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Summary: BOOOrinnggggggggg....
Review: The begining was reaaally boring I had to skip pages cause I was falling asleep. But at the end it was picking up and was becoming more interesting. Stephen King has definately written better...
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Summary: Starts slow but is worth the wait.
Review: I have two veiws on this book. I really like the over all book but in the begining it was very slow. Cujo is not a book for younger children. There are very strong words and very good descriptive adjectives in this book. That is one of it's best qualities though. I would recomend this book for anyone that likes horror books and suspence books. The way Stephen King wrote this is a way to keep you interested. He accually explained how the dog was thinking, he got into it's mind. In my opinion that takes a real writer to do that. Once I started I just could not put the book down. Over all this book was one of the better books of Stephen King.
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Summary: Fair at best, very overrated, nonethless should read
Review: There are two SK novels that have truly disapointed me. This is one of them. The movie makes this an imediate hit to most new SK readers (until ofcourse, they actually read it). The plot was not bad at all. A 200 pound St. Bernard going rabid is not a terrible plot. However, King doesn't do a good job of setting a main theme. The book is not gory enough to make it a scary book due to the amount of gore. It is not very suspensful. Any observant reader can usually tell what the next step in the sory will be. However, this is an excellent example of King's "oldstyle" of writing and should definitely be read.
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Summary: Yawn yamn yawn ...
Review: Sorry; I'm one of those who'll pick up a book by an author I like and read it regardless of the order the books were published. I read this one AFTER Gerald's Game, and thought at first that there would be similarities; you know, like a slow build up to an extraordinary ending and just an overall tremendous satisfaction. But it wasn't! Cujo bites, if you'll forgive me! I'm still trying to figure out the relevance to the opening "monster in the closet", and the book changes scenery and thickens plot about as much as a first grade level story book (See Cujo run, See Cujo jump and bite that guy's head off ... end of story!). The only thing that added weight to my star-rating was the intricate channel King took through the mind of the dog (an interesting, King-like sentiment). So, if you're looking for a quick, blah, single-very-visible point read, this is King answering your plea. If you're looking for a typical fulfilling King novel, try firestarter or something else!
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Summary: Mediocre at best
Review: "The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon" wasn't terribly exciting, and one of the main themes King drew on heavily to try to keep us interested was the basic human fear of being lost in the woods. "Cujo" is like that--not terribly invigorating, but the central idea of being menaced by a two hundred pound Saint Bernad running free and unleashed around town ... sometimes that alone is enough to make you shiver. Unfortunately it's not enough to save yet another largely mediocre horror tale. My gripes are the same as everyone else's--too much pointless character development which doesn't go anywhere, and the whole plot about Donna and Tad trapped in their car was excessively milked for 'suspense'. A piece of advice, Mr. King: just because the way you get your characters into a situation is marginally clever and intristic doesn't mean it's going to keep anybody glued to the plot.All in all this book wasn't really all that disappointing saying as I wasn't expecting much anyway. Would've been nice to have been surprised, though. Oh well.
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Summary: Best to be read with a 2 pots of coffee
Review: Like most people, I think, I read this book long after I saw the movie. Though I can't really remember what the movie was like, I wish I could forget the book just the same. This has to be the biggest let-down of all the books I've read from King. I only finished it because I had already commited myself after the first few hundred pages. It started out really great, but it kept dragging on....and on.....and on..... Sorry Stephen, but you could have scratched all the boring character backgrounds- job/life/relationship crap and focused more on Cujo and his little problem. You could have done all this and put it in Skeleton Crew or Night Shift as a short story. I also expected way more horrific attacks from Cujo. The whole (being trapped in the car) scene was way too drawn out and the ending sucked big-time. If your looking to read a good novel about a dog, read "Benji".....
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Summary: Horror was OK but story line for it was bad
Review: The story was damn dragging with family ties and business prospects brought in meaninglessly. I couldn't find the relation between Frank Dodd's monster, the boy's dreams and Cujo. Only part I felt like reading was from when the mother and the child were trapped in the Pinto.
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Summary: Reads like it was written as a movie script.
Review: This book came out just as Stephen King novels were becomming a hot property in Hollywood. I think all of that went to King's head, because unlike "the Shining" and "Salem's Lot", which were outstanding horror novels, "Cujo" is simple-minded and plodding. Novels have to be condensed and "dumbed-down" before they can be adapted for the screen. With Cujo King did the dumbing down beforehand. He started to write for Hollywood and forgot his older fans. Recommendation: Read King's four good novels (The Stand, The Shining, Salem's Lot, and Carrie) and forget everything else--unless you really really need something lightweight to read while sitting on the can--something you won't mind tearing out the pages of when you run out of TP.
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Summary: I liked the book...It was great!
Review: I liked the book...It was great
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Summary: gud bok
Review: this wuz a neeto bok. u shud reed iit.. tarzen like bok. FIRE BAD! errrrrghh! ME AM KINGGGGGG
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