Ok, so…really bad narration in the convenient version I listened to. Mechanical and with pause s in-the-wrong … places, at times.
And T does NOT equal I.
On the other hand, it’s got the text nicely printed out for you as well, if you’d like to inflate your view. It even simulates turning pages.
King goes with LOTS of exposition here. But the rather mundane and relatively boringly-normal lead-up doing the dueling banjo thing with the building horror aspects make them even *more* horrible (in a scary sense, I mean).
It’s also scarier as things get more and more unsettled in non-Cujo portions, knowing that the build is happening (and even more foreboding, that THE build is only paused…that for everything and anything that may happen, good or bad, to whatever degree…poor Cujo is suffering most of all).
Suffering from a painful and terrifying (to self and others) descent into intolerable pain – and then – insanity.
The disintegration that takes place is quite sad. He *IS* a good dog. But it happens nevertheless.
Interesting and well done, I think, in working the nominal plot with the under-plots.
Seems well-written in general, like King gives a sh1t (this time, at least).
Shock trauma, eh? Portent of ‘Survivor Type’?
Characters are fairly interesting, pretty well-defined, multi-dimensional.
Quite a bit of character behavior shows that some humans don’t require rabies to act with vicious/insane mental deterioration.
Yeah, I can still cry. Rarely, but still.
Inspirational Quote: “It was THE BOY, THE BOY, and THE BOY had never done him any harm. Once he had loved THE BOY and would have died for him had that been called for…The last of the dog that had been before the bat scratched its nose turned away, and the sick and dangerous dog, subverted for the last time, was forced to turn with it.”
Grade: A-