William P Young - The Shack

Pros: Good re-tellings of old truths
Cons: My brain sometimes gets weighed down in all of it, some questionable theology

While camping with three of his children on the western coast, Mack's greatest fear comes true: his daughter Missy has gone missing. No amount of searching, no helpful police officers can find her, and nothing can console Mack in his desperation. Though ...

Pros: Easy to read, comprehend and quite thought provoking
Cons: some may have differences in doctrinal teachings

The Christian based book The Shack has been a phenomenon on many Best Seller lists. It was in the #1 spot in Borders Books when I purchased it last week.The Shack by William P Young The Shack by William P Young ...

Pros: Overall positive message
Cons: Hokey, overlong

I bought William P. Young's The Shack as a gift for my mother several months ago. Now that I have read it myself, I wish I had bought her something else. She read it before I did, and neither one of us liked it. I have to admit that I fell for all ...

Pros: Offers a different way of looking at faith and evil
Cons: Brutal crime at the center, Some of the writing is kind of hokey

Four years ago, Mackenzie "Mack" Philips took his three youngest children on a camping trip in Oregon, when tragedy hits. While getting ready to head home, Mack took his eyes off of his youngest, six year-old Missy, for a few minutes. In that time, ...

Pros: emphasis on love and forgiveness, thought-provoking, engaging
Cons: unorthodox, not particularly well written

The Shack, a novel by William Paul Young, first caught my attention about a month ago when its cover illustration of a battered wooden cabin infused with light against a snowy landscape leaped out at me from a shelf near the front of the bookstore ...

Pros: Well written with nice plot twists.
Cons: None for me.

<b> The Shack</b> by Wm. Paul Young is an extraordinary work of Christian fiction. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. However, it is full of depressing moments and makes one think. Young writes the story about Mack in a narrative form. ...

Pros: Inspirational, Thought Provoking, Page Turning
Cons: None

I don't think simple words can do this book justice, but I'll try my best to explain why it is so important, and what can be learned from it. As a usual non-fiction reader exclusively, it takes a lot in a fiction book to capture my attention. Usually ...

Pros: Inspirational and Encouraging
Cons: None

Since I'm already a Christian, it wasn't too difficult for me to relate to the story of Mack, who has just experienced the most tragic circumstance imaginable and is in the process of healing - dealing with that circumstance, AND, is being consoled by ...

Pros: easy read, beautiful imagery, makes one think about his or her own relationship with God
Cons: not always theologically accurate

When friends kept talking about reading "The Shack", I really didn't think much about it.  As a Christian, I do enjoy some Christian fiction, but I don't often go out of my way looking for new works.  I prefer to read non-fiction and historical ...

Pros: Best Seller's List in May 2008
Oprah's Book Club January 2008
Great tale of inspiration
Cons: Young is a somewhat "choppy" writer in the book. Written for family not public.

The Shack by W.P. Yong is a journey for the soul only if you remind yourself several times this only fiction.  Young does a poor job of getting the reader interested in the beginning of the story plot.   Willie, our story ...

Pros: Compelling story at first until you learn that it's not based on a true story.
Cons: Poor writing, inaccurate facts, intentionally misleading

I read this book mainly because of the huge controversy that surrounded it. Some were touting it as the best book ever; other found it heretical.At first I found myself pulled into the story of Mack, who takes his three children on a camping ...

Pros: Love this book!!!!!!!!!!
Cons: A must read!!!

     The book -The Shack was a very interesting book for me.  I read it and I didn't think I  was going to like it but I stuck to it and I ended up learning so much about myself through this ...

Pros: best thing i can say is i loved the photograph on the cover
Cons: too preachy for me, avoided the direction in which it should have gone

(((( if you're planning to read this book, then be careful how far you go because i'm going to give away some info that you might not want to know))))) the premise of "the shack," by william paul young, is truly frightening, especially to anyone ...

Pros: interesting blend of modern christian beliefs and eastern philosophies, iconoclastic for conservative thinking, well written
Cons: offensive to the very people it will attract, not insightful enough for a larger readership

william p young's book contains many truths that stem from many of the eastern wisdom traditions and also embrace many of the earlier christian mystic traditions...neither of which will likely appeal to the average conservative church goer. the ...

Pros: Focus on relationship with God and His desire to Fellowship with us.
Cons: Theologically unsound

The Shack is like no other book I've ever read. It takes you from the heights of a father's love for his children, to the deepest despair of losing a child, to the mind-blowing realization of the breadth of God's love. Supposedly the author is ...