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| The Shack | 
 enlarge | Manufacturer: Windblown Media
Category: EBooks
List Price: $14.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1893 reviews
Sales Rank: 6
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Edition: 1st
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 by William Young November 23, 2008
I had heard about this book from a friend who said that it will greatly affect me after I read it. So, I had to check it out. Once I started reading, I found it very hard to put down and felt the emotion and intensity of every move. The book is really well worth the read and I do hope there will one day be a movie out. If you are looking for something to make you spiritually think and feel, then this one is a must read.
AMAZING November 23, 2008
First my wife read "THE SHACK" and insisted that I should also read this book. I am about half way through, and the title of this review tells the whole story. The first part is involved and not the easiest to read and comprehend, but once you reach that certain point - what this author had done is AMAZING !!! This is a book for EVERYONE. PLEASE DON'T MISS THIS OPPORTUNITY.
Thought provoking and powerful November 23, 2008
What a new concept in thinking about, interacting with, and talking with God. This book is a "must read" for anyone at EVERY age - - believer & non-believer alike.
 Good Golly! Aunt Jehmima! November 23, 2008
I give my wife 5 stars for getting me this book. It was a sweet jesture. But I am sure she will not be happy when my head explodes from me reading all of these theological reviews. I THINK I know what the author wanted to get across while writing The Shack, but I am curious if the heat worked alright in the '69 Volkeswagon Van he wrote it in? Cheap attempt at a metaphore for his brain when he takes scriptural ideas from the HOLY bible and interprets it into his book to make the story flow. Sorry... I like to have fun recommending this book to others who believe they get some kind of spiritual awakening from it just to realize when they do actually READ (whether they have believed the Holy bible or not) the Holy bible they realize The Shack isn't really THE book needing to be read. It was the Holy bible the whole time. Ha ha ha! Who would of thought?
The Shack- A Good Message for ALL November 23, 2008
After much arm-twisting, a friend of mine finally convinced me to read William Paul Young's The Shack. My passion for reading having been on hold for well over a decade now, I'm quite surprised that I not only finished the book, but that I did so in just four days. What may be even more important to note is that I am not at all a religious person, which is why I find myself in disbelief at the fact that I have been all-but-completely consumed in a #1 New York Times Bestseller that owes its great success chiefly to a devoutly religious audience.
The Shack tells the story of a man who, after experiencing a life-shattering tragedy, spends a weekend with God in a shack, the same shack where his whole life had come crashing down around him. Upon arriving at the shack, the main character sees God in three forms: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. In his brilliance, Young paints a very different -and wonderfully refreshing- picture of God as the Holy Trinity. Much controversy has been stirred by God the Father appearing as a very large, very African American woman. Moreover, Jesus is portrayed as an unattractive middle-eastern man in blue jeans. Oh, and the Holy Spirit is an Asian woman.
I'll be honest, the atheist in me delights in the thought of so many stubbornly religious folk thumbing their indignant noses at these off-the-wall characterizations, but I'll not limit myself to gloating here. What I truly admire about Young's ideas is that he penned them with an admirable purpose -to force his readers to cast aside their religious indoctrination and free their minds to focus on the deeper, more intimate aspects of a relationship with God. The God of The Shack is not judgmental or vengeful; he loves every single being in Creation without condition or expectation. Young presents a God that, despite popular belief, does not condemn the evil because, believe it or not, evil is a relative term. Now that's the kind of God I would like to see represented by the faithful masses.
While I personally take from this book a fresh, new outlook on relationships of all kinds, I can only hope that reading The Shack will open the eyes of the self-righteous and lead them to conduct their faith with a more personal approach, leaving others to make their own decision to build or reject a relationship with God. While I'm certainly not the "why can't we all just get along" type, I'd like to believe that something like a well-written and altruistically intentioned literary work can effect a positive change in its audience; and I do believe that The Shack is one such work. Kudos, Mr. Young, for spreading a message of cooperation and understanding that can appeal to people of all beliefs.
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