"Cujo" is truly one of the scariest King things for me. Amazingly, the novel, which was published forty years ago, still holds great relevance today, despite the radical changes in life. You'll correlate with the current state of affairs later. What if Donna had forgotten her cell phone? Well, Charity and Brett would surely be alarmed that the husband-father isn't getting in touch. And Vic, having no information about his wife and son, would have found a way to ask someone to check on his home much earlier. By the way, he wouldn't even need to leave, as such issues can be resolved in Zoom.
This is all after the fact. But when you start reading, you're instantly and inevitably plunged into the reality of the book. In this "here and now", everything is just so, and it couldn't be otherwise. The main line of the mad dog captives is intertwined and complemented by flawlessly constructed auxiliary ones: the father with his serious work problems and the mistress of the St. Bernard, who is doing everything she can to protect her son from the destructive influence of the alcoholic father.
Suddenly I realized that the book was written by Stephen King at the age of thirty-four. Youth, even by the standards of today's youthful literature. Yet, the prose is at such a mature level that it can already be regarded as a classic, not just in the genre: the plot, structure, style, and images are all perfect.
I said I was afraid to reread it, but I decided to listen. Audiobooks have the undeniable advantage that you can walk through the scariest paths not alone. And the opportunity to listen to the novel performed by Igor Knyazev will be a gift for all fans of good literature.
