Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Puffin Novels)

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For the first time in a decade, Willy Wonka, the reclusive and eccentric chocolate maker, is opening his doors to the public--well, five members of the public to be exact. The lucky five who find a Golden Ticket in their Wonka chocolate bars will receive a private tour of the factory, given by Mr. Wonka himself. For young Charlie Bucket, this a dream come true. And, when he finds a dollar bill in the street, he can't help but buy two Wonka's Whipple-Scrumptious Fudgemallow Delights--even though his impoverished family could certainly use the extra dollar for food. But as Charlie unwraps the second chocolate bar, he sees the glimmer of gold just under the wrapper! The very next day, Charlie, along with his unworthy fellow winners Mike Teavee, Veruca Salt, Violet Beauregarde, and Augustus Gloop, steps through the factory gates to discover whether or not the rumors surrounding the Chocolate Factory and its mysterious owner are true. What they find is that the gossip can't compare to the extraordinary truth, and for Charlie, life will never be the same again. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, another unforgettable masterpiece from the legendary Roald Dahl, never fails to delight, thrill, and utterly captivate. (Ages 9 to 12)

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The classic tale of fantasy, this delightful masterpiece depicts all sorts of characters: greedy, selfish, obnoxious, compassionate, loveable, and generous. Recounting the adventures of four children bent on having their own way, the story's moralistic factor becomes uproariously apparent early on.

Customer Reviews:

A FUNNY BOOK TO READ!.......2007-10-02

My name is Schuyler®. I read Charlie & the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl. Charlie is one fifth of the lucky children that get to go into the chocolate factory. Some of the wildest things happen. The book is hilarious. I recommend it and give it five stars.

My Favorite Book of All-Time.......2007-09-23

Roald Dahl is one of my favorite authors of all-time but Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has so many elements to the book that make it so great. I think this book would be perfect for middle school kids because of the fantasy part of the book that gets kids thinking beyond what they perceive reality as, it gets them thinking outside the box. Another thing that this book builds is curiosity, in the book the kids are curious to see what is really inside the factory. There is never a boring part of the book. This book also teaches the point of never giving up because Charlie finally won the golden ticket. A great book...

Charlie and the choclate factory.......2007-06-13

Have you ever wanted to see inside of a chocolate factory? Well in this book a kid named Charlie gets that chance. He finds a golden ticket in the rapper of a chocolate bar. So he and his grandpa along with all the other kids that found tickets get to go to take a tour of the factory. Why they are in there some pretty interesting things happen to all the kids. Each kid finds a way to get in trouble in there own way.
My favorite part of this book is when Charlie and his grandma get in trouble. They drink so soda that makes them float and have to find a way down. Then they think no one saw them but they get caught in the end.
I believe that the theme of this book is that "good things happen to good people. I think this cause Charlie is a nice boy and very good things happen to him. He is quickly rewarded for performing good deeds.
Overall this was a pretty good book. The beginning is a little long and boring but after that it is good book. This is probably a book meant for kids 10 to 13. This book has a lot of imagination in it.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.......2007-06-06

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is about a boy named Charlie Bucket, a small boy who lived a very poor. Until one day, as he walked alongside the road, his eye caught a dollar bill. What do you think he does with it? He spends it on two bars of chocolate. One of them contained a golden ticket to Mr. Willy Wonka's chocolate factory, and Wonka is the world's greatest chocolate maker. Charlie gets a tour of the factory with four other children: Augustus Gloop, Veruca Salt, Violet Beauregarde, and Mike Teavee.

I would most likely recommend this book to children because it's whimsical and funny. I'd rate this book a five because it really gets my attention. This is also the reason why I like this book. If you think you might like this book, then try reading it.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.......2007-06-06

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is about a boy named Charlie Bucket, a small boy who lived a very poor. Until one day, as he walked alongside the road, his eye caught a dollar bill. What do you think he does with it? He spends it on two bars of chocolate. One of them contained a golden ticket to Mr. Willy Wonka's chocolate factory, and Wonka is the world's greatest chocolate maker. Charlie gets a tour of the factory with four other children: Augustus Gloop, Veruca Salt, Violet Beauregarde, and Mike Teavee.
I would most likely recommend this book to children because it's whimsical and funny. I'd rate this book a five because it really gets my attention. This is also the reason why I like this book. If you think you like this book, then try reading it.

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A sweet and intense view into the life of a teen werewolf...
EXCELLENT READ!!!
Blood and Chocolate what a combination!
Cliche and bad at the beginning, almost satisfying by the end, this is an inconstant, sub par book. Ambivalently recommended
Teen Angst, Werewolf Style

Blood and Chocolate
Annette Curtis Klause
Manufacturer: Laurel Leaf
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ASIN: 0440226686
Release Date: 1999-09-07

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Characterizing the adolescent experience as monstrous is not exactly a new idea. M.T. Anderson's woefully confused teen vampire in Thirsty and Jean Thesman's reluctant young witch in The Other Ones serve as excellent examples of this metaphor set to fiction. But no one really captures how our hormones make us howl as well as Annette Curtis Klause. Blood and Chocolate chronicles the longings and passions of one Vivian Gandillon, teenage werewolf. Her pack family, recently burned out of their West Virginia home by suspicious neighbors, has resettled in a sleepy Maryland suburb. At her new school, Viv quickly falls for sensitive heartthrob Aiden, a human--or "meat-boy," as her pack calls him. Soon she is trying to tame her undomesticated desires to match his more civilized sensibilities. "He was gentle. She hadn't expected that. Kisses to her were a tight clutch, teeth, and tongue... His eyes were shy beneath his dark lashes, and his lips curved with delight and desire--desire he wouldn't force on her... he was different." But Vivian's animal ardor cannot be stilled, and she must decide if she should keep Aiden in the dark about her true nature or invite him to take a walk on her wild side.

