Yes, I'm reading The Shack.
Yes, Johnny is giving me grief about ti.
And, yes, I have lots of different thoughts about the book so far. (Maybe we'll do a book-discussion post once I finish it...)
But for now, the thing I can't get away from is the strange author's bio line on the back of the book:
"WILLIAM P. YOUNG was born a Canadian and raised among a stone-age tribe by his missionary parents in the highlands of what was New Guinea. He suffered great loss as a child and young adult, and now enjoys the 'wastefulness of grace' with his family in the Pacific Northwest."
What?
In all honesty, I thought that bio was a joke when I first started reading it. It's vague and weird and really contains non-information. Born a Canadian? Suffered great loss? Lives somewhere in the Pacific Northwest?
Who is this guy, Salman Rushdie? They can't be more specific?
Anybody else find it to be weird?
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
The Weirdest Blurb In History...
Posted by Todd Wright at 12:00 PM
Labels: books, reading, the shack, william p. young
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Just started it.. I'm only on Chapter 1. But I did find that a bit interesting. All that was missing was a random reference to "meat helmets" and it would have been golden.
It is such a weird book. I ain't diggin' it.
At this point I'm resentful that I pretty much have to read it in order to have an informed opinion. I got bigger fish to fry than the latest evango-fad, y'know?
I was sitting at work reading Harry Potter and a doctor came over to me, flipped the book over, read the title, and frowned. He then tried to persuade me that I "needed" to read The Shack.
From that experience alone I can tell you that I am not impressed with The Shack.
Yeah, it just keeps getting worse for me.
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