*The Shack by Wm. Paul Young

I finished this book yesterday. I didn't expect to finish it and I didn't expect to like it. But I did.

It's in my nature to be somewhat contrary and so when a book is hugely popular, I tend to avoid it. On top of that, my experience with books like this, ones that purport to be revelatory, is that they are usually thin, glib and without challenge. In other words they say what people want to hear and not very well.

But every time I've been to the library lately, I come across The Shack, and...