"The Magician's Nephew" by C. S. Lewis

For Christmas my father gave me the Chronicles of Narnia. I had never read them and, like everyone else in this lemming society, I wanted to read them. It was a brilliant gift.

I love how short the books are. With only 200 pages and the print being larger than normal, I was able to blast through this book in a matter of just a few short hours. The Magician's Nephew was quite good. As should be expected from C.S. Lewis, the moral underpinings of the story were in no way obscured. The best was when Aslan tells the hero, "That is what happens to those who pluck and eat fruits at the wrong time and in the wrong way. The fruit is good, but they loathe it ever after."