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The Shack |  | Author: William P. Young
Publisher: Windblown Media
Category: Book
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Rating:  110 reviews
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Media: Paperback
Pages: 256
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Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.2 x 0.8
ISBN: 0964729237
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780964729230
ASIN: 0964729237
Publication Date: July 1, 2008
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 The Shack - Cut to Reality February 27, 2010
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The Shack is a gruesome and twisted story of familial murder, written with deep psychological undertones. The protagonist, Mackenzie Philips ("Mac" as he is known), murders his young daughter, Missy, though throughout the book he fails to recognize his guilt or acknowledge his crime due to his severe psychopathic personality. Initially the reader is also misled to believe Mac's innocence and the story unfolds as an abduction-murder mystery. But it soon becomes apparent that Mac himself is the perpetrator, as his psychoses become apparent. Young brilliantly leads the reader through Mac's tormented schizophrenic mind as he deals with his genuine grief and subconscious guilt. Written with a sympathetic tone towards the protagonist, and with a detailed journey through his warped mind, Young almost manages to convince the reader of Mac's innocence, such is his own deranged conviction. During the story Mac proceeds through several stages of grief, becoming stalled in bargaining during which he endures a lengthy delusion of a personal relationship with a deity who him/herself suffers from multiple personality disorder. He revisits the scene of his daughter's murder, and eventually leads authorities to her body as he slowly comes to terms with her loss. Eerily, Young leaves the reader with no resolution of Mac's tormented mind. Indeed Mac even finds acceptance and resolution about the loss of his daughter, while still deluding himself that he was not the killer. The authorities presumably lack enough evidence for a conviction and the story ends in the suspense of anticipating Mac's future violence as his psychosis remains unresolved and unrecognized.
 Whatever happened to reverence? February 27, 2010
Stephen (London, ON Canada)
Irreverent, unorthodox and just plain disturbing. With Charles Colson I would urge you to "Stay out of the Shack".
The fact that so many adore this book is a reflection not on The Shack but on the state of the Church. Whatever happened to reverence and holiness? Are these forgotten concepts? And we wonder why revival tarries!
Sure, there is much that is doctrinally disturbing about this book, but what troubled me most is the author's portrayal of God whose language is coarse, whose demeanor is familiar (and even pathetic), and whose persona (at very best) evokes 'cuddly' feelings rather than that the holy dread and awe that is right and proper in the presence of an infinitely holy and majestic God.
WHAT WOULD JESUS DO?, February 21, 2010
Heather Marshall Negahdar (Bridgetown, Barbados)
"Any way we all like to cook," added Jesus. "And I enjoy food - a lot. Nothing like a little shaomai, ugali, nipla or kori banaje to make the taste buds happy."
I enjoyed this book up unto a point. When the family were all together and Mack's little daughter was still alive, all was well with me.
Nevertheless, after his little daughter Missy was killed during a camping trip and Mack had received the invitation from Papa who was supposed to be God, to join him at the Shack to talk, things changed in my eyes. As a Christian woman, I have learnt and read of the characteristics of God, the Father, His Son and His Holy Spirit, and those fictional characters that are put into this book to cover the Trinity cannot come near enough to what the Trinity depicts. Imagine an African American woman as God? I cannot handle that, nor can I handle the clumsiness and the so unholy mannerisms of the rest of the Trinity. That is my take and it comes over a bit like blasphemy to me. What would Jesus do? What would Jesus think?
Reviewed by Heather Marshall Negahdar (SUGAR-CANE 21/02/10)
Period! February 17, 2010
Paul Johnson (Canada)
I titled my review with my favorite sentence from "The Shack". "Period!" As if it wasn't enough to re-punctuate a sentence with another sentence, Young can't even decide which punctuation mark he used. Perhaps "Exclamation mark!" would have been more to the point. This is just one example of how The Shack is written at roughly the junior high school level. It's like something you'd expect a 13 year old girl to hand in for her language arts class at a Catholic grade school.
From a theological standpoint, The Shack is irrelevant. Young begins with the assumption that effectively every word of mainstream Christian theology is absolutley correct, and he proceeds to drag you through it. God is there, as is Jesus, and sure enough the Holy Spirit wanders in at some point too. Don't look for Mohammed, Buddha, Ganesha, or Mazda - this is a Christians-only club.
In short, this book sucks. If you're a hard-core Christian and you want to read something designed to make you feel all warm and fuzzy about your faith, you'll probably get a kick out of this drivel. If you have more than two brain cells to rub together you'll likely hate it.
 Unforgettable January 9, 2010
Julie Am Quesnel (Sudbury, ON)
I read this book a few years ago and it still is one of my favourite. It woke my spirit in a way no book has done before. Although it is fictional, I so wanted it to be true. Beautiful book. I bought 5 and distributed amongst family and friends.
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