The Shack
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Genres: Literature & Fiction, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Religion & Spirituality
Book Type: Paperback
Author:
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Religion & Spirituality
Book Type: Paperback
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I decided to read this book after hearing all the hype. What a mistake that was. Don't waste your time on this book. It does not live up to the hype. It's an awful book. I rank it up there as one of the worst books I've ever read, if not THE worst book I've read.
The man at the center of the story experiences a life event that no one should ever have to go through. It's utterly heartbreaking and shattering. A while later, he gets an invitation from God to spend a weekend with him. Yep, that's right. God sends him a little handwritten note to spend some time with him at a rundown shack. I'm not particularly religious, but it seems to me this book, besides being pointless and boring, is theologically unsound. Jesus and the Holy Spirit are at the shack too. They both have physical bodies.
The dialog, the whole plot, the premise are so bad that you would think a high school student put this together for a school project that he wasn't particularly interested in. It's juvenile writing. It's wooden, cliched, overly sentimental. I felt emotionally manipulated by the author. There is truly no resolution of the horrific event and it was/is an unforgivable crime to me. The injustice of it is brushed away.
The man at the center of the story experiences a life event that no one should ever have to go through. It's utterly heartbreaking and shattering. A while later, he gets an invitation from God to spend a weekend with him. Yep, that's right. God sends him a little handwritten note to spend some time with him at a rundown shack. I'm not particularly religious, but it seems to me this book, besides being pointless and boring, is theologically unsound. Jesus and the Holy Spirit are at the shack too. They both have physical bodies.
The dialog, the whole plot, the premise are so bad that you would think a high school student put this together for a school project that he wasn't particularly interested in. It's juvenile writing. It's wooden, cliched, overly sentimental. I felt emotionally manipulated by the author. There is truly no resolution of the horrific event and it was/is an unforgivable crime to me. The injustice of it is brushed away.
