Cujo: A Novel
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.
Cujo used to be a big friendly dog, lovable and loyal to his trinity (THE MAN, THE WOMAN, and THE BOY) and everyone around him, and always did his best to not be a BAD DOG. But that all ends on the day this nearly two-hundred-pound Saint Bernard makes the mistake of chasing a rabbit into a hidden underground cave, setting off a tragic chain of events. Now Cujo is no longer himself as he is slowly overcome by a growing sickness, one that consumes his mind even as his once affable thoughts turn uncontrollably and inexorably to hatred and murder. Cujo is about to become the center of a horrifying vortex that will inescapably draw in everyone around him—a relentless reign of terror, fury, and madness from which no one in Castle Rock will truly be safe…
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Community Reviews
This is the book that Stephen King can’t remember writing anymore due to how bad his alcoholism was at the time he was writing this one. The story on a way kind of reflects the “trap” of alcoholism and how it can make someone so aggressive. The dog literally has the mom and boy trapped in the car (the car is dead and in the repairman’s driveway to get fixed but the dog killed him) half the whole story. There are many ways that this book shows how vulnerable humanity is to harm and sickness in the world regardless of how safe we might think we are. Will this family ever have a resolution to end the rabid Saint Bernard (the sickness or alcohol addiction) and live happily?… you will just have to read and see where the story takes you.