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The Shack | 
 enlarge | Author: William P. Young
Publisher: Windblown Media
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1275 reviews
Sales Rank: 5
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.2 x 0.8
ISBN: 0964729237
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780964729230
ASIN: 0964729237
Publication Date: May 1, 2007
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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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 Taking God out of our box September 8, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book was given to me as a gift...and what a treasure it has turned out to be. Let me warn you, if your church doctrine is more important than your desire to have "spiritual eyes", you will not like this book.
However, if you know the depth of God's love and His desire to reach a lost and hurting world, and His desire to heal His people, than you will be blessed beyond measure.
I have given this book to many people and have suggested it to the same.
God is busy doing what is necessary to let us recognize personally His great love and devotion to us.
Just as Jesus' own people missed the Messiah's coming because of "thier expectation of what Messiah should be", so will many of those who are tied into doctrine instead of His great love and mercy towards ALL OF US.
Please read this book and get a great and deeper understanding of How Great is Our God...and How Much He Loves You!
God in a tangible form... September 8, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
In reading this book, for the first time ever, I have been able to imagine myself with God. - Seeing him, relating with him.
Before reading this book, whenever I pictured eternity, it was a vague sort of mental picture I had in my mind. But now, when I think of eternity, I have a more tangible, idea of what eternity might be like.
I'm not suggesting that this book is depicting what God really is, or how that relationship will be. -But I appreciate the fact that this book helped me get outside of my former "one dimensional" view of God.
Another Classic September 8, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you are the fundamentalist type who's religion is anchored around a single verse here and a single verse there, then as the author puts it, this book was not written for you. Don't read it!
On the other hand if you read scripture as the rest of us do. As a relationship with the Trinity this book will literally blow you away. I found it taking me back to dark times in my life with a new understanding of where God was in all of it. It reminded me, yet again, why Jesus/God chose to die on the cross.
And without getting in too much of a debate with the fundamentalists, if you find 3 or 4 errors in 250 pages. That's not bad for a piece of fiction! I find those in non-fiction too.
interesting approach to a serious life September 8, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
The book 'The Shack' was written with unusual insights into the saving grace and showing the presence of the Lord at work in all things. I know that strong direction from the Lord and it is awesome. I treasure the book and its depth of meaning. The Lord has gifted the author with deep insights and am glad it was recognized by the author and then brave enough to write about it. Thanks so much.
 Read this if you like sentimental nonsense. September 8, 2008
If you do, you'll see past the myriad obscene flaws, and think it inspiring and insightful. Seriously, you might enjoy it. I read it today and certainly didn't. All the insipid cliches, tiresome dialog (monologs, really), and cartoonish characters killed it for me.
Read "The Five People You Meet In Heaven" instead. I found that book very similar in tone, but with more interesting structure, superior dialog, and so on. Not by a lot, but if you're interested in this one, "Five People" is better at least, and a far more appropriate length.The Five People You Meet in Heaven
I suppose many people would put the author's ideas on a pedestal over his form. Nothing worth your time here though, from "Jesus isn't handsome" to "forgiving isn't forgetting," not a single one is compelling, fresh, or convincing in my opinion. Bigger than the sum of its parts? Nope. Bit of a preachy and obtuse mishmash if anything, and make no mistake: nearly every page is packed with laughing, preaching, preachiness and faux humility. And preaching.
I wouldn't recommend expecting to absorb any wisdom or even what my mother might call "a good tear-jerker." Sorry, but i was pretty sorry i read it. If you're a critical or rational reader, you probably will be sorry too.
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