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The Shack | 
 enlarge | Author: William P. Young
Publisher: Windblown Media
Category: Book
Buy New: £20.92
New (1) Used (6) from £16.67
Rating:  19 reviews
Sales Rank: 213871
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 272
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 5.7 x 0.8
ISBN: 0964729245
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780964729247
ASIN: 0964729245
Publication Date: December 6, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews: Read 14 more reviews...
 Brilliant read August 13, 2008
THe most though provoking book I have read in a long time. Whether you have a faith or not this book leaves you thinking days after you finish it. It's an original slant on the age old questions of whether God exists - and in what form and how to balance the good vs evil quandry. My best piece of advice is don't read it on the train if you are a weepy.
 Mawkish Christianity August 5, 2008
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book is good at putting across the Christian answers to the problem of evil, and putting the issue in the context of a readable story. Unfortunately (but, I would say, inevitably) those answers are pretty shallow and the deeper questions are left untouched. I also found the book to be cloyingly sentimental.
If you object to being preached at, you're not going to like it. Likewise, if you don't relish the prospect of wading through treacly descriptions of the members of the Trinity chuckling together, keep away.
However, if you are a Christian, sympathetic to Christianity or just want to get a grip on how Christians try to square the notion of an omnipotent and omnibenevolent God with the existence of suffering, this is a nice read. Just don't expect it to answer the harder questions about suffering: the only answer it suggests for the toughies is, effectively, to stop asking them.
The Shack July 28, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I have found this book both compelling and insightful of the way God loves us. It may be fiction but it is the only book that I have read and and am about to reread. I do not usually read Christian fiction, but was recommended this book. The story is about a normal father who's child was taken from him during a camping trip and God helped him to see how much he cared and loved him even though he blamed him for what had happened.If you do not want to be touched by God then do not read it.The Shack
Relationship July 23, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
The Shack is a beautiful, painful, heart-rendering story about how God feels, how He loves to love, how He hurts more when bad things happen than we can ever realise, and how He created us for one purpose - relationship. I don't generally read Christian fiction because it seems to be so 'end-times' based but halfway through this book, I actually felt as if I had stopped reading and instead God was speaking to me. It's a masterpiece. Ignore any comments about it being theologically incorrect. Instead, celebrate this book for what it is - a story of how God loves us, YOU, me, and how He created us to be in relationship with Him.
It has made me think..... July 21, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
As a soul searching agnostic trying to figure out "what's it all about?" I found this book insightful, enlightning and inspiring. It has really made me think about faith and God. Maybe I have shut myself off and need to listen more, to tune in to the cosmos, to God. I loved the imagery used and would definately recommend this book.
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