Book 5: The Horse and His Boy (or is it A Horse and His Boy?)
This cover must have torn off early on. All of the books in the set disintegrated pretty quick. They were very cheap paperbacks. In any case, I have no distinct memory of this cover. If I really think about it, I can conjure this bridge with a city gate and some domed buildings. It could be an interior illustration for all I know. But it's all I can recall, so here it is.
What I remember from the story:
Next to nothing. Here's what I can come up with: The horse and his boy go to a middle-eastern type of city. The land of the Telemarketers, no, the Telgemeiers (no, that's a graphic novelist) the Targaryens (no, wrong fantasy series) the Tralfamadorians (no, that's Kurt Vonnegut) it was......................the Land of the Telmarines! Boom! You didn't think I could do it, did you? The land of the Telmarines. It was a middle eastern city with no Narnians or talking animals.
There was an evil(?) ruler who had to be referred to as "______-may-he-live-forever." I can't remember the name, but he had to have the "may-he-live-forever" at the end of his name.
And that's all. If there were English children in this book, I don't remember them.
12 comments:
When this is all over, please go read this book again. Please.
What I remember from the cover was the palomino horse.
sorry for the spoiler yesterday.
I love the T names you threw out there. Nice recall!
I knew you could do it!
Well... there is a horse on the cover. I'll give you that. :)
Oh, and the colors. You did good with the purple.
Has anyone looked at the new book covers they are doing? Lame. They look like crappy digitized photos from the movies.
I haven't seen the new covers, and I can't look them up, in case I accidentally see the old covers.
Ditto to what Q said. There aren't any Telmarines in this one, and it takes place while Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy are kings and queens in Narnia (though the land of T--- isn't in Narnia). I loved this one.
I loved this book. At one time, it was my favorite. true story.
"The Tisroc, may-he-live-forever!" -Calormeme saying
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