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Cujo
by Stephen King
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Topeka Bindery (1999-10)
ISBN: 0881037273
EAN: 9780881037272
Dewy Decimal #: 813.54
School & Library Binding
Reading Level: Young Adult
SKU: SA102403
Condition: Used: Good
Comments: Library Binding - no dust jacket as issued, ex library copy with usual stamps and stickers. Small tear at top of spine. Text clean with NO marks.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
The #1 bestseller-for King's rabid fans.
A family dog turns into a family killer in King's canine classic.
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Amazon.com Review
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.
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Customer Reviews
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Nice doggie...
Rating  (5)
Date: 2008-11-23
This is probably King's first published work to find horror in your own backyard. Taking things that are taken for granted and making them bite you. The writing makes the fear palpable. You 'feel' the anguish and terror. If you love the genre or the King...a must read.
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Cujo
Rating (5)
Date: 2008-06-24
Cujo, to me, harkens back to the time when Stephen King's writing was wilder, back then when unbridled classics such as Firestarter and The Stand were still new to the bookstores. Cujo represented a time for me when Stephen would usually put predestrian characters into extraordinary situations and just let them work their way out. Less subtle than his current books Lisey's Story and Duma Key, but more energetic. And you always have a sense that anything can and does happen. That is what's so great about Cujo.
If you've read any of the quips about Cujo online, you would know the basis of this book right from the get go. You knew that eventually there would be a wild dog trapping a woman and her child in a car. And it will indeed be in the back of your mind while reading this thriller.
But you never expected the buildup to be this solid.
You never knew Stephen could do it this masterfully. He simply took the characters and built on their stories. And these stories collided very realistically, creating a push and pull reaction that drove the story forward to that above-mentioned scenario. And then it's boom, the situation starts, wondering what would happen next. Rip roaring stuff.
And outside that struggle between the trapped and the dog were many other situations happening at the same time. Ted's struggle to keep his advertising contract, Steve Kemp's schemings, all this tension made the story all the more thrilling.
This book isn't perfect though; some parts felt really pre-fabricated and campy, like King just put them in there to build up the suspense. But, like paper tigers, you realize how these things eventually turn out to be nothing much. Well, this is fiction, so it goes in the territory. Not really anything to shout about.
If you want to read a good thriller, Cujo would be right up your alley.
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Cujo- at pet to never forget
Rating  (2)
Date: 2008-05-22
0 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
Cujo- A pet to never forget
Cujo is a tedious read for those used to the more exciting and action packed Stephen King usually writes. Cujo written by the famous author Stephen King.
The book Cujo is about the real life monsters that don't have to live in the dark recesses of your closet or dreams to thrive in. There is no main character like in many of King's books the perspective alters constantly to show everything that's going on. Though in the broad prospect of things there are two main families the story follows.
The Trenton family is in the upper middle class with Vic a commercial director and his wife Donna a stay at home house wife. There pride and joy Tad or to his dad tadder has a monster in his closet which is a foreshadowing of the monster he faces latter on.
The other family is the chamber family. A poor hillbilly get'r done husband abuses his wife Charity. She stays around only for her son who his very intelligent but she worries that he will follow his father's footsteps to nowhere.
The Trenton's car is in need of repair and so they take it to Joe who repairs cars and meet the Chamber's dog Cujo. Cujo is a lovable easy going 200 lbs dog.
Of course in typical King fashion he turns Cujo into a poor retched monster. Maybe not the type your thinking of Cujo gets bitten by bats and get the nervous system attacking brain deteriorating incurable disease rabies. Well while this is happening Vic finds out that Donna is cheating on him so he leaves town.
While Donna is trying to keep her marriage together which takes up a large potion of the book dulling it so much that even when you get to the parts where Cujo is killing people it can hardly raise your attention.
Well Donna takes tad with her to get the car checked out again. Cujo has fallen to the last stages of madness and attacks. With a cruel twist of fate the car battery dies trapping Donna and her 6 yr old son to an indefinite siege in the car. After day of being trapped and with tad on the brink of death Donna faces off with Cujo armed only with a broken bat.
I would recommend that if you want to read this book that you be very persistent with your reading. The extra details can grow tedious and boring so if you're not a good reader find something else.
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Good Book
Rating  (4)
Date: 2008-04-30
I am a new reader of King. I have heard about him my whole life but am only now collecting his books. I am reading them in the order they were written so Cujo was the next one on the list. I have to say I did not like this novel as much as some of the others; however, much of this was because I have been an abused wife just like the one in this book. I have been a mother who worried over her son again just like both mom's in this book. There are other parallels as well but I won't go there here. I also felt I was in the dog's head and I felt increasingly sorry for him. I understood Tad's fear of the monster in the closet and remember feeling that way as a child. I had wolfs in my closet :). I agree that this is a dark novel but I also got a truth out of it. Make the most out of each day of your life. Sometimes your life does not work out as you would have wished. Everyone probably should read this book and I am sure in a discriptive literature class the disucssions would be awesome.
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Ok, but not King's best
Rating  (3)
Date: 2008-02-01
0 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
This one's good to read if if you've got about 3-4 hours to kill. It is a page turner. Not because it is so good, because it's so short.
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