Cujo

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Summary: BORINGEST BOOK IVE EVER READ!!!
Review: I don't know why people say this book is so scary. ITS SO BORING!! Stephen King would never stop talking about the husband's job.It was so slow moving. It's not exciting at all...Cujo is just a waist of your time!

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Summary: Not like the movie!
Review: Cujo has got to be the source of most fears of dogs... And for good reason. After you're done reading this book, never again will you want to go near a Saint Bernard (or any other wrongly termed dog) again! Or at least for a long time. The biggest plus to the book besides the movie is not having to hear the kid screaming and crying all the time (I think). That just got way too irritating for me. As with all books, Cujo went into more details than the movie, you learn more about the characters and what thoughts are running through their heads. To run or not to run... etc.

~Natalie Kilpatrick

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Summary: If you are scared of dogs, this book is for you
Review: I liked this book and liked the movie. King does have a penchant for fleshing out useless characters, but give the man a break. He combines to things for us the readers...ONE: He writes his fiction similarly to the classics none of us want to read, he fleshes out his stories slow and his characters thick. TWO: He writes books like we like to read today, fiction that is fast and breezy. Think of it this way, when you are reading a King novel, you are getting the best of both worlds.

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Summary: cujo's story
Review: I thought cujo was a great book by Steven King. He is also my favorite author. Most of the reason that I liked the story so much is not science fiction.

To me this is a book about a good dog gone bad. It was fun to read. I enjoyed every bit of the book and it makes want to keep on reading. this book tells a story of a killer dog that is vary paranoid. By the time they find out what has happened it is to late.

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Summary: Once upon a time...
Review: Stephen King's penchant for fleshing out his characters (even the ones that make a grisly exit mere pages later) really takes a new twist in Cujo, when he writes, at times, from the actual point of view of a mentally deteriorating St. Bernard. While not as terrifying as typical King fodder, this gripping (and strangely endearing) read is more than worth the (nowadays reduced) cover price.
The novel's theme is one of circumstance, and the chances every existing entity takes with fate. While some supernatual ties are (rather vaguely) referred to, the plot of the novel is essentially fate intertwining the personnal crisis' of several families with that of a dog who suffers an untimely bout of Rabies.
Other commentators haves speculated deeper ties and metaphors in the novel's sub-plots, and the reader may assume these as he or she pleases.
The resulting conflicts in the novel have the great effect of being mindbendingly outlandish and yet fathomable, and entirely gripping.
A more than justifiable King classic, once again defying critic's claims that King's writing is "fast food" literature.

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Summary: His best
Review: Despite reading like a pre-made screenplay, this is an effective and very involving pulp novel that doesn't pull any punches or end with any cop outs. It's quite realistically scary, too, in that King makes simple every day things, like breakfast cereal and a child's toy closet, seem menacing. Probably his best characters for sheer immediate indentification, since they're well drawn and fragile enough to be totally believable. A heartbreaking and very blunt ride thru the suburbs, where, alas, not even the family dog (or the family car for that matter) is safe. Note the clever references to King's other work, the Dead Zone, that sort of tap into the kid's childhood nightmares.

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Summary: ATTACK!
Review: I really like this book because of all the details that the author uses. I also like this book because the main character is an animal and not a person, like most books. Some books that have a person as a main character are boring. I like this book, also, because of all the action in it. It's not a boring book where the dog is really old and is about to die and is telling all the nice treatment he is getting.

I think the best part of this book is where Donna hits Cujo on the haed with a baseball bat. It only knocks him out long enough for Donna to get her son, Tad, in the house to get him some water to drink. Tad got so dehidrated that he started having segers. After Donna gave Tad some water Cujo leaped at her, coming threw the window.

I think the most vivid parts of this book are the characters and the resolution. Steven King describes the characters so well that you can see them in your mind. I also think the resolution is very vivid because he explains everything in great details.

I only recomend this book to readers 12 and older due to language.

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Summary: A look at everyones monster in the closet
Review: This is a look at everyones monster in the closet, not just Cujo as Tad's monster in the closet. The book explores substance abuse, what its like to live check to check, marital affairs, family violence. Of course Cujo is the main focus, not even knowing he was a monster, and the scene with Tad and his mother in the car is both sad and frightening.

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Summary: Cujo
Review: Typical Early King, less (but not insufficient) character build up and more of both, suspense and action. I have to say it is the suspense that increases the most and therfore carries the book while the 'sitting on the edge of your seat' action is not quite there. I didn't feel the goosebumps or even the outright fear I have felt in several of his other books. Le Guepe
(Dan Newell)

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Summary: Pretty good
Review: This is the only Stephen King novel have ever read, and I must say it did not scare me; then again, not much anything does. At first it was a bit annoying reading experience, particularly because of the characters, adulterers and idiots the lot of them, it seemed, but then it started getting better, and by the end I was reading desperately to finish it as quickly as possible and be rid of the oppresing excitement; by that time the characters' fates had also begun to interest me to some extent. The most annoying thing was that the most annoying ... was merely brought to the law instead of all the horrible things that might have hapened to him.
There were a couple of more setbacks: the serial killer guy to whom there were a lot of referencies had no obvious purpose, and the monster in the closet -bit was somewhat weird (though you could be pretty certain whether it was real or not, you couldn't be positive). And King really should tidy his language, or his subjects; not that there is much wrong with the things he writes, but it is annoying to read something written by someone who apparently has no kind of inhibitions against mentioning, shall I say, things that happen in the bedroom or bathroom (while I, like most people, do). I have read short stories by him, and it's always the same thing. Weird.