Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Cujo by Stephen King

32 reviews

deez_knucles's review against another edition

dark sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

Even though this book is knows as the author's most classics, it didn't stand the test of time amazingly. The story starts off veeery slow paced, sometimes you feel like what you are reading is just a waste of time that goes on for pages. But towards the end, the intensity is cranked up at maximum. The final chapters are going to be engraved in my mind for ever.
The characters are pretty forgettable,  Nothing too special about them, but I get the feeling that it was in the author's intentions to make them as human and normal as possible. Completely different from the movie's '83 adaptation, I think it's worth reading for the ending (being one of the most traumatizing of his books)
And because it is after all, part of the classics.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Death, Infidelity, and Violence

honeybeewitched87's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Cursing, Death, Infidelity, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Alcohol

perth_is's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

i didn’t care much for the drama between the people, but I knew it was necessary. I was just bored during those parts. thankfully, Cujo the dog made up for it, everytime it was his perspective.

And the whole part of being stuck in the car was written really well. I was very tense the whole time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Medical content, and Grief

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Racial slurs, and Alcohol

Minor: Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Sexual harassment

damjanotom's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

For what is a mundane monster horror story this split its focus far too much. The horror of being blinded by life's difficulties and led by innocuous circumstance to the point that you can't see the threat in front you is interesting but the threat felt contrived and fairly uninteresting. Additionally, the swinging of circumstances especially in Vic and Roger's storyline felt unrealistic and more for convenience than anything else. A more systematic villain that better related to the violence being enabled by life and it's grim ebbs and flows might have been more interesting and would have allowed a more fleshed out and believable series of circumstances and more satisfying characterisations. Alternatively, give the monster horror a chance, transition between different power dynamics, add a cat and mouse segment or something just to give the tension more substance.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Gore, Violence, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Alcoholism and Infidelity

Minor: Racial slurs

theebster's review against another edition

Didn’t check content warnings and realized there was a child death coming. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Domestic abuse and Toxic relationship

vixenreader's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

Although it could have used a thorough editor, the theme of pain and trauma being experienced in isolation is still prevalent and Cujo the St. Bernard deserved a better end. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Infidelity, Misogyny, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Car accident, Death of parent, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Child abuse, Drug use, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Ableism, Gun violence, Rape, and Sexual assault

Be aware that there are subjects of heat stroke, starvation/dehydration, vandalism, animal violence, rabies, marital dysfunction, and childhood fears addressed.

tygeis02's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Vomit, and Sexual harassment

helen_daly's review against another edition

sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Violence

voicenextdoor's review against another edition

sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Sexism, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, and Alcohol

Minor: Rape

poorlyassembled's review against another edition

dark sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

It's fine, really good at times, REALLY boring at others.

The pace is slow. And not in a slowly building dread kind of way, but a spinning its wheels kind of way. 

The characters are really good for the most part and have a lot of depth to them. But they don't really have character arcs to speak of. 

The rube goldberg machine that led to them being trapped in the car is well thought out. 
But almost nothing happens for about half the book. So even though it's very gripping towards the end, it still wastes way too much of your time for my taste. 

And the ending is just pointlessly cruel to me. In a way that just isn't satisfying or interesting. 

I can see others liking it, but it's just kind of ok in my opinion. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Infidelity, Sexual content, Violence, and Sexual harassment