Klause poetically describes the violence and sensuality of the pack lifestyle, creating a hot-blooded heroine who puts the most outrageous riot grrrls to shame. Blood and Chocolate is a masterpiece of adolescent angst wrapped in wolf's clothing, and its lovely, sensuous taste is sure to be sweet on the teenage tongue. (Ages 13 and older) --Jennifer Hubert

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Vivian Gandillon relishes the change, the sweet, fierce ache that carries her from girl to wolf. At sixteen, she is beautiful and strong, and all the young wolves are on her tail. But Vivian still grieves for her dead father; her pack remains leaderless and in disarray, and she feels lost in the suburbs of Maryland. She longs for a normal life. But what is normal for a werewolf?

Then Vivian falls in love with a human, a meat-boy. Aiden is kind and gentle, a welcome relief from the squabbling pack. He's fascinated by magic, and Vivian longs to reveal herself to him. Surely he would understand her and delight in the wonder of her dual nature, not fear her as an ordinary human would.

Vivian's divided loyalties are strained further when a brutal murder threatens to expose the pack. Moving between two worlds, she does not seem to belong in either. What is she really--human or beast? Which tastes sweeter--blood or chocolate?

Customer Reviews:

A sweet and intense view into the life of a teen werewolf..........2007-10-07

This is the story of a teen werewolf named Vivian. She discovers that challenges that come from loving a human, though she is not one. The story is filled with vivid imagery, and a real relationship that is more than sexual tension. Although, the story is short, it is a good read. I give it 4.5 stars.

EXCELLENT READ!!!.......2007-09-28

This is a great book, that is so much better than the movie. It sucks you in right from the start and is hard to put down.

Blood and Chocolate what a combination!.......2007-09-20

Enjoyed The book Blood and Chocolate. Is alot better than the movie.
Of course, what book isn't.

Cliche and bad at the beginning, almost satisfying by the end, this is an inconstant, sub par book. Ambivalently recommended.......2007-08-29

Vivian is a werewolf: young, attractive, just come of age, and proud to be a wolf. However, after the death of her father, her pack has been displaced and is in turmoil, making her feel estranged from the other wolves. When she meets a human boy named Aiden, romance sparks between them. He is a welcome change from the turmoil of her wolf life, but love between a human and a werewolf is forbidden and Vivian worries that Aiden will not be able to accept her completely. Blood and Chocolate is a very different coming of age story, in which Vivian must learn to completely accept herself as a wolf and learn the differences between the werewolf and the human. The plot is interesting, but the characters are exaggerated and idealized and the writing lacks skill, although improves during the course of the book. This is a text I would have preferred to keep on remembering fondly from my childhood; it does not make a very good reread for an adult audience. Ambivalently recommended.

There are some books from your childhood that you come back to, reread, and discover that they are as good as you remember or even better. There are other books from your childhood that turn out to be something of a disappointment, and this book is of that later category. Blood and Chocolate has a wonderful premise, but complications such as characterization and writing style drag the book down. The first half is bad, almost laughably so. The second half improves as characters become more complex and the writing matures, but all in all this is a book best left fondly remembered rather than reread.

For the first part of the text, the characters are cliché to a great degree; only with complications in the plot do they become more complex themselves. Vivian is devastatingly attractive with exceptionally long legs. She wears skin-tight dresses that "sheath" her form. She writes her phone number on Aiden's palm. Until the character falls into love and then begins to doubt her love, she is exceptionally limited, idealized, cliché, and laughably so for all qualities. The writing style also begins as limited and as cliché, rich with verbs like "sheath," cliff-hangers, thoughts in italics, and a brash neo-Gothic air. However, I suspect that the book was written linearly, because by the end the writing style has much matured and improved.

The improvement in both character and writing style makes the end of the book better, even satisfying, but it also makes the book as a whole feel disjointed. In fact, the end of the book is quite good, both in terms of the plot itself and Vivian's changes and challenges, and in terms of style and technique. On this account, I do somewhat recommend the book, as by the end it feels like a worthwhile read. However, the better the end of the book gets, the worse the beginning feels in comparison, making me wish that Klause and her editor had spent more time bring the whole of the book to a universal high standard. In the end, I recommend this text only ambivalently: it's not a bad one to read as young adult and the ending does help justify the time spend reading, but technically it is an inconsistent, sub par text. Read it if you want, or don't, but you may not want to come back to it if you had fond memories of it from your childhood.

Teen Angst, Werewolf Style.......2007-08-25

Vivian is a werewolf. She's always known this, and has always accepted it. She knows she's a member of a pack, for good or for ill. What she also knows is that she's not sure that the future that's been chosen for her--to mate with one of the pack members--is the one she wants. When an opportunity presents itself for Vivian to flirt with an attractive boy at her school, she seizes the moment to be a normal teen with normal desires. Aidan is sweet and sexy, and Vivian finds herself falling for him. But what about her other self? Can she share this secret part of herself with the boy she loves, or should she, as the pack insists, stay with the wolf-kind? Complicating matters is Gabriel, the new pack leader; after involving herself in the process that named him, Vivian unwillingly finds herself Gabriel's chosen "queen"--a title and a position she vehemently does not want.

Had there not been supernatural beings involved, this might have been any young adult book. We have the star-crossed lovers, the dysfunctional family, a disapproving community, lots of sexual tension, betrayals, and discovering who you really are. The addition of the werewolf aspect is indeed a new twist, and probably keeps this novel from dissolving into emotional overdrive. Klause also mixes things up with murders that must be solved, and a truly disgusting mother (though she does try to make the mother at times sympathetic). Vivian is left to her own devices much of the time, and as a teen, she sometimes makes the wrong choices.

