The Shack
Ratings69
Average rating3.3
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Ratings69
Average rating3.3
Mackenzie Allen Phillips' 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.
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As much as it was a hyped book, I really did enjoy it on it's own merits. I think anyone, believer in God or not, could benefit from reading this book - especially if you are currently or have recently suffered great loss. While it's obviously written from a Christian (or perhaps disgruntled Christian is more accurate) perspective, there's much to learn about our world and why bad things happen and perhaps, why God seems to allow them to happen.
This book changed my life for the better the very first time that I read it. It changes my life each time I re-read it as well, because it reminds me just how much God loves me. This is still my favorite book of all time. I've read it more than a few times as well. Each time I set a goal to read thru it without getting emotional at all about it, but I just cannot do it. Might have something to do with the fact that I have two daughters, I'm thinkin'...
In regards to all these comments about how people think this book is blasphemous, it is possible to read this book and still believe in the ultimate power of God, and so forth. I don't think the author is trying to make a point that he believes that God is just a man (or woman) or anything like that. I think he makes God's character the way it is in the book to get the reader to see their relationship with God from a different, and possibly more personal point of view. Just my two cents though, and what do I know? Nothing, lol.
Very interesting book. Something to keep in mind is that this is not a true story, so there is no Missy, or that whole thing. I don't think the author claims this view of God as ‘holy' or ‘devine' or any of that, I think if anything, he just gives people a chance to imagine what it would be like if you got to sit down with the Creator of the Universe, how would that visit go? A great start to think about what God really thinks of us... and what we are supposed to do when bad things happen, or when we get angry at God.
1.5 star read. Highly disappointing. Overly simplistic. Not realistic and slightly corny. This story tries to present a plot line of overcoming adversity by eating breakfast with God,Jesus and the Holy Spirit in a fictional dream world log cabin. I found this book an unsuccessful attempt at trying to make religion more contemporary and relevant in modern literature. Wasn't my cup of tea. Too far fetched for me. Maybe you can have better luck with it than I did. Good luck to all you who try!
