• Mok98@feddit.it
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    73
    ·
    9 months ago

    He actually overdoses his grandparents, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg

      • Mok98@feddit.it
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        6
        ·
        9 months ago

        It’s an interesting thread but the concept is quite generic, even in the book, it’s interesting only in how it’s developed, so hardly anybody would make the connection

    • holycrap@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      16
      ·
      9 months ago

      The knids were mentioned by name in the Gene Wilder film. I remember noticing that as a kid and asking if they were going to do the great glass elevator next. My parents were confident they would have by then if they were going to, at least as a continuation if that film

  • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    33
    ·
    9 months ago

    I recall it being a really entertaining story, but it’s been such a long time that I don’t remember any details

    • lobut@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      20
      ·
      9 months ago

      I read it immediately after the Chocolate Factory and like you I can’t remember much of anything.

      I just remember how they got to space and that’s it.

    • CluckN@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      13
      ·
      9 months ago

      The only part I remember is they bump into a government spaceship and Wonka is like, “Let me handle it” and starts to dance and make clicking noises to freak everyone out.

    • MeatsOfRage@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      5
      ·
      9 months ago

      I remember the teacher in grade 2 started to read it to us then bounced on it because it was a lot more complicated than chocolate factory. I never went back to it but I’ve been curious

  • Chris@feddit.uk
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    13
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    9 months ago

    I found it quite scary and can’t remember much else about it.

  • Professorozone@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    12
    ·
    9 months ago

    My teachers read this to us when I was in elementary school. Don’t remember much though, except how I love being read to and how it was the best part of the day.

  • pythonoob
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    12
    ·
    9 months ago

    I remember reading this as a kid but I don’t really remember anything other than them swimming through the air in the lack of gravity

    • averyminya@beehaw.org
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      6
      ·
      9 months ago

      The Great Glass Elevator had it all, Space Worms, Space Hotels, and even the Grandparents getting out of bed!

  • MrJameGumb@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    13
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    9 months ago

    We read that one in elementary school! I seem to recall it being really good, but that was like 30 some odd years ago lol

        • dropout@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          4
          ·
          9 months ago

          I answered but then wasn’t sure if we were on the same page. But if you’re asking what happens in the book, when you overdose on age reversal pills you go to Minusland.

        • Moobythegoldensock@lemm.ee
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          edit-2
          9 months ago

          IIRC (it’s been decades since I’ve read it) they each pop like 4 pills before waiting to hear how they work (his grandparents are kind of stupid.) Each pill subtracts 20 years, so they all lose 80 years. And one of Charlie’s grandparents is like 78 or 79 so they disappear while the rest are over 80 and go back to being babies/toddlers.

          So Charlie takes the elevator down to Minusland, which is a bit like the Upside Down from Stranger Things, and goes on an adventure to bring his grandparent back.

  • EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    9
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    9 months ago

    If you think that is weird, they actually made a sequel movie set about 50 years later set of a train plowing endlessly through a snow covered post apocalypse

  • anakin78z@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    9 months ago

    I read this to my kids a few years ago, and while super weird, it’s also super racist, in the “Chinese say ching chong, haha” kind of way, and it does it with just about any race, culture, and stereotype you can think of (since they take over a space station and it becomes an international incident).