Cujo is a cruel book (warning: spoilers included)

[Evil Queen]

i just finished rereading Cujo...i cried so much in the end! the last time i read this was more than 10 yrs. ago, before i even had children, so i think then the ending was insignificant, just an ending...but now, after having my four children w/me now & always thinking i would die first before letting them die, the ending of this book just broke my heart!!! i felt bad for Cujo & Tad, the most innocent victims, each only wanting to please his owners/parents, but victims of the most cruel circumstances that life could throw to them. i too wish it had been the mother instead of Tadder, she already had a chance at life & she messed it up herself while the little boy was barely starting to live his life, but perhaps SK thought to have Tad be taken away while he was still innocent & leave the mother in her living hell forever...and since i'm an animal lover, i cried for the dog, who really only wanted to do what his owners wanted of him, but was stricken w/that terrible disease that destroyed his mind, he didn't intentionally kill for joy of it, as horrible human beings so often do....this is a great book, so sad but it does stay w/you...i found i kept checking on my closet door to make sure it didn't open by itself!

[Dave Sartin]

yeah i'm gonna start reading cujo tomorrow. can't wait!!!

[ginapenn]

I liked the ending. I thought it was appropriate and exactly the way it would go in real life. That may sound terribly morbid but it's true.

[fromTull]

When I read Cujo years ago, before I had kids, it was just a "sad" ending. Post kids--Heart wringing. I just re-read The Gunslinger for the first time since my kids, and it was worse!! " . . .bless this camp with fire"..that bit of mimicry on J's behalf brought my mind to my own children, and how I could be a better parent . . .and who hasn't felt like an undeserving fraud of a parent at times? I think SK is FREAKISHLY observant in real life. He obviously knows the various routes loss takes to wound us. Mixes and matches as needed to make it most emotional. I am staying the hell away from Pet Sematary for a while . . .it was sad enough before kids. Can't imagine now.

[MistahJ]

The world is a very cruel place...That's probably why I really like Stephen King books because no one really ever gets their happy ending

[JohnDalglish]

The world is a very cruel place...That's probably why I really like Stephen King books because no one really ever gets their happy ending

Hi,

Yeah, what was it he said?

'No-one ever really does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves, don't we?'

Long days and pkleasant nights

[Sweet One]

'No-one ever really does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves, don't we?'

That sounds like a "social responsibility" argument for Naturalism.

[MistahJ]

'No-one ever really does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves, don't we?'

Exactly