false1812457096472923797809647292302918710113The Shackhttp://photo.goodreads.com/books/1188677589m/1812457.jpg
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806593William P. Young295331028010trueTue Jun 23 17:33:09 -0700 2009Tue Jun 23 17:49:21 -0700 2009 The beginning is indeed intriguing. A man loses his five year old daughter on a camping trip and it turns out she was abducted and murdered by "The Little Ladykiller" a serial murderer who has kidnapped and killed four other little girls. (His trademark is leaving a ladybug pin at the scene of the crime- which makes it creepy and kind of un-christian that there is a ladybug on the cover of the book) The intriguing part is that when this man loses his faith in God, he gets a letter in his mailbox inviting him to the shack where his daughter was killed... FROM GOD. This is where the big crossroad between really stupid book and amazing book appear. If the author can really deliver on this meeting God in a shack and getting some answers as to why humanity is so ruthless scenario... then bravo. If not (which, shockingly, is a big NOT) then this is a big, smoking, shitty failure. And it is. When he gets to the shack, God answers. And guess what?? God is a fat black woman who likes to be called Papa, a middle eastern man named Jesus and a young Asian Woman. They cook him dinner and chat... about nothing. Everytime he tries to get them to tell him why his daughter had to be brutally murdered they all give really vague answers. There is a lot of really cliche theology and drivel for a long, torturous while... and then he wakes up in the hospital. As it turns out, he never made it to the shack, and got in an accident on the way there! So the biggest possible cliche in all of writing is how it ends- it was all a big stinkin dream.... OR WAS IT? *Fart
This was some serious, hardcore crap and if you think it deserves many stars you have either had a lobotomy or need one.]]>