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!
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
Don't know what all the "Buzz" was about:
The Shack was for me just an OK book. I found it somewhat boring and speed read on most pages that didn't pertain to the little girl and the message. I understood the message,and the concept was interesting, but it could have been written better? The bones were there but the meat didn't stick for me. My opinion only, don't lynch me! Is it because if Oprah reads it, then everyone that reads it feels the need to agree that it was the "best"?
Not a murder mystery and a lesson on buying via the Kindle:
Downloaded the book via the Kindle store - sounded like an interesting read and got good reviews. Book took a weird and unexpected turn about 1/3 of the way in. I tried to make it through but just couldn't - I had to give up while god was making pancakes and Jesus was passing the syrup. Had I actually read the reviews I would've known that it was a Christian book. Part of me thinks this was the intention of the author - some sinning atheist accidentally reads the book and gets saved. Unfortunately, the... more info
A maudlin, manipulative, meandering manifesto:
This book was mentioned to me by various unrelated people, a few claiming that it had "changed their lives." I had never heard of it and was shocked to discover that it was a huge bestseller. Therefore, when a copy of it was put into my hands, I was eager to read it. Well, now that I've read it, let me just say that my time could have been put to better use watching dust bunnies roll across the floor. The Shack is a maudlin, manipulative, meandering manifesto. Any time an author tries to put words... more info
Malarky:
If my wife's book club hadn't selected this book, we'd have never heard of it. And that would have been great. Her uncomplimentary remarks led me to scan it just to see if it was that bad - it was. The library should have filed it under fantasy.
I suggest that all who thought (and that might be an exaggeration) it good should read "God is not Great" and "Paul and the Invention of Christianity" to awake them from their stupor. An ancient Greek once said "Religion is considered true by the masses,... more info
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