{"id":1122,"date":"2009-06-05T09:26:18","date_gmt":"2009-06-05T17:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/?p=1122"},"modified":"2009-06-05T09:26:18","modified_gmt":"2009-06-05T17:26:18","slug":"free-readin-magic-kingdom-for-sale-sold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/news\/free-readin-magic-kingdom-for-sale-sold\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Readin&#8217; | Magic Kingdom for Sale &#8211; Sold!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/landover-vol1.jpg\" alt=\"The Magic Kingdom of Landover by Terry Brooks\" title=\"The Magic Kingdom of Landover by Terry Brooks\" width=\"50%\" height=\"50%\" class=\"author_pic_right\" \/><br \/>\nTerry Brooks is best known for his successful <strong>Shannara<\/strong> series which, along with Stephen Donaldson, reinvigorated the Epic Fantasy genre back in the late &#8217;70s. Nowadays, <strong>The Sword of Shannara<\/strong> gets a bad wrap for being nothing but a rip-off of <strong>The Lord of the Rings<\/strong> (which it is, even at the admission of the author), and a not very good one at that (which one could fairly argue, though I don&#8217;t agree).<\/p>\n<p>The thing is, most of what Brooks has written outside of <strong>The Sword of Shannara<\/strong> has strayed far away from <strong>LotR<\/strong>-rip-off territory. His <strong>Word and Void<\/strong> trilogy is a masterpiece of dark, Contemporary Fantasy and his <strong>Magic Kingdom of Landover<\/strong> series (which has a new volume coming out later this year, <strong>A Princess of Landover<\/strong>) is a fun, surprisingly dark series of independent novels.<\/p>\n<p>The first of these novels, <strong>Magic Kingdom for Sale &#8211; Sold!<\/strong> has just been made available for free download over at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suvudu.com\/freelibrary\/\">Suvudu Free Library<\/a>. It might not be for everyone, but I was pleasantly surprised when I gave the series a shot!<\/p>\n<p>You can read\/download a PDF of <strong>Magic Kingdom for Sale &#8211; Sold!<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/a1018.g.akamai.net\/f\/1018\/19025\/1d\/randomhouse1.download.akamai.com\/19025\/freelibrary\/magickingdomforsale.pdf\">HERE<\/a>. You can also get other versions of the book (Kindle, Sony Reader and Scribd) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suvudu.com\/freelibrary\/\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terry Brooks is best known for his successful Shannara series which, along with Stephen Donaldson, reinvigorated the Epic Fantasy genre back in the late &#8217;70s. 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