"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."

Most people either like this one or don't. My book group read it & I didn't particularly care for it, but I seemed to be in the minority. I read another copy via a bookring (you can find my review HERE).
I picked up a bunch of copies of these last spring at the warehouse sale, as it was quite popular then. Putting it into my Best of BC(3) bookbox....

I'm pulling this from the Best of BC bookbox to add to the Bizarre Fiction bookbox that happens to be with me at the same time. If I have two boxes, I sometimes swap books from them just to mix things up a little, and this seemed to fit with the bizarre bookbox theme.

Removed from the box, thanks.

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Edited to add (November 2010):
I don't think this lived up to all the hype, but I can see how it would be very helpful for anyone dealing with The Great Sadness...

WILD RELEASE NOTES:

Adding to the Previously Bookcrossed Bookbox.

Received when my "previously crossed" book box arrived back home. Not a genre I read, si I will be passsing it on.

CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:

Send to bksfamly who selected it from the 2005 or later VBB.

received in the mail last week.

thanks for offering the book

This book was good but kind of different. Sometimes you had to read and then take the time to realy think about what you just read.

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comfort suites 7007 Tanque Verde RD - I finished this book as we entered town when we got to the hotel I saw there was a book shelf. Then when we went to our room the courtyard and the kind of rustic look it had made me think this was the best place to leave the book so back to the lobby i went and the book is now waiting on the bookshelf for the next reader.