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The Shack | 
 enlarge | Author: William P. Young
Publisher: Windblown Media
Category: Book
List Price: $14.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1071 reviews
Sales Rank: 3
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5 x 0.7
ISBN: 0964729237
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780964729230
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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 The Shack Surprises August 20, 2008
"The Shack" stretched my mind in terms of how I view God. Portraying the author's views of God in the form of fiction allowed me to get emotionally involved in the process. This is a book that I dog-eared in order to return to thoughts that I want to reconsider or remember. It's a book that I want to keep for myself. I'll purchase copies for others!
This book will change your life! August 20, 2008
My church had a book study for this book so I decided to get it since it was reccomended by our pastor. Wow was I in for a surprise! This is a very movie book and you really get to know the main characer Mackenzie well. You even get to know "god" well when reading this. Mackenzie is a married man who loses his daughter Missy when on a camping trip. She ends up getting killed and a year later gets a note from a mysterious person on his door step. It asks him to come up to the shack, the same shack where Missy was killed. Why would he want to go back there? Was this a practical joke? I was very moved by his encounter with God and a few of his "friends" at the shack. Sorry for giving you spoilers but this book really is life-changing. It is very philisophical. If you are a Christian like me you will have a good time reading this beacuse it says the truth about God and how He works. If you are not Christian you may think it's just another fictional book. Even if you are not Christian or believe in God you should still consider this moving book. It can be moving even if you are not religious. This has definately been one of the best purchases I made so far.
 Absolute Fiction, Little Truth August 20, 2008
This book is well written, easy to read and will entertain you purely on a fictional level, but it holds little to no truth according to what the Bible tells us. My suggestion to all Christians who decide to read this book is to make sure you know the bible first and then you will know when the book is not in line with what God teaches us.
A book for salvation? August 20, 2008
Many are seeking an answer, many are seeking a way. An answer and a way to salvation. No, this book does not offer either of these, but what it offer is a way to come close to your maker and the creator of the universe.
Yes, there are discrepancies between the scriptures and the writings in these pages. However, what it does offer is more than most modern writings can offer, a chance to view our Holy Creator without the shackles of religion. In a matter of fact, questions have arisen in my own mind about the writings and my own personal upbringing and learnings of God.
As this book pertains to me, it has done more to draw me closer to my Creator, my God, my Jesus, than any writing has done up until this point.
I regularly read the Chronicles of Narnia to gain inspiration as well as JRR Tolkien's Trilogy. Repeatedly, both have help me uncover new meanings and answers in my own life as accordance with scripture, and both leave me uplifted. However, both of these works rarely bring me to a closer relationship with God. The Shack accomplishes this in a short story.
It took nearly a week to read through the roughly 249 pages in this book. Not that it is a difficult read, but I needed time to search my own soul as I read through the pages. This writing dragged me through the most tumultuous times of my own life as well as the hero's, and helped me to find a new relationship with God, the Creator, as no work has ever done before.
This work has helped me to create a new relationship with my God, my Creator. I am born again, time and time over (almost every time I speak to God) but after this book, I felt born anew. I seem to understand not only God, but the relationship between Jesus, the Holy Spirit, God, and myself. I understand more about my relationship with the Holy Trinity now than I ever did before.
Not only did this book change my ongoing relationship with God, but every relationship that I encounter. My hope is that this book will do the same for my loved ones as it did for me.
As I believe that the works of John Bunyan, JRR Tolkien, and CS Lewis were inspired by the Holy Spirit, I believe that this work by Wm. Young is also inspired by the Creator as well.
It is worth a read by every hungry spirit.
Gives you much to ponder August 19, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I started this book a bit leery; generally speaking I'm not impressed by Christian fiction and often Christian non-fiction puts me to sleep. This wasn't the the best technically written book but once I got past the chapters that set up the meeting at the shack, I found it insightful and often profound. At times it was too much to take in and comprehend. I can't say I buy everything hook, line and sinker but it goes a long way to explaining things that I have accepted but never grasped. I actually got this book at the library but now I want to buy it because there are many thoughts and ideas that I want to take time to think about. The author takes on some pretty tough concepts from the Bible and was able to present them in a way that brought clarity (for me anyway).
It is definitely worth reading!
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