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⌈ Secret Post #2449 ⌋

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Comments

[luxshine]

Wow. SOMEONE didn't read the book.

Cujo was a good dog. The whole narrative of the book keeps hammering down that one fact. Cujo loved his BOY, and his WOMAN and even his MAN, even when the man in question hit him. It was a horrible thing that he got bit by a bat and that he hadn't been vaccinated against rabies, and that was what made him go insane. And even then, the book keeps repeating that Cujo DIDN'T want to hurt anyone, and the very last paragraph about Cujo tells us that he was always a good dog and always wanted to be good. Cujo's original owner ends up getting another dog, with all it's shots, because it was not the fault of a dog.

sigh. Sorry, I don't like dogs that much, but I hate when people make it look as if all dogs are one bad day away from killing everyone in their path.

[(Anonymous)]

Never read the book, but jeez, that sounds so fucking sad. *snuggles own dog*

[luxshine]

The book is downright cruel. If you love animals -any animal- it will break your heart into little pieces. It's probably the cruelest book by King, and it's also one of his worst. I don't recommend it at all.

The only positive thing it has its that it never blames the DOG for what happened.

[insanenoodlyguy]

See, that's why I think it's one of his best.

[luxshine]

Well, story-wise, I'd agree with you. But the prose is not as good as his other books, and he dropped a thousand plot points and there are about a hundred pages where nothing happens. so... well, that's why I don't like it that much.

[(Anonymous)]

King was completely coked out and drunk at the time, he doesn't even remember writing the book. That's why it's so....yeah.

[(Anonymous)]

According to On Writing, King was so strung out on booze and drugs that he doesn't even remember writing Cujo, so I'm not surprised to hear it's not one of his more coherent works (in as much as Stephen King has ever been known for coherence).

[kittydesade]

To be fair (ish. very ish) he did write it while he was probably on ten kinds of drugs. I think this is the book, or one of the books, that he said he barely remembered writing at all.

[luxshine]

Oh, yes. And speaking about the prose, it's far better than the other one he wrote in that period, Tommyknockers. But it's still soul-crushing cruel.

[233c]

Ah man I loved Tommyknockers. That one was so obviously written on drugs that made it fun.

[pelespen]

It is - I just read about that this week. He was so jacked up on drugs he doesn't even remember it.

[(Anonymous)]

Ughhhh, this sounds like the book version of Amores Perros, and I had a lot of trouble with that.

Granted, I don't really enjoy King's type of horror, so I probably won't read it REGARDLESS, but...

[(Anonymous)]

So, is the "possessed by a murderer" thing mentioned below actually there?

[luxshine]

It's a reading that a lot of people get because there's a long chapter in which Frank Dodd (the murderer) is mentioned right before Cujo is bitten by the rabid bat. It's mentioned there that the darkness never left the town, and that it only changes shape. But there's no mention of Frank once Cujo becomes rabid, all the POV is from Cujo himself and I think I remember reading an interview with King where he said it was a plot point that he dropped, so no, Cujo wasn't possessed.

Personally? I wish he had been. The book would've a lot less depressing if that was true because then the whole thing would have been caused by someone EVIL, as opposed to a horrible mistake made by a man who just didn't want to spend a little money on the dog's rabies shots.

[(Anonymous)]

You know, this whole thread is making me realize that the Haven episode with the dogs was one big Cujo nod and I never got it. Now I feel a little stupid.

[luxshine]

Haven did a dog episode? Man, I am really behind, and I love SK.

But don't feel bad. Even King himself wants to forget Cujo sometimes so it's normal if you didn't catch the nod.

[(Anonymous)]

Second or third episode of Season 3, and I have kinda spoiled the ending by making that comment. Oops.

[luxshine]

no worries, anon. The reason why I fell behind on Haven is because, since I've read all the King books and wrote my degree thesis on his narrative tropes, I could see the ending coming before the first commercial break.

[i_paint_the_sky]

I've heard King say that he actually really likes Cujo and wishes he remembered more about writing it.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh man, I was just wondering today if that Haven Christmas episode with the snowglobe was a nod to Under the Dome.

[insanenoodlyguy]

Yeah, this. I always took it exactly as it's said: It's a bad town and more bad things then usual might happen in a bad place such as this. Dodd is an example. Cujo is as well but more of a casualty at the same time.

[luxshine]

yup. It would've been Tad Beamount instead of Frank Dodd if the Cujo incident had happened, say, 10 years later. Castle Rock is a bad place in general.