Cujo

I'm, I'm surrounding myself by a bunch of great Stephen King fans as well.

Um, uh, there's Dark Tower references, Cujo, It, The Shining.

Uh, [laughs] there's even an episode where the Greens, the Green family, uh, goes-

Mm-hmm

I, I found a quote from Stephen King, I think from On Writing, where he was talking about, "If you wanna be a writer, you gotta read." And it's like, you gotta read as much as you write, basically.

And I was like, "Oh, that's, that's interesting." So I was like, "I'll read a Ste- Stephen King book," thinking of my older brother.

Cujo happened, happened to be my first one, um, probably just 'cause, I don't know, you know, it's the dog.

It's iconic.

That's our dogs outside barking at my next.

Cujo?

Yeah.

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Wow.

Cujo.

At number 12 is Cujo.

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We are also getting, we also get a lot of callbacks from previous books.

I haven't read Cujo, but a dog with rabies that killed people is mentioned.

I'm guessing that's Cujo.

We also get a mention of Derry, of course, from It.

I haven't finished It, but...

What's happening to people who get lost and the people from out of town who wander around and think they can get lost, but ended up getting lost and never found again.

So that's really my biggest concern right now with the things I'm looking out for the most is what isn't, what, what is this? Cause you get this uncomfortable, eerie feeling from everything.

And the couple of pages I had was, of course, had tabbed were, of course, Cujo and also Lewis had the dream about, and it's in page 19 of my edition, chapter 6.

I'm gonna start reading, and I'm gonna teach myself how to read for fun, to try to break through that, like, assignment feeling.

And so I started with Cujo, uh, just 'cause I was like, all right, you know, here's, here's one of those, uh, like a famous Stephen King story.

And I was hooked.

Yeah.

Um, I used to go to the Massmouth Public Library every week just to take out books for no reason in the summer, and one day I was browsing along and I saw a picture of a snarling dog.

Turned out to be Cujo.

I'm like, "Oh, let me read this."

Cujo.

Absolutely loved it.

It was a snarling dog or a j- or a, or a drooling dog with, uh, with a frothing mouth?

Um, I, I tend to like Stephen King, like, adaptations and stuff.

I've only read one of his books.

So what's one book that completely changed the way you think about storytelling?

Cujo.

And that was be-

Really?

And I love how most of his books end on a, "Oh, my goodness, I can't believe that just happened." And I, I've really taken that into my soul and run with it in my own writing.

I like that.

That's actually one of my favorite movies is Cujo.

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