I enjoyed Cujo more upon re-reading it than I remembered. I think that the first time that I read it, I was too young at the time to really have a solid understanding of just how screwed up the Trenton's life is becoming before their dealings with a rabid dog.

Cujo is maybe not the most action-packed King novel, I think only four people die in the entire novel. Most of the horror is derived in the tension and frustration involved in the situations that the characters are thrust into. Cujo is a truly terrifying beast, but one of his most frightening characteristics is the will-power that he possesses that enables him to simply continue waiting for the situation to change in order to give him another chance to cause mayhem.

Some people will maybe find it dull at times, but the majority of the book is just set up for the final one hundred pages or so when the poop really hits the fan. I found the novel incredibly difficult to put down and it kept me up reading late into the night on several occasions. ( )

Un livre excellent, un style parfait. ( )

It focuses on all the right things. Great horror novel! ( )

I was incredibly bored. None of the characters were interesting, never mind likeable (well, maybe Cujo before the rabies kicked in). The story was dull, dull, dull. The Frank Dodd stuff went nowhere, the haunted closet went nowhere, and the idea that a terrible sequence of events led to an even more terrible tragedy was hammered home time and time again. The ad agency bits were even more boring than the rest of the book, and that's going some, and most of it seemed to be about bad marriages.

Most of King's work stands up because story and subtext gel. This was appalling - he sort of threw together marital problems, bad luck, crap characters, a haunted closet and a rabid dog, and hoped for the best. It just wasn't very... coherent. ( )

Le lecteur se laisse emporter par l'histoire mais celle-ci ne brille pas pour son originalité.Seule la fin apporte un peu de surprise dans un roman qui ne se distingue guère dans la bibliographie de Stephen King. ( )