Cujo

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Summary: A Rabid Dog
Review: Cujo was a very good book, which kept me on the edge of my seat at all times. The novel Cujo is a very interesting piece of work; it makes the reader imagine what else could possibly happen in life, not just the nice things. It is about a mechanics' dog that ventures into a bat hole in the ground and contracts rabies after being bitten by one. Its very descriptive detail shows how a two-hundred pound, Saint Bernard dog tears each of his victims apart one by one. Many people fall prey to this rabid beast. It was very suspenseful, especially at one point when the heroine arrives at her mechanic's house. The dog follows her around, then it charges at her. She makes it away, but that isn't the last encounter that she has with the dog. I recommend this book because it is so realistic, and all the characters were so life-like because Stephen King allows you be a part of the book. Therefore you feel for them in a way. What makes it so realistic is that this could really happen. It's not about monsters or any thing like that. It deals with two very realistic characters, trapped in a Pinto, for two swelteringly hot days, by a very rabid dog. I don't want to give away the ending or anything, but I have to say that it came as some what of a shock. On a star-scale of 1-5, 5 being the highest I would give this book 4 stars. I would give it a 4 for a few reasons. It didn't quite live up to my expectations that I have for Stephen King books. Another reason that I did not give it a five was because some parts were very dull in contrast with the very suspenseful parts. The most important reason for me choosing my rating was just because towards the end of the book I just couldn't wait until it was over.

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Summary: Poor puppy
Review: Cujo was one of the first novels I had read by Stephen King. I remember feeling appreciation for his writer's ability to take a rather discreditable situation and turn it into a survival horror story, one of endurance by a desperate mother.

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Summary: Hair Raising!
Review: One of his best books he's written. Will make you never look at dogs the same way again! Very good!

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Summary: rabid dog
Review: I realy enjoyed this book. It kept me on the edge of my seat. It was a scary book. The author really described what was going on.

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Summary: Scary and Realistic
Review: "The World was full of monsters" This book is King at his most pessimistic and realistic. He tells it like it is. The book is suspense driven but there is an underlying fatalism about the book that can't be missed. The early section detailing the monster in the child's closet is really significant to later events in the book. I liked this book because the characters aren't really likeable but they are realistic. Its a great entertaining read.

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Summary: cujo
Review: I THINK THAT STEPHEN KING'S CUJO SHOULD HAVE A FIVE STAR RAITING ANDBE A TWO THUMBS UP BOOK. IT'S GOOD WITH PLENTY OF SUSPENCE; BUT, WITHA LITTLE INAPPROPRIATE SEX. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS BOOK FOR KIDS IN HIGH SCHOOL AND UP... END

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Summary: One of King's best early period books!
Review: I think that King made a tremendous book with Cujo, and it is not often mentioned with his other more popular works, such as The Stand and Pet Semetary. It should be mentioned that King is a writer first and foremost, and a horror writer second to that. His book was both terrifying(especially when King wrote from Cujo's rabid point of view) and also moving and sad with the outcome, which is tragic. King makes a villian in Cujo that is one that I felt a great deal of sympathy for, something that I do not normally feel with King's villians. Cujo was a victim of rabies, just as his victims were of the disease's rage. This is not a book that has a slasher killer and King made a good choice to refrain developing the plot to include Cujo making havoc in the nearby Castle Rock. I found the secondary stories to be very complemetary to the plot, and the "monster in the closet" section, which some people seem to feel was unnecessary, was a great developer of the real monster inside Cujo. I found this to be a fantastic book, one of my favorite King books, or which I have read many.

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Summary: could of been better
Review: All in all this was a descent read with an exciting main plot, yet were all the little side stories necessary? I was getting pretty sick of those slowing down the story. For those who have read this; what the hell did the "monster in the closet" have anything to do with the plot? I did like it when King had cujo's point of veiw. This could have been a 4 star novel if the little detour stories were cut and if cujo was let loose on the nearby town and killed a lot more people.

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Summary: Conflicting story
Review: I have to say that this isn't a good or bad book. It depends totally on what you like to read. After Peter Benchely got away with half of Jaws being sprawling subplots (Which I really liked anyway) I guess King decided to have his go at what happens when you combine terrorizingly real animals (sharks and rabid dogs are real, and that's what's so creepy) and unfaithful spouses. Unfortunatly the beginning of the book doesn't read that well or fast, but at the last half, its gets very intense.Its well worth it, if your patient enough. So if you think your in for a rampaging beast gore fest think again. I would have enjoyed it if it killed brett, the mailman, kemp, and charity. That would have made it better, because thats what killer dogs are all about.

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Summary: It would really be a little bit closer to three and 1/2
Review: The thing that really surprised me about Cujo, was that you were expecting it to be a story about a scary dog that went crazy, when in reality it was so much more. It was the story of a couples redemption, a child's death, and many others. The main problem I had with it, was that it was fairly slow. The action didn't really come that often. Still it was well written and very intense.