After his daughter’s murder, a grieving father confronts God with desperate questions — and finds unexpected answers — in this riveting and deeply moving #1 NYT bestseller. When Mackenzie Allen Phillips’s youngest daughter Missy is abducted during a family vacation, he remains hopeful that she’ll return home. But then, he discovers evidence that she may have been brutally murdered in an … she may have been brutally murdered in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness.
Four years later, in this midst of his great sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note that’s supposedly from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. Against his better judgment, he arrives on a wintry afternoon and walks back into his darkest nightmare. What he finds there will change his life forever.
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This is a wonderful book and I recommend everyone reading. Wonderful story with Biblical teaching. Makes you stop and think. Our God is an awesome God.
While not necessarily completely Biblically correct, it is a fun read!
Thought this book was almost like blasphemy.
Very thought provoking. Read several time!!
I did not care for this book.
Great book ! Have watched movie 2 times !
Loved it!!!
didn’t like it
I expected it to be more biblical after reading otherreviews
The Shack is one of the really fine allegories depicting the tender care heaven’s Trinity (Father, Son, Holy Spirit) has for our frail human family. It wrestles with cosmic issues and offers answers for the age-old question: Why must bad things happen to good people?
All my friends LOVE this book. I think they are crazy. I found it weird. I actually didn’t finish it. It is one of few books that I couldn’t finish once started. I’ve even continued to read poor books, looking for redemption. Not this one. Couldn’t turn one more page past the middle.
Loved this read..couldn’t put it down.
Challenging
Sort of disappointing. Too much theology and not enough story.
I really enjoyed this book as I had no idea where it was going.
I absolutely loved this book. I laughed and cried and could not put it down. Wonderful!!! Very inspirational
Not s very realistic view of the Bible story
This was a very well-written book, with which I had some very basic foundational theological disagreements. That being said, if you’re unable to suspend disbelief and ignore disagreements, it’s a beautiful allegory of God’s unconditional love for all of us, and the lengths to which He’s willing to go for each of us. There were several surprisingly deep and profound glimpses into the heart of God. As long as you’re not reading it to form your doctrine, it’s a very thought-provoking story in which God is good even when circumstances don’t turn out that way.
Changed my life
Interesting read.