First thoughts about "The Shack" by Wm. Paul Young

      After reading the foreword of this book, I have come to the conclusion that this book will have a mystery-murder type of plot. The author dives into details about the protagonist of the book, and gives out an abundance of information about the personal life of him even though the audience hasn't read a page of the actual book. Young mentions that the protagonist, Mackenzie Allen Phillips, has never been into violence, but had to face it after some of the experiences that will be shared in this book. As a curious, have-to-know type of reader, I can't help but feel that Mackenzie went through some type of event that made him question his own ways of living.

Young does a great job of pulling the reader in and making one actually want to read this book. He gives us (the audience)  a basis of where the protagonist came from and how he was raised by writing, "Mack was born somewhere in the Midwest, a farm boy in an Irish-American family committed to calloused hands and rigourous rules" (Young, page 1 of foreword).

I like the contrast that was conveyed in the foreword when Young switched gears by letting the audience know that Mack had run away from home, from a drunk father, and from a helpless mother. It really made me respect Mack. Again, as a curious reader, I am pulled into this book because of the foreword alone. I can't wait to see the story that this book entails as I read it throughout these upcoming weeks!