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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!
Read with an open heart... 
If you read this book with an open mind and an open heart, the love and beauty of God will touch your soul in a way that might not otherwise have happened. I totally agree with the concept that God will travel any road to find us; to have a relationship with us.
If you get hung up on rules, expectations and theology, you will be sorely disappointed and maybe angry.
I was sad to read the reviews that call the book subversive and undermining to Christianity. For me, my christianity and beliefs became more real after reading this work of fiction. Is there truth in this book? Absolutely! Similar to the truth told in the parables of the Bible. (and yes, "grammar police," I know that my review contains sentence fragments.)
A new revolution of love and kindness
THE SHACK contains anecdotes about living a life through expectancy rather than expectations. And it is with that message as well as other basic premises that fall within the same vein that make the book an interesting read. The story centers on Mackenzie Allen Philips or "Mack" as he is referred to throughout the novel. After taking a Wilderness trip with his family to the Oregon mountains, his youngest daughter, Missy, is abducted, and so, begins "The Great Sadness."
Author W.M. Paul Young writes an intensely moving book that has a blend of fact and fiction. There are numerous religious connotations, especially with much references to God and passages from the Bible; Although told in laymens' terms. But for the mere interest of reading literature and the observation of finding the moral to the story type of fiction, the storyline was a cross between Charles Dickens's "A Christmas Carol" and also Mitch Albom's "The Five People You Meet in Heaven" because the troubled main characters were met with various guides to show them towards reconciliation. That was also the case with Mack and he finding his way towards forgiveness in order to release "The Great Sadness."
THE SHACK may touch a nerve for those who read the book. It is indeed an insightful and enlightening story.
They're here!
The Shack has a flavor of Stranger in a Strange Land to me. Funny too because I was thinking about Stranger deeply before I bought Shack. I dearly love The Shack. It goes well with another famous Christian story called Intra Muros. You can say the title to this review is "They're here!" because The Holy Trinity is here. The title to the review also reflects the Pollyanna crowd who has come out hugely to damn the creativity, beauty, and inspiration. What about the spirit of the law not the letter?
An interesting read 
I found this to be an excellent read and will be adding it to my Christmas gift giving list! While some of the themes were a bit "heavy" for me, I did enjoy the book tremendously.
When I did want a break from the more serious themes of The Shack, I found myself turning to It's Not Your Mother's Bridge Club by Michelle Cozzens.It's Not Your Mother's Bridge ClubAnother great read!
Good but not so great
This book was good. I felt there were some amazing topics only picked at. It is not worthy of the mass amount of praise on the cover though. I feel it could have been better, there was so much that could have been said. It did get me to thinking if God were with me what would I ask and what would I do. It is a book that needs to be read and re-read to fully grasp.
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