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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book.  StefanY | Dec 8, 2009 |  It focuses on all the right things. Great horror novel! (  ) Anagarika | Nov 3, 2009 | I was incredibly bored. None of the characters were interesting, never mind likeable (well, maybe Cujo before the rabies kicked in). The story was dull, dull, dull. The Frank Dodd stuff went nowhere, the haunted closet went nowhere, and the idea that a terrible sequence of events led to an even more terrible tragedy was hammered home time and time again. The ad agency bits were even more boring than the rest of the book, and that's going some, and most of it seemed to be about bad marriages. Most of King's work stands up because story and subtext gel. This was appalling - he sort of threw together marital problems, bad luck, crap characters, a haunted closet and a rabid dog, and hoped for the best. It just wasn't very... coherent. (  )1  Moomin_Mama | Oct 1, 2009 | I like Cujo for several reasons. First, it's a very tight story that winds you up to the point where you just can't put it down. Second, it shows how a chain of events can create a circumstance, and I think it's not done in a contrived way. Finally, it does not pull its punches; it is a relentless book. ( ) sturlington | Sep 16, 2009 | Whether it be cars, dogs, or aliens, or just plain terror, this is classic King. (  ) TheLiveSoundGuy | Jul 28, 2009 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com (ISBN 0451161351, Mass Market Paperback)Cujo is so well-paced and scary that people tend to read it quickly, so they mostly remember the scene of the mother and son trapped in the hot Pinto and threatened by the rabid Cujo, forgetting the multifaceted story in which that scene is embedded. This is definitely a novel that rewards re-reading. When you read it again, you can pay more attention to the theme of country folk vs. city folk; the parallel marriage conflicts of the Cambers vs. the Trentons; the poignancy of the amiable St. Bernard (yes, the breed choice is just right) infected by a brain-destroying virus that makes it into a monster; and the way the "daylight burial" of the failed ad campaign is reflected in the sunlit Pinto that becomes a coffin. And how significant it is that this horror tale is not supernatural: it's as real as junk food, a failing marriage, a broken-down car, or a fatal virus.(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:57:54 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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Cujo is maybe not the most action-packed King novel, I think only four people die in the entire novel. Most of the horror is derived in the tension and frustration involved in the situations that the characters are thrust into. Cujo is a truly terrifying beast, but one of his most frightening characteristics is the will-power that he possesses that enables him to simply continue waiting for the situation to change in order to give him another chance to cause mayhem.
Some people will maybe find it dull at times, but the majority of the book is just set up for the final one hundred pages or so when the poop really hits the fan. I found the novel incredibly difficult to put down and it kept me up reading late into the night on several occasions. (