Book Review: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Found for free in a library sale. This is one of the 100 Books the BBC says you should read before you die, so I figured I could polish it off in a few hours and have a more impressive literary score. I'd seen the 1971 movie Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory as well as the recent Broadway musical version. Fun and silly, a classic for anyone who loves candy and the innocence of childhood. Dahl skewers bad juvenile habits such as gum-chewing and TV watching. He would have exploded at today's I-phone obsessed kids who make Mike Teavee and Veruca Salt look like Rhodes scholars.