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The Shack

by William P Young

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ISBN13: 9780964729230
ISBN10: 0964729237
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Synopsis:

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!

Synopsis:

Mackenzie Allen Phillips's 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 this 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 wintry afternoon and walks back into his darkest nightmare. What he finds there will change his life forever.

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A grieving father receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him to meet in the Oregon wilderness where his daughter was brutally murdered. What he learns there is transforming readers around the world.

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B&b ex libris, March 3, 2009 (view all comments by B&b ex libris)
The Shack is a fiction story that, after a devastating event, takes Mack, the main character into a fantasy-like dream place where he meets God, (or "Papa") the Holy Spirit (or "Sarayu" and Jesus. There he heals, learns from them about the way the world should be and about how he should see the things that happen to him. It is filled with theology, mostly about how to live and his attitudes towards what comes his way.

I wish I could say strongly one way or another if I loved or hated it, but to me this book really wasn't either so good I am thrilled by it, or so horrid I want to rag on it. There are some things in it that are a little strange, and for my tastes there was way too much debatage between the characters on different theologies and such. I enjoyed the beginning, the mystery and such, but once he went into the fantasy land...it was just not the same stuff for me.

I didn't think the book was written particularly well, but I decided I would forgive that if it made an earth shattering impact on me. As much as I did learn things from the book, it was not life changing the way I had anticipated, and not nearly enough for me to be able to forget even for a minute the just average writing.
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mammodeb, February 24, 2009 (view all comments by mammodeb)
At first I didn't want to read this as a young child is killed. But I'm glad I did. This book shows us God who wants to be in relationship with us and wants us to be in relationship with our fellow humans. I felt very comforted by Mr. Young's vision of God. If God is only a little like this, we will all be okay.
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meganpardue, November 12, 2008 (view all comments by meganpardue)
Young recounts the death of his daughter and process of grief in a poetic and even magical narrative. This tale, set in the great Northwest, will move you to tears as you empathize with this heart broken father, as well as stir within you the need to answer the unanswerable questions about love, life, and ultimately death.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780964729230
Author:
Young, William P
Publisher:
Windblown Media
Editor:
Jacobsen, Wayne
Editor:
Cummings, Brad
Author:
Young, William P.
Subject:
Christian - General
Subject:
Life change events
Subject:
Missing children
Subject:
Christian - Suspense
Subject:
Suspense fiction
Subject:
Oregon
Copyright:
Publication Date:
July 2008
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
248
Dimensions:
8.02x5.17x.69 in. .47 lbs.

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