Other than the Bible, I have never read a novel that has affected me so intensely.
Please consider purchasing this book...The Shack…do not borrow one, for this is a book that you will want to keep so that you will have your very own personal copy and also so you can re-read it again and study what the author William P. Young has to say.
Young is gifted…both in story-telling and in the craft of writing.
Here’s a descriptor from Amazon.com:
Product DescriptionMackenzie 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 as the shack on a wintry afternoon and walk 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.
The only regret I have? I cannot use this book within the classroom because of the religious emphasis.
Please check out the novel’s website to read, if nothing else, an excerpt.
By the way, this novel is fiction….it’s just so hard to keep that in mind, though, as you turn page after page and are revived once again.
Originally posted on Treasure Chest of Thoughts on July 20, 2008.
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