee, het is niet een boek dat je graag leest. Het slaat nergens op.

E. Als cijfer geef ik een 6. Dus wel aardig.

Summary The story consists of two parts. In the first part, the whole family (Charlie, his parents and grandparents) and Mr Wonka are in the great glass elevator from the factory. The problem is, the elevator goes to high, so they go out of the building, even into space. There, in space, is also a space hotel, that will be opened a few hours later. Before it\'s opened, the elevator-travellers go into the hotel. That not a good idea, because there are also some aliens, wanting to eat them, so they go back into their elevator. Then the staff of the hotel wants to go into it, but they also see the aliens. The elevator-travellers help them fleeing. Then the space crafts both go back to earth. In the second part, Mr Willy Wonka has invented a pill that makes you 20 years younger. The grandparents, except of Grandpa Joe, all eat four of them. Grandpa George and Grandma Josephine become little babies, but Grandma Georgina disappears. She has taken too many pills, because she was just 78 years old! Charlie and mister Wonka have to go to Minus-land to get her back. They do by using a spray that makes you older, but she comes back as a 358 year-old lady, so they have to make her younger again. They make her exactly the age she was before al the pills and spays. Then they give the two babies some spray so they become older too. At the very end of the story, they are invited to the White House for a couple of days, because they have saved the space-hotel staff.

My own opinion I liked reading this book, but it was not very easy for me. That\'s why I\'m going to read something easier, next time. The most difficult thing of the book review was the deepening part. It was difficult tome, because I has never done something like that before, I even didn\'t for Dutch, so I had to find out how to do it first. That took quite a lot of time. When I knew how to do it, I could easily do the assignment. It was a nice book to read, full of fantasies. That what I like about this book. That was my own opinion.