The Shack - It is Finished
06/02/2009
I finished reading the book by William P Young yesterday. This publishing phenomenon has swept the USA and has now become very popular here. The story is that a little girl is murdered in a shack by a serial killer. Sometime later her father receives a letter from God inviting him to meet the father (papa) son (Jesus) and Holy Ghost (Sarayu) at The Shack.
It has blessed millions, including my wife Lesley. One of my blog readers said it was the most healing book she had ever read. My verdict? I did not enjoy it at all. The biggest issue was I had no interest in any of the characters. Even once I had accepted the premise of God revealing himself as some Whoopi Goldberg type character, the biggest 
issue, I was totally disinterested, which is why it took me so long to finish it!
The book is so immotive that I know this revelation will be a shock to some. It didn't hate it. Sure there was some dodgy theology, its just that it, for me at least failed at the most basic level for a novel, it bored me!
Let me know what you think and why I am wrong!
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