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Cujo: A Novel Paperback – February 20, 2018

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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.

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Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes Holly, Fairy Tale, Billy Summers, If It Bleeds, The Institute, Elevation, The Outsider, Sleeping Beauties (cowritten with his son Owen King), and the Bill Hodges trilogy: End of Watch, Finders Keepers, and Mr. Mercedes (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and a television series streaming on Peacock). His novel 11/22/63 was named a top ten book of 2011 by The New York Times Book Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller. His epic works The Dark Tower, It, Pet Sematary, Doctor Sleep, and Firestarter are the basis for major motion pictures, with It now the highest-grossing horror film of all time. He is the recipient of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Gallery Books; Reprint edition (February 20, 2018)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 400 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1501192248
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1501192241
Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 830L
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.9 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.31 x 1.2 x 8.25 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #18,855 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #92 in TV, Movie & Game Tie-In Fiction
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Stephen King is the author of more than fifty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His first crime thriller featuring Bill Hodges, MR MERCEDES, won the Edgar Award for best novel and was shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger Award. Both MR MERCEDES and END OF WATCH received the Goodreads Choice Award for the Best Mystery and Thriller of 2014 and 2016 respectively.

King co-wrote the bestselling novel Sleeping Beauties with his son Owen King, and many of King's books have been turned into celebrated films and television series including The Shawshank Redemption, Gerald's Game and It.

King was the recipient of America's prestigious 2014 National Medal of Arts and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for distinguished contribution to American Letters. In 2007 he also won the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America. He lives with his wife Tabitha King in Maine.

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BlueRidgeMountainMan

Nope, nothing wrong here.

Reviewed in the United States on May 23, 2023

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I've been fascinated by Cujo ever since I was like 11 or 12 and was horrified by the original DVD cover when I saw it at Wal-Mart in the early '00s. Looking at it now, it's clearly a bad photoshop job (which in a way makes it even more unsettling), but the image of that snarling dog with gigantic teeth and eerily human looking eyes, juxaposed against a blue sky with fluffy white clouds, terrified me for years as I avoided it in the DVD department at any given store. Beneath all this, I was curious about the movie itself. I eventually saw the movie and loved it (and as soon as the Special Edition was released, with less horrifying cover art, I snapped it up). But I never read the book... until now.

This was the first full Stephen King book I ever read, and it won't be the last. Its relatively slow pace may surprise some people - the book doesn't get to the main setpiece, Donna and Tad trapped in their car by the rabid St. Bernard Cujo, until almost halfway through - but King's writing and excellent character work kept me engaged the whole way through. I was as engaged with the stupid cereal commercial subplot as I was with the horrifying main plot. And as frightening as this book is, it's also absolutely heartbreaking, especially if you're a dog lover like myself. The glimpses into Cujo's deteriorating mental state, and his sendoff... poor thing. He was a good boy who deserved so much better. And I don't wanna spoil it, but that's not the only heartwrenching thing that happens.

In short, this is an excellent book that I'd recommend to anyone interested, but be warned that it packs an emotional gut-punch. Not bad for a book written by a guy who was so drunk and stoned that he barely even remembers writing the thing. Or so I've heard. I've come across conflicting reports as to what the writing process here was really like, so I don't know for sure what happened. What I do know is that King made a masterpiece with Cujo.

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Amanda Gida

Stephen King at work again

Reviewed in the United States on August 26, 2023

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Cujo was a good dog he really tried to be a good dog and do all his Man Woman and mostly the boy told him to do...

Reviewed in the United States on August 21, 2023

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An interesting read from King's darkest hour.