I wanted to like this novel more than I did. While it did have its moments, it was peopled with characters I just didn't care for. I liked Vivian, but she never really connected with me. The other characters were either overbearing, mean, or wimpy; Vivian's mother, though grieving, was a particular irritant, throwing herself at men and leaving Vivian alone to face her own demons. There were some exciting parts, but the gore factor was fairly high. The ending is satisfying, but I wasn't left wishing the book was longer. If you like supernatural tales, you'll probably enjoy this one, though I can recommend it only to those who already enjoy the genre.

Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse (Gollancz)

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Great Book!!!
Puns like epées, wild imaginings - both dark and very, very funny
Unable to Read
What the hell was that?
Amusing, but not what I expected, exactly.

Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse (Gollancz)
Robert Rankin
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ASIN: 0575074019

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Toy Town—older, bigger, and certainly not wiser. The Old Rich, who have made their millions from the royalties on their world-famous nursery rhymes, are being murdered one by one. A psychopath is on the loose, and he must be stopped at any cost. It’s a job for Toy Town’s only detective—but he’s missing, leaving only Eddie Bear, and his bestest friend Jack, to track down the mad killer.

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Great Book!!!.......2007-09-29

Ths is an "outside the box" hilarious book. Combined with the witty humor, it is a must read for anybody.

Puns like epées, wild imaginings - both dark and very, very funny.......2007-09-23

It must be true that humour varies from one country to another... There are reviews here that are clearly written by readers who were "not amused", as Queen Victoria might have said.

Yet this is one of the wittiest, funniest, blackest, most bizarre and deliciously convoluted novels you're ever likely to find. The humour is self-mocking, parodying writing styles and consumer icons, sending up standards in many walks of life, and creating a world that is brimming over with sallies (and Jacks and Jills), bon mots, equivoge, badinage, peripatetic persiflage, satirical quips, japes, visual puns, running gags and - in short - that wonderful sort of silliness that takes a very clever hand to pull off.

And Robert Rankin DOES pull it off. His creation of the naïve lad named Jack, who wants to go to the big city to make his fortune, teamed up with Billy Winkie's sidekick bear, Eddie, is one of the most perfect of partnerships in detective fiction. Yes, this is a detective story, but a bizarre and weird one, more concerned with festooning the whole thing with witticisms than with telling the story without meandering.

Now clearly this style has put off some readers. Be prepared to let your imagination be taken in directions you might not have visited before. This is not your standard "private eye" story, even though Eddie and Jack form a private investigating duo to discover who's killing off the famous people (the ones featured in nursery rhymes - such as Mother Goose, Humpty Dumpty, Little Jack Horner, Little Boy Blue, etc.) of Toyland. The murders are inventive and dark. This is NOT a children's book, in spite of its being set in Toyland...

I loved this book. It's the first Rankin novel I picked up, and since then (2 weeks ago) I've been buying them wherever I can, for I have frankly and unashamedly become addicted to this weird, grotesque, nonsensical, bizarre, strange, witty and very funny style - which is something like mixing Doug Adams, Terry Pratchett and Jasper Fforde into a blender and pushing the button.

If you think this style will appeal to you, I heartily recommend this novel, and its sequel, The Toyminator.

Unable to Read.......2007-08-30

I suspect you need to already be a fan of Robert Rankin to read this book.

The blurbs for this book indicated it was funny and had nursery rhyme characters. I'll grant that there were nursery rhyme characters in the part I was able to read - the first 5 chapters. Funny, amusing - very subjective words. I was not amused.

This book did not draw me in with characters or plot. The pacing was too slow. The "amusing" writing style was repetious, dull and heavy-handed. The dialogue? Silly but not funny.

I was looking for something more along the lines of the Jasper Fforde books - silly, witty, fast-paced. Alas, it was not to be.

After 5 chapters, I just can't go on.

What the hell was that?.......2007-05-21

Like many others, I could not resist the title, which is more entertaining than the main read. I give the author 3 stars because it rambled on too long, but the concept was pretty funny and the gist of the book was weird, but interesting. It was surprising, to say the least, but in a good way. It is a detective story in every sense of the word, but hardly a normal one. You have to love it for wandering way off the track.

It begins with a young boy named Jack making his way to the big city to seek his fortune. On the way he runs across a cannibalistic farmer who tries to kill him to eat. He steals the farmers horse and eventually arrives in Toy City, formally known as Toy Town where all the citizens are toys with a caste system. The old rich are the nursery rhymn characters, i,e, Humpty Dumpty, Little Miss Muffet. The old rich are being murdered in imaginative ways that relate to their ryhmns. Jack with the help of a drunken, set out to solve the crimes.

Amusing, but not what I expected, exactly........2007-05-01

I'm a big fan of comic fantasy. I hadn't read anything by Robert Rankin before, so thought I'd give it a try. This title pulled me in immediatley. I mean, Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of The Apocolypse? I read it and while I was mildly entertained, it wasn't quite what I expected, even after reading the blurb. I did enjoy it. Why only 3 stars? Well, while there are parts that move slowly in any given book, I found myself plodding through a few chapters. The humour rescued it, in the end. It is worth reading once, at the least. And for all those fuddy duddy's out there who say, not for kids warning...sexual content...blah blah blah... It's rather miniscule compared to something as racy as say, that piece of junk titled 'Scarlett'.

Have a care people... Read this book and enjoy...

