Cujo
Ratings236
Average rating3.5
Bats can't be trusted EVER. First they infect Cujo which leads him to kill others and now 2020 rolls around.... the rest is history.
Next time I go outside I will be shaking trees so bats don't get a good days sleep ever again. All in the name of justice for Cujo and the world.
anyways Cujo is a fictional dog but I just hope he knows that he's forever a good boy and that it wasn't his fault :((
I approached Cujo with curiosity. I wanted to know how Stephen King managed to turn a rabid dog into a killing machine/horror monster. I wanted to know how a woman and a kid locked inside a car could sustain an entire novel. I knew little about it, but what I did know didn't make much sense. It didn't seem possible, you know? Didn't seem doable. To be completely honest, I still don't know how he did it, but he did. This little book kept me on the edge of my seat at all times, and it's probably one of the most disturbing horror stories I have ever read—and I loved every minute of it.
Sadly, I have to give it 3 stars. First half of the book is awesome but when Cujo, the dog after whom the whole book is titled, shows up, the quality goes down. More than 100 pages of the drama in the car was “a bit” of a stretch.
King excels in creating relatable characters and that's why I was so excited when I started reading this book. Marital conflict was handled brilliantly.
But in the second half he focuses more on the dog and drama of survival. Rabid dog just isn't enough for me, though. Few pages could be considered a prequel to legendary It, but it's only in the beginning.
I think this book should be shorter and released as part of his novella collections. Maybe even part of Skeleton Crew because many of short stories there felt like writing exercises and nothing more.
Iconic terror... I agree with the latter but this book definitely isn't iconic.
A fun read, but the only Stephen King book that had me confused and begging for it to end.I'm giving this book three stars for two reasons: (1) it's Stephen King and I just love to read his work and (2) it is actually scary in parts. This was my Halloween book but even when reading at nine in the morning, the tension was incredible. I really don't know how Stephen King does this, and I have studied it. If you're just looking for a scary read, or for King-Kompleatness, then by all means read Cujo.BUT...It's a mess. I also recommend this book if you want to see into the mind of a truly great writer blown away by cocaine. In his memoir and craft book [b:On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft 10569 On Writing A Memoir of the Craft Stephen King https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1436735207s/10569.jpg 150292], King admits that he was completely “blasted” (or was it “wrecked?”) when he wrote Cujo, and although he thinks it's good, he can't remember writing a single word of it. I'm surprised that it fits so well into King's fictional Maine mythos, along with “The Body,” [b:It 830502 It Stephen King https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1334416842s/830502.jpg 150259], [b:Needful Things 107291 Needful Things Stephen King https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1315767817s/107291.jpg 1812101], and others, because the book itself barely holds together. Cujo reads like a long short story, with no chapters divisions and a story that progresses from moment to moment over a few days. There are subplots, but they are sort of window dressing, and I found them distracting. The primary subplot, the main character's affair, is essential in the end, but it's hard while the story's going to trace the connections. The basic story is a kid and his mom get stuck in a broken down car under siege from a rabid dog (the titular Cujo). The POV shifts are sometimes unpredictable and confusing, but my biggest gripe is that despite the passages with monsters in the kid's closet, this is not a particularly supernatural book, which is what King really does best, the major exception being “The Body,” which is brilliant as a simple literary novella. I really love when King does the over-the-top Lovecraftian cosmic horror, and his mythos is better than Lovecraft's. IT, for example, was an amazing ride that gradually works into a completely-unexpected supernatural turn. I kept waiting for the supernatural aspects of Cujo to catch up, but !SPOILER! Cujo is just a rabid dog. I might be missing something, but on first reading, it feels like King just couldn't connect the dots. The back cover copy is misleading, and the story of Frank Dodd that begins the story never catches up with Cujo himself. This is the first book of King's that was a letdown, where I just wanted to finish it to have finished it. It was still unpredictable and tense, but without that supernatural connection, I was just disappointed. YMMV.
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Big glow up on reread. I can totally understand why I didn't like this originally in high school. I hate every character in this novel besides Bannerman. I wish Cujo just killed everyone and went to live in a forest somewhere.
But the book is well written, full of tension, made me feel emotions. The Cujo POVs were really well done. I can't give this book five stars due to hating everyone at every moment but it's a solid horror novel.
Precise rating: 4.5 ⭐
A surprisingly good book, even though the blurb made it sound super trashy! After finishing it, I had the feeling that I'd just read a perfectly round story. That's rare!
Pretty good book but one his weaker stories at the time. I really enjoyed the premise and the fact that he had such good character development for only a few hundred pages. I do think that this book would be rated higher if he wrote it as a short story or a novella.
Muy buen libro, si te comprometes con el escenario y te pones en los zapatos de los personajes, es super tétrico y abrumador. Me encanta que esté narrada la perspectiva del perro y el cómo él mismo menciona su deterioro tras algo tan grave y confuso como lo es una enfermedad neurodegenerativa. Como siempre, Steven habla a exceso detalle de elementos irrelevantes (como la silla azul de home depot), pero pasa conforme la historia avanza.
También la presencia de varias historias secundarias que se entrelazan y como hacen de todo el suceso un hecho no aislado pero con resultados y sensaciones diferentes: Algunos se alegran, otros se aterran, otros están tristes y otros no pueden ni contar ya nada.
Moraleja: Vacunen a sus perros
I might not like how Stephen King writes. Maybe it's just me. The book was okay. Not his best work. The ending was shocking but there was a wholesome feeling in the last 2-3 pages. I was tense though. But it took a while to get to the main point. The drama was annoying at times. Overall, I wouldn't read it again and I don't think I would recommend it to anyone.
“Cujo” was perhaps the most distressing book by Stephen King I've read to date. It's a page turner where you turn each page with your eyes closed — at the same time wishing to know what'll happen next and not. Also, amazing how SK gets to transmit the sensations and emotions from a dog's perspective. Totally recommend it.
Creepy as hell.
A great book, which I found a bit slow to get into to start with (hence the four stars). However there is no doubt as to what a great writer Stephen King is. I really enjoyed the way he wrote Cujo's communication, and the separate relationships which were all entwined. The book really grew to a big crescendo, and did so really well.
I loved dogs before I read this book...now I'm not so sure!!
