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Book Review of The Shack

The Shack
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Our bookclub read this and agreed it was NOT one of our favorite books. It is somewhat similar to watching a "touched by an Angle" series, but with a wierd twist.

A father returns to a shack where his daughter was supposedly killed many years before. While there he encounters "God" in the form a a large black woman. I believe the story had much more potential, and could have been a wonderful story. However, our bookclub all agreed that the author lost us somewhere in the weirdness, and unfinished thoughts.

Unlike others, I don't feel at all that is is blasphamy - the author was attempting to show that God can represent him/herself to people in different ways in order to get the message across. But, the story definately needed more development.