Cujo

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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.

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Summary: Watch out Beethoven lovers!
Review: If I remember correctly, Cujo is a Saint Bernard, and the untimely victim of rabid bats. King's book is quite scary, and the characters fleshed out in very realistic tones. I've noticed from King's books that I've read ("Cujo", "Pet Semetary", "Bag of Bones") that he relies heavily on the psychological states of his believable characters. "Cujo" is one of his earlier books, so it does not show the maturity that I observed in "Bag of Bones". Well, Mr. King, I'm certainly more wary of rabies now!

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Summary: One of King's Best
Review: Wow, how many times have you heard that written about a Stephen King book? I say it with a die-hard fan's sincerity, though--I've read every book he has ever published at least 3 times each, and "Cujo" is, without a doubt, one of his best. For some reason, though, it's always lumped with the more "halfway" books (books that, while good, aren't on the better side of King's body of work). I think, however, that the problem lies with what i feel to be the book's strongest point: it's complete realism. In Beahm's 'Stephen King Companion,' he points out that in 'Cujo,' most of the situations are out of the characters' control and questions of sacrifice can't come into play. Because of that, though, the book is even more scary and plausible. The characters, as real as they come, are some of his best, and the suspense is top-notch (even better than 'Misery,' in my opinion). Strongly reccommended.