Maida Heatter's Book of Great Chocolate Desserts

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This one is a gem!
Best ever
At Last, Thank You Mr. Publisher
Must disagree with jerry i h , Aug 2004
A Good But Not Great Chocolate Book

Maida Heatter's Book of Great Chocolate Desserts
Maida Heatter
Manufacturer: Knopf
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0394503910
Release Date: 1980-08-12

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When it was first published in 1980, Maida Heatter's Book of Chocolate Desserts became a New York Times bestseller and then won a James Beard award. The book is Heatter's third, a mouthwatering compendium of superb but easily achieved chocolate cakes, cookies, pies, puddings, confections, sauces, and more. Like all of Heater's books, Chocolate Desserts balances good taste with warm, meticulous instruction that anticipates and addresses every question and concern a dessert-maker might have. Cooks at every skill level, from amateur to professional, will find Heater's recipes, and their results, a joy.

Arranged by categories like cakes, pastries, and cold and hot desserts, the hundreds of recipes are a chocolate-lover's dream come true. There are classic Heatter offerings, like her Palm Beach Brownies, the ultimate in dark, chewy fudginess, and her Positively-the-Absolute-Best Chocolate Chip Cookies (they are). Other must-make treats include Amaretto-Amaretti Chocolate Cheesecake with Chocolate Cigarettes, Chocolate Merry-Go-Round Cake, Chocolate Pecan Angel Pie, and 4-Star French Chocolate Ice Cream. The book begins with a comprehensive introduction to ingredients, equipment, and techniques and is filled throughout with Heatter's invaluable advice. Drawings by Toni Evans illuminate the exemplary text. --Arthur Boehm

Book Description

Chocoholics rejoice! Heatter's perennial favorite has everything for the chocolate-loving cook--cakes, cookies, pies, puddings and more. Each recipe is precisely detailed, and Heatter provides valuable advice on cooking techniques, ingredients and equipment.

Customer Reviews:

This one is a gem!.......2007-02-24

I received this book many years ago at my Sweet Sixteen birthday party. I was already a pretty good cook, but I credit this book with taking me to the next level.

What is truly special about this book is that the author takes her time to tell us things other cookbook writers don't. First, she gives us a lovely introduction to each recipe, including where it comes from, and what to expect from it. That certainly saves the home cook much time and effort trying recipes that might not be a good match. She tells us at beginning of each one which desserts are moist, dense, light, easy, challenging, sweet, less-sweet, etc. Which means that I was able to zero in on the recipes which were most likely to match what I or my guests like.

Second, she discusses choices of equipment and ingredients, both in an introductory chapter and then again throughout. And unlike other gourmet cookbooks which are sometimes inflexible, she is frank about choices and substitutions, and when it's o.k. to use less costly or more readily available ingredients.

And third, she doesn't assume that the home cook has training as a pastry chef, which means she includes details like how & why to temper your eggs, how to arrange the oven racks for a particular recipe, and which way of preparing your spring-form pan will work best with this particular recipe.

And lastly, she ends most recipes with ideas for alternate forms of the same recipe, either in suggested ingredient substitutions, or alternative prep methods, or variant presentation.

As a result, this is a hefty book, and many recipes take up several pages. The first chocolate chip cookie recipe itself is 3 full pages long. (There are eleven chocolate chip cookie recipes to choose from!)

Many (!) years later, when I see friends from high school, they still talk about the chocolate desserts I made from recipes in this fabulous cookbook.

Best ever.......2007-01-15

I bought it when it was first available back in the early 80s and all the recipes are really great. But first among equals is the Toblerone Milk Chocolate Mousse - I regularly double the recipe and it never fails to please.

At Last, Thank You Mr. Publisher.......2006-08-13

This book has been unavailable for many years. The copies that people had (I wasn't lucky enough to have one of my own and had to Xerox pages here and there from friends that did.) they held on to very tightly. Now it's available again, (Thank you Andrews McMeel Publishing) and we can all have our very own copies.

As you can tell from the title, this is a book on CHOCOLATE. Why waste time on Apple Pie or Strawberry Shortcake when you can have CHOCOLATE! Why have Pecan Pie when you can have CHOCOLATE Pecan Pie (Recipie on Page 179). Hundreds of CHOCOLATE recipies. Why you can mix CHOCOLATE with nearly everything and it will turn out better. What more can I say in a review?

Well there is one thing, in the Introduction she says 'Don't Mess With the Recipies, follow the directions carefully.' Nah! Experiment! Just don't blame her when things don't turn out right. For instance she often recommends walnuts. I don't like walnuts, I simply use pecans instead (MAMMOTH PECAN HALVES from Navarro Pecan Co. - Don't even think about any other, yes they are on the web.) And her otherwise excellent 86-Proof Chocolate Cake (Page 83) calls for the addition of instant coffee. I can't stand coffee, I left it out and added more bourbon. Sorry Maida!

Must disagree with jerry i h , Aug 2004.......2006-08-02

I must disagree with the review posted by jerry i.h.in Aug 2004. All of the sins of omission that he mentions are covered in great detail in the ingredients chapter. For example, there is one page on sifting and measuring flour, a paragraph on egg size as it applies to the way Heatter writes recipes, and a page on beating egg whites. Ms Heatter is known as one of the "Three Fussbudgets" at my house (Rose Levy Berenbaum & Lynn Rosetto Kasper being the other two) because her instructions are sometimes detailed to the point of being fussy. Her directions yield beautiful results however, and provide techniques that can be used in other recipes to good effect. (Her pan-lining trick for bar cookies comes to mind.) The Palm Beach Brownies have become the only brownie I bake now as they are so wonderful. Her detailed instructions yield a reliably, decadently fudgy brownie, with a marvelous espresso kick. I would buy this book if only for this recipe. (Incidentally, versions of this recipe are available on the internet, but they modify the ingredients and skip significant portions of the instructions such that I cannot believe a comparable brownie would result.)

