Are there any novels you haven't read for a particular reason?
I haven't read Pet Semetery. We have dogs, cats, and horses buried on our property and I don't need any creeper ideas floating into my mind. Their gravesites are maintained with garden fences, plaques, marker stones, and solar lights (our property must look like an airport runway from above at night) so it's cheerful and I want to keep it that way! My friend does have a very handsome gray cat that we make Church jokes at, though.
Cujo is another read I've passed on, even though I know it's a tearjerker. Growing up we had one of those naturally "good" dogs that was a child's dream and was as trustworthy as they come, but as he got old his hips began to fail him to the point that, if touched while sleeping, he would come out of a sound sleep snapping his jaws at anything and everything from the pain.
Another instance was a childhood cat that had that demeanor of cool and collected confidence yet was great with us kids, but he had a blood clot that (IIRC) traveled or burst or something, an embolism. As an adult, I've read that the pain in this situation (for the pet) is unimaginable; this cat (from what I remember) was dragging his rear legs along the ground and crying out and was acting erratically. At the vets office, the signals in his brain must have been so messed up that he was attacking things that weren't there and the only solution was euthanasia. A cat belonging to a friend (in my adult life) suffered the same thing and the end was no different, so the idea that a good animal that turns because of something they cannot control (while a sad part of reality) hits home and isn't something I'm dying to read about.
Anyone else?
I haven't read Pet Semetery. We have dogs, cats, and horses buried on our property and I don't need any creeper ideas floating into my mind. Their gravesites are maintained with garden fences, plaques, marker stones, and solar lights (our property must look like an airport runway from above at night) so it's cheerful and I want to keep it that way! My friend does have a very handsome gray cat that we make Church jokes at, though.
Cujo is another read I've passed on, even though I know it's a tearjerker. Growing up we had one of those naturally "good" dogs that was a child's dream and was as trustworthy as they come, but as he got old his hips began to fail him to the point that, if touched while sleeping, he would come out of a sound sleep snapping his jaws at anything and everything from the pain.
Another instance was a childhood cat that had that demeanor of cool and collected confidence yet was great with us kids, but he had a blood clot that (IIRC) traveled or burst or something, an embolism. As an adult, I've read that the pain in this situation (for the pet) is unimaginable; this cat (from what I remember) was dragging his rear legs along the ground and crying out and was acting erratically. At the vets office, the signals in his brain must have been so messed up that he was attacking things that weren't there and the only solution was euthanasia. A cat belonging to a friend (in my adult life) suffered the same thing and the end was no different, so the idea that a good animal that turns because of something they cannot control (while a sad part of reality) hits home and isn't something I'm dying to read about.
Anyone else?