The Shack by WM Paul Young

The Shack

by WM Paul Young

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Personal Review/Comments

This was a #1 New York Times Bestseller, with over 5,000,000 in print ~ and I am not sure I know why. I obviously must be wrong if so many people love this book. I found it to be childishly written, with pretensions to depth. And overly Christian in theme.

I will say that I was surprised to find that the book and its characters stuck in my mind for days. So, there may be something to it after all despite it's lack of of depth (IMHO).

Rating: 5/10

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.

About the Author

William P. Young was born a Canadian and raised among a stone-age tribe by his missionary parents in the highlands of what was New Guinea. He suffered great loss as a child and young adult, and now enjoys the 'wastefulness of grace' with his family in the Pacific Northwest.

Book Review

"THE SHACK is a one-of-a-kind invitation to journey to the very heart of God. Through my tears and cheers, I have been indeed transformed by the tender mercy with which William Paul Young opened the veil that too often separated me from God and from myself. With every page, the complicated do's and don'ts that distort a relationship into a religion were washed away as I understood Father, Son, and Spirit for the first time in my life." ~ Patrick M. Roddy, Emmy Award-winning producer for ABC News