Cujo

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Summary: The Dog From Hell
Review: dog bites human, and human kill the dogs...but the dog is outstanding powerfull...no weapons can be kill it...it's only happen when you read King's book, chilling and entertaining.

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Summary: I read it at the age of 6 and loved it. It really scared me.
Review: I had never read a horror story before so I was a bit shaky about large dogs for the next few weeks. Sure it's easy for a 6-year old to get scared over something, but I read it again when I was 11 and had nightmares. And nothing but Stephen King stories scared me at that point. The fact that it is a more realistic situation has a certain affect on a person. A dog gets rabies and traps a mother and her child in a car, and they have no way to escape or get help. If you like horror stories it is a good book to consider reading. -Bonnie Adams

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Summary: Reads like a first draft
Review: Am I the only person on Earth who noticed that Cujo's supernatural sub-plot has NOTHING WHATSOEVER to do with the story? King starts by showing us a monster in a small boy's bedroom closet. Said monster never reappears in the story. Is Cujo possessed by an evil spirit or does he simply have rabies? King bends over backwards to point out that all his behavior is completely consistent with rabies, so who cares? When the kid's dad looks for him, he goes into his son's closet and finds himself transported to "the Black Forest." His reaction mirrors King's own: he looks around briefly, leaves, and continues the search elsewhere in the house as if nothing unusual happened. Meanwhile, the actual story, about the kid and his mother trapped in a stalled VW by a rabid St. Bernard, goes nowhere -- literally! This is a quirk of King's: the story that never changes location [The Long Walk, Misery, Gerald's Game]. He's such a talented writer that he gets away with that aspect, but I was offended by the "occult" parts, which read like discarded ideas he forgot to cut out.

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Summary: LAME!
Review: This might be possibly the worst book ever written by Stephen King. It was boring, slow, and could have used a little bit more excitement. I urge you not to buy this book, but just go the library and see how bad it is. I figured it made the best seller list by Stephen King buying a couple thousand copies of his own book!

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Summary: pretty good
Review: I am really confused on how muched I liked the book. It was fun reading about the dogs chewing peoples throats open but it was really hard for me to read for more than ten minutes because it had really long boring parts and some parts drug on. But all in all I thought it was cool and I'm glad I read it.

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Summary: I'VE READ ALOT SK BOOK'S THIS ONE MAKES YOU SHIVER
Review: I HAD JUST READ THIS BOOK IT HAS TO GO ALONG WITH SK OTHER TOP BOOK'S IT'S A BOOK THAT YOU MUST GO TO THE NEXT CHAPTER,THEN THE NEXT. YOU CANN'T PUT IT DOWN UNTIL YOUR DONE

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Summary: Cujo-Scary??
Review: I finished this book about a month ago and since I'm 15 this is the first S.K. book I ever read. It was somewhat exciting, but scary? I loved the ending when they found out...(don't want to spoil it!) Watch the movie!!!

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Summary: Pretty good...
Review: It's Stephen King, so you know it's gonna be good, but the great thing about horror is that it revolves around things that really can't happen and makes you wonder "what if they could?" A rabid dog trying to kill two people is maybe a little too possible...average for the master of horror.

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Summary: Disappointing
Review: My problem with Cujo was that it just was not scary. Sure, it was an interesting, even exciting situation with the dog pinning the people in the car, but how was that ever really scary? Also, this book should have been a good 150 pages shorter. Mr. King, I like detail and atmosphere and background, but this was pure overkill. Sometimes it was just enough already, get on with it

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Summary: Huh???
Review: I had the same reaction upon reaching the end of this novel as I did with a later work of his - Gerald's Game. Namely, huh??? Or to be more precise, that's it?? Cujo reads like a premise for a short story that King, with his usual expansive style, manages to expand into a novel. Too much seemed contrived - like the monster in the closet in the opening chapters - and the Castle Rock stuff felt like it got tacked on to add another fifty pages. In reading Cujo you're slogging to the conclusion, rather than accelerating. Not recommended