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
Fasten Your Spiritual Seat Belt!:
I mean it. This book will shake your spiritual core! Think you know who God is and the relationship between the other two parts of the Trinity, Jesus and the Holy Spirit? So did I, but this book clarifies that relationship in a way I didn't think possible. God became the exact someone this poor damaged man needed, and, well the migration was fabulous. I'm not a book reader usually, but I've read this one 3 times and didn't give my copy away so I can read it again. And I gave them as Christmas gifts to all... more info
A great book, but with some hidden pretensions:
I really admire Mr. Young for producing this book. It was a good read and something of a page-turner. I'm not surprised it was #1. I just want to comment that, when I read the book a little more closely, some things about it were rather pretensious and almost hypocritical. Mr. Young has something of a tedency to talk about how God doesn't want us to get wrapped up in rules, etc., but then to go on to tell what the right answer is. For example, he says that God has no preference for any particular religion,... more info
my 12-yr-old writes better:
Curious about all the fuss and stacks and stacks of this book everywhere I go, I thought I would listen to the audio version while I do... whatever (I had a feeling it was going to be a dog, and I didn't want to waste time). This book is so poorly written, I wouldn't recommend it to anyone with half a brain or who actually enjoys reading for provoking thought or beautiful, intelligent language.
if anything matters everything matters:
i believe in God but have always felt guilty going to church or for asking for his help and forgiveness...after reading The Shack i have a whole new outlook on my religious stance and my relationship with God. This book is phenomenal to say the least.
