Cujo

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Summary: Great reading, Scary because it is so realistic.
Review: I recommend this book to anyone for the simple fact that it is realistic, which makes it all the more scary.Leigh-Ann Gate

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Summary: A realistic tale of terror!
Review: Cujo is perhaps not King's best novel but it is definitely an enjoyable and frightening read. King sticks to more realistic terrors in this story of a St. Bernard who contracts rabies and terrorizes a woman and her young son, keeping them trapped in a car that refuses to start for several agonizing days in sweltering summer heat. King shows us not only Donna and Tad Trenton's horror at being held "hostage" but also lets us into Cujo's own mind, showing us his confusion and sickness. One feels almost sorry for Cujo and we get a glimpse of him not as a monster as Donna and Tad come to see him but rather as the sick and suffering creature that he is. Even though you feel some of Cujo's emotions, you will keep turning pages to see if Tad and Donna will survive their ordeal. Definitely worth reading

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Summary: PRETTY DAMN SCARY
Review: Cujo was a danm good book. Not the best one I ever read but still good. King explains everything in great detail. It makes you feel almost as if you were the one trapped in a pinto as a huge dog with a bad attitude tries everything to eat you for supper. It was a good book an the scary part is that this really could happen! It really makes you think

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Summary: AWESOME SUSPENSE
Review: GOOD STORY, BUT SORT OF DUMB AT POINTS. KEPT ME UP TILL THE CRACK OF DAW

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Summary: One of Stephen King's best.
Review: I read 'Cujo' several years ago and just re-read it a few weeks back. The portions of the book that dealt with what was going thru Cujo's mind were innovative and well done. I often wonder about the thought processes of my pets(or animals in general). Cujo was a simple being with simple needs that, while responding to his normal animal insticts, ended up with an unfortunate physical condition that converted him into a monster. Maybe Mr. King should have considered a different breed of dog to play Cujo; a St. Bernard is generally a very docile, amiable creature. At any rate, the book was a winner, as are most all of Stephen King's works.

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Summary: the eerie one
Review: I really like this book, I thought it was really eerie, and would probably give you the creeps. What I especially liked about it was how Stephen King used such good and sometimes confusing words. "The epiphany was lost in low-key, exasperated anger". page 88. What I also enjoyed about the book was how it wasn't always about one person, it was about many different people coming in site if cujo. Another thing I liked was the way he described all the people's emotions such as Tad's horror when cujo was in his bedroom closet or how he described cujo.the dialogue was good too but I felt that he put too many curse words in it.
I think the theme of the story is as long as there is good, something bad usually will happen. I don't agree with this though, I would say its the other way around and that whenever something bad happens, something good will also happen. Luckily this theme doesn't really relate to my life. I guess if it did relate to my life I would have to say whenever i go on vacation i have to go back to school after.
I definetely would recommend this book to others because of al the thrills and how eerie it was. It wasn't to scary, just weird, it may be scary to some people but it pretty much just gives you the creeps. Also the words he uses to describe cujo's encounters will probably be a hihglight of the story

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Summary: I liked it
Review: Cujo by Stephen king is a great book. It kept me on the edge of my seat waiting to see what happens. The story starts of a lil slow but then gets better about half way through. Cujo is about a St bernard dog that was lovable and a very nice dog but then he came down with the rabies and went crazy. The book and movie were very similar with the exception of the en. I think everyone should read it.

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Summary: Incredible...
Review: King says he doesn't remember writing this book. Frankly, I wish I didn't remember reading it. It's not that it's badly written, it's just that it's thoroughly, completely unpleasant.

King has a nasty habit of including at least one example of animal suffering or extreme cruelty to animals in nearly every book. (I'm thinking here of Stillson kicking and beating a dog to death in "The Dead Zone," or Patrick Hockstetter trapping a puppy inside an abandoned refrigerator in "It.") And this one is no different.

It's horrible enough that Cujo, after going rabid, attacks a car-bound mother and son for several days, resulting in the boy's death (and the mother having to get painful rabies shots), and that the book intersperses these grim goings-on with heartrending descriptions of Cujo's suffering. No, we also have to learn at the very end that the rabbit Cujo chased into a hole -- whereupon he was bitten by rabid bats -- was unable to get out of said hole and "starved to death in slow, soundless misery."

Ugh.

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Summary: You Won't Put It Down.
Review: I love Stephen King; to use his term, I am a Constant Reader. Of course I enjoy some books more than others (faves: "The Shining," "The Stand," and "It"). I read "Cujo" in one evening. I could not put the book down until it was finished. I was completely entertained and on the edge of my seat the entire time!

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Summary: King at his best; dog at its worst
Review: I have always been fascinated by the concept of the disease Rabies. Ever since I saw the film Cujo as a kid I have wanted to learn more about it. The subject is not touched on as much as it should be; King captured it brilliantly with this horrid situation that really could have happened.

The atmosphere was claustrophic and powerful. The characters rang true, even the dog. The ending was hauntingly depressing - the dog attacks were vicious and exciting - the narration at the beginning and end of the book before and after the characters are 'dealt' with -- King's ability really shows within these paper walls.

Cujo deserves a place in your library.