Name: Cujo [In Japanese Language]
Rating: 3.676056338028169 (142 reviews)
ISBN: 9784102193037

Stephen King

jun Nagai

Cujo [In Japanese Language]

Cujo - Ssa

Josephine Cammarano

He began to work on these questions a little at a time, the way most people do, running an objective set of facts through a bath of various chemicals which, when taken together, make up the complex human perceptual mechanism known as subjectivity. Like a schoolchild who works carefully first with the pencil, then with the eraser, then with the pencil agin, he tore down what had happened and then carefully rebuilt it - redrew it in his mind - until both the facts and his perception of thee facts jibed in a way he could live with.

Cujo

Patrick Book

After reading this I'm reminded that Stephen King can write stories based in actual reality, not just absolute nonsense like "Insomnia."

Colton Ray

This was my Stephen King book for July. I didn't have any time to read in the month of August due to personal issues.

This book was not my favorite King story. Though it has many awesome moments (the monster in the closet has always stuck with me since I skimmed that chapter back in high school) much of the book is taken up with business meeting jargon and a fairly boring infidelity subplot. I think this would have been much better had King cut it down into a short story. Ironically, the character you feel for the most is Cujo. He's more interesting and memorable than the fairly standard main characters. Though I loved the bits from Cujo's point of view, showing his mind slowly deteriorating and the small subplot of the kid seeing the monster in the closet (seriously, what was that thing?) I can't deny that large chunks of this novel got to be a little boring. Not the worst King book, but not nearly one of the best.

Daniel Spruill

All the logic in the world could not blunt the pain. Logic could not blunt her terrible sense of personal failure. Only time would do those things, and time would do an imperfect job.

So fucking bleak.

The first half or so reads like a soapy small town drama (a good one), and the back half is what you remember from the film. I really enjoyed this one. The scope is small, it gets a little wordy with some of the advertising subplot, but that does a good job of speaking to the larger theme of the secrets people keep.
”Nope, nothing wrong here.”

My favorite aspect is the idea of how the breakdown of communication and the smallest choices lead to a life and death situation. If people were honest earlier, if someone had believed what they were being told, if they knew the reality of the situation and weren’t caught up in their own shame, if the car hadn’t had a faulty needle valve, if Cujo hadn’t seen that rabbit, etc.

Call it fate, destiny, bad luck, or the indifference of the universe.

The consequences of those things are delivered with brute reality and don’t feel out of tone with the story being told. It’s an unreal situation that ultimately feels believable. Cujo serves as a way of forcing people to deal with reality and brings their secrets into the light of day.

The two of them had discovered it was all right to open the closets...as long as you didn't poke too far back in them. Because things might still be lurking there, ready to bite.

Brian

Cujo, prometo ponerle tu nombre a mi primer perro.

Cujo is a huge Saint Bernard dog, the best friend Brett Camber has ever had. Then one day Cujo chases a rabbit into a bolt- hole. Except it isn't a rabbit warren any more. It is a cave inhabited by rabid bats.

And Cujo falls sick. Very sick. And the gentle giant who once protected the family becomes a vortex of horror inexorably drawing in all the people around him ...
--back cover

Wynter

Stephen King has a talent of taking ordinary things and turning them into terrifying nightmares. Who would have thought that a sick dog, a junky car, and a number of miscommunications can create a perfect storm of trouble? King uses some light supernatural elements to set up the atmosphere, and I thought that certainly turned the novel up a notch in fear factor. On the other hand he grounds the book with a sympathetic central villain - a rabid dog, - who by no fault of his own descends into madness.

Michael Springer

Okay, Steve. REALLY? A fucking rabid dog?! A...rabid...fucking...dog?? Oooh, scary!

This must've been one of your drunk years. Otherwise, you would've realized what a dumb fucking idea this book was.

Loulou

Okay! I will say it, I hated Donna and I had some issues with Charity and the way she wanted to control Brett. 
But... This book is terrific, everything about Stephen King's writing is amazing. 
60℅ of the book gave me anxiety and chilled me to the bone because this can happen in real life. 
I was a little confused with the Frank Dodd plot.

Patti Reinheimer

THE ULTIMATE BEAST IS LOOSE--AND STEPHEN KING IS SENDING HIM YOUR WAY!
A big, friendly dog chases a rabbit into a hidden underground cave - and stirs a sleeping evil crueler than death itself. A terrified four year-old boy sees his bedroom closet door swing open untouched by human hands, and screams at the unholy red eyes gleaming in the darkness. The little Maine town of Castle Rock is about to be invaded by the most hideous menace ever to savage the flesh and devour the mind...
--back cover

Mary Graham

** spoiler alert **
           WHAT THE HELL WHY DID TAD HAVE TO DIE???? AFTER ALL THAT????

Adrianna Giunta

I wasn't expecting this book to make me cry but omg 😭😭 I have found with the Stephen King's books I've read so far that I either absolutely love them or hate them (*cough* *cough* Carrie *cough*). I am a big dog lover so this book hit different, Stephen King really is not afraid to go into those dark corners that other authors usually won't touch which sometimes makes things really interesting and sometimes makes things downright disturbing. I've only read Pet Semetary, Carrie (yawn) and Cujo and Cujo has earned second place after Pet Semetary which is one of my favourite books of all time. ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4 stars from me!

Zweiter Roman des Castle-Rock-Zyklus Der Bernhardiner Cujo ist der Liebling von ganz Castle Rock. Eines Tages wird er von einer Fledermaus mit einem teuflischen Virus infiziert. Die Kleinstadtidylle verwandelt sich fortan in eine Hölle, die von einem mordgierigen Monster beherrscht wird ...

Cujo [In Japanese Language]

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