Reviewed in the United States on December 15, 2013

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We return to the setting of Castle Rock, Maine. A town that is still haunted by the grizzly murders that took place some years ago. In the story we meet The Trenton's, Donna and Vic and their son Tad. They are a family who moved to Castle Rock from New York. Donna ends an affair that doesn't end well and Vic might loose his job. Then there are the Cambers, Joe and Charity and their son Brett. Joe is a mechanic. He's the kind of person you'd want to meet when your car breaks down, but not the kind of person you want to be married to. He abuses and controls his wife, Charity who despises her husband behavior and attitude. She does not want her son to turn out like his father. They have a dog named Cujo who get bitten by a bat and becomes rabid. Cujo's condition gets worse over time turning him from the good-natured dog he was into a bloodthirsty killer. Donna and Tad are trapped inside her Pinto as Cujo attacks them.
The characters are all suffering some sort of crisis, big or small before Cujo makes his first kill. Donna and Vic's marriage is being tested, while Charity is worried about her son and his upbringing. In the end Cujo wasn't just one another one of Stephen King's monsters. He was also victim himself. He was the victim of a disease no one suspected and no one thought of preventing with a simple shot. The books is also about timing. Had Donna gotten her car fixed before or had the hole been found by the previous owner of the Camber's property. It is basically a story about how little things that go ignored could end up with huge consequences.
Reading Cujo felt like it was taking longer than it should have. In my case, I had been neglecting my reading now and then. But one thing to note is that the book is with out chapters. The build-up has very interesting character development. So when Cujo takes a bite, you aren't left completely unsympathetic with each death and you can't be be unsympathetic towards Cujo either. This is also a story without a bad guy. The only person that comes close is Donna's lover. You'll see what I mean.
In the end, I recommend this book because it has interesting characters who are so drawn to their troubles which seems meaningless when the real tragedy strikes. But I can't say it's one of my favorable novels by King. I say this with unease because I am a huge fan of Stephen King, but maybe Cujo is that could've been formatted better. But at least the plot and the story is top notch.

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Reviewed in France on July 29, 2023

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Great book

Reviewed in Canada on August 26, 2023

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There is nothing better then reading about a 200 pound rabid Saint Bernard. Kings imagination had me turning page after page.

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An underrated King classic

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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.

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Ian

Cujo - not s'bad!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 8, 2013

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So I decided to download Cujo due to the repeats of the movie being shown on the telebox. I enjoyed the book although it is not King at its finest. It is definitely worth a read.

The Good -
- Yes it is frightening. Cujo begins as a remarkably good natured German shepherd and descends into a psychotic beast. The displacement feels genuine and does make you wonder what you would do in the position of its unfortunate victims.
- I really liked the fact that you get the POV of Cujo himself and how King explores how a rabid dog may think. I think these parts are some of the best sections of the book.
- Good characters that you genuinely sympathize with and can connect with.

The Bad -
- for a while I did feel like this book was a soap opera with a killer dog put in there. I felt you had to wade through a lot of the not so scary stuff in order to really get to the goods. And I do think that there is a lot of filler material that was unnecessary for a horror book.
- you do groan at some stupid decisions made by stupid characters. The kind that you see in a horror movie that think 'Well I could phone my friends about/call for backup in this/get the hell out ofo f this strange and potentially very dangerous situation but instead I'll walk into this deserted place when something blatantly not right is happening'. This annoys me and I think King could have done better.

However all in all I would definitely recommend it, it's a classic after all. Even if you don't like it it'll make you appreciate King's better offerings such as It, The Shining, Misery, etc

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Andoverian

Toothless, understandably.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 3, 2014

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Cujo... Cujo... A name which inspires fear, possibly due to the then-terrifying big screen adaptation.

Can the same be said for the book? Sadly not.

It's not that the book is not scary - In its own way, people that place a lot of love in their pets, regarding them as members of the family, will find the book unnerving and a little close to home. A rabid dog is, itself, terrifying. A great monster that walks between the monster in the closet... the psychologicla terror ... and a real-life victim of a dreadful disease.

The premise is there, so where does the book fall down? Those King fans who are familiar with his personal life will know that he barely remembers writing this book, having fallen into a terrible alcoholism. However, if you didn't know that, you would likely note that something isn't quite there in this one. The book is sort of a 'nothing' book. A fair deal happens, most of which is largely irrelevant to the plot. Uninteresting sideplots that delve into the character's backstories, all the while jumping back and forth from the long (and, at times, boring) standoff between the people in the car and the dog.

What the book really lacks is that sense of literary structure: the characters go nowhere. As an ensemble novel, many of the characters, while interesting and relateable, rarely enter into any interesting situations. The monster is approached by addressing the nature of an internal struggle between good and evil. Cujo is a good dog, with a monster inside, taking control. This angle is interesting, but rushed and wasted. The degradation of the dog is quick and full, leaving little point in beginning with a 'good dog'.

In summation - King's personal issues were evident in this loosely structured, slow and unsatisfying novel, which fails to give its characters the depth that the author so often imparts upon his creations. I cannot predict the success of this book if it were approached with no prior knowledge of King's literary prowess, but I would expect it to be quickly forgotten.

An excellent author with a sad circumstance. The result - a book with little to offer. By all means, read if you like. That's what I did. But I struggled to finish it. And Dead Zone, which I moved onto after, had to work hard to restore my faith in one of my favourite authors.

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