A Good But Not Great Chocolate Book.......2004-08-16

This book has a legendary reputation. It was one of the earliest (1978) bestselling cookbooks about just chocolate. Most cookbook authors and culinary professionals either have it or know about it. I find this chocolate book rather over-rated, but it is nevertheless a good resource for chocolate recipes to have on your bookshelf.

The recipes are an impressive collection from far and wide, and this is reflected in the vastly different recipe instructions. The author seems to have left the procedures largely intact from the original source, other than to supply the details you might have trouble with. I suspect that some of the recipes did not work originally, and the author then had to "fix" them. In the end, I had no trouble with any of the recipes I tried, even the wacky ones I thought would not work (such as a cake that uses whipped cream instead of whipped egg whites). The author has a good feel for what the average home cook is capable of, and most people should not have much trouble with any of the recipes.

The tremendous variety of recipes is this book's strongest suit. It is a scrap book full of truly good recipes from many people and places, many of them professionals and/or famous cooks. It has sections on cakes, cookies, pastry, desserts, and other (confections, sauces, decorations, drinks, reprints).

The author commits the ultimate baking cookbook sin: not specifying how the flour is measured, nor supplying the equivalent weights. The author merely says "fill" a measuring cup with flour and level, but it is not clear if this is "scoop and sweep" or "spoon as sweep". I used spoon and sweep (a la Julia Child), and this seemed to give the correct results. The ingredient lists specify sifted flour, and instructions also specify sifting; it is not clear if the author wants the flour sifted twice (once for measurement and another for mixing the flour with other dry ingredients) or just the once listed in the recipe. If the sifting is during measurement, it is also not clear if this suppose to occur before or after measuring.

Besides flour measurement, it is also lax in other aspects. Varying egg sizes are treated as more or less interchangeable (they are not). Reliable and detailed instructions on how to tell when things are done baking are notably absent. There are no detailed instructions on how to do the 2 things used in virtually every recipe: creaming butter and sugar, or beating egg yolk and sugar to a ribbon stage. The temperature of eggs or butter is usually not specified. A majority of the recipes specify decoration or frosting, but the instructions for them are not supplied. There is a chatty essay about the varieties of chocolate, but the author does not give firm recommendations as to specific brands; she merely lists the commercial brands available at the time, although some recipes do list brands. There is no advice on the proper method of cutting flourless cakes that are notably sticky or moist. In the introductory chapter, there are detailed procedures for folding batters and melting chocolate, subjects that are usually absent from baking books. However, there is not a similar dissertation for whipping egg whites; the brief instructions contained within the recipes are not sufficient. On the bright side, this book has instructions for making pie dough that are complete, detailed, and reliable, quite a rarity these days.

The Science of Chocolate (Rsc Paperbacks)

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An Excellent Primer

The Science of Chocolate (Rsc Paperbacks)
S. Beckett
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ASIN: 0854046003

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Chocolate is available to today's consumers in a variety of colours, shapes and textures. But how many of us, as we savour our favourite brand, consider the science that has gone into its manufacture? This book describes the complete chocolate making process, from the growing of the beans to the sale in the shops. The Science of Chocolate first describes the history of this intriguing substance. Subsequent chapters cover the ingredients and processing techniques, enabling the reader to discover not only how confectionery is made but also how basic science plays a vital role with coverage of scientific principles such as latent and specific heat, Maillard reactions and enzyme processes. There is also discussion of the monitoring and controlling of the production process, and the importance, and variety, of the packaging used today. A series of experiments, which can be adapted to suit students of almost any age, is included to demonstrate the physical, chemical or mathematical principles involved. Ideal for those studying food science or about to join the confectionery industry, this mouth-watering title will also be of interest to anyone with a desire to know more about the production of the world's favourite confectionery.

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An Excellent Primer.......2003-12-20

If you were ever interested where chocolate came from, this is the book to answer your questions. With a reasonably thorough explanation, Beckett explains the engineering and scale aspects of the industrial production of chocolate. He makes is abundently clear that you do not want to produce chocolate from the raw bean.

He also covers the techniques used to determine the quality and character of the confection.

Book Description

A great deal is happening in London and the country this season.

For starters, there's the witch who tried to poison Kate at the Royal College of Wizards. There's also the man who seems to be spying on Cecelia. (Though he's not doing a very good job of it--so just what are his intentions?) And then there's Oliver. Ever since he was turned into a tree, he hasn't bothered to tell anyone where he is.

Clearly, magic is a deadly and dangerous business. And the girls might be in fear for their lives . . . if only they weren't having so much fun!

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Two romances, two mysteries, and two captivating heroines all in one book. - Bookwyrm Chrysalis Review.......2007-08-12

Two romances, two mysteries, and two captivating heroines all in one book. Written as a letter game between Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer, these two excellent young adult fantasy writers created a captivating Regency England where magic is a part of life and a misunderstood science.

Kate Talgarth and Cecelia Rushton are two Young Ladies of Quality who are cousins and were inseparable until this London Season. Split apart by their aunts, who fear for the safety of London if the two girls were unleashed on society at the same time, Kate goes off to London with her sister, while Cecy is left in the Country. The two correspond via letters as their stories unfold. In Town, Kate is nearly poisoned by a mysterious woman, while back in the Country, Cecy finds a charm bag under her brother's bed and a new young lady becomes suspiciously popular in local society. When it seems like the new girl's feared step-mother and Kate's poisoner are the same woman, the cousins begin to piece together their oddly connected mysteries. Between London and the Country, the odd coincidences build up as the two girls are drawn into a deadly power play.

