The Chosen One must be retrieved from Earth.
He will bring down the wall and restore the kingdom to glory.
His name is Tom Parking.
With this mysterious yet oddly ordinary-looking prophecy, Tom's fate is sealed: he's been plucked from his life and whisked away to a magical kingdom to be its Chosen One.
There's just one problem—the kingdom is mostly made of garbage from Earth. Okay, well, two problems, the second being that the king hates Tom. Also, the princess likes to wear fake mustaches. And being Chosen One seems to consist mainly of cleaning out rats' noses at the Royal Rat-Snottery.
So, basically, the kingdom sucks.
When Tom turns down the job of Chosen One, he thinks he's making a smart decision. But when Tom discovers he's been replaced by his best friend Kyle, who's always been cooler, more athletic, and better with girls, Tom wants Crap Kingdom back—at any cost. And the hilarity that ensues will determine the fate of the universe.
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“Like the hero of a fantasy novel, D. C. Pierson was merely an insanely
gifted comic like everyone else, until he wakened to his secret destiny: to
write brilliant and hilarious novels (oh, and also to lead the were-centaurs in
final battle against the Ageless Narwhaldactyl, but you read about that in the
news).”
—
John Hodgman, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart correspondent and author of That Is All