Hey Wilkette
I'm about half way through this and I have to say ummmmm I'm not that impressed. My mind is still open to the last half of teh book being the winning half but the first half hasn't given me alot of faith.
I might be the only person o earth who doesn't seem to dig this book at the moment but .....eh. I just don't see anything special so far.
I cannot for the life of me see the need for the kiddy killer element of the beginning. What ever vibe or emotion or stage the authour was trying to set I think he could have set it with something less extreme. I meanif this really happened then i am not the kind of person that says oh hush don't spaek of these things but what i mean is that for a fiction novel there has to be a really good reason i think to get this horrid and I cannot see it so far.
I thought maybe further into the book i would find the reason why this authour felt the need to stain my imagination
with this level of brutality but haven't seen justification for it yet. It doesn't take this extreme to create an atmosphere of pain and draw on a readers empathy.
And the whole God as a black woman just doesn't sit right with me.....it has nothing to do with gender or color as we are all created in His image and the exterior is not really relevent. It just seems to reduce Christ to a big Kid in Heaven still living with mum....just didn't do much for me this whole imagery. Considering that God is the one who has always chosen to represent himself as a man....no gender issue just keeping in with His preference on how he presents Himself which He chose to do in Jesus .....who is a man. And i know it is just imagery but God has a real mind on keeping female feminine and male masculine and it doesn't sit well with me.
And the other thing I just can't quite get is even though the bible says 'no one comes to the Father exept through the Son' Jesus in this is out in the wood house while Mack sits in the kitchen with Papa telling him tthat 'everything is about Him' ....but so far he has had a 30 second appearance in the story.
Any way maybe I am just not getting it. I'll keep readingit and finish it and see if i get it by the end but yeh it isn't doing it for me.
It is reading to me like someone who had that new Chritian excitement of the revelation of God and 'decided' to make a book out of what they experienced because they think they have some kind of 'rare' revelation. But it does not sound inspired by the Spirit to me.
Maybe I am wrong because a whole heap of people like it but that is what i see so far.
What was your take on it?
Seeker
Ps please excuse all of the spelling mistakes ....too busy to go back through and sort them out
The Shack by William Young
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