The Shack
by William P. Young
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Author: William P. YoungEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-07-01
ISBN: 0964729237
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: Windblown Media
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- ISBN13: 9780964729230
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Book Reviews of The Shack
Book Review: Started reading this book thinking it was non-fiction, got suspicious halfway through, found it was entire fiction - PAH
Summary: 2 Stars
I realise that this book was no attempt to lead people into believing that it was a 'true' story, yet because it is a work of fiction masquerading as non-fiction; complete with a fabricated foreword by "Willie" one feels it is somewhat pretensious in construction.
The story follows Mack, who after recieving a note from God goes to the shack where his daughter was murdered by a serial killer and meets God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit.
They basically fill him in on all the details of creation, and explain his need to forgive.
Part of my reason for disappointment, was that I couldn't shake the simple fact that all of this was just the authors opinions and ideas about christianity and the world and such. I didn't disagree with many of his ideas, but some of it came out as grandiose sounding but lacking substance and sometimes contrary. (Mack has it explained to him that good and evil are subjective things percieved by humans, yet also claims later that eating from the tree of good and evil did indeed introduce evil to humanity).
Maybe this was just me but I also found the black woman representing God to be somewhat stereotyped, amongst the slang she even called Mack uppity at one point.
I guess works of fiction are a good medium for spreading spiritual ideas, but I felt that without an actual plot as such, this book should have just been a non-fiction exploration of the authors feelings, but then I guess that wouldn't have sold as well...
Summary of The Shack
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!Genre Fiction Books
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