Magic Kingdom for Sale - Sold! (Landover Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.67 (752 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 142335012X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 402 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-11-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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Great start to the best series Terry Brooks ever wrote! although my first impressions of Terry Brooks was "Sword of Shanara" I saw a book in my uncle's house and became interested. The Magic Kingdom series(starting with this one "For Sale Sold") was the one I truly read from start to finish(ending with Princess of Landover). I have read the first leg of the journey three times over about three decades, the second trilogy, Starting with "Tangle Box" and Witcehs Brew I read more recently and Princess of Landover I read the entire book the day it was released to public on hard back and enjoyed it thourghly. however it was dealing this the daughter of the p. Amazon Customer said A well-designed story by a master storyteller!. This, the first book in Terry Brooks' Landover series, introduces readers to Ben Holiday, a successful Chicago attorney whose life has lost its meaning after the death of his wife. Needing desperately to find new challenges and purpose, he is intrigued by one item in a prestigious New York department store's Christmas catalogue: a magic kingdom showing castles and a knight battling a fire-breathing dragon. Impossible! It can't be real. But the department store has a strong reputation for delivering on its promises, and it fully stands behind this one-of-a-kind entry. After Holiday makes the purchas. New adventures a city lawyer becomes bored with the day to day routine of winning hopeless cases. One day he receives a gift catalog and before he tosses it aside he glances through it haphazerdly. Suddenly an article for sale catches his eye. It's a magic kingdom, complete with wizards, dragons, and a castle of his own where he would be crowned KIng.He tries to get it out of his mind but then decides to fly to New York and check it out. The price is one million dollars, but he has plenty of money so that is not the issue. He just cannot believe it to be true.On arrival at the store he is ushered to a strange rem
But Ben Holiday was stubborn .. Book One in the Magic Kingdom of Landover Series Landover was a genuine magic kingdom, with fairy folk and wizardry, just as the advertisement promised. A dragon was laying waste the countryside, while an evil witch plotted to destroy everything. The kingdom was in ruin. The Paladin, legendary champion of the Kings of Landover, seemed to be only a myth and an empty suit of armor. But after he purchased it, Ben Holiday learned that there were a few details the ad had failed to mention. The Barons refused to recognize the king, and the peasants were without hope. Ben's only followers were the incompetent Court Magician; Abernathy, the talking dog who served as Court Scribe; and the lovely Willow - but she had a habit of putting down roots in the moonlight and turning into a tree. To put a final touch on the whole affair, Ben soon learned that the Iron Mark, terrible lord of the demons, had challenged all prospective Kings of Landover to a duel to the death - a duel which no human could hope to win. The task o
150,000 first printing; major ad/promo; author tour. While still inventive, Brooks fails badly in his lackluster, unbelievable protagonist, his preachy moral tags and the adolescent, daydream quality of Ben's triumphs. From Publishers Weekly Brooks bestselling Shannara trilogy may have been at heart a formulaic fantasy but its vigorous storytelling and intriguing characters won many readers. His yearning for a simpler life seems thwarted when he finds the magic kinddom of Landover, a close analogy of Earth, with precariously balanced powers threatening each other, massive pollution, and general discontent centering on a lack of faith in leaders. Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. In his first non-Shannara novel, he takes on another well-worn premise: the contemporary Earthling transported to a fantasy world. This first volume in the new ser