Product Description

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!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3 in Books
• Published on: 2007-05-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

From AudioFile
Mac is a grief-stricken father in mid-life about to have an extraordinary experience with God. His great sadness began four years ago on a weekend camping trip, when his 6-year-old daughter, Missy, was murdered. What he couldn't know then, but is about to learn, was God's purpose for Missy's death. Roger Mueller's clear, gentle voice characterizes Mac's family with high-spirited joy and laughter. His portrayal of Missy's animated excitement makes her especially believable. His polished performance of grief-stricken Mac brings tears. With empathy and sensitivity, Mueller captures the mysterious voices of those who have invited him to the now abandoned, yet transformed, cabin in the wilderness. This compelling fantasy explores themes of love, loss, and blame. G.D.W. © AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

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't that distort a relationship into a religion were washed away as I understood Father, Son and Holy Spirit for the first time in my life. --Patrick M. Roddy, ABC News Emmy Award winning producer

Finally! A guy-meets-God Novel that has literary integrity and spiritual daring. "The Shack" cuts through the cliches of both religion and bad writing to reveal something compelling and beautiful about life's integral dance with the Divine. This story reads like a prayer--like the best kind of prayer, filled with sweat and wonder and transparency and surprise. When I read it, I felt like I was fellowshipping with God. If you read one work of fiction this year, let this be it. --Mike Morrell, zoecarnate.com

When the imagination of a writer and the passion of a theologian cross-fertilize the result is a novel on the order of "The Shack." This book has the potential to do for our generation what John Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" did for his. It's that good! --Eugene Peterson, Professor Emeritus of Spiritual Theology, Regent College, Vancouver, B.C.

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.

Customer Reviews

This book will change your life!
My church had a book study for this book so I decided to get it since it was reccomended by our pastor. Wow was I in for a surprise! This is a very movie book and you really get to know the main characer Mackenzie well. You even get to know "god" well when reading this. Mackenzie is a married man who loses his daughter Missy when on a camping trip. She ends up getting killed and a year later gets a note from a mysterious person on his door step. It asks him to come up to the shack, the same shack where Missy was killed. Why would he want to go back there? Was this a practical joke? I was very moved by his encounter with God and a few of his "friends" at the shack. Sorry for giving you spoilers but this book really is life-changing. It is very philisophical. If you are a Christian like me you will have a good time reading this beacuse it says the truth about God and how He works. If you are not Christian you may think it's just another fictional book. Even if you are not Christian or believe in God you should still consider this moving book. It can be moving even if you are not religious. This has definately been one of the best purchases I made so far.

Absolute Fiction, Little Truth
This book is well written, easy to read and will entertain you purely on a fictional level, but it holds little to no truth according to what the Bible tells us. My suggestion to all Christians who decide to read this book is to make sure you know the bible first and then you will know when the book is not in line with what God teaches us.

A book for salvation?
Many are seeking an answer, many are seeking a way. An answer and a way to salvation. No, this book does not offer either of these, but what it offer is a way to come close to your maker and the creator of the universe.

Yes, there are discrepancies between the scriptures and the writings in these pages. However, what it does offer is more than most modern writings can offer, a chance to view our Holy Creator without the shackles of religion. In a matter of fact, questions have arisen in my own mind about the writings and my own personal upbringing and learnings of God.

As this book pertains to me, it has done more to draw me closer to my Creator, my God, my Jesus, than any writing has done up until this point.

I regularly read the Chronicles of Narnia to gain inspiration as well as JRR Tolkien's Trilogy. Repeatedly, both have help me uncover new meanings and answers in my own life as accordance with scripture, and both leave me uplifted. However, both of these works rarely bring me to a closer relationship with God. The Shack accomplishes this in a short story.

It took nearly a week to read through the roughly 249 pages in this book. Not that it is a difficult read, but I needed time to search my own soul as I read through the pages. This writing dragged me through the most tumultuous times of my own life as well as the hero's, and helped me to find a new relationship with God, the Creator, as no work has ever done before.

This work has helped me to create a new relationship with my God, my Creator. I am born again, time and time over (almost every time I speak to God) but after this book, I felt born anew. I seem to understand not only God, but the relationship between Jesus, the Holy Spirit, God, and myself. I understand more about my relationship with the Holy Trinity now than I ever did before.

Not only did this book change my ongoing relationship with God, but every relationship that I encounter. My hope is that this book will do the same for my loved ones as it did for me.

As I believe that the works of John Bunyan, JRR Tolkien, and CS Lewis were inspired by the Holy Spirit, I believe that this work by Wm. Young is also inspired by the Creator as well.

It is worth a read by every hungry spirit.