The Shack: Where Tragedy Confronts Eternity (1598594192) - totaldorm.com Info and Reviews

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.

Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

READ OVER AND OVER:

I have purchased this book for friends and family members because I believe it's message is so profound. Even though it is fictional, it ihas one of the most resonant messages of its type I have ever read. I read passages over and over because they touch me so deeply. I hope everyone has the same reaction. It has enriched my faith and I believe, made me a gentler, kinder person.

Intriging:

After reading The Shack, I certainly had alot to think about. This book gives the reader another view on forgiving one self for past mistakes, and forgiving other. The book drew me in from the very beginning, I even read the preface , which I rarely do, and I glad I did, because I would have missed some very important points of the book. I enjoyed it so much I purchased several other copies for family and friends to read.

Restoration/transformation through tragedy:

I received this book as a Christmas gift in 2008. The guy who gave it to me was moved deeply by it. It sat on my bookshelf for quite a while until I picked it up. It took me a while to do so because I thought it would be just an ordinary fictionalized account of a christian guy's struggle with tragedy. While it was just that, the writer does a good job conveying the message that God truly does work in "mysterious ways." Is that a convenient way to deal with tragedy and to seek false comfort? Maybe, maybe... more info

Making You Think Outside The Box:

This is such a well written and thought provoking novel. I enjoyed every second of it and it made me think long and hard about God and what kind of man made rituals and concepts are just installed in us while growing up. I think everyone should read this book once.

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