Cujo
Author | : | |
Rating | : | 4.52 (809 Votes) |
Asin | : | 1444708120 |
Format Type | : | paperback |
Number of Pages | : | 432 Pages |
Publish Date | : | 2015-05-16 |
Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Very sick. Except it isn't a rabbit warren any more. And Cujo falls sick. And the gentle giant who once protected the family becomes a vortex of horror inexorably drawing in all the people around him. It is a cave inhabited by rabid bats. Once upon a time, not so long ago, a monster came to the small town of Castle Rock, Maine He was not a werewolf, vampire, ghoul, or unnameable creature from the enchanted forest or snow wastes; he was only a cop 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
city folk; the parallel marriage conflicts of the Cambers vs. . 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. When you read it again, you can pay more attention to the theme of country folk vs. 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. 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 t
He lives with his wife, the novelist Tabitha King, for most of the year in Maine, USA. Stephen King has been described by the Guardian as 'one of the greatest storytellers of our time', by the Mirror as a 'genius' and by The Sunday Times as 'one of the most fertile storytellers of the modern novel.' In 2003, he was
Abby Tonner said Not disappointed. I've been a Stephen King fan for as long as I can remember. Nevertheless, I had not gotten around to reading Cujo. I was not disappointed at all. King still manages to paint a macabre picture of something as simple as a family pet afflicted with something as terri. Cai Yixin Jeremy said Cujo. 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. Superb Amazon Customer I thought this was a superb character driven novel. While it is a bit slower than Kings other works at about halfway through it gets the blood pumping and is impossible to put down