The Shack by Wm. Paul Young

This book was chosen by my online Book Club to read. I'm not sure I would've read it otherwise.

This is the book's description:
"Mackenzie Allen Philips' youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later in the midst of his Great Sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. Against his better judgment he arrives at the shack on a wintry afternoon and walks back into his darkest nightmare. What he finds there will change Mack's world forever. In a world where religion seems to grow increasingly irrelevant "The Shack" wrestles with the timeless question, "Where is God in a world so filled with unspeakable pain?" The answers Mack gets will astound you and perhaps transform you as much as it did him. You'll want everyone you know to read this book! "

The whole storyline involving Mack's daughter was interesting to me. More like horrifying, but I thought it would be interesting to find out what happened to Missy. The first few chapters after Mack receives the note from "Papa" a.k.a. God, take you through the story of Missy and what happened to her. The rest of the book - except the very last 10 pages or so - takes place in the shack, where Mack discusses theology with Papa, Jesus, and Sarayu (the holy spirit).

I am not a religious person. Maybe that's why I was so bored. Who knows? I only kept reading the book to find out what happened to Missy and the bastard that killed her. From the time Mack gets to the shack until he leaves, I was bored to tears! Horrible. It was all too much preaching for me.

Anyway, I only recommend this book to you if you really want to go through 125 pages of theological discussion. The description tries to suck you in with this murder of his daughter, but truthfully, the actual crime/murder only take up about 25 pages.

1/5.