Cujo: A Novel by Stephen King (MOBI)

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The #1 New York Times bestseller, Cujo “hits the jugular” (The New York Times) with the story of a friendly Saint Bernard that is bitten by a bat. Get ready to meet the most hideous menace ever to terrorize the town of Castle Rock, Maine.Outside a peaceful town in central Maine, a monster is waiting. Cujo is a two-hundred-pound Saint Bernard, the best friend Brett Camber has ever had. One day, Cujo chases a rabbit into a cave inhabited by sick bats and emerges as something new altogether. Meanwhile, Vic and Donna Trenton, and their young son Tad, move to Maine. They are seeking peace and quiet, but life in this small town is not what it seems. As Tad tries to fend off the terror that comes to him at night from his bedroom closet, and as Vic and Donna face their own nightmare of a marriage on the rocks, there is no way they can know that a monster, infinitely sinister, waits in the daylight. What happens to Cujo, how he becomes a horrifying vortex inescapably drawing in all the people around him, makes for one of the most heart-stopping novels Stephen King has ever written. “A genuine page-turner that grabs you and holds you and won’t let go” (Chattanooga Times), Cujo will forever change how you view man’s best friend.

User’s Reviews

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⭐Another 5 star thriller from the mind of Stephen King. This page turner will keep you up at night, unable to put it down. He introduces you to Vic, Donna and their son Tad, who has a monster in his closet. However the monster is not there but that one that is in all of us. The monster of FEAR. Multiple characters are brought forth and developed expertly. You will meet Cujo, the lovable big Saint Bernard who is the star of the show. King also developes the contrasts between the “haves”, ‘wanna haves” and the “have nots”. Anyway you slice it, each has their share of trouble (fears). Now go read “Christine”, also available from Amazon. ” Shake it, shake it, Sugaree. Just don’t tell them that you know me. ”

⭐This place has really deserved its acclaim amongst King’s canon. Oddly enough, the book he doesn’t remember writing is one of his most humane in terms of characterization and his most vicious in terms of plot.I was really floored by how well done this book is. I spent all of September reading Stephen King and I am so glad that this is what I chose for the last bit.

⭐Absolutely loved this book. Total page turner. Highly recommend keeps you entertained throughout the whole book. 5 out of 5 stars

⭐Love this book. Fast shipping

⭐Hard to go wrong with a King novel.

⭐I was saddened by how the story ended, though thinking about it, there couldn’t have been a more realistic conclusion. The King indeed, is a master storyteller.The setting was a rural town in Maine, during the peak of summer 1980. Back then, people communicate by landline telephones; ones service is traded for another’s goods; life was simple. Yet in one twisted connivance of fate, tragedy can strike not once, not twice, but multiple times. All throughout their ordeal, I always thought that if Donna just had a mobile phone, things would’ve turned out differently; but of course there’d be no story.As one can expect, Stephen King’s prose combines multiple elements of effective story writing (whatever they are called) through the lives of his characters in his chosen town. All these conspire to weave a tale that one would want to hide away from the world just to relish it, and finish it without disturbance.

⭐One of my favorites. Great book. Definitely a page turner. I recommend this one for sure. Might go back and read it again later this year

⭐I’m a big fan of Stephen King and have read many of his novels. I didn’t know how a rabid dog would be scary; however, Stephen King is truly THE master at what he does and has a gift for getting into one’s head. Cujo is definitely a book that I would recommend reading.

