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 enlarge | Author: William P. Young
Publisher: Windblown Media
Category: Book
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Rating:  1847 reviews
Sales Rank: 8
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
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Pages: 256
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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
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 Meaningful Fiction/Spiritual Journey November 15, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book is changing lives! Not because it is a theological reference book but because it gives those who do not have a relationship with God an insight into the personality of a Father who loves unconditionally. The trinity is much easier to grasp through this incredible story of a man's journey from the deepest pit of depression to the experience of healing love and forgiveness. I recommend it to everyone and let God do what God can only do through this vehicle or, for that matter, whatever vehicle He might choose. The Sovereignty of God shines through the pages of this timeless classic.
 The Real Thing November 15, 2008
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
I have not read this book yet-not sure if I am going to-so I really can't rate the book...however this website won't let me leave a post if I don't.
I just want to mention this...In the Bible study titled "Experiencing God" by Henry Blackaby (not that I agree with all he says), there is a part where Blackaby writes about how the canadian police train to know counterfeit money. They know it right away because all they EVER, EVER, EVER study is "REAL" money. So all I want to share is this: If you study the BIBLE-THE WORD OF GOD on a daily basis; then anytime something false comes up anywhere, you will know it...
 not even a true story but it sure does make you think November 14, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
Okay, now you have to try and understand how weird this is. I am sitting in Eagle Creek, in a rented house, writing a story for my kids. I am not writing a story that I intend or expect will be published. Actually the thought never even entered my mind. I was going to write this thing as a gift, then go down to Office Depot or Kinkos or somewhere and photoshop a cool cover, put it in a spiral bound book sort of thing, and that would be that.
So, I didn't have to follow any normal rules about writing something. Actually, I didn't even really know or care about what the normal rules might be...never thought about it. I wanted my kids to enjoy a story and through the story to understand there own father better and the God that their father is so in love with. I even had this brilliant idea to have Willie (me) ghost-write the story for Mack, and so on my very first Title Page, it said, The Shack, written by Mackenzie Allen Phillips, with William P Young. I thought it was clever and that the kids would get a laugh out of it.
This means that Mack, of course, is not a `real' person. My children would recognize that Mack is mostly me, that Nan is a lot like Kim, my wife, that Missy and Kate and the other characters often resemble our family members and friends. So it was no big deal...until the first version of the loose leaf book sort of `got out' (because people kept passing it to their friends), and I find out that somebody in California and somebody in Canada think seriously about buying plane tickets to come to Oregon to meet and talk to Mack. Now that would have been a little embarrassing, don't you think? So we removed Mack as the author, but I kept the ghost-writer idea as a story element...which is still causing some problems but not near what could have happened the other way.
Is the story `real'? The story is fiction. I made it up. Now, having said that, I will add that the emotional pain with all its intensity and the process that tears into Mack's heart and soul are very real. I have my 'shack', the place I had to go through to find healing. I have my Great Sadness...that is all real. And the conversations are very real and true. While Mack experiences some particulars that I have not (the death of my niece the day after her fifth birthday was a horrible accident, but not a murder), there are depths of pain and shame and hopelessness that I have experienced, that Mack did not. And I know people who have suffered exactly what Mack suffers in the story.
So is the story true? The pain, the loss, the grief, the process, the conversations, the questions, the anger, the longing, the secrets, the lies, the forgiveness...all real, all true. The story in particular... fiction... but.... Then there is God who emerges so very real and true, unexpected and yet not unexpected, but surprising and...
So... is all this real? Is all this true? I suppose each of us has to decide for ourselves, don't we?
spiritually moving November 14, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The beginning of the book was uneventful, finally got interesting after the first 85 pages. Im glad I stuck with it and read it through because it truly is a moving story. I felt lifted and my spirit was renewed. I gave it 3 stars just because I kept wanting to put it down, the beginning was so ...yawn....boring
Good Writing November 14, 2008
The Shack, by William P. Young is good reading. However to call it the next "Pilgrims Progress," I don't think so. Mr. Young is a good wordsmith, The Shack is a good story, but reader beware, this is not Gospel. There is truth in the story, but the story is fiction.
I owned and have read, The Shack. I have given my copy away because I don't intend on reading it again.
CK - Author of, Dean Ransom, Restored.
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