Hello everyone and welcome to the Stephen King cast, one man's musings on the works of Stephen King.

Once I reviewed each of his works in the chronological order of publication, but Ka is a wheel, it all goes round again.

And here I am once more back at the beginning on a new phase of the journey to examine each of the endings of the works of Stephen King

to determine whether or not King deserves a reputation

for having an inability to successfully land his endings.

The focus of the podcast is going to be to examine the climax, the falling action, and the

resolution of the endings of each of his novels and break it down by character themes,

conflict, and plot to determine whether or not it meets the criteria of being an objectively

good ending.

I'm also going to weigh in on whether or not I happen to like the ending.

So before I get any further, what I'm going to do, I'm going to read the Wikipedia for, well, I'm going to actually announce which book I'm covering right now.

I'm covering Kujo.

So I'm very, very excited to talk about Kujo because if you haven't listened to my entire review of Kujo, please head back into the podcast

into the earlier incarnation of the Stephen King cast for an in-depth review of the entirety

of Kudu and my thoughts.

Famously for longtime listeners, I am pretty critical of the novel Kujo for a myriad of reasons that I outlined very

succinctly within that particular podcast episode.

It's interesting for me to go back to that particular well and focus specifically on the

endings, the ending that King has crafted for this man versus nature, or in this case, woman versus

St. Bernard story.

There's been a lot of conversations throughout the years with my reaction to the ending of Kujo,

and there's a couple emails that I've been sitting on to help get me that I've waited

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