Cute, quick, and clever, the reader will enjoy this book until the last word. The use of language and description draws us into the time period. My only concern with the book is that the characters tend to blend together.

I must say, I don't really like the cover. Or, more specifically, I don't like the art of Kate and Cecy on the cover. The faces look odd, with a very nineties American comic art styling that seems out of place. Otherwise, the use of black and white, along with the blue chocolate pot, entices the reader. Another thing I do like about the cover is the fact that the spine looks like a fantasy book, incorporating gold and black, along with the chocolate pot. To me, that's an important element, because at large book stores the most you get to see on the shelf is the spine. Unless the spine makes me want to pull the book out and take a look, I might accidentally walk by a really great book with an ordinary title.

The third Sorcery and Cecilia book just came out, so now is a great time to see these two from their first Season to parenthood. The Grand Tour takes place right after this book ends, and The Mislaid Magician moves ahead ten years.

Even if you don't care for Regencies..........2007-08-10

...and, generally speaking, I don't (the authors in their dedication credit Jane Austen, Georgette Heyer, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Ellen Kushner for inspiring them to create it), you'll find yourself caught up in this bright, intrigue-filled alternate-Universe epistolary tale. Cousins and best friends Cecelia "Cecy" Rushton and Katharine "Kate" Talgarth get involved in a magical rivalry in a Regency England where magic works (though we don't get much in the way of explanation as to how, or what its limitations are) when Kate falls afoul of Miranda Griscomb, a sorceress who is a great deal more (and more sinister) than she seems and is in league with their neighbor, Sir Hilary Bedrick (recently elevated to the Royal College of Wizards), to drain the magical power of the Mysterious Marquis, Edward Schofield. (If that sounds confusing, it is at first; the cast is, to say the least, somewhat Dickensian, and you may find it necessary to keep a list of who's who!) Meanwhile Kate befriends Dorothea Griscomb, Miranda's stepdaughter, and begins plotting to foil Miranda's plans to have her marry the "odious" Marquis in favor of matching her up with Robert Penwood, who loves her. And, of course, both girls end up betrothed to men they would never have looked at twice if not for the series of events that threw them together. (What else would you expect in a Regency, after all?) The idiom is so authentic that you may actually find yourself pulling up short at an unfamiliar use of a word. Kate and Cecy are delightful characters, each one an individual and both with a tendency to be just a bit unconventional and more than a little headstrong; I think it takes a good deal of skill to indicate such things when you're telling a story through the voice of your character. Whether they live in the same Universe as the characters of Wrede's two Mairelon books Mairelon the Magician and Magician's Ward is unclear, though I suspect they may. What's especially delightful is that (according to the authors' postscript) the book began as a game of Persona Letters, in which each participant assumes an epistolary identity and writes his/her alter ego's adventures without revealing to the other what future twists and turns might be planned--and without knowing what the other one may be planning to do with the *other* alter ego! Having read it, you're sure to want to sample the sequels, The Grand Tour and The Mislaid Magician or Ten Years After; I've just added all three to my Wish List. You may also enjoy these two alternate-Regency/fantasies by Andre Norton & Rosemary Edghill: The Shadow of Albion (Carolus Rex, Bk 1) and Leopard in Exile (Carolus Rex, Book 2)

interesting period piece.......2007-07-21

Action-wise it is not in the league of Harry Potter, but for anyone who is also interested in atmosphere, and Old English Atmosphere, a highly recommended book

great read!.......2007-06-07

For all those who love Harry Potter and Jane Austin, this book is for you! Wrede melds fantasy with the 19th century novel effortlessly. The text is rich with references to 19th century English culture. My particular favorite is the reference to Radcliffe's novels,(for anyone who's read Northanger Abby will understand!)

Simply Magical.......2007-06-05

I loved this Jane Austen combined with Harry Potter of a book. I thoroughly enjoyed the style of writing and the "game" the authors established has become one of my own personal favorites. Being able to adopt a persona and communicate letters through that character is a magical way to stimulate the imagination. Not only creating a book in such a way, but reading a book through the form of letters is fun and interesting. I could not believe how I got sucked into these books. All three of thier current novels are wonderous and come highly recomended by me.

Chocolate in Mesoamerica: A Cultural History of Cacao (Maya Studies)

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Delightful!
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Great book!

Chocolate in Mesoamerica: A Cultural History of Cacao (Maya Studies)
Cameron L. McNeil
Manufacturer: University Press of Florida
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Delightful!.......2007-05-13

If you are a chocolate lover, this is the book for you! So many books about this topic look at how chocolate developed outside of Mesoamerica. It is nice to read about cacao in its original cultural context. Interesting and well-organized. A nice addition to any chocolate connoisseur's library.

excellent .......2007-05-05

This volume includes papers by a number of experts on chocolate and Mesoamerica. The chapters are well written and form the most complete coverage of this domesticate in a single volume. The papers consider cacao from multiple perspectives including botany, iconography, ritual, politics, and economy. They also cover a broad geographic area including a number of pre-Columbian and modern cultural groups in Mesoamerica.

Great book!.......2007-04-16

This book is a great contribution to the field of Mesoamerican studies. When I ordered it I wasn't sure what to expect, but I have really enjoyed it. The interdisciplinary approach allows for a thorough examination of the role of cacao in the cultural life of indigenous Mesoamericans, past and present. I appreciated the diachronic examination of the subject as it allows the reader to better understand how cacao was and is culturally important to Mesoamericans. Additionally, it demonstrates how this seed become significant to the colonial economy as well as the larger world market. The history of cacao's Native American origins is fascinating. Cacao or chocolate has become an important part of many cultures foodways however its Native American origins are largely overlooked in its contemporary context. McNeil's compilation of current scholarly research about cacao nicely demonstrates the origin and development of this Native American resource.

