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The Shack | 
 enlarge | Manufacturer: Windblown Media
Category: EBooks
List Price: $14.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1182 reviews
Sales Rank: 3
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Edition: first
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
ASIN: B001B8Z2S0
Publication Date: June 20, 2008
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Product Description
Mackenzie Allen Philips' youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later in the midst of his Great Sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. Against his better judgment he arrives at the shack on a wintry afternoon and walks back into his darkest nightmare. What he finds there will change Mack's world forever. In a world where religion seems to grow increasingly irrelevant "The Shack" wrestles with the timeless question, "Where is God in a world so filled with unspeakable pain?" The answers Mack gets will astound you and perhaps transform you as much as it did him. You'll want everyone you know to read this book!
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 The Shack -- Fictional Reality August 30, 2008
This is one book where the Forward is definitely a part of the story. It draws the reader into this fictional encounter with God so completely that you often lose track that it isn't real -- or is it?
It is startling, yet warm and fuzzy and sometimes humorous. The Shack is intensely thought-provoking, yet reassuring. While definitely "outside-the-box", it tends to make the "box" much larger.
The best read in a long time. Made me wish for a discussion group.
Ultimately wonderful after a very slow start August 30, 2008
This story begins with one of a parent's worst nightmares, the abduction of his/her child. Unfortunately, the abduction of Mackenzie "Mack" Allen Phillips' daughter Missy in the Oregon wilderness early in "The Shack" lacks punch and drama because it's badly lost in a tediously narrated account of a camping trip filled with mundane detail and awkward pacing.
However, readers who can plough through this badly handled material will be rewarded many times over by the time Mack makes his pilgrimage to the isolated cabin where his daughter was murdered. Here he finds waiting for him the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. What a joyous and inventive story "The Shack" becomes as the dialogues begin. Those who want to argue theology are having their say about this, suggesting that the understandable, sensible ideas are in fact dangerous, luring readers into false doctrines and lives of error.
Nonsense! "The Shack" is fiction and readers are not easily brainwashed. I found this material so compelling, that I found myself jealous that I know of no mountain cabin where I can have such experiences first hand. This is, when all is said and done, a powerful book with a few storytelling flaws most readers will easily forgive.
Very thought-provoking August 30, 2008
Some traditional thinkers will have difficulty with this book, but I found it to very stimulating and thought-provoking.
I'm a retired and "refired" minister. I was a full time Associate Pastor in churches ranging from 300 to 3,000 in attendance for 30 years. Currently I've "refired" and am serving as an interim pastor.
Excellent August 30, 2008
The most thought provoking book I've ever read. Completely brought to light an excellent understanding of God's plan for our lives and His purpose and intentions for us as human beings. Clearly explains that separate from Him, we are subject to our limitations. Defines how God is not a puppeteer, but gives us free choice to live with or without Him and how living without Him brings us extreme limitations. Amazing analogies of Jesus, God and the Holy Spirit.
The most refreshing, amazing book I have read in years! August 30, 2008
This is the most refreshing, amazing book I have read in years! You will cry, laugh and shake your head all at once. I don't think any book has ever resonated so deeply with me about the heart of our Creator. One word of caution: The beginning of the story is tragic, so plow through the first 4 chapters....you will be so glad you did!
John The Poet
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