Book (Cujo) Blog

While reading my book I have a hard time reading it because of the horror. Most Stephen kings books are either fantasy or horror and that was what I was looking for when purchasing the book. My mom and a few others read many Stephen King books and told me about the plots and I assumed they all had some sort of thrill. One of the books my mom talked to me about was called The Stand about the nuclear bomb that went off and I was in total shock expecting for my book Cujo to be full of excitement, thrill and horror. I was so excited that I watched three Stephen king movies (the mist, 1408 and Dream catcher). This all was true after reading the first few pages of the book which was about the serial killer Frank Dodd and his killing spree that went on for a while. After reading those first few pages when I purchased the book I immediately decided not to read the book ever at night because I quite frankly was scared with each word I read. As the book continued my fright decreased and started to turn into disappointment and regret.

A couple of days later I picked up the book read a few pages from where I started and my excitement and expectations for the book were dwindling. My expectations started dwindling as I read each page because of the tediousness and events that took place. After the first few pages the book starts off by introducing the family that has the dog Cujo and how Cujo became rabid. Especially after reading the page about Cujo’s encounter with Gary Pevier (veteran WWII soldier) I sighed and wondered if it was possible to get another book. The book eventually started to speed up and upcoming events in the book would gain my interest.

By page forty I had known that the wife was undergoing an affair with a loser called Steve Kemp and Vic was going off to New York because of this new brand of cereal called Zinger (aka the box of blood) that was killing kids. The freight I spoke of in the first paragraph started to come back and with that my interest in the book. Immediately after Vic’s meeting with his partner Roger Cujo attacked a group of mechanics that were placing something at the farm. After reading this I finally experienced what others mentioned when explaining his stories.

In conclusion, I hope the intensity and horror in the book continues because this will keep my interest unlike the beginning of the book, which was filled with boring events that I thought, was unnecessary. As the book continued my excitement grew and I realized that those events in the book, which I called boring, was a set up or foundation for the rest of the book.