It's very true--Cujo is the ultimate 'take care of your car don't wait until the last minute' story.

So true. Although the car maintenance bit can apply to a lot of horror books and movies. Also, always keep your cell phone charged.

I liked the insight into the advertising biz, myself.

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And King pulled off an impressive George Carlin impression in that, I thought.

I really need to get another copy of this novel. I haven't read it since I was a teenager.

I had a bat fly into my bedroom when I was sleeping. My cats attacked it. To me, Cujo is a tale of get your rabies shots (for you and your animals).

Well put ,going for car check up asap

What always entertains me is that King apparently wrote that one in a single extended drug-fueled binge and therefore doesn't remember it at all.

Most of King's work is about one thing on top - usually a big hairy monster - and something much more intelligent and profound underneath. CUJO is about marriage and its strains, as you pointed out. IT is about a shape-changing clown on top, and the intensity of childhood imagination underneath. THE DEAD ZONE is about a psychic assassin on top and our national lack of faith in politics and our leaders in the post-Nixon era underneath. PET SEMATARY is about our arcane fascination with death rituals, CHRISTINE is about America's auto-obsessed culture, SALEM'S LOT is about the mindless evil with a small E in small towns, THE STAND was about the sociopolitical mess of the late 1970s... I could go on. :)

The reason so many King movies don't work nearly as well as the books is because 7 out of 10 filmmakers don't get that he's writing about something besides the big hairy monster, ranging from the hacksaw who destroyed CHILDREN OF THE CORN to the great Stanley Kubrick, who took a parable about alcoholism and domestic violence and made it into a visually creepy, dull and utterly soulless boogedy-boo.

In my humble opinion, of course. :)

Hmm, that's an interesting take. I haven't read it in 15 years or so; now I need to dig it out again. :)

I always called it a 'shit happens, and sometimes there's nothing you can do about it' story. <3

So which one of you is reading it? I hope Grey is enjoying if it's him. I began to read Geralds Game the other day, how did I miss that one?

All true. A cautionary tale about the dangers of letting things fall into disrepair, and a novel which is much much more than just a shaggy (rabid) dog story.