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Summary: Reading this book....
Review: ... was a bit like watching one of those special-effects extravaganza disaster movies -- the focus of the book, it's sole redeeming feature, was the disaster itself, in this case Cujo. The simplistic attempts at psychology were relatively weak, shallow, and somewhat cliche-driven, or so it seemed to me. However, I read this book with the same guilty-pleasure mindset one gets from watching such a disaster movie as I've previously mentioned, and to this end, the shallowness of the characters only added to my enjoyment. This was because the book's focal point, for me, was "wouldn't it be cool if a very large, powerful dog got rabies and went on a rampage?" If the characters had enough depth to actually make me care about whether or not they got eaten by a rabid dog, then the book would have ceased to draw from me that morbid, voyeuristic fascination which it did.I've only read to other books by Stephen King so far, "Needful Things," and "Gerald'! s Game," both of which, I thought were of much higher quality than this -- Both were very well, and intelligently written, and the focus seemed not so much to scare the reader, or to indulge their morbid curiousity, but to reveal and explore the external and internal landscapes of the various characters involved. Overall, this book was a dissapointment, especially after reading all the good reviews found here. Nevertheless, the few hours I spent reading this book were anything but boring.
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Summary: Cujo rockes
Review: I LOVE THIS BOOK BECAUSE KING TAKES YOU INSIDE THE DOGS HEAD.WHEN I WAS READING THIS BOOK I FELT ALL THE DOGS ANGER AND RAGE.WHEN I WAS READING THIS BOOK I FELT AS IF IT I WAS THE ONE THAT WAS TRAPED IN THE CAR.I FELT AS IF I WAS THE ONE TRYING TO SAVE MY SON.AS I WAS READING THIS I FELT AS IF HE WAS WATHCHING ME.THIS IS THE BEST BOOK I HAVE EVER READ.EVERYONE SHOULD READ IT.
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Summary: Read This if you want to Scare Yourself.
Review: One day a dog chases a rabbit into his burrow where many bats live. Cujo is bitten by the bats and now brings terror to Tad and his family. A story of a friendly dog who becomes a two-man killer.
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Summary: Scary!
Review: This book is excellent if you want to scare yourself!
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Summary: SPELLBINDING
Review: THIS BOOK WAS AN EVEN BETTER BOOK THAN THE MOVIE. THE STORY OF TORMENT THAT CUJO WENT THROUGH AS IF WE WERE INSIDE THAT POOR SICK DOG'S MIND ...FELT THE TERROR AND HORROR OF THE PEOPLE TORMENTED BY CUJO IN HIS HOURS OF AGONY
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Summary: Scary for a diffrent reason
Review: I have to agree with the people who said that this book has a lot of unconnected ideas, but I think the scariest aspect is the fact that unlike most of King's books, this is a plausable situation that could occur in real life... watch your back...
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Summary: I Loved Cujo!!!
Review: I have only read two Stephen King Books.(The Shining and Cujo) I like Cujo more. This book can get very scarey and sort of sad at the end. I can't understand why so many people gave it a low rate. This book is full of action at the end and down right scary because this book seems as it could be true. All you need is to be stuck in a broken car with a 200 plus pound rabid dog outside that just wants to kill you. I recomend this to all King's fans
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Summary: a pinto with really CHEAP doors
Review: i guess i gave this book a "7" because altho it is not a truly GOOD book, it is certainly an entertaining one. there are a few confusing parts but enuf good ones are in there to keep the reader's attention. i would recommend it if you're just lying around, or if you're stuck in a car or something (not by a rabid dog but a family trip). i bet this review makes it seem like a pretty bad book, but it really isn't. it's a great one for lazy summer days!
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Summary: Man's best friend?
Review: When I first picked up this book, I got a little suspicious. I knew that King was a excellent horror-writer, but a story about a rabid dog....?, I mean, that sounded like a b-movie to me. Luckily I had no reason to be suspicious. This novel is just as horryfying and pessimistic as it is excellent.
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Summary: How Cujo?
Review: Cujo is not one of my favorites, I think it's because of it's heavy dose of pessimism, but I do like it and I do think it's a good novel, and it certainly scared me downright. I first saw the movie, which I thought was good and later on I read the book which is sad and scary, not much humour in it. You can probably imagine the chock I got when dear little Tad Trenton died. Stephen: How Could You? (Ha ha). I thought he would live like in the movieversion, the only sign of optimism in that movie. But, okay, it's a scary novel, not supernatural (except maybe for the ghost of Frank Dodd in the closet or whatever it is that Tad may see), very realistic, it's reading a lot like a Bachman book. And I'm very scared of big dogs myself, so this book got me utterly petrified with dogs at any sizes.
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