Roald Dahl/Charlie Boxed Set (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator)

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Would be better if I hadn't seen the movie first!
charile and the choclate factory
Love the story but strongly dislike the illustrations
Very Good
An awesome book -- a review by Eli (7 years old)

Roald Dahl/Charlie Boxed Set (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator)
Roald Dahl
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ASIN: 0375815597
Release Date: 2001-09-11

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Deliciously madcap mayhem and out-of-this-world fantasy--this is what you'll find within the casing of this boxed set of two of Roald Dahl's most brilliant creations: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator.

For decades, delighted readers of all ages have explored Willy Wonka's fabulous chocolate factory, met the Oompa Loompas, and sampled the chocolate river along with Augustus Gloop. And later, they have zoomed off into the stratosphere in the most remarkable elevator ever created. Now, a new generation of readers barely needs to pause between the first and the second of Roald Dahl's masterful volumes. Hardcover editions of each title, illustrated of course by the incomparable Quentin Blake, are tucked in a handy cardboard sleeve, ready for the next set of hungry eyes. Sadly, the convenience of the set is counterbalanced by the poor quality of the paper used for the books. Classics like these deserve thick, creamy, opaque pages; not the flimsy, rough, semitransparent sheets used here. (Ages 7 and older) --Emilie Coulter

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Would be better if I hadn't seen the movie first!.......2007-06-05

I bought this book the other day at a outlet store for only two dollars. I'm alreday on chapter 17. I like the book, and the way the author writes, but it would be MUCH better if I hadn't seen the movie first.
The old, old movie from the 70's is very different form the book. the NEW movie (which I thought was really good!) is a LOT like the book.
I agree with a few revwiers that the illustrations aren't the best. they're good, and funny, and cute...but they need to sculpt teh charcters a little more.
Besides all that, this is a pretty good book.

charile and the choclate factory.......2007-05-23

the plot took place on this huge place were they make the wonka bar.And the mr.wonka like to invent thing made out of choclate and oher stuff.Mr.wonka let five people to his factory so he signs on the light post.then on the morning people read the paper it said five people are alowed to his factory and who ever finds five golden tickets are going to his factory.Then people are finding the golden ticket then charlie wanted to go but his family are poor.On chalies bithday hr recived a ghoclate bar from his mom and dad.Then his gandpa was exicted that he might find it.but he didn't find it.one day he was walking around charlie found something green charlie said it looks like a bill so piked it up and it was a one dollar bill.So he went to the store and bought the last choclate bar in the store and chaile opened the bar and saw the golden bar.He ran to his house and said i found the golden ticket!his grandpa was excited that he found the golden ticket he was jumping all around.And charlie said that you are not going.Then the next day he thought of it so he said he could go.then it was time.they were walking all around then the chubby kid fell down the choclate river.they were helping he to get out the choclate river the big tube sucked him up.then they left to another room they were trying out candy so the mean girl got some gum and she turn fat and blue.After that went to a room that could turn things big or small.they put a bar put it in the middle they turn it big.they turn the little vilonte boy so small they tried to make him in the wright size but they couln't one by one are living .the only ones that are left is the little girl and charlie.next they went to see the squirles and the little gilr wanted one but sge couldent get one and the dad said can i buy one for my daughter and wonka said no thelittle girl was holdind one it was runing around she chase it she fell down.and the dad went to get her and he fell down to.charlie was the last one.so wonka took them home with him.

Love the story but strongly dislike the illustrations.......2007-04-13

Let me just start off by saying that I love Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. After seeing the movie version with Gene Wilder, I had to read the book, so I rented the ORGINIAL edition from my library and fell in love with it. Then I rented the sequel Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator and enjoyed it just as much.
My only complaint with this edition is the illustrations by Quentin Blake. Let me just be bluntly honest: they are horrible! They look as if a five year old drew them! I don't like the way any of the characters look, especially Willy Wonka. In Blake's illustrations they all look just poor, mediocre, stupid and dopey. They don't add to the book or enhance your visualization of the characters but detract from it. I don't expect Alan Lee-like drawings, just something a bit more better drawn and closer to the characters in the book.
The critic on Amazon calls the illustrator "the incomparable Blake." I'd like to choke when I read that. Incomparable? Yeah right. Just compare this one with the ORIGINAL illustrations by Joseph Schindelman and you'll see that Blake is definitely a big step down in quality. Joseph Schindelman, to me, really captured the goodness and innonence of Charlie and the delightfulness and lovablness of Willy Wonka in his illustrations, and more importantly, they match Roald Dahl's descriptions well. They look more like people and more like you imagined them to look like. When I think of Willy Wonka and Charlie, my mind goes back to the illustrations of Joseph Schindelman; there just better done and more like characters. They are much more charming than the stick figure we have with long nose and bug eyes in Blake's Wonka.
And this guy is a teacher? It looks to me like he needs to be taught a few art lessons. I bought this edition only because I love the story so much and had to have a copy, but now I'm really hoping to get the original edition with Joseph Schindelman as the illustrator.
Last word: somebody needs to fire this guy Blake. He's ruining Road Dahl's books!

Very Good.......2007-01-04

The collectors edition was nice to handle and added to the enjoyment of these classic books.

An awesome book -- a review by Eli (7 years old).......2006-07-19

This is a great, interesting, funny book. I liked both stories but especially Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I like how the author describes the scenes in the book in many details and you can actually imagine how the factory looks like. The illustrations are funny and good.

