The Shack. LMAO It sucks really bad,

[elehhhhna]

Horribly executed. Worst Book Almost EVER.

[kimmerspixelated]

1. I haven't read it, but I heard it was actually a best seller.

Unless it's the wrong title.

[musette_sf]

2. thanks for going where i wouldn't go

and, if you would like to read a book that really IS everything "The Shack" touts that it is, you need look no further than Thom Hartmann's "The Greatest Spiritual Secret of the Century".

link to the 1st two chapters, on Thom's website:

http://www.thomhartmann.com/2007/11/01/the-greatest-spiritual-secret-of-the-century-chapter-excerpt-fired/

Thom never ceases to amaze me. what a brilliant guy.

[Jane Austin]

3. Worse than

Bridges of Madison County?

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

8. LOL! I was going tomake that EXACT comment! nt

[niccolos_smile]

4. I've heard many similar reviews.

In fact, I've yet to hear a good review of that book. My wife read it for her book club; I believe it was generally disliked.

[raccoon]

5. I tried to read it, and ITA with you. nt

[hippywife]

6. A bunch of the

fundies where I work are passing it around so I figured it was a read for the religious brain-dead. I passed. :hi:

[Lydia Leftcoast]

7. Having actually paged through the last fundie bestseller, The Left Behind books

I can imagine that the plotting, characterization, and writing style are so simplistic and clichéd that the writers would have a hard time being hired by the team of ghostwriters that used to write the Nancy Drew books.

[DUgosh]

9. I agree

It was bizarre. Even though I have lost a child, someone actually gave it to me to read. I truly wanted to hurl the thing.

[LWolf]

10. I was given 4 copies for my classroom library by a parent last year.

So I read it, and did not put it in the classroom library.

She knew I would read it, and then make a decision. So a week after she dropped them off she showed up; I told her that I passed them on to the school library, where they would reach a larger audience. If the school library decided to shelve them.

Misleading tragedy and cutesy crap overlaid on standard "only one way" dogma.

[nolabear]

11. I tried. God knows I tried.

A freakin' YEAR at the top of the best seller list. I knew I wouldn't like the subject matter but I couldn't believe the AWESOMELY bad writing! I picked up my sister's copy and just couldn't read the thing. How does that happen?

Thanks for letting me vent on that one.