Björn recenserade Cujo av Stephen King
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Ages and ages since I read this, and I absolutely didn't remember it being 420 pages. Woman and kid stuck in a car with rabid dog outside, how many pages do you need? Oh yeah, there's that side plot, and that side plot, oh and this character shows up, and all those Castle Rock citizens whose one function is to think about maybe going up to the Camber place and deciding naaah...
And yet bam, I breeze through this in two days. Because drunk and high Stephen King is just that good. In a way it's a sibling of Pet Sematary, the parent's fear of losing their child - to disease (or corn flake dye), or death, or your abusive partner's worst sides, sure, but also to the world at large. The realisation that they're becoming their own person and they should, but where does that leave you? …
Ages and ages since I read this, and I absolutely didn't remember it being 420 pages. Woman and kid stuck in a car with rabid dog outside, how many pages do you need? Oh yeah, there's that side plot, and that side plot, oh and this character shows up, and all those Castle Rock citizens whose one function is to think about maybe going up to the Camber place and deciding naaah...
And yet bam, I breeze through this in two days. Because drunk and high Stephen King is just that good. In a way it's a sibling of Pet Sematary, the parent's fear of losing their child - to disease (or corn flake dye), or death, or your abusive partner's worst sides, sure, but also to the world at large. The realisation that they're becoming their own person and they should, but where does that leave you? All focused around man's best friend, a dog who absolutely didn't want to hurt anyone. It's just a virus that eats your brain and forces you to turn on your family and lash out at them.
And damn, that story was apparently relevant 40 years ago.