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The Shack | 
| Author: William P. Young
Publisher: Windblown Media
Category: Book
List Price: $14.99
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Rating:  2252 reviews
Sales Rank: 6
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.2 x 0.8
ISBN: 0964729237
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780964729230
Publication Date: July 1, 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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 Not for me.... January 8, 2009
I read this book over the course of three days. About half-way through I started to get bored, but finished it. Nonetheless, I can understand why many people would love it. For people who aren't familiar with spiritual concepts due to not going to church or other life experiences, and they want these questions answered, this is the book for them. For people like me, who were raised in church and/or have an active spiritually-seeking mind, there's not going to be a lot in this book that knocks the socks off. None of the concepts or conversations in this book were new to me. In fact, one thing I realized is how many people there are who don't understand God at this level. To these people, I highly recommend it, but don't base a spiritual path on a work of fiction.
 The Shack January 8, 2009
This is one of the best books I have ever read. This is a wonderful book to give as a gift.
 Stupid! So many ways this could have been written other than this! January 8, 2009
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I thought this book was stupid! I started to happily read thinking I had come across another joy of a book and then felt profoundly let down by the author's stage play of the Trinity. Any number of other ways this could have been written.
 Much ado about (almost) nothing January 8, 2009
Up until the time Mack returned to the shack, I was fairly interested in the story. But Young's attempt to humanize the religious figures made them laughable. The writing turned amateurish, with lines of dialogue followed by he chuckled, he yawned, she sighed. One cannot chuckle, yawn, or sigh a sentence. I began scanning the pages just to find out what happens. And then, when I read about The Missy Project, I felt I'd been had. What a way to promote and sell books. But I guess it has worked. I got my copy at the library so I hadn't shelled out $$ to this scheme.
EXCELLENT January 8, 2009
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have not read a book like this in a loooong time. Excellent. I was hesitant to read it at first, but boy am I happy I did. I am telling all I know to read this book, even bought an extra one to give to people to pass along as I did my book. This book spoke to my heart. I see God in a whole different light. God Bless those reading this.
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