| Can I Come Look At These Items? | | This online store is in association with Amazon.com, so these great, high-qualiy products will come from their warehouse or from other partners. Thanks for shopping! |
|
|
|
The Shack | 
 enlarge | Author: William P. Young
Publisher: Windblown Media
Category: Book
List Price: $14.99
Buy New: $7.19
You Save: $7.80 (52%)
New (85) Used (40) from $7.04
Avg. Customer Rating:  1846 reviews
Sales Rank: 8
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.2 x 0.8
ISBN: 0964729237
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780964729230
ASIN: 0964729237
Publication Date: July 1, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: SPECIAL PURCHASE LIMITED TIME ONLY Brand New Factory Sealed, (We do not ship to HI, AK, NY KS, WA, ND)
|
| Similar Items:
|
| Editorial Reviews:
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!
|
| Customer Reviews: Read 1841 more reviews...
 Gave Me a Headache November 18, 2008
I'm not a religious sort so all the dire warnings and bible quotes from those who are and have written stinker reviews about this book . . . well, *I* was in no danger. I read this because a couple of people recommended it and after looking at it, I'd hoped to get a better understanding of man's relationship with God. But, like everything else I've ever read on the subject, the basic dialogue and reasoning is just circular doublespeak and bureacratic. With its references to fractals and paradigms, I felt like I was in math class, and I don't know any more than I did when I started reading it. It was just, well, tiresome.
I do, however, congratulate the William P. Young for having a huge hit. Writing is a solitary occupation and it's nice when the work strikes a chord with readers.
 Don't waste your time November 18, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book was immature reading at best. Very hoaky,non believable, and silly. I didn't even make it half way. Don't waste your time. Find something else. One star is too many.
A rather silly and immature story. November 17, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I only made it half-way through this novel and had to stop. It was fine until "God" showed up, then things got REALLY CHEESY! I found the story silly and rather immature. Plus, I have a real issue with so many in our society having to anthropomorphize God in order to relate to and establish a spiritual relationship -- or even worse to try and dissect God and "his/her message". It's just not that complicated folks. Get over it.
Nothing Holy here. Just VaHoly, November 17, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Family member gave me this book. I am the only person in my family that stands on the Bible and the Bible alone. The rest use any other source to try and get to their god. It is very sad.
Holy - 1: exalted or worthy of complete devotion as one perfect in goodness and righteousness
Also, set apart, not common, in awe of, etc.
Vain - 2: in an irreverent or blasphemous manner
Also, common, useless, worthless
God is not something that needs to be written about anymore than He already is in the Scripture. God is not lacking nor is the Scripture lacking in explaining to us what God would have us know. We are not to bring God down to our level nor humanize Him. He is not us.
If it is just fiction it is junk to bible believing Christians because it breaks scripture all over the place and simply by using God in such a personal and vain manner.
If it is a Christian self help book it is blasphemy to heresy.
Rom 10:17 So then faith [cometh] by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. Plain and simple - Scripture is the Only thing that will bring you to God. Not some guys book about God.
How a Christian can read this book and think that books such as this about the nature of God is in any way Christian really saddens me.
If you want God read His book.
If you want entertainment fine.
Get your Water from the River not from a picture of a lake!
had creepy feeling reading this.....didn't finish it November 17, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
After reading all of the glowing testimonials on the book, I bought it with the anticipation of feeling all of the emotions reviewers have felt- hope, love, peace, joy, redemption.......etc........ I got to about page 70 or so and had to put it down. I had such a horrible feeling reading about the abduction of this six year old girl whose dress was found drenched in blood- I didn't care what was going to be said in the rest of the book - I needed to stop. Instead of feeling positive feelings, I started worrying abut all of my loved ones, and imagined what it would feel like to be in this situation. Perhaps this is an easy read for some- but for me, I wish I had never picked this book up.
|
|
|
| |
News 
