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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!
God in a tangible form...September 8, 2008 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 ClassicSeptember 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 lifeSeptember 8, 2008 0 out of 1 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.
DisappointedSeptember 8, 2008 1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Based on the popularity of this book, I was expecting some profound insights about suffering and forgiveness. I found the book to be very dull, and it was a tedious chore to finish it. It had nothing new to say about anything. I don't understand why anyone would find it "life changing."
