Brittni L. reviewed on 8/10/2009 + 7 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 2

The Shaky Shack

At first blush, The Shack, by William P. Young, is an engaging read that lures the reader in with a tale of tragedy and mystery and includes all the qualities of a good suspense flick. That all comes to a screeching halt when the main character visits a dilapidated shack and encounters God along with a colossal dose of convoluted Christianity.
Young is a believable story-teller and raises solid questions that deserve investigation. In this way, this could have been an excellent book. Yet the reader finds the authors insistence on ignoring Biblical teaching while writing a Christian book odd at best. When Young reverts to a liberal application of his imagination, Pantheism, and New Age to write the same book, it results in a marshland of theology.
While Young raises questions that are honest and worthwhile, his answers fall short. A word of caution to would-be readers: Enjoy the book as a work of fiction, not an explanation of Christianity.

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