The Shack - Where Tragedy Confronts Eternity (The Shack - William P. Young)

Member Name: mossy51

Product:	The Shack - William P. Young
Date:	28/01/09 (295 review reads)
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Advantages: This book is amazing, beautiful, fantastic and well well well worth a read!!

Disadvantages: None!

The Shack - One of my top five best books ever!!

When my friend lent me this book I really wasn't sure about it and didn't read it. I find books on this kind of topic i.e a child being abducted and other such things personally very difficult to read. However my friend persisted in encouraging me to read it and so I did and I can't truly describe how much I love this book....it is AMAZING!!!! It is in my humble opinion well worth a read!! In fact I've brought around 7/8 copies (I've lost count) to lend or give to people.

Okay Mossy we can tell you like it...7/8 copies that's commitment....but what's it about???

It is about a guy called Mack (Mackenzie) whose 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.

The story is told by Willie a close friend of Mack's. It is a fictionally book written as though it is a true story.

The book is written by Wm Paul Young and has sold over three million copies.
The shack is the No 1 New York Times Bestseller (Fiction - Paperback).

The Shack is a book that all sorts of people would enjoy reading just because it's a great story. Some people may even find that their outlook or ideas are challenged or even changed by reading it.

I absolutely 100% whole hearted commend this book to you. As I write this review and think about this book I have tears rolling down my face...I kid you not that is how much this book effected me!!!!

The Shack will make you laugh out loud, chuckle inside, cry, question, get angry and much more. I (someone who reads a bit but can find it slow and painful at times) found this book so easy to read, it's not exactly a lengthy heavy weight book anyway, but I just couldn't put it down...which to me is a sign of a good book.

From the back cover - 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! (How very true!!!)

I was searching online to double check how many copies the book had sold and I saw a link to a review titled "How God messed up my religion - The Shack a book review"...I haven't read the review yet so don't know what the rest of it was like but the title made me laugh!!

I could go on and on about it, tell you my favourite bits from the book (but that would probably spoil it...if you read it then ask me and I'll tell you the ones that made me chuckle, laugh and cry...which would be pretty much all of the book to be honest).

I don't want to say anymore except I love this book, give it a read, if you enjoy it half as much as I did then you'll probably be buying copies to lend to people as well.

For more information see www.theshackbook.com - There is also a 'The Shack' facebook group.

Available from just about everywhere.

Amazon, Tesco etc - £4.95
Play.com - £4.99 (free delivery)
Purashop.com - The Shack Audio Book - £13.99 (free delivery)

Summary: This is a great story and it may even challenge, answer or change some of you views.