506 ratings
arrow_drop_down
Buy 3 Get 1 Free
Our Best Sale Yet! Add 4 Books Priced Under $5 To Your Cart Learn more
- This item: The Need$2.99
- Trust Exercise$2.99
- The Nickel Boys (Winner 2020 Pulitzer Prize For Fiction)$4.31
Frequently Asked Questions About The Need
-
How long does it take to read The Need?
It takes about 3 Hours and 55 minutes on average for a reader to read The Need. This is based on the average reading speed of 250 Words per minute.
-
How long is The Need?
The Need is 272 pages long.
- Who wrote The Need?
Books like The Need
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Fever
from $2.99 -
-
-
-
-
24,023
1,269
Book Reviews (1)
Did you read The Need? Please provide your feedback and rating to help other readers.
Write Review
|
great beginning
Patricia M , Aug 15, 2021
The first fifty or so pages of this novel are tantalizing and gripping, but then the plot veers sharply into a weird universe. The sci-fi angle, which is mildly intriguing, is juxtaposed with a story of an exhausted and indulgent mother of an infant and an unruly four-year-old, but the motherhood angle just wore me out. Breastfeeding considerations occupy way too many pages, and the toddler is old enough for a healthy dose of behavioral consequences which the mother, Molly, is too pooped to dish out. Molly also works as a paleobotanist and is excavating a pit near a Phillips 66 station that has been converted into a headquarters for her and her coworkers. This pit has yielded some inexplicable finds, including a Bible in which all pronouns referencing God are female. Religious zealots become incensed and obsessed with the Bible, and I would have preferred more focus on that artifact, along with the ramifications of its discovery, and less focus on toddler tantrums. Molly is patient to a fault, both with her kids and with the other main character, about whom I don’t want to reveal too much. I get it that managing two small children leaves no time for much of anything else, but the ad nauseam drudgery of Molly’s life as a parent pretty much nullifies the very promising opening of this novel. The book is a little spooky throughout, in a mind-bending, Stephen King sort of way. The plot loses its sense of urgency early on, but I have to say that I still wanted to know how the author was going to resolve its central conflict. I actually liked the ending—but not nearly as much as the beginning.
|
|
|
Recommended to buy:
Yes
|
1