This short novel will be a welcome relief to anyone laboring under an understanding of God as a gray old man sitting up in the clouds, causing or allowing things to happen like some holy puppeteer. I've always wondered about all the rituals and doctrines invented by humans in a feeble attempt to figure out how they got here, what they are to do while they're here, where they're going when they die and what will happen to them when they get there, and The Shack has helped to lift a veil from my spiritual eyes, a surprisingly profound story that speaks a simple truth I can hear.
I highly recommend The Shack to any person seeking a truth they have not found in a church pew.

I Absolutelty LOVED this book. I am not a reader, but did not put this down till i was finished. It was a request from a lady who had went to be with Jesus that 10 people read this, and i was one.......anymore?

Religious humanism at a new and putrid low, purportedly teaching the "truth" about forgiveness, yet only delivering a cheap (bait-and-switch) counterfeit to the reader. Many insist on eating nutritious food, and drinking safe (potable) water, yet would nonetheless read and even recommend the theological pollution (marketed as "The Shack") passing as "sheep" fiction, when (in theological reality) this humanistic novel is nothing but a "wolf-in-sheep's-clothing" product that mischaracterizes the triune God of the Bible as a sub-divine trinity of happy-silly-emotional (and truth-evading) HUMAN fools: 1 man, 2 women, with one of the females sporting a masculine name. In "The Shack", fiction-pressed emotions are used to disarm and dismiss doctrinal truth, employing a blasphemously farcical (and minimally "holy") "trinity", who conveniently deny that human sin is divinely punished, and who are repeatedly "emerging" in silly and human-like ways that somehow can't seem to match the doctrinal content of the Holy Bible's teachings about Who God really is and how God reveals Himself to mankind. This is post-modern false prophecy "emerging" in all its anti-Biblical pollution and epistemological bankrupty, exposed for anyone duped into reading it. If you begin to read and then want to vomit, there is hope for you! If not, shame on you -- try to repent! God said that He honors His Word even above His own name, so you can can guess what He (not "She") thinks about this humanistic Trinity-trivializing, Bible-denying "literature".

This is a wonderful book full of incredible insight and deep truths. The first third may be a little hard to read for some, but keep plugging -- the rest of the book is worth the journey!!!! I'm on my third reading!

Wow! After more than 60 years of trying to be a follower of Jesus the Christ, this book has offered me a totally awesome approach to one's relatioship with God. In my faith tradition, I learned a lot of rules through which I formed ideas about God. This book overwhelmingly convinced me that God loves me, as well as every individual, unconditionally. I could always say the words but sometimes secretly had my doubts. The sections on dealing with forgiveness and anger are especially meaningful to the great hordes of people who struggle with these issues.
We have purchased additional books and are lending them to anyone who will take them. We would like to be able to purchase many and give them away to anyone who would take and read them. Great book!

Deane Langdon