⭐I wanted to read Cujo for a while, having read polarised reviews. I finally got round to it last week and I must say I was pleasantly surprised – Well, if ‘pleasantly’ can be used to describe a novel about a rabid dog that savages innocent people that is!As usual, King walks a fine line between literary and genre fiction. Whilst he always provides an easy read, I feel what marks his novels out from other popular fiction is how he roots his stories in everyday fears that we can all recognise and uses allegory and ostensibly mundane themes to create a multi-layered narrative. In Cujo, all of these tropes are present to varying degrees. We witness breakdowns in everyday relationships – marriage, family and corporate – parallelled by the eponymous K9’s descent into rabid madness. This is done particularly well throughout, despite the novel being unusual for King in that it contains very few – if any – supernatural elements.The novel is very much one of tension and this is where I feel it has been underrated. Whereas IT, Pet Semetary and Salem’s Lot rely on the unknown supernatural element to mark them out as horror fiction, Cujo is rooted in real life. As great as those other works are, it takes a real master to keep you on edge for 400 or so pages, with very few gory deaths and traditional horror imagery. The narrative of Cujo moves at just the right pace and builds perfectly to its dramatic conclusion. There is nothing groundbreaking, just a master of the craft demonstrating how to plot a bestseller for maximum emotional impact.A surprising element is how King treats Cujo himself. We read the dog’s inner thoughts as he succumbs to his illness – which may sound ridiculous, but I felt it worked very well. It makes the reader emphasise and pity the animal and see it as more than ‘the monster’, once again demonstrating how King weaves complexity into what is on the surface a very simple, almost cliche, horror motif. In my opinion, it is this anthropomorphising that makes the novel work. As something of a slow-starter, the sympathy we initially feel for Cujo and the impending dread of what we know is going to happen to him gives a feeling of dread before any violence occurs.All in all, this was a thrilling and at times challenging read – challenging in terms of content that is. Whilst some may feel it takes a while to get going, there is enough to keep it interesting until it all kicks off. The lack of the supernatural may turn some off, but there it is suggested enough at several points to scratch that itch. My only quibble – and I don’t know if it is just with this edition – is the lack of chapters.

⭐Stephen King delivers again with Cujo, the haunting tale of a rabid dog turned beast. Iconic Terror has published Cujo expertly with all 420 pages arrived unstained and without and blotches, misspellings or tears in the page and with a strong binding that doesn’t wrinkle during reading.King hops from different albeit entirely relatable lives of varying families in the first half of his novel, refraining from boring the reader by adding inner monologues of the dog himself, a cute little Saint Bernard that becomes even more entertaining in the light of it’s transformation. King writes horror like no one else and the accessible style of his writing in Cujo creates a chilling tale sure to resonate and stay with any reader for good.A must have for any horror fan and a good jumping on point to Kings work.

⭐I’ve read Cujo 3 times now and each time I’ve thought of it as better than before. 1st reading I thought it average. 2nd reading I picked up on the castle rock continuation theme. Now having read it on kindle I appreciate it even more. The first half centres on 2 familes, a struggling middle class family, and a working class family out in the sticks, and their dog Cujo slowly going mad through rabies. The 2nd half is the tense standoff for survival between the The woman and her son and the rabid dog Cujo. Where as Salems Lot involved a whole town, character development would be limited, but provide much more “fodder” characters, Cujo focusing on only a few characters develops the personalities much more so you emphasis with them. Even the villain Steve Kemp you feel a degree of pity for him, constantly running away and not facing up to his responsibilities. A flawed pitiful ageing Romeo. It’s not just a rabid dog novel, it’s a timely reminder to us all that the pressures of everyday life are minimal to anyone facing a life or death situation.

⭐I had heard of this story from references made in TV shows and films and expected it to be some great classic. I was very disappointed.I found the characters one dimensional with little opportunity to relate to them. I particularly thought that Tad, a 4 year old boy, had thoughts and emotions that were unrealistic for a boy of that age to have.It was also unclear the point/connection of Tad’s closet monster. To begin with it came across as something supernatural but then was never explained and ultimately seemed like a pointless part of the story.I would not recommend this book.

⭐Cujo felt a little different to King’s other popular novels, there was a whole lot of people politics, and relationships, and the horror elements were only really under currents up until the last quarter. For that reason, I found it quite boring, which was disappointing, I thought this could be a new favourite.Cujo himself just made me sad, as an animal lover, the dogs slow descent into madness wasn’t really what I’d expected. I just felt sorry for the poor guy, and was waiting for someone to put him out of his misery. The rest of the characters were just what you would expect, well rounded, some likeable, some hateable, and some just there for filler.I was pretty much set on this being 2 star, but the horrific/shocking ending, pulled it back to a 3 star. Definitely not King’s finest.

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