Llamas, Weavings, and Organic Chocolate: Multicultural Grassroots Development in the Andes and Amazon of Bolivia

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A Not MIss
it makes you feel good!

Llamas, Weavings, and Organic Chocolate: Multicultural Grassroots Development in the Andes and Amazon of Bolivia
Kevin Healy
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A Not MIss.......2006-11-06

This is a valuable set of case studies on development projects that actually benefit the grassroots. Although set in Bolivia, many of the lessons apply to other parts of the developing world. The book is well written and would be a great text for a course in development studies.

it makes you feel good!.......2004-06-16

The intimate travel details and encounters with prospective project developers in Bolivia are revealed in this book. You read about the many projects that the IAF has sponsored, successful at times and not, it is great to know that these projects have been throughly researched by IAF employees.

It makes you feel good to see U.S. dollars go into super positive grassroots projects.

The projects included in this book are diverse and very intriguing. Highly recommended!

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Alsome book by AR at North Boulevard

The fabulous book of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

The fabulous book of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory doc.

Absolutely wonderful book

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Roald Dahl
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Half Magic: Fiftieth-Anniversary Edition

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Roald Dahl's Charlie and The Chocolate Factory Sticker Book

ASIN: 0375834605
Release Date: 2005-05-24

Book Description

This full-color 40th anniversary edition of Roald Dahl’s most popular novel features vibrant spot art by Quentin Blake on candy-colored pages enhanced by candy-filled borders. A scrumptious read-aloud edition of a classic!

Young Charlie Bucket can’t believe his luck when he finds the very last of Mr. Willy Wonka’s Golden Tickets inside his chocolate bar. He wins the trip of a lifetime, a magical tour around Mr. Wonka’s mysterious chocolate factory. Once inside, Charlie and the other four winners—Augustus Gloop, Veruca Salt, Violet Beauregarde, and Mike Teavee—witness amazing wonders: rainbow drops, lickable wallpaper, and even a chocolate waterfall. But what happens when the children, one by one, disobey Mr. Wonka?

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Alsome book by AR at North Boulevard.......2006-12-22

By: Ronald Dahl

This is the greatest book ever, it is Ronald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. It is a 5 star book because it was funny and detailed too. This story is about a poor boy winning a big prize. He goes to a chocolate factory that has some really cool candy, mystery and, inventions. The problem is his family real poor. I recommend this book to 2nd thought 5th because it has enough magic and comedy in it for these grades.

The fabulous book of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.......2006-03-10

This book is fantastic it is about a very poor boy named Charlie Bucket. He always goes to school with out a jacket because they don't have money to buy Charlie things. The setting of the book is an unnamed city; small wooden house on the edge of a great city,a fabled chocolate factory. The conflict is five children who have found golden tickets compete to see who will take over Mr. Wonka's chocolate factory. It all started when the newpaper announces that the Wonka chocolate factory will hide five golden tickets in the Wonka chocolate bars. Charlie desperately hopes he will find a golden ticket. The problem is that each year he gets a chocolate on his birthday, and he doesn't have money to buy one. Charlie father loses his job and the poor family is on brink of starvation. Charlie finds a dollar bill on the street, and before he tells his mother, he goes to buy two chocolate bars. One of the bars contains the fifth golden ticket. Charlie and his Grandpa Joe go to the Wonka Chocolate Factory. When the are finally there Mr. Wonka tells everybody to be careful,and not touch any thing from the factory. Then Augustus Gloop falls into the hot chocolate river while attempting to drink it, and gets sucked up by one of the pipes. Veruca Salt is determined to be a bad nut by nut judging squirrels who throw her out with the trash. Violet Beauregarde grabs an experimental piece of gum and chew herself into a giant blueberry. She is removed from the factory. Mike Teavee shrinks himself and his father has to carry him out in his breast pocket. So Charlie is the only one that is left in the factory. Mr. Wonka tries to find a person that would keep the chocolate factory. Mr. Wonka decided to give away his factory because he is too old. Then he decides that Charlie is the one who will run the factory exactly the way he has always run it. Finally Mr. Wonka congrarulates him for winning the entire factory for himself and his family.

The fabulous book of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.......2006-03-10

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory doc........2006-01-25

Charlie and the Chocolate
Factory

Welcome to the wonderful world of Wanka!!! This story is about Mr. Willy Wanka who is giving away 5 golden tickets! Oh No!!!!! People around the world are going crazy for the golden tickets! Who will get one? You'll just have to read to find out!!
The theme of this story is about the world of Willy Wanka one reason I believe that is because they talk about the factory a lot in this book. The thing is they get to go into the factory. Another theme is that Charlie needs more money to get a new house.
The characters in this story are Mr. Willy Wanka, who owns the chocolate factory. Are other character is Charlie who is a poor boy who lives in a cabin with his whole family. The supporting details are: Mr. Willy Wanka who owns the chocolate factory. Charlie has to eat cabbage every meal(yuck!!)And, all four of his grandparents sleep in the same bed.
This story takes place in there old crecky cabin. Plus At Charlie's school where everyone is mean to him. But last it takes place in Willy Wanka's mysterious factory. The supporting details are he does live in a cabin. He goes to school everyday. Plus he gets to go in the Chocolate factory.
Finally to end this book I would rate it 9 out of 10. I'm rating it 9 out of 10 because it is a very creative book. Personally I thought I was practically there. I would recommend this book to someone who has a great imagination.

Absolutely wonderful book.......2005-10-02

My five year old loved this book almost as much as I did. It was very entertaining, and went pretty much